The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...

Human belief systems and practices can be traced to ca. 10,000 BCE in the Ancient Near East, where the earliest evidence of ritual structures and objects can be found. Religious architecture, the ...

Ancient Near East studies examines the history, languages and cultures of the Near East from the beginning of recorded history to the Roman times (approximately from 3000 BCE to 200 CE). Even though ...

The Temple of Esna, a significant Egyptian archaeological site, has been undergoing extensive restoration works.

and ancient Near Eastern studies, opens up important data sets and conversation partners for new insight.’ Peter Altmann, Review of Biblical Literature '… a dense and extremely successful study that ...

To study the Near East in all its complexity is to gain insight into many of the forces that have shaped the Western world. From the history of Islam to the state of Israel, from the ancient Near East ...

The ancient studies program acknowledges the importance of approaching ... a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic cultures bordering on the Mediterranean Sea (including the Near East) from ...