June 2013
Vol. 1, No. 3
Welcome to the third issue of The Ancient Near East Today! For ASOR members this is the last issue you will receive unless you have registered as a Friend of ASOR, so sign up now to keep receiving The Ancient Near East Today. In this issue Jeff Blakely writes about the archaeology of World War I in the Levant. This month also begins a series of abridged articles from the latest issue of Near Eastern Archaeology on the excavations at Tel Hazor. Finally, this month’s forum features posts from ASOR’s blog theme in June, ‘Digital Archaeology.’ Editor Jenn Fitzgerald has collected posts on sustainability and open access, using iPads in the field, and recreating the past with virtual reality! We hope you enjoy this issue. Please let us know what you think in the comments section for each piece.
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The Renewed Hazor Excavations
By: Amnon Ben-Tor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel Hazor, “the head of all those kingdoms” (Joshua 11:10), is the largest tell in Israel and encompasses a total of approximately 800 dunams (200 acres). With the exception of two gaps in the settlement, one at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age and the other following the destruction of the Canaanite city during the transition between the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, Hazor was continuously occupied for approximately two millennia, from the first half of the third millennium BCE to the late eighth century BCE…[READ MORE]
The Archaeology of World War I in Palestine and the Beginning of the Modern Middle East
By: Jeffrey A. Blakely
Most Americans understand World War I in the Middle East through the epic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. Who can forget Peter O’Toole’s vibrant blue eyes as he blew up trains on the Hejaz railroad in modern Saudi Arabia and Jordan? Since American forces were not involved in the Egyptian/Palestine front, it probably would have escaped American interest were it not for the film…[READ MORE]
The Ancient Near East Today features contributions from diverse academics, a forum featuring debates of current developments from the field, and links to news and resources. The ANE Today covers the entire Near East, and each issue presents discussions ranging from the state of biblical archaeology to archaeology after the Arab Spring.
