In 1921, the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition to Meroe in the northern Sudan exc...

An in-depth look at the history of archaeological excavations and their transportation to the Ger...

Religion and maritime mobility in the ancient world: papers given at a conference of the Society ...

Some thirty years have passed since the original publication of M. M. Ahsan's Social Life Under t...

Peter Lacovara has worked as a curator, archaeologist, teacher, and ceramicist during a long care...

In this comprehensive study, Aaron Spevack delves into the 15th-century logic text by Shams al-Di...

In this book, the late Richard Redding synthesizes his decades-long work on the ancient agricultu...

In 1939, on the first day of excavation at the archaeological site that he called The Palace of N...

This book is about snakebite and snake identification in ancient Egypt. The authors--in a remarka...

This volume tackles a pressing issue in Roman art history: that many sculptures conventionally us...

These two volumes provide a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with ...

This volume celebrates the scientific and academic career of Massimiliano Marazzi, professor of A...

This book discusses recent trends and issues in the scholarly study of the Qur'?n and its exegesi...

Just in time for the centennial of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, this volume of studies de...

What if everything we see, experience, and understand is just an occasion for something deeper--a...

During Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty (ca. 1550-1292 BCE), the New Kingdom pharaohs campaigned repeat...

The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic wa...

Warrior, mighty builder, and statesman, over the course of his 67-year-long reign (1279-1212 BCE)...

The tradition of rational theology in the mature post-classical Sunni tradition has unique philos...

In Arabic-Islamic culture, generosity is held in the very highest regard and descriptions of char...

Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the ...