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Beate Pongratz-Leisten’s book Myth, Text, and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Narrative Reading of the World makes a case for establishing human thinking-in-images as an essential part of ancient Mesopotamian reasoning based in the fact that in the human mind, imagistic thinking exists alongside rational logical thought.
This presentation will introduce new data from the Uzbek-American Expedition to the city of Bukhara, derived from finds and observations made at a series of fortifications, various kinds of dwellings, workshops, as well as burial contexts.
This lecture discusses a recent museum exhibition in Berlin entitled, “Elephantine. Island of the Millennia,” the results of a research project working with texts and scripts from Elephantine Island in ancient Egypt.
This talk by David Stuart (University of Texas at Austin) will present new interpretations of one of the most important artworks from ancient Maya civilization — the wall paintings of San Bartolo, Guatemala.
Starting about the middle of the first millennium BCE, continental East Asia experienced an unprecedented economic florescence as the Bronze Age redistributive economy gave way to a full-fledged market economy.
This paper discusses scholarship on climate-induced landscape transformation in the Tarim Basin (present-day Xinjiang) during the Han period, and puts it in dialogue with other archaeological and historical research.
Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions, Global Antiquity's second annual symposium, aims to assess the state of ancient studies, its relevance to the Humanities today, and its future directions.
Global Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event, held at UCLA over two days, will include invited speakers whose research focuses on the ancient worlds.
