November 2022
Vol. 10, No. 11
Modern Wars and Ancient Governance: Archaeology and Textual Finds from First Millennium BCE Babylon
By Odette Boivin
German excavators dug at Babylon from 1899 to 1917, all year round, six days a week, until World War I put an end to their work. Publication of the finds is continuing. Read More
Who Are You? Preliminary Results of the Academic Genealogies of Near Eastern Scholars (AGNES) Project
By Rachel Hallote, Diane Harris Cline, and Eric H. Cline
Where do archaeologists and other scholars of the ancient Near East come from, intellectually speaking? A new project is collecting the genealogies of scholars present and past. Some of the results are unexpected. Read More
Decoding Tutankhamun: Understanding the Tomb and its Treasures
By Peter Lacovara
As the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb arrives, its fabulous wealth leads to the question, was it a typical royal tomb? In fact, there are reasons to think it was unique. Read More
The Unlikely Merchants: Women Antiquities Dealers in 19th Century Baghdad
By Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem
In the late 19th century European museums bought bushels of antiquities, especially tablets, from Baghdad dealers. Many of the key dealers were women who sold their jewelry to get into the business. Read More
