Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of
the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. This new edition is a …

This article presents two previously unpublished Old Babylonian tablets on which are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 …

This paper investigates temple-building traditions using concepts of space and place,
exploring various perspectives of temple placemaking in archaeological, textual and …

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 …

This paper presents the results of phytolith analysis from Middle Bronze Age II (1800–1600
bce) Zincirli Höyük, Türkiye. The study area was destroyed by a single fire event resulting in …

The mummified remains of ancient Egyptian king Seqenenre Tao (c. 1560 BCE) reveal
traces of trauma caused by violence. Several blows to his head produced cuts, allowing …

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 …