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Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Imagery from the Levant to Mesopotamia is dedicated to Tallay Ornan, a scholar who has distinguished herself in ancient Western Asian iconographic studies and...
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Articles en anglais
The cats in Mesopotamia
The cat was familiar in Mesopotamia, and even important: it is the only domestic animal mentioned in the creation of the world as recounted by the I millennium tablet, which also...
Yemen culture in crisis (1): The Queen of Sheba and female identity in Ancient South Arabia
Yemen, once known to Roman writers as ‘Happy Arabia’, is in a terrible state and declared by the UN to be the world’s worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. It...
Back to Baghdad: the British Museum returns the final consignment of Ur tablets
We are delighted to confirm the return of the final body of cuneiform tablets exported from Woolley’s excavations at Ur to London for study and publication (Figures 1-2). This follows the...
Just published: ‘To Aleppo gone …’: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb
Version française en bas ‘To Aleppo gone …’ is a festschrift offered in honour of Jonathan Tubb, former Levant curator and Keeper of the Department of the Middle East at the...
