Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its re...

Augustus: How the Roman Empire came aboutThe reign of Augustus, the first of the Roman emperors, has been seen, both by contemporaries and over the...

How could ancient astronomers accurately calculate celestial phenomena on the scale of several centuries? The Table of Kings is a simple list of ru...

The present volume grew out of the Second Missouri Egyptological Symposium held at Missouri State University in October 2019. This meeting followed...

This peer-reviewed conference volume examines paper and material aspects of the written word in early modern Europe. The collection is designed aro...

The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the n...

This new edition for the New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in t...

Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill...

Originally coined to signify a style of pottery in southern Iraq, and by extension an associated people and a chronological period, the term Ubaid ...

The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, a Toronto-based ...

The authors of all manuscripts in this monograph were specifically invited for papers that would provide new insights into the complex nature of m...

This volume publishes hand copies of 292 cuneiform texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection dating to the Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic periods. It cont...

This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture have consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new reali...

This volume of the Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is the complete volume of the letter S (-sa to s...

In December of 2016, the University of the Aegean's Department of Mediterranean Studies held a symposium in Rhodes on the topic of Religion, Politi...

(Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonr...

This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool...

This book, edited by Nancy L. Lapp and with contributions by Michael S. Zimmerman, Daniel Ulvoczky, Nicholas Hudson and Adam Hartman, is the second...

The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qu...

This volume provides a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies...

The production and retention of written records was a common and important facet of pre-modern rulership and administration. Much of our understand...

This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name bu...