Death as a Stage for Performing Identity in the Assyrian Empire
january 2024 | Vol. 12.1 By Petra M. Creamer How can burial practices tell us about the power of an empire over its subjects? If this seems like a broad question – it is. When st
The Egyptian Conceptualization of the Otherworld
August 2023 | Vol. 11.8 By Silvia Zago The belief in life after death is one of the most defining aspects of Egyptian culture, which has fascinated the outside world for millennia.
Death Wishes in the Hebrew Bible
December 2022 | Vol. 10.12 By Hanne Løland Levinson Many of us in the depths of despair have wished for death. What about figures in the Hebrew Bible? “Enough! Now, YHWH, take m
Language Death—The Case of Akkadian
February 2022 | Vol. 10.2 By Johannes Hackl The phenomenon of language death is as old as the recorded history of the world’s languages, if not as old as language itself. Languag