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Dear list members, The interpretation of the inscription make no sense ! Can a certain person be the son of an anonymous High Priest ? As the right side of the...
This is a link to an article describing a fragment, presumably of a sarcophagus, found near Jerusalem, and which probably dates to ca. the 1st C BCE. ...
This is a link to the exhibit website. http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~tjchamb/G_2100_Exhibit/Home.html Cemetery G 2100: Virtual Exhibit Overview The exhibit...
This is a link to the exhibit website. http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~tjchamb/G_2100_Exhibit/Home.html Cemetery G 2100: Virtual Exhibit Overview The exhibit...
The report on the Jewish Museum exhibit of Dead Sea Scrolls by Edward Rothstein contains errors. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07scrol.html The...
An Egyptian colleague asks me to forward the following message: ********************** It has come to our attention that a new development program is about to...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/middleeast/06biran.html?ref=obituaries Eliot Braun, Ph D Sr. Fellow WF Albright Institute of Archaeological Research,...
"This study supports the antiquity of the patina, which in turn, strengthens the contention that the inscription is authentic." So concludes the abstract of...
I hope someone can help me to relocate a recent article about the Stelenreihe at Assur. It is not the article by Miglus in ZA 74, but something more recent, I...
A Wall Street Journal Opinion piece by Jordana Horn borrows its title from that of Norman Golb's book, "Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?" Golb claims that all ...
Circular No. 1 III National Congress on Ancient History / III Jornadas Nacionales de Historia Antigua II International Congress on Ancient History / II...
Some years ago Professor Goren wrote to ANE and reported the patina was radiocarbon dated to the Hellenistic period. It was not Iron Age II of Joash, nor...
Can anyone confirm that the following was part of the Babylonian Akitu festival, especially during and after the "Babylonian captivity" of the elites of...
Recent news provide a perfect illustration of the critical thinking flaw at the basis of the Talpiot tomb "highly improbable" statistical argument. The...
Greetings, All, I have recently come across an etymology of the name Astarte which claims that it means "She of the Villages". There is no citation. Has...
List folk who may want to participate at Tiberias in 2009 may find this helpful http://jwest.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/tibearias-excavation-2009/ Jim -- ++++++ ...
*Call for Papers 2009 SECSOR Regional Meeting March 13-15, 2009 Chapel Hill, North Carolina* The following section invite members who wish to present a paper...
Via Jack Sasson- SCHWEICH CENTENARY LECTURE ON BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Archaeology and the Bible: A Broken Link? Professor Graham Davies, FBA University of...
The Research Archives of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has recently updated the following online resources: 1) Acquisitions Lists of the...
Another enigmatic inscription has surfaced: DIA CHRESTOU OGOISTAIS Have a look here: http://tinyurl.com/6amr2e Best wishes Wieland <>< ... Wieland Willker,...
Hi, Is this actually peer reviewed? (This is part of an argument over whether Lambert's new translation of the Nabonidus Chronicle should be taken as 'the...
Those of you with an academic affiliation may find this new social networking tool to be of interest http://www.academia.edu/ -Chuck Jones- New York...
A short video of Franck Goddio presenting the cup was given by El Mundo yesterday. You can see it here: (Note: a short advertisement is at the beginning) ...
As a new component of his suite of news feed aggregators Tom Elliott has just built a new aggregator for excavation blogs, so if you know of any such thing,...
I've seen the claim that the Greek word γάζα, ης, ἡ (gaza), comes from the the Persian word ganj, from the Sanskrit gañja". But Danker notes that...
I'm visiting Paris and will have time to visit a bookshop or two. Can anyone suggest good bookshops for French publications on the archaeology or history of...
