Skeletons of over 30 equids found inside their own tombs at Umm el-Marra have been identified as the elite kunga equids referred to in third-millennium Syrian and Mesopotamian texts. DNA analysis […]
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Richard Jasnow publishes two books in 2021
Richard Jasnow has recently published two books in 2021. In August, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth II, co-authored with Karl-Theodor Zauzich and in September, On the Path to the […]
Art installation memorializes the thousands of lives lost at the U.S.-Mexico border
The 3,200 toe tags of Hostile Terrain 94 aim to “rehumanize” migrants who have died while crossing the Sonoran Desert Sanchita Balachandran, associate director of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, […]
Joy McCorriston And Michael J. Harrower Receive the 2022 Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports
The Archaeological Institute of America has selected Landscape Histories of Hadramawt: The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998-2008 as the 2022 recipient of its Anna Marguerite McCann […]
Theodore Lewis receives 2021 Best Book Relating to the Hebrew Bible Award
This is a monumental volume of over 1,100 pages, including over 200 pages of endnotes and 100 pages of bibliography. It contains a comprehensive discussion of most of the issues […]
Alphabetic writing may have begun 500 years earlier than believed
Inside Professor Glenn Schwatz’s mission to rewrite the history of writing.
Betsy Bryan part of mission unearthing a 3,000 year old city in Egypt
A 3,000-year-old “lost golden city” has been unearthed in the southern city of Luxor, a discovery that could be the most significant find in Egypt since the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamen, the archaeological mission said Thursday in a statement.
The Amarna Letters on Oracc
Jacob Lauinger and Tyler Yoder are pleased to announce the release of an initial set of 218 fully-lemmatized Amarna letters on Oracc. The goal of the project is to make […]
Tom Lippincott, Sharon Achinstein, and Jacob Lauinger receive 2021 IDIES Seed Funding Award
Their project, “An unsupervised neural framework for multi-modal literary and historical scholarship” has received a 2021 IDIES Seed Funding award. Tom Lippincott in Computer Science is the project’s Principal Investigator […]
Now on YouTube – Finding an Ancient Town: Discovery and Excavation of Beta Samati (Ethiopia)
How does one find an ancient town? What do archaeologists look for? How do they know where to dig? How do they interpret what they find? In a YouTube presentation […]