ASOR Annual Meeting
November 18-21, 2026
Chicago & Hybrid
The Ancient Near East Today : Vol. 13, No. 12.1
Top Archaeological Discoveries of 2025
From a previously unknown royal tomb to DNA revelations to a newly deciphered alphabet, here are our picks for some of the most interesting breakthroughs and discoveries in the archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa in 2025.
Publications
Maarav 29.1-2 (2025)
The new issue of Maarav features the following articles: “The Anger of the Queen Has Gone Forth”: Ilimilku’s Warning to Urtenu in a Ugaritic Piggyback Letter; The Rise of “National” Scripts in the Iron Age II: A Proposal; and Conflate Readings and the Lamentations Textual Tradition. Read more here.








