Mesopotamia

The project aims to produce a comprehensive study of the fortifications of Hatra, based on data recorded by the Italian Archaeological Expedition of the University of Torino between 1986 and 1989. Located in northern Iraq within a semi-arid steppe...

This project will support the publication of a comprehensive monograph on Tell al-Wilayah, a major archaeological site located in Wasit Province in Southeastern Iraq. Tell al-Wilayah was first excavated by Iraqi archaeologists in 1958, and further seasons...

Excavations at Kani Shaie in the Bazyan Valley (Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan), part of the land of Lullubum during the Bronze Age, documented a 6,000 year history of a community in the borderlands between the Zagros Mountains and the Mesopotamian...

"Die Glyptik der mittelassyrischen Zeit aus Dūr-Katlimmu" During the reigns of the Middle-Assyrian kings Shalmaneser I (1263-1234 BC) and Tukulti-Ninurta I (1233-1197 BC) the city of Dur-Katlimmu, that is modern Tell Sheikh Hamad on the Habur in Syria (35...

PUBLISHED 2022. Please also visit the publication's webpage. The ancient city, one of the most important and oldest in Mesopotamia, was the last great capital of the Assyrian empire. Dominating the site is the high mound known as Kuyunjik, which may have...

PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's webpage . Located along the River Euphrates, in modern-day Syria, el-Qitar was a mountain fortress of the Middle Bronze Age. Excavations, fully analysed in this volume for the first time, revealed extensive...

Chagar Bazar is a cluster of mounds with human occupations from the Bronze Age but with a rich Neolithic sequence from the Halaf period. The settlement is a long-duration site located in Syria on the wadi Dara, a tributary of the Khabour River, c. 35 km...

PUBLISHED 2011. Please visit the publication's webpage. Tell Beydar (ancient Nabada) is located in the Upper Syrian Jezireh. Its main occupation dates back to the Early Dynastic/Early Jezireh IIIb period during which time Beydar was subordinate to Tell...

This publication project, directed by Dr. Anna Leone, will produce the digitalisation of the archive and the final publication of archaeological excavations conducted at Dibsi Faraj (Syria), a Late Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic site on the Euphrates...