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POOLE, ENGLAND—The Hyksos people, thought to have originated in West Asia, may have come to power in Egypt some 3,650 years ago by marrying into local royal families, according to a Science News report. It had been previously thought that the Hyksos…

OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, a team of researchers led by Christophe Delaere of the University of Oxford and the Free University of Brussels have recovered ritual offerings made by the people of the Tiwanaku state from a…

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a recent archaeological excavation has uncovered a limestone sarcophagus at the site of the Quweisna quarries in Menoufiya Governate, north of Cairo. According to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt's…

AGRA, INDIA—According to a report in The Hindu, the restoration of two Mughal period gardens in the Indian city of Agra has been carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the World Monuments Fund (WMF), and the Indian Ministry of…

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND—Three sculpted gravestones that archaeologists had presumed were lost have been recovered during a community dig at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow, BBC News reports. Mark McGettigan, a 14-year-old volunteer on the excavation,…

SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA—Remains of a Confederate Civil War prison have been unearthed in downtown Salisbury, according to a Salisbury Post report. An excavation carried out by Cultural Resources Analysts found that the back of a lot owned by the…

123.2 Edited by François Baratte, Véronique Brouquier-Reddé, and Elsa Rocca (Orient & Mediterranée 25). Pp. 378. Éditions De Boccard, Paris 2018. €89. ISBN 978-2-7018-0442-2 (paper). Reviewed by Niccolò MugnaiCurrent research on the…

123.2 By Robin Osborne. Pp. xx + 285, figs. 177, pls. 35. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2018. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-691-17767-0 (cloth). Reviewed by Guy HedreenIt is surprising how much attention is paid in the modern study of ancient…

123.2 Edited by Panagiotis Iossif, François de Callataÿ, and Richard Veymiers (Série histoire 3). Pp. 600. Presses Universitaires de Liège, Liège 2018. €40. ISBN 978-2-87562-157-3 (paper). Reviewed by Nathan T. ElkinsThe modern study of…

123.2 Edited by Cecilie Brøns and Marie-Louise Nosch (Ancient Textiles Series 31). Pp. xiv + 258. Oxbow, Oxford and Philadelphia 2017. $80. ISBN 978-1-78570-672-1 (cloth). Reviewed by E.J.W. BarberThe study of ancient textiles, a major yet…

ArticleMuch has been written about gentrification in the contemporary world, but far less work has interrogated whether a similar type of renewal can be observed in different places or periods. This article explores the archaeological application of…

123.2 Edited by Sophie Madeleine and Philippe Fleury. Pp. 244. Presses Universitaires de Caen, Caen 2017. €22. ISBN 978-2-84133-844-3 (paper). Reviewed by Thomas Noble HoweThe amount of scholarship dedicated to the study of ancient…

123.2 By Timothy Bruce Mitford. 2 vols. Vol. 1, pp. lii + 425; vol. 2, pp. 332, figs. 310, color pls. 45, maps 28. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018. $369.95. ISBN 9780198725176 (cloth). Reviewed by Hugh EltonAn outstanding book. It…

Field ReportThe end of the 13th and beginning of the 12th centuries B.C.E. witnessed the demise of the great territorial states of the Bronze Age and, with them, the collapse of the extensive interregional trade networks that fueled their wealth and…

123.2 By Ulrike Hess, Klaus Müller, and Mustapha Khanoussi (Simitthus 5). Pp. xi + 160, figs. 45, pls. 32, tables 9, plans 3. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2017. €89. ISBN 978-3-95490-246-0 (cloth). Reviewed by Julia NikolausThis book explores in…

123.2 Edited by Efthymios Rizos (Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité tardive 35). Pp. 297. Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium 2017. €80. ISBN 978-2-503-55551-5 (paper). Reviewed by Paolo MaranzanaThe volume New Cities in Late Antiquity: Documents and…

ArticleThis paper offers a reexamination of a small Augustan lares altar found on the Capitoline Hill and now in the Museo Nazionale Romano at the Terme di Diocleziano. The altar features two women, one on each of its sides, wearing very similar…

123.2 By Milette Gaifman. Pp. x + 186. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2018. $65. ISBN 978-0-300-19227-8 (cloth). Reviewed by T.H. CarpenterLibation was a ritual central to the lives of all Athenians. In her book, Gaifman uses…

123.2 By Carol L. Lawton (Agora 38). Pp. xxvi + 212. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 2017. $150. ISBN 978-0-87661-238-5 (cloth). Reviewed by Kevin ClintonThis volume publishes all stone reliefs and fragments of…

123.2 By Leila Badre, Emmanuelle Capet, and Barbara Vitale (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 211). Pp. 256, figs. 6, b&w pls. 57, color pls. 5, plans 2, map 1. Presses de l’ Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut 2018. €45.…