Near East Archive
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The History and Architecture of Petra
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsPetra was a city of wealth, prosperity, and enormous ingenuity that allowed the Nabataean people to settle and even thrive in one of the harshest environments on earth. -
The failed reforms of Akhenaten and Muwatalli
Posted on April 2, 2013 | No CommentsThough Aten as a form of the Sun-god Re was venerated long before the ascent of Akhenaten, his ele- vation to a prominent status is clearly associated with the heretic king. There have been many attempts to detect the underlying causes for his avatar, but, as concluded by Barry Kemp, -
Controversial exhibition on King Herod’s Tomb is featured tonight on Museum Secrets
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No CommentsA new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem focusing on an ancient world's most controversial figures is drawing interest from the around the world, as well as creating new controversy -
Shadow on the steps : time measurement in ancient Israel
Posted on March 17, 2013 | No CommentsWe find that the ancient Israelites had more than one calendar, more than one method of measuring intervals of time between events, and several different chronologies of its history. -
From rejection to incorporation: The Roman bathing culture in Palestine
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsThe importance of bathing as a daily ritual and focus point of the social life in the Roman world is well known and is attested by the large number and luxurious character of both the public and private Roman baths. -
Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel: Insights and Interpretations
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsChristopher Lightfoot, Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers insights on the Lod Mosaic. -
A socio-historical analysis of Jewish banditry in first century Palestine 6 to 70 CE
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThese protests were mainly instigated by and initially led by Jewish peasants who experienced the worst aspects of becoming a part of the larger Roman world. -
Vision, Folly and Balance: Imperial Approaches to Commerce and War in the Roman Near East, 27 BCE
Posted on January 1, 2013 | No CommentsWhen Emperor Marcus Aurelius died on the banks of the Danube in 180 CE at Vindobona, or Vienna, the Roman Empire he left behind was the largest transcontinental, transcultural, singular political entity in history before the rise of the European nation state some fifteen centuries later. -
The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
Posted on December 9, 2012 | No CommentsJosephus clearly identifies the queen who visited Solomon as 'the woman who ruled Egypt and Ethiopia,' and tells us that her name was Nikaulis. -
Amber in the Ancient Near East
Posted on November 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn ancient India and Egypt, it was burned as incense, believed to purify temples and palaces. From antiquity, people have believed that amber has healing properties.
