During the third millennium BCE, Northern Mesopotamia witnessed a period of social
experimentation, when political power shifted from city to city across the region, and social …

The Third millennium BCE witnessed the emergence of urbanism and the development of
state-ordered society in Syro-Anatolia. Despite the considerable effort that has been …

The third millennium in Syro-Mesopotamia saw increasingly asymmetrical relationships of
economy and power. In one type of sovereignty, people and lands were brought under the …

The chronology of the Early Bronze Age in the Northern Levant has been constructed
around a small group of key sequences and excavations, including the Amuq Sequence …

Excavations began in 1972 under the direction of the late Professor Ernest Will and, after
many interruptions during the Lebanese Civil War, were resumed on a regular basis in 1992 …

The discovery of a sacrificed puppy at Tel Miqne-Ekron, a major Philistine settlement in
Israel's southern coastal plain, highlights the role of dogs in Iron I Philistia. Though dog …

The demise of the traditional model of central, palace-based, bureaucratic Mesopotamian
societies as the template for interpreting all complex societies in the ancient Near East has …

A systematic comparison between funerary and house-floor artifacts at the site of Titriş
Höyük in southeastern Turkey demonstrates that an overall sense of domesticity and routine …

The administrative texts from Ebla register the deaths of many people, usually members of
the royal family of Ebla itself and of the royal families of many other Syrian states, as well as …

The accumulation of capital is a widely recognised, but little studied, feature of early
urbanisation in Mesopotamia during the fourth-millennium BC. Current research links the …