Craft - The Ancient Near East Today

The 3D scan of a mask fragment matches up with the scan of a different well-preserved mask. Image by Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo.

Can we use digital tools to test whether fragments and museum objects might be related? Can we recover parts of their histories that were previously inaccessible?

Hexaplex trunculus shell collected near Tel Shiqmona. Four hundred such shells were identified by two free-style divers within 90 mins at a depth of one to two meters on October 20, 2020. Photo by Ayelet Gilboa. Image credit: Golan Shalvi et al. (2025), PLOS ONE (Figure 3). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

August 21, 2025

By ANE Today Editor

Craft & Industry Iron Age Israel Trade & Economy

Purple Ambitions: Tel Shiqmona and the Rise of Israelite Dye Industry in the Iron Age

Tel Shiqmona has received little attention compared to the grand coastal cities of the ancient Phoenician coast. But the site has produced the most complete archaeological evidence

A decorated egg from the Isis Tomb, Vulci, Italy. © Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol (with the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum).

February 9, 2021

By ANE Today Editor

Animals Craft & Industry Phoenicians Trade & Economy

Eggstraordinary Objects

February 2021 | Vol. 9.2 By Tamar Hodos In the interconnected world of the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Egyptians, ostrich eggs were coveted by elites across the Med

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Connecting Objects Across Space and Time with 3D Scanning and Shape Analysis

Purple Ambitions: Tel Shiqmona and the Rise of Israelite Dye Industry in the Iron Age

Eggstraordinary Objects