Middle & Near Eastern Archaeology

Monumental spaces were fundamental in the construction of power, political order and community identities in the ancient and pre-modern world. It w...

In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a cl...

In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a cl...

The first interdisciplinary study of the history of contact between Iranians and the peoples and polities of the Indian Ocean.Most of the historiog...

Ilkhanid Capital Cities studies the capital cities founded by the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran during the Ilkhanid period (12561335). It primarily focuse...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

This in-depth exploration of emotions in the ancient Near East illuminates the rich and complex worlds of feelings encompassed within the literary ...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past introduces students to the wide ranging and fascinating world of archaeology and provides them with a co...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past introduces students to the wide ranging and fascinating world of archaeology and provides them with a co...

Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. Drawing on intern...

The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in t...

This fully illustrated catalogue of essays, descriptions, and commentary accompanies the Oriental Institute special exhibit Picturing the Past: Ima...

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

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian an...

This book explores what the Book of the Dead was to the ancient Egyptians, what it means to us today, what it was believed to do, how it worked, ho...

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

This book brings together scholars from many disciplines to shed light on the long history of the Silk Roads, to redefine it, and to demonstrate it...

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of...

The author is an important but controversial figure in the history of Palestinian archaeology. This volume celebrates the centennial of the publica...

Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking h...

This volume explores human migration, communication, and cross-cultural exchange on the Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes spanning the E...