Guide to the classics: the Epic of Gilgamesh
To what might we owe this modern-day cultural amnesia surrounding one of the world’s greatest works of ancient literature?
Cuneiform tablets reveal location of ancient royal city of Mardaman
It existed between 2,200 and 1,200 years BC, was at times a kingdom or a provincial capital and was conquered and destroyed several times.
Our fossil finger discovery points to earlier human migration in Arabia
By Huw Groucutt The Arabian Peninsula is a vast landmass at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia. Yet until the last decade almost…
Persians, Ports, and Pepper: The Red Sea Trade in Late Antiquity
There has been an increased interest in Romeʼs connections with the Far East over the course of the last 20 years. This has resulted in the publication of many articles and monographs about the Roman involvement in the Red Sea which was the key maritime region linking the Far East with the West.
ISIS, Heritage, and the Spectacles of Destruction in the Global Media
In this paper, I focus on ISIS’s destruction of archaeological heritage. I argue that this destruction can be seen as a form of place-based violence that aims to annihilate the local sense of belonging, and the collective sense of memory among local communities to whom the heritage belongs.
A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain
Modern methods of analysis applied to cemeteries have often been used in our pages to suggest generalities about mobility and diet. But these same techniques applied to a single individual, together with the grave goods and burial rite, can open a special kind of personal window on the past.
A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain
Modern methods of analysis applied to cemeteries have often been used in our pages to suggest generalities about mobility and diet. But these same techniques applied to a single individual, together with the grave goods and burial rite, can open a special kind of personal window on the past.
Rome and Parthia: Power Politics and Diplomacy Across Cultural Frontiers
Persia and Parthia were two of the great ‘others’ that shaped the limits of the Graeco-Roman world, and were also imagined worlds where European values were explored, excluded, and projected.
Lessons from a Demigod
The Epic of Gilgamesh has been read in the modern world for a little longer than a century, and, in that time, this oldest of stories has become a classic college text.
Echoes of Gilgamesh in the Jacob Story
I will argue here that the Israelite author utilized