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Featured are thirty-seven illustrations that highlight the magnificence that was the great Islamic port of Ayla on the Gulf of Aqaba. The site is located in modern Aqaba, Jordan and has been excavated by the Oriental Institute under the directorship of Donald Whitcomb since 1986.
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When Georgianna Maynard went to Turkey in 1939 with her husband, Dick Maynard, she expected romance but found reality. The expected five year stay was extended to seven... Læs mere
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Human and animal figurines and other clay objects from the Oriental Institute's continuing work on Neolithic sites in Turkey and Iran.
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Examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. Explores the interactions of Muslim,... Læs mere
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The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging from South America and the southwestern United States to... Læs mere
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The thirty-seven essays in this volume cover, among other topics relating to northwestern Semitic languages, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure and investigations of Late Bronze Age society.
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How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented... Læs mere
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This volume presents a wide array of studies on the excavated material remains from Kish, located on the floodplain of the Euphrates River in... Læs mere
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This volume, the fourth in a series of occasional proceedings from the ongoing Theban Workshop, presents new research on wall decoration in the Theban necropolis. Its thirteen essays, by an international array of leading scholars, attest to the wide and varied scope of the theme.
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Contributors from the fields of Egyptology, Sinology, Hittitology, and Assyriology, together with... Læs mere
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Journey back in time 3,800 years to Nippur, a city in ancient Babylonia, as a girl sets out on a quest to become a scribe. Inanaka... Læs mere
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Bringing together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines and time periods, from prehispanic... Læs mere