Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ö±²¥

Welcome to The Ancient Near East Today, E-Books! We are pleased to share with you some highlights of ANE Today.

As always, please forward articles from The Ancient Near East Today to family and friends, post links to Facebook, and be in touch with the editor. Tell your friends about Friends of ASOR!

2018 Editor’s Selection Vol. 1

This E-Book includes articles such as: Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ö±²¥ 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;ÌýCommon Ground: Archaeological Practice and Local Communities in Southeastern Turkey;ÌýThe Past Performative: Thinking through the Azraq Community Archaeology Project;ÌýA Call for the Preservation of Heritage Landscapes in the United Arab Emirates;Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýPreserving 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;ÌýCursing in the Ancient Near East;ÌýGetting Old in Ancient Egypt;ÌýSunlight 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;ÌýPsychedelics and the Ancient Near East;Ìýand A Toast to Our Fermented Past: Case Studies in the Experimental Archaeology of Alcoholic Beverages… CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD