Ancient Sikyon, in the northeastern Peloponnese, was a major player on the Mediterranean stage, especially in the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. This comprehensive study combines a discussion of the geological and historical background with the results of original research bas…
Over the past several decades in Iran there has been a renewed interest in ancient Persia, particularly in the most glorious and innovative period: the Achaemenid dynasty (550-330 BC. J.-C). From this vast empire that stretched across the Iranian plateau—from Greece and Egypt to…
The Iron Age has long been pinpointed by biblical scholars as the period during which the earliest versions of several texts now preserved in the Hebrew bible were composed in Judah. This study finds that the epigraphic evidence can support the latter half of the Iron II period …
Northwest Semitic syntax has been explored extensively on a phrasal and clausal level. This has contributed much to our understanding of the languages in this linguistic family. There have also been numerous studies on micro level, and isolated occurrences of literary devices wi…
Many of Egypt's monuments exhibit multiple stages of expansion, rebuilding, and redecoration extending over the centuries in which they remained in use. Often archaeologically traceable, these modifications were also frequently recorded in propagandistic dedicatory inscriptions.…
This thesis focuses on the Ways of Horus from a textual and archaeological perspective. The existing evidence for the Ways of Horus and each of its stations is discussed extensively. In addition, a report is given of SEA excavations at various sites on the Ways of Horus in North…
This dissertation is a colonial discourse analysis of the construction of Sápmi (Sámiland) as colonized territory and the Sámi as colonized subjects, and an exploration of some oppositional responses to that construction. Beginning with classical representations of the wildernes…
The author aims to prove that certain first millennium Mesopotamian rulers exercised a carefully planned--politically motivated--strategy of aggression, strengthened by religious factors, against their neighbors, in pursuit of political gains. The author argues that scholars hav…
This study examines the symbiotic relationship between the development of transregional long-distance trade networks and the early long-distance transmission of Buddhism from northwestern South Asia through the territory of the Northern Areas of Pakistan to eastern Central Asia …
Published Hebrew inscriptions reveal the names of over 1,200 persons of pre-exilic Israel and Judah. A small number of these appear to be persons who are named in the Hebrew Bible. Until now, it has been difficult to resolve the question of these potential identifications, becau…
