Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in ancient Near Eastern
political history, Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture interlaces social and cultural …

This article presents two previously unpublished Old Babylonian tablets on which are
inscribed similar bilingual vocabularies. The language in their right-hand columns is Old …

There is a lacuna of knowledge on the inland trade routes across Bronze Age central Arabia,
which this article seeks to fill based on new evidence from Wādī al‐Fāw, Saudi Arabia …

Ancient Egypt is considered as one of the world's longest enduring civilisations, yet few
studies have explored its history for insights on community resilience in response to …

Temples in antis provide clearly defined liminal spaces for ritual behaviors that are readily
recognizable both textually and archaeologically. This architectural form and the religious …

Abstract Objectives The Levantine Middle Bronze Age (MBA, circa 2000–1500 BCE) marks
a period of increased trade and regional interaction, spurred on by technological …

New potentially Early Alphabetic finds from Umm al-Marra (Syria) and Sealand
(Mesopotamia) require a reanalysis of traditional out-of-Egypt hypotheses of alphabetic …

The 13 graves excavated in 1894 by Sam Wide at Aphidna only attracted sporadic attention
during the first decades, even though he exposed unusually rich burials. However, over the …

Sometimes, all that remains from the history of a place is its name. Thus, toponyms may
provide valuable information. Moving backward in time, we trace the ancient history of the …

This volume challenges assumptions about—and highlights new approaches to—the study
of ancient Egyptian society by tackling various thematic social issues through structured …