There has been considerable focus on the main, expansionary, and inter-regionally linked
or 'globalising'periods in Old World pre-and proto-history, with a focus on identifying …

When Western explorers first encountered dolmens in the Levant, they thought they had
discovered the origins of a megalithic phenomenon that spread as far as the Atlantic coast …

The King and the Land offers an innovative history of space and power in the biblical world.
Stephen C. Russell shows how the monarchies in ancient Israel and Judah asserted their …

For decades, archaeologists and historians have debated explanations for the socio-cultural
transitions that occurred throughout much of the Near East around the turn of the 2nd …

From 2007–2010, a team from Sapienza University of Rome, working at Tell Mardikh,
ancient Ebla, excavated one of the longest and better-preserved Early Bronze IVB (c. 2300 …

João Batista Ribeiro Santos é um dos grandes novos estudiosos das memórias culturais do
Levante e da Bíblia Hebraica, com enfoque na história e cultura integradas do antigo …

In the studies devoted to the periods marking transitions from one to another stage in the
history of the Armenian Highland, in searching the roots of those transitions represented by …

The passage from the 3rd to the 2nd millennium BC in Inner Syria is still a matter for debate
both in historical and archaeological studies. This is only partially due to lack of evidence: it …

In 2017 the joint Italian-Lebanese mission of the Northern Lebanon Project (NoLeP) started
a systematic investigation in the district of Koura. The aim of the project is the reconstruction …

The discoveries of the 2004-2008 excavations at Tell Mardikh, ancient Ebla, in north-
western Syria, and the following processing of the archaeological record have allowed for a …