Perspectives on the Ancient Near Eastern canon : More than Mesopotamia's greatest hits / Amy Rebecca Gansell and Ann Shafer -- The southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern canon / Rachel Hallote - ...

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

Scripture is filled with symbolism and phraseology that means something different today than when the sacred words were written. To properly interpret a passage and understanding of these are ...

The Morgens West Foundation Galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art will open to the public on Saturday, Nov. 10, after a nine-month renovation. Emory Photo/Video The Morgens West Foundation Galleries ...

A recent excavation in Megiddo, Israel, unearthed the earliest example of a particular type of cranial surgery in the Ancient Near East -- and potentially one of the oldest examples of leprosy in the ...

The book of Joshua is a book that many have not taken the time to study. There are not many sermons preached on it, and in more liturgical communities it rarely makes an appearance in a lectionary[1].

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Inscriptions on a set of four clay tablets from the ancient Near ...

The Louvre’s Department of Near Eastern Antiquities is hosting ten major works from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art is currently closed for ...

v. 1. The collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, catalogued and ed. by Edith Porada in collaboration with Briggs Buchanan. pt. 1, text; pt. 2, plates v. 1. The collection of the Pierpont Morgan ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...