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The main focus of this research is the analysis of the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and Late Bronze Age (LBA) unpublished ceramic assemblages and related archaeological contexts from two case-studies, Tell Barri and Tell Bazi, both located in what is now...

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage. Ancient Yathill, known today as Barâqish (16° 01’ 06” N - 44° 48’ 16” E) in the Yemeni Jawf, was the second major city in the Kingdom of Ma‛în after the capital Qarnâw. Yathill’s Golden Age began in...

PUBLISHED 2022. Please view the webpage for the volume HERE. The ancient military harbour of Kition-Bamboula lies at the heart of the modern city of Larnaca, Cyprus (34°92’’ North, 33°63’’ East). Excavations conducted by the French Archaeological Mission...

Ancient Idalion was one of the city kingdoms of Iron Age Cyprus, its capital bearing the same name and located in the immediate neighbourhood of the modern village of Dali in the Republic of Cyprus. Especially the rich necropoleis did attract antiquity...

Located in the lower Orontes River Valley of western Syria, Tell Qarqur is a 30-meter tall, 12-hectare mound which was the focus of an American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)-sponsored excavation project from 1983-2010. While the site is best known...