Jana Matuszak presents to us an original and engaging digital event that will soon be held within the context of the Being Human Festival. “Are you a woman?” aims to explore what it meant to be a woman in Iraq 4,000 years ago and it endeavours to help us find Read more…
Today Mar Shiprim invites you to Spain, as we spotlight the Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Universidad de Alcalá. Thanks to Josué J. Justel, who kindly agreed to answer a few questions, we offer you an insight into the history of this prestigious University and present a few research Read more…
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, we hope that you have spent a nice and and relaxing summer time, as much as it has been possible. Directly from Jack M. Sasson’s Agade mailing list, here we offer you a list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology. Please Read more…
Many of us have probably been there recently, to attend the 8th International Congress of Hittitology (2011), the 8th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (2012) or the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (2014) – but how much do we actually know about the University of Warsaw? Read more…
Today we have the opportunity to know better the newly-appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten: NINO). Willemijn Waal, who has been appointed for a period of 5 years starting from 1 January 2020, is university lecturer at Leiden University, specializing Read more…
Culled from the Agade mailing list for your convenience, and with Jack M. Sasson’s approval, here is a list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology. Please note that this list includes only titles that have been notified between April, 1st and June, 30th 2020: books that were Read more…
This time, Mar Shiprim goes “In the Field” and presents to its readers an update on a relevant project which is currently ongoing in the Middle East: “The Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments Project”. In this article, the two authors Matthew Peebles and Erhan Tamur provide a detailed overview on the history Read more…
A new project started in April 2018 in Japan, with ambitious goals, several active research teams and a rich schedule of events and activities. We are very grateful to Gina Konstantopoulos, who has kindly accepted our invitation to present “The Essence of Urban Civilization”, the project carried out at the Read more…
Ever since 2018, a new public outreach/digital humanities project is available online: “Digital Hammurabi”. The project has been entirely conceived and shaped – and is actively conducted – by husband and wife Assyriology team, Megan Lewis and Joshua Bowen, whose aim is “to provide reliable, accurate information about the Ancient Read more…
SEAL is an ongoing project which started in 2007. It aims to compile an exhaustive catalogue of Akkadian literary texts from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, so as to enable an efficient study of the entire early Akkadian corpus in all its philological, literary, and historical dimensions. In the past years, SEAL underwent Read more…