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2018 Editor’s Selection Vol. 1

This E-Book includes articles such as: About that Museum in Washington; Were There Phoenicians; Three Israelite Psalms in an Ancient Egyptian Papyrus; Life of a Salesman: Trade and Contraband in Ancient Assyria; and Comics, Narrative and the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East … CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

2018 Editor’s Selection Vol. 2

This E-Book includes articles such as: The World’s Oldest Torah Scrolls; Alchemy Between the Two Rivers; Getting Old in Ancient Egypt; The Cross: History, Art and Controversy; and Sinai’s Unfinished 150-year Survey … CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Five Articles about Jesus

This E-Book includes articles such as: What did Jesus look like; Did Jesus Speak Greek; What Do We Know about the Scourging of Jesus; The Face of the Baptized Jesus at Shivta; and Jesus as a Security Risk: Intelligence and Repression in the Roman Empire … CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Five Articles about Food Traditions

This E-Book includes articles such as: When Life Gives You Lemons: Tracking the Earliest Citrus in the Mediterranean; The Daily Stew? Everyday Meals in Ancient Israel; Göbekli Tepe: Neolithic Gathering and Feasting at the Beginning of Food Production; Cooking in the Hebrew Bible; and Hogging the Attention: Cuisine and Culture in Ancient Israel … CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Five Articles about Threatened Cultural Heritage

This E-Book includes articles such as: The Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Scheme; Saving Archeological Heritage in Afghanistan; Pop-Up Museums Provide Hope for Libya in the Aftermath of War; Ancient Papyri Online and for Sale; and Cuneiform Exceptionalism: An Argument for Studying and Publishing Unprovenanced Tablets … CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Five Articles about Community Archaeology

This E-Book includes articles such as: Archaeology for the Masses: Tearing Down the Barriers between Archaeology and the Public; Common Ground: Archaeological Practice and Local Communities in Southeastern Turkey; The Past Performative: Thinking through the Azraq Community Archaeology Project; A Call for the Preservation of Heritage Landscapes in the United Arab Emirates; and Preserving the Past, the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments Project… CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Five Articles about Everyday Life in the Ancient World

This E-Book includes articles such as: Trash and Toilets in Mesopotamia: Sanitation and Early Urbanism; Cursing in the Ancient Near East; Getting Old in Ancient Egypt; Sunlight and Shade in the First Cities – A Sensory Archaeology of Early Iraq; and Children in Ancient Sumer: How Much Do We Know?… CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Five Articles about Drugs, Medicine, & Alcohol

This E-Book includes articles such as: An Affair of Herbal Medicine? The ‘Special’ Kitchen in the Royal Palace of Ebla; Potent potables of the past: Beer and brewing in Mesopotamia; ‘Joy plants’ and the earliest toasts in the Ancient Near East; Psychedelics and the Ancient Near East; and A Toast to Our Fermented Past: Case Studies in the Experimental Archaeology of Alcoholic Beverages… CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD