Introductory -- Curating the ancient Middle East / Geoff Emberling and Lucas Petit -- Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East : a view from the Ashmolean and the British museum / ...

Stele of a Goddess, Limestone, from Petra, Jordan, 1st-2nd century CE (image courtesy of Department of Antiquities of Jordan) The weight of the past is always with us. William Faulkner, whose writing ...

When the German explorer Ulrich Jasper Seetzen stumbled upon a set of ruins near the Jordanian capital of Amman in 1806, little did he know that he had just discovered one of the largest and ...

Introduction -- Part 1: Egypt and Sumer: stimulus of environment -- Part 2: Early pharaohs and the pyramid age -- Part 3: Creative genius in Mesopotamia and a reflection in Anatolia -- Part 4: ...