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 …

In the first centuries of the Common Era, an eclectic collection of plain and embellished
underground and aboveground tombs filled the cemeteries of the Roman province of Syria …

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 …

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 …

This study aims to reconstruct the function and use of the Tell Sabi Abyad dunnu, an
Assyrian, government-controlled, agricultural settlement. Understanding its role in the local …

It is generally accepted that pastoral tribes with their emphasis on mobility, kin-based
descent groups and reference to ancestors underpin many of the features that broadly …

The site of Tell Mozan lies tucked in the northeast corner of modern day Syria, located
between the Tigris and the Euphrates River, an area known as Mesopotamia. Evidence …

Recent excavations at the ancient city of Hazor in northern Israel have uncovered an
impressive palace complex and temple, linked together by a courtyard. This courtyard …

This article discusses how Armenians have collected, displayed and exchanged the bones
of their murdered ancestors in formal and informal ceremonies of remembrance in Dayr al …