Middle & Near Eastern Archaeology

Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farm...

Case study of excavations at an early (ca. 2800 B.C.) pastoral site in the Negev, providing detailed analyses and a synthetic overview of a seasona...

Case study of excavations at an early (ca. 2800 B.C.) pastoral site in the Negev, providing detailed analyses and a synthetic overview of a seasona...

This book gathers together hitherto unpublished letters from William Kennett Loftus (1820-1858) to friends and relatives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Th...

Gerald Cadogans contributions to the archaeology of the East Mediterranean are directly related to the two Great Islands, Crete and Cyprus, where h...

Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric condit...

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid...

Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political hot zone, Armenia has a material history and visual culture th...

Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 20022007. Lying just to the south of the ancient ...

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that...

Throughout the two years of a grand tour as far as Australia and New Zealand (1852-4), Rev Thomas Bowles kept a daily journal, ultimately filling o...

The Rural Hinterland of Antipatris from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine Periods presents the results of extensive excavations conducted in the rur...

The 145 tablets presented in this volume are among a larger group of 302 tablets confiscated by U.S. customs, and which were being stored in a Worl...

This manual is designed as a textbook of the Sumerian language, based principally on texts of the Ur III period (21st century BCE).  It is self-con...

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

This volume celebrates the career of Norma Franklin, an archaeologist who has made important contributions to our understanding of the three key ci...

Major recent excavations have shed much light on the complexity of Iron Age society and religion in southern Palestine, a region where both Judeans...

The history of cane sugar from its origins in the east to its status as a luxury foodstuff and even medicine in the medieval period to a commodity ...

Syria has been a major crossroads of civilizations in the ancient Near East since the dawn of human kind. Until the current crisis began in 2011, S...

With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the mos...

Dura-Europos is one of Syrias most important archaeological sites. Situated on the edge of the Euphrates river, it was the subject of extensive exc...

This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittit...

The 69th volume of the Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research is devoted to studies of botanical and faunal remains from three major s...

In June, 1973, a group of eleven teachers, students and pupils from Glasgow boarded a new school minibus and began a trip - across Europe, Turkey, ...

Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to connect evolutio...