Middle & Near Eastern Archaeology

Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cul...

In its significance for both Islam and Christianity, and ultimately the wider world, the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453 was to herald the da...

Tell Ahmar also known as Masuwari, Til Barsib and Kar-Shalmaneser in the first millennium BCE was first inhabited in the sixth millennium during ...

Jebel Aruda, a prominent mountain ridge overlooking the Taqba Dam lake in northern Syria, was the location of a remarkable settlement that flourish...

Jebel Aruda, a prominent mountain ridge overlooking the Taqba Dam lake in northern Syria, was the location of a remarkable settlement that flourish...

Jebel Aruda, a prominent mountain ridge overlooking the Taqba Dam lake in northern Syria, was the location of a remarkable settlement that flourish...

Which ancient army boasted the largest fortifications, and how did the competitive build-up of military capabilities shape world history? Few reali...

This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that link...

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Tell el-Hesi is located near the modern city of Qiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel, 23 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea. The site, ...

The Usage of Ochre at the Verge of Neolithisation from the Near East to the Carpathian Basin explores the cultural meaning of ochre among the socie...

Systemizing the Past takes the reader to the fascinating world of Caucasian archaeology demonstrating the essential role of the region in shaping t...

Ash-sharq is a journal devoted to short articles on the archaeology, history and society of the Ancient Near East.

The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to h...

The inquisition (Mihnah) unleashed by the seventh Abbasid caliph, 'Abdallah al-Ma'mun (r. 813-833), has long attracted the attention of modern sch...

Omani men carried personal weapons until relatively recent years. Swords and daggers were part of daily life attire and are still worn in social ev...

Over the course of three centuries, Yale has been actively and seriously engaged in Near Eastern learning, in both senses of the term-training stud...

Land and Trade in Early Islam discusses the latest developments in the field of early Islamic economic and social history, and explores the notion ...

Robert J. Bull began the excavation of a vault on the south side of the Inner Harbour of Caesarea Maritima, Israel. The vault was one of a row of ...

The Assyrian Rock Relief at Yamur in the Tur Abdin publishes a newly discovered rock relief in the Mazda Plain, at the western end of the Tur Abdin...

Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians...

This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopota...

In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek inscriptions to...

The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, cont...

This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict. It charts a path through the colonial histories and traumatic wars...

The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1076664 BCE) has been characterised previously by political and social changes based upon the introduction ...

The Temple Mount compound (known in Arabic as the Haram a-arf), situated on the east side of the Old City of urban Jerusalem, is a majestic and hol...

Previous research has treated the Transjordanian regions - from the early Iron Age I to the Hellenistic period - as a geographically and/or cultura...

This book outlines the results of the 2018 archaeological survey at Tawi Said, located on the edge of the Sharqiyah desert in the Sultanate of Oman...

This book follows a continuous line of development from Canaanite pottery to the Phoenician pottery corpus. Phoenician pottery typically is conside...