Middle & Near Eastern Archaeology

The Damascus Palm Fragment investigates Arabic's transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a...

Although it is one of the main archaeological sites in Oman, the medieval port of Qalhat, near Sur in Ash-Sharqiyah Governorate, has long remained ...

Göreme and ahinefendi collects the results of surveys conducted by the Team for Underground Studies in Turkey in these two specific areas of Cappad...

Paul Lapp's team last excavated at Tell Ta'annek in 1968, over fifty years ago. During that time, much effort has been expended on the final public...

The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from b...

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...

The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi, Crete (ca. 13901190 BC) is the only intact, complete Late Minoan necropolis presently known, of which 23...

Die Genesis gehört zu den wirkmächtigsten Büchern des Alten Testaments: Die Erzählungen der biblischen Urgeschichte haben in unserem Kulturraum das...

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

In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-centu...

The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire extended from northern Syria to the western Caucasus, across a remote and desolate region 800 miles from t...