Şanlıurfa Archeology and Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum complex, the largest museum in Turkey, has reopened after last year’s flood disaster.
A new study claims that the King Prism of Sennacherib was sold illegally to the British Museum.
A 12-year-old student build a small-scale version of Archimedes’s “death ray,” and he concluded that it would have worked.
The Greek Reporter explores the connection of the Greek alphabet to Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The “Digital Coin Cabinet of the University of Trier” includes 500 coins, mostly from the Roman era, available for free use in teaching and publications.
Oxford “is offering a free, online semi-intensive course in Phoenician, which will take place on 8-13 April 2024.”
The new electronic Babylonian Library is the topic of discussion in the latest episode of Thin End of the Wedge.
Sargon II is the subject of the latest archaeological biography by Bryan Windle.
New release: Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan? Essays on Ugaritic Religion and Language, by David Toshio Tsumura (Mohr Siebeck, €129).
Now on Academia: Tom Lee’s PhD dissertation “Nabonidus: The King of Babylon (556-539),” completed in 1990 under W.G. Lambert
Open access: On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia. Travels, Routes and Environment as a Basis for the Reconstruction of Historical Geography, edited by Adelheid Otto and Nele Ziegler (Gladbeck, 2023)
Jan Assmann died this week.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Arne Halbakken
