Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern
Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored …

The cities of the Indus civilization were expansive and planned with large-scale architecture
and sophisticated Bronze Age technologies. Despite these hallmarks of social complexity …

The Oxus Civilization (ca. 2200–1700 BC), or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
(BMAC), is a relatively recent discovery, famous for its beautiful art masterpieces and seals …

The Art of Elam ca. 4200-525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of
one of the world's first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our …

This chapter reviews the evidence of the earliest writing systems used in Iran. The influence
of the protocuneiform writing system used at Uruk and elsewhere in southern Mesopotamia …

Any investigation into the topics of greed and excess is necessarily hampered by the
inability to frame and define these concepts for general application to human behaviors …

Middle Egypt provides a unique insight into the organization of power, politics, economy,
and culture at the turn of the third millennium BC. The apparently easy integration of this …

This study focuses on the nature of interactions and trade between the greater Indus Valley
and eastern Arabia during the third millennium BC. The role of Indus trade in eastern Arabia …

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 …

This paper presents the detailed stylistic and functional analysis of a large collection of
artifacts made from Asian elephant ivory discovered at the Oxus Civilization site of Gonur …