Archaeological research on the Iron Age (1200–500 BC) Levant, a narrow strip of land
bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Desert, has been balkanized into …

Recent excavations and high-precision radiocarbon dating from the largest Iron Age (IA, ca.
1200–500 BCE) copper production center in the southern Levant demonstrate major …

Moab was an ancient kingdom located in the highlands east of the Dead Sea, in what is now
Jordan. Known primarily from references in the Hebrew Bible, Moab has long occupied a …

IntroductIon there is evidence of human presence in the southern part of Jordan for the past
million years. the projects in which I have been engaged for the past three to four decades …

There is an increasing demand within the humanities and social sciences to use computers
to analyze material culture and discover patterns of historical and anthropological …

Recently Levy et al. have published two papers in which they claim to provide “less biased”
high-precision radiocarbon dates from Khirbat en-Nahas in southern Jordan, and on the …

Since the early days of biblical archaeology, the prevailing perception of nomads has been
of people incapable of forming strong political entities, whose influence upon the course of …

Excavations conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority at Tel Lachish exposed
the southern half of the six-chambered gate in Level III. In the eastern chamber, a gate …

A comprehensive history of a state on Judah's border Edom at the Edge of Empire combines
biblical, epigraphic, archaeological, and comparative evidence to reconstruct the history of …

The colour tones of the lands between the Euphrates and the Tigris are very light, dusty, and
dull. They need for contrast pure strong colours.(…) But the general effect through the long …