Excavations at Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria, in 2002 and 2004 revealed that the elite Tomb 1
discovered on the site acropolis in 2000 was part of a mid to late third-millennium BC …

At Umm el-Marra in western Syria, a sequence of Bronze Age ritual installations facilitates
the investigation of how Syrian elites employed memory, ancestor veneration, and animal …

The Umm el-Marra Project is investigating the genesis and early history of societal
complexity at a “second-tier” center of western Syria, focusing on the Early, Middle, and Late …

The 1999-2000 excavations by the Dutch-American team at Tell Umm el-Marra, western
Syria, achieved significant new results on the history and character of Bronze Age and later …

In the study of early Near Eastern complex societies, Syria has functioned as a complement
to Mesopotamia, the “cradle of civilization,” providing evidence of alternate trajectories to …

The rich burial assemblages (“Royal Tombs') excavated in a cemetery to the west of the
ancient city of Salamis on the eastern coast of Cyprus have attracted widespread notice …

Between 1959 and 1967, Chéhab excavated a Roman and Byzantine cemetery on the
outskirts of Tyre in Lebanon. This cemetery proved to be one of the most extensive and best …

Mortuary remains at Tall al-'Umayri and its hinterland, from the Early Bronze Age IB
onwards, include ceremonial architecture and portable artefacts spanning the Bronze and …

A number of late Middle Kingdom shaft-tombs were discovered in Dahshur North, some of
which were found intact or well-preserved with burial items. In terms of the sizes and burial …

Recent debate has raised serious questions about the viability of the social and ideological
reconstruction of prehistoric culture on the basis of mortuary analysis. In recent years …