2022 – 05 - The Ancient Near East Today

May 2022

Vol. 10, No. 5

Relief of Pensive Athena, 400 BC. Athens, Akropolis Museum. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Goddesses of Myth and Cultural Memory

May 25, 2022

Damascus Psalm Fragment, late 8th century. From Photographien von asgewählten Fragmenten aus der Omayyaden-Moschee in Damaskus inverschiedenen Sprachen. Public Domain; scan courtesy fo the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

The Bible in Arabic

May 17, 2022

Plaster copy of Ashurnasirpal II’s lion hunt relief, VAG 19. Original from the Northwest Palace at Kalhu (modern Nimrud/Iraq), VA 00959. Vorderasiatisches Museum. Photo courtesy of the author.

(Hi)stories Set in Plaster: Ancient Western Asian Reproductions and the Berlin State Museums

May 11, 2022

Burials including weapons in Middle Bronze Age II in the Levant and the Nile Delta. © Dr S. Prell

What’s in a Name? Warriors and Warrior Burials in the Near East

May 4, 2022

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