Near East
Vol. 6 / No. 4
By: James B. Pritchard
Two Tombs and a Tunnel in the Jordan Valley: Discoveries at the Biblical Zarethan
The cutting of the first trench into any large antiquity site is bound to be significant, especially if the mound […]
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Vol. 6 / No. 2
By: C.J. Gadd
Leon Legrain, D.D., Sc.D.
For over thirty years Dr. Legrain served as Curator of the Babylonian Section in the University Museum, an officer as […]
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Vol. 6 / No. 2
By: James B. Pritchard
Reconnaissance in Jordan
“How do you go about finding a site for excavation?” is a question frequently put to an archaeologist. With the […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 4
By: Miguel Civil
Sumerian Harvest Time
Busy with important researches such as establishing a tight chronological frame for Mesopotamian history, clarifying the role of the various […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 3
By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
Archaeological Scrap: Glimpses of History at Ziwiye
Letters are crossing a museum curator’s desk constantly from different and obscure parts of the globe telling of chance discoveries […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 2
By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
A Babylonian Lion in Toronto
Glazed lions molded in relief on baked brick facades are relatively rare on the North American continent.One of the best […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 2
By: T. Cuyler Young, Jr.
Dalma Painted Ware
The archaeologist leaves for the field with his mind full of the historical problems he will solve through further excavation. […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: E.A. Speiser
Mesopotamian Motifs in the Early Chapters of Genesis
Biblical history proper begins with the call to Abraham to leave his native country and set out for a destination […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: Frances W. James
Lady Mary’s Monastery: An Early Christian church at Beth Shan excavated by a University Museum expedition.
That the Roman Empire enjoyed a long Indian summer in its distant province of Palestine is sometimes overlooked. Even before […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: Frances W. James
The Pottery of the Old Testament
From the moment when man is created of dust in the second chapter of Genesis to the moment, shortly before […]
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