Middle & Near Eastern Archaeology

The monumental remains of Palmyra (also known as Tadmor) have fascinated travelers and scholars for centuries. The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra gives...

Born from the fields of Islamic art and architectural history, the archaeological study of the Islamic societies is a relatively young discipline. ...

This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultur...

This handbook analyses the different types of shields used by soldiers in the Neo-Assyrian army and their opponents. Written, visual, and material ...

This gripping biography documents the life and reign of Hattusili, one of the most famous and well-documented Hittite rulers. Hattusili ruled over ...

This gripping biography documents the life and reign of Hattusili, one of the most famous and well-documented Hittite rulers. Hattusili ruled over ...

This book explores pottery making and communities during the Bakun period (c. 5000 4000 BCE) in the Kur River Basin, Fars province, southwestern I...

Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Properties in Arab States provides a birds-eye view of the phenomenon of illicit trafficking of cultural properties...

In recognition of the significant contribution that Suzanne Richard has made to the archaeology of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant, thi...

Five thousand years ago, in the Early Bronze Age, monumental stone and mud-brick structures known as towers appeared on the landscape of the Oman P...

Purifying a House from Blood provides an updated philological edition of the Hittite ritual for the ancient gods (CTH 446) with transliteration, tr...

Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Isl...

In 1885, a large hypogeum was discovered at the Saint-E'tienne Compound, the domain acquired only two and a half years before by the Dominicans on ...

This volume is dedicated to a small number of unique bronze bathtub coffins found in 8th6th century BC Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite burial cont...

In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were de...

This book is the result of more than a dozen years of research in the field of the hitherto unstudied medieval settlement pattern of the Syrian coa...

This book focuses on the characteristics and the development of the stone vessel industry in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian peri...

The Amathous Gate Cemetery played a key role in the spatial and social organization of the well-preserved city of Kourion on the south coast of Cyp...

The Amathous Gate Cemetery played a key role in the spatial and social organization of the well-preserved city of Kourion on the south coast of Cyp...

Stretching across the historical region of Mesopotamia, the Akkadian dynasty (ca. 2334-2154 BCE) created a territorial state of unprecedented scale...