In a very bad book, *A History of Reading* by Steven Roger Fischer (2003), I find some bizarre assertions about cuneiform writing backed up by references to...
Among the ten new sites on World Heritage List are Bisotun (Islamic Republic of Iran), The aflaj irrigation system (Oman), Crac des Chevaliers and Qal'at Salah...
Aren has the info on his blog today http://gath.wordpress.com/2006/07/12/re-an-inscription/ Unfortuntely there isn't yet a description of what the inscription...
Greetings ANEites. I wonder if anyone can help me regarding a few Qumran archaeological matters. 1) Does anyone know if the sections at the site of Qumran...
When excavations uncovered Assyrian palaces in the 19th century some scholars suggested that the "sacred trees" being adored by the Assyrian kings might be...
Anyone visiting the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem will notice a very significant omission. It might be understandable as these are rare creatures whose capture...
The Oriental Institute Chicago has announced: Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/ "The story of ancient...
Dear colleagues, I'm doing some work on an ancient lead object, biconical in shape, that has been described by a researcher as a 'lead sling stone'. While I...
Interesting essay, "Vale to Babylon," with as its basic premise "... that the United States has acted like Neo-Assyria in the Iraq War, and that the problems...
A federal judge has rejected a key defense by the University of Chicago in a lawsuit over rights to ancient Persian artifacts, a decision bound to ripple...
Tory, Your observations are as usual very reasonable and informative. The Hebrew Bible contains a mixture of Hellenistic, archaic Jewish and late Jewish ...
Michael Avioz is organizing for the SBL Edinburgh meeting a session for e-listers. He has contacted Matthew Collins and they are setting aside a room and some...
You'd think this was an April's fool's joke but evidently they are quite serious about it. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/4524915.asp?gid=74 -- Jim West,...
The Friends of the Petrie Museum annual book auction will take place on 12th July. Titles are mainly Egyptology (including some very desirable antiquarian...
Since the middle of the month there has been a spate of new bouncing members (no, not people who are extremely buoyant -- but members whose addresses no longer...
Haaretz has in interesting article on the discovery this week of the Second Temple era neighborhood. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732068.html Jim -- Jim...
Listers may find this to be of interest: http://petrosbaptistchurch.blogspot.com/2006/06/thomas-thompson-in-news.html With thanks to Joseph Lauer for the info....
Dear list members, I am working with the great Shamash hymn at the moment. Being primarily trained as a historian of religion rather than an assyriologist, I...
Here is some interesting and rather startling information on early humans from Skhul Cave, Israel. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/science/23shell.html -- ...
Mirrored at http://kalyan96.googlepages.com/sankha Abstract While the finds of perforated shell beads in Skhul rock shelter in Israel point to the possible use...
For those looking for a break from World Cup action, Explorator 9.9 by David Meadows is now available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/message/395 ...
... ======================================== After an initial campaign of the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) at Tell Fecheriye (northern Syria) in 2005 we...
... ++++++++++++++ Francis Deblauwe, Lic., Ph.D. Director & Editor, The Iraq War & Archaeology An Archaeos, Inc., Documentation and Information Project ...
I recall reading some articles a year or two ago on the difficulty of dating agricultural terraces. I can't find my copies and I can't seem to locate the ...
List folk may find this report interesting: http://en.naukawpolsce.pl/naukaen/index.jsp?place=Lead07&news_cat_id=91&news_id=4545&layout=0&page=text In part, ...
