The Levant-modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine-is one of the
most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated …

Introduction: In the first half of the eighth century bce, Israel ruled over the lion's share of the
territory of the two Hebrew kingdoms (fig. 1), and its population accounted for three quarters …

In this book, Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the
interconnections between ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East. She …

The article deals with the finds at the late Iron I settlement of Khirbet Qeiyafa, a site
overlooking the Valley of Elah in the Shephelah. It points out the methodological …

This study investigates patterns in the process of construction during a period of
urbanization early in the Middle Bronze Age of the southern Levant. Detailing the …

Silver exchanged by weight for its intrinsic value was the most important measure of value
and means of payment in the southern Levant, starting from the Middle Bronze Age II–III …

Ancient Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir) in southern Israel is a key site for understanding the
Canaanite cultures of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages and the Kingdom of Judah in the …

This new data clearly contradicts the various theories that have flourished in the last 25
years, advocated by the so-called “minimalist” school of biblical history and archaeology …

Excavations of the Egyptian New Kingdom fortress in Jaffa (Tel Yafo, ancient Yapu), on the
southern side of Tel Aviv, were renewed by the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project from 2011 to …

Complex Communities explores how sedentary settlements developed and flourished in the
Middle East during the Early Iron Age nearly four thousand years ago. Using archaeological …