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May 2020
Vol. 8, No. 5
Coping with Ethnicity in Pharaonic Egypt
By Juan Carlos Moreno García
Ancient Egyptians had ambivalent attitudes towards foreigners. Most royal propaganda was negative, but the reality was quite different. Read More
A Calendar in Stone: Hittite Yazılıkaya
By Eberhard Zangger and Rita Gautschy
All cultures have calendars. Many also make stone monuments. Hittites’ stone calendar included depictions of some of their thousands of gods. Read More
Donkeys, Domestication and Early Bronze Age Society
By Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz
Capable of carrying heavy loads over rough terrain, the humble donkey was the jeep of late prehistory. Can we determine when and how they were domesticated? Read More
The Ancient Lands of Honey: Middle East, Egypt, Greece
By Sophia Germanidou
Long before sugar, there was honey. How did this sticky sweetness go from something collected by brave hunter-gatherers to an industrial product? Read More
