Ancient History: to c 500 CE

A colossal basalt statue was uncovered through rescue excavation in downtown Amman, Jordan in 2010. Despite the statue's Roman period find context,...

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on ...

The report of the Avraham Biran (1975-1982) and Rudolf Cohen (1975-1976) archaeological excavations of Tel 'Aroer in the Negev Desert.

This volume is the second of two that represent the final publication of Sector I of the Prepalatial to Postpalatial Minoan urban settlement and pa...

Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive stu...

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

Lisht, twenty miles south of Cairo, has been the site of excavations since its discovery in 1906, and since that time scholars at New Yorks Metropo...

Archaeologist, Musician, Vaudeville Performer, Filmmaker, Biographer, Scholar of the Cinema. These are only some of the many lives of David Soren. ...

The study of material culture has helped create a common meeting ground for scholars seeking to integrate images, sites, texts and implements in th...

In Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh Peter J. Brand paints with authoritative knowledge and colourful details a compelling portrait of this leg...

The origin of the second Kingdom of Kush (c. 850 BCE-350 CE) has been the subject of much discussion and debate over the years. The kingdom that ar...

The studies in this volume share a focus on religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: how ritual, myth, spectatorship, and travel reflect the co...

The contributions in this volume include studies on the cultural and environmental impact of the Nile on the people of Egypt. The chapter authors u...

This is the first volume in a projected series of final reports on the 1997-2012 University of Michigan/University of Minnesota excavations at Tel ...

Just in time for the centennial of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, this volume of studies dedicated to the leading expert on the boy king brin...

In commemoration of Lothar von Falkenhausen's 60th birthday, this volume assembles eighteen scholarly essays that explore the intersection between ...

The purpose of this edition is to take up Buechelers admirable sylloge of Carmina Latina Epigraphica (1895-1926, 3 volumes). Since 1926 many new La...

Im Rahmen des griechisch-lateinischen Alexanderromans stechen die Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis des Iulius Valerius (frühes 4. Jh. n.Chr.) durch i...

Professor Michael Meier-Brugger's distinguished and productive career in Greek and Indo-European historical linguistics finds fitting tribute in th...

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA). In support of the associations mis...

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...