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April 2020

Vol. 8, No. 4

The Dolmen Tour and House of Heritage in Menjez (Akkar 鈥 North Lebanon)

By Tara Steimer-Herbet

Megaliths like dolmens are common around the world, including in northern Lebanon. A recent project worked with the local community to study, conserve and develop dolmens as a tourist resource. Read More

How Ancient Egypt Shows That Climate Change is Always With Us

By Judith Bunbury

Climate change is a constant. For ancient Egypt, climate processes of heating and cooling were challenges and opportunities that helped bring about a great civilization. They also imperiled its survival. Read More

鈥淭erminate and Liquidate鈥: How the Megiddo Ivories were Almost Not Discovered

By Eric H. Cline

Money and local politics are always the bane of archaeological projects. For the Megiddo project in the late 1930s, these problems were so dire that they almost brought the end just as it was about to make dramatic discoveries.聽Read More

Resurrection in the Mediterranean World

By John Granger Cook

The Christian belief in the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth gradually made its way aroundthe ancient Mediterranean world. But it fell on fertile ground because the idea of resurrection was already widely shared by Jews, Zoroastrians, and others. Read More

Passover in the Time of Pandemic

By Alex Joffe

Disease and plague are known from prehistory to the present. They also draw lines between different epochs. Read More