Archaeology By Period/Region

Presents the results of a programme of survey and excavation conducted under the directorship of the author at the site of Kataret es-Samra, strate...

The Temple University Aegean Symposium was an annual event from 1976 until 1985 sponsored by the Department of Art History at Temple University in ...

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democ...

This volume complements Lerna V: The Neolithic Pottery of Lerna, by K. D. Vitelli, and completes the primary publication of the results of the Neol...

This new study offers a comprehensive examination of a unique manuscript, a Late Period hieratic papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum. This document com...

This report completes prior publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy (1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and ...

The Temple of Athena at Sounion has long been recognized as one of the most unusual buildings in the architectural history of Greece. Its plan, wit...

The archaeological remains of Pre- and Protopalatial (Early Minoan I to Middle Minoan IIB) Crete include a large number of tombs and cemeteries dat...

The Paleolithic site of Barda Balka (standing stone, stone to lean upon in local Kurdish) is situated about 3 kilometers northeast of Chemchemal in...

Prof. James D. Muhly has enjoyed a distinguished career in the study of ancient history, archaeology, and metallurgy that includes an emeritus prof...

Among the collections of the Gennadius Library in Athens are over 300 Greek manuscripts, ranging in date from the 13th to the 19th century. This bo...

The publication of the Hagia Photia Cemetery is planned in three volumes. The first volume, which has already been published (Davaras and Betancour...

The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world. Found in a variety of contexts, the type was ...

Recipient of the G. Ernest Wright Award for Best Archaeological Publication, American Schools of Oriental Research, 2011 In 2007 the Jaffa Cultural...

During 2009, the Giza Plateau Mapping Project carried out excavations at two sites as part of its ongoing research program: 1) the settlement conne...

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

Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is one of humanity's greatest inventions. This book presents current perspectives on t...

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...

The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems...

Bilder des Krieges sind ein dominantes Thema in der griechischen und römischen Kunst. Darstellungen von Kriegertum und Kampf sind visuelle Zeugniss...

This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging r...

The present volume reflects the work of the joint expedition of Cairo University and Brown University to record and publish the tombs uncovered on ...

The thirty-nine articles in this volume, One Who Loves Knowledge, have been contributed by colleagues, students, friends and family in honour of Ri...

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...

Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis....

This volume presents the terracotta miscellaneous finds from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Acrocorinth. The finds comprise 21 classes, inclu...

When dealing with Egyptian backgrounds and allusions to Egyptian documents and practices in the Hebrew Bible, scholars have tended to draw on Egypt...

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

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

Southwest Asia is at the epicentre of zooarchaeological research on pivotal changes in human history such as animal domestication and the emergence...

From 1981 until 1986, the archaeologist Judith McKenzie, then a graduate student at the University of Sydney, travelled to the ancient site of Petr...

This excavation of a Late Bronze Age town on the island of Mochlos in northeastern Crete includes the House of the Metal Merchant (with two large b...

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

Graffitiunsanctioned marks in public built spacesare increasingly recognized as worthy of study in contexts both ancient and modern. For ancient so...

This publication concerns the archaeological excavations of the Ridge Church and the Blue Chapel at Petra (Jordan). It represents the culmination o...

Tell Qraya is predominantly a late-fourth millennium B.C. archaeological site astride a natural conglomerate rock promontory on the west bank of th...

The University of Pennsylvania owns the largest collection of Minoan artifacts outside of Europe. The objects were acquired legally from the nation...

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

This book presents a comprehensive corpus of beads and pendants found during excavations undertaken by the Oriental Institute of the University of ...

Hours of Infinity is the catalogue of an exhibition and performance by artist John Kannenberg at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the Work Gall...

Tell er-Rumeith lies at the eastern edge of the Irbid plain in northern Jordan not far from the Syria border and the present town of Ramtha.  The p...

The goal of this book is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) a...

The analysis of stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen provides a powerful tool for reconstructing past diets, since it prov...