Ancient History: to c 500 CE

The Petra Papyri Volume V (2018) is the final publication of the Petra Papyri Series, Greek language papyrus texts from the sixth century A.D. that...

During the Old Kingdom, the ancient Egyptians constructed elaborately decorated mortuary monuments for their pharaohs. By the late Old Kingdom (ca....

Explores the critical battle of Carrhae, a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its most humilia...

Ancient Mesopotamian, biblical, rabbinic, and Christian literature was created and transmitted by the intellectual elite and therefore presents the...

How can time become festive? How do festivals manage to make time special, to mark out a certain day or days, to distinguish them from normal, ever...

Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary...

In the American psyche, the Wild West is a mythic-historical place where our nation's values and ideologies were formed. In this violent and uncert...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...

This Oriental Institute Museum exhibit catalog looks at how the living commemorated and cared for deceased ancestors in the ancient Middle East. Th...

The Bronze Age of Greece was unknown until the end of the nineteenth century, when Heinrich Schliemann's excavations stunned the world by bringing ...

Said to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is reinterpreted by the author in light of n...