Summing up: highly recommended.' Choice 'Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East is a much-needed and welcome project, investigating through the lens of archaeology the built ...

Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics, received the P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology ...

Ancient Near East studies examines the history, languages and cultures of the Near East from the beginning of recorded history to the Roman times (approximately from 3000 BCE to 200 CE). Even though ...

The studies of East Anglian archaeology which we owe to Sir Cyril Fox have demonstrated the almost kaleidoscopic changes in the generalised picture as the records of local finds are brought more ...

The palaces of the ancient Near East are known to have had spectacular gardens, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, whose precise location is ...

Syria has become a prime focus of field archaeology in the Middle East in the past thirty years, and Peter Akkermans and Glenn Schwartz discuss the results of this intensive fieldwork, integrating ...

In-depth consideration of an aspect of ancient Mediterranean culture. Topics vary; they may include ancient wall painting, Greek sculpture, artists and patrons, the ancient Near East, Egyptian art and ...

Long before Time Team brought archaeology to the masses, Renfrew ... a stone found in nearly all Neolithic village excavations in the Near East but which occurs naturally in only in a very few ...