In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, establish...

'This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered - if I...

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) poet, painter, novelist, explorer, mountaineer, chess master, classi...

The Hagia Photia Cemetery takes its name from the nearby village on the northeast coast of Crete,...

Rabbi Benjamin Slonik (ca 1550-after 1620) used the technology of printing to publish a 'how to' ...

Peter Lasko is the leading authority on the luxury arts of the Middle Ages. His book, Ars Sacra, ...

More than two centuries since enslaved laborers of West African descent evicted French colonials ...

This volume is the final report on the first and second century a.d. and thirteenth and fourteent...

A concise introduction to the workings of ancient democracy, The Athenian Citizen has been a best...

This catalog presents the entire corpus of 272 baked clay figurines and votive beds excavated at ...

Originally coined to signify a style of pottery in southern Iraq, and by extension an associated ...

This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation expe...

Named after its donor, the King of Pergamon, the Stoa of Attalos was originally built around 150 ...

Physical anthropology, the study of human skeletal remains, has assumed an increasingly important...

Honoring Jane Buikstra's pioneering work in the development of bioarchaeological research, the es...

The Peirene Fountain as described by its first excavator, Rufus B. Richardson, is 'the most famou...

As part of the INSTAP Archaeological Excavation Manual series, Thin-Section Petrography of Cerami...

The dynamic discourse stimulated by 78 magnificent objects created by Native Americans over the y...

Within the last three decades, foraging theory has established itself as a major-arguably the dom...

A case study in the divergent evolution of Mexico's Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations, this collec...

The geographic, spiritual, and intellectual journeys of Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990)-prolific sch...

This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date reco...

A rich intellectual tradition that offers archaeologists a way around many seemingly irresolvable...

The Penn Museum's first archaeological expedition to Iran took place in 1931, when Erich F. Schmi...

This volume brings together papers presented at a conference titled The Neolithic Transition in E...

In spring 1939, as the prospect of war loomed, a joint Greek-American archaeological expedition b...

To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their co...

While the builders of the Giza pyramids built amazing monuments for pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and M...

Medinet Habu in western Thebes (modern Luxor, Egypt) is dominated by the great mortuary temples o...

Rhyta are among the most appealing yet enigmatic classes of artefacts from the Aegean Bronze Age....

In Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology, the late Lewis Binford documents the hunting and butchering strateg...

This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic h...

The author lays out the early Ptolemaic tax system, describes the changes in the capitation taxes...

At first sight, the cliffside site of Katalimata looks like an extreme refuge place where one mig...

Looks at contextualized Pompeian household artefacts and their role in deepening our understandin...

Since the inception of Minoan archaeology, studies pertaining to tombs and tomb deposits have pla...

Ottoman archaeology has progressed significantly in the last ten years from a study of the 'Dark ...

John Matthews' brilliant analysis of Ammianus and his world is foundational for the study of the ...

The excavation of area WF in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons at Nippur (1988 89, 1990) was ...

This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop hel...

This book traces the archaeological history of Pylos and surrounding regions in Messenia from the...

Professor Gene B Gragg's unbounded intellectual curiosity and rigorous linguistic method have ser...

Christa Gardner von Teuffel's studies of Italian altarpieces have provided fundamental insights c...

This volume brings together a diverse set of new studies--archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethn...

This monograph considers the painted frieze on the facade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C....

The late prehistoric Bakun A culture in Fars is a major source of information on the initial deve...

During the last few decades, there has been great interest in the problems of defining the extent...

On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institute celebrated the official public opening of the Haas an...