The history of contraceptive medicine stretches back to the earliest Near Eastern medical literature. Introduction The ancient Near...
Near East
Explore the history of the Near East, where the eastern Mediterranean meets Mesopotamia and the civilizations of Asia. These studies follow changing empires and religious traditions that shaped neighboring worlds.
A unique kitchen in a 4000-year-old palace where priests served up opium-laced potions for ceremonies. By Andrew...
Outside of pre-Maccabean Israelite religious literature, evidence for the name and the origins of the Philistines is...
Numerous excavations and a fairly large number of contemporary written documents give us a good picture of...
Considering the spread of Judaism from the viewpoint of other cultures in the Ancient Near East. Introduction...
Canaanite religion was polytheistic, and in some cases monolatristic. Introduction Canaanite religion refers to the group of...
A map illustrating the various political states within the Fertile Crescent c. 1450 BCE / Image by Свифт/Svift, Wikimedia Commons...
Kudurru of Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur granting LAK-ti Marduk freedom from taxation for services rendered during his invasion of Elam...
By the 3rd millennium BCE, the southern Levant was a land of small, fortified towns and villages,...
Bronze Age huts at Craggaunowen / Photo by Angella Streluk, Creative Commons By Dr. Nicholas K. Rauh Professor of...