Middle & Near Eastern Archaeology

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...

This volume presents a vivid record in words and pictures of a dig on the Anatolian borders of Mesopotamia that ended recently after nearly two dec...

This volume presents the results of the long-term co-operation of archaeologists from the University of Ghent and the Oriental Institute of the Uni...

In this lively treatment of one of antiquitys most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over 3,000 years ago, Trevo...

In this book, illustrations of rare archaeological artefacts and selected masterpieces from the very first centuries of Islam are used to chart the...

The archaeological site of Tell Nebi Mend, a tell on the Homs plain in present-day Syria, is universally recognised as the location, first, of Qade...

Shifting Sand is the journal of Julian Berry, then a 17-year-old archaeologist, written on-site during excavations in Deir Alla, Jordan, in 1964. T...

Afghanistan is at the cultural crossroads of Asia, where the great civilisations of Mesopotamia and Iran, South Asia and Central Asia overlapped an...

Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the British occupation ...