Ancient Near East Today

Our Site of the Month is the Remains of a temple at Athribis, near Sohag, Egypt. Learn more here! buff.ly/VNduKne 📷 Christian Leitz/Athribis Project, CC By-SA 4.0.

What We're Watching: Explore the oldest bridge in the world! youtube.com/watch?v=HWSlI9… 📷 The British Museum Youtube

Friends of ASOR Webinar: Interpreting Animals at Persepolis (March 25). Join us this evening, Wednesday, March 25th @7:00 pm EST! asor.org/news/2026/03/w…

What We're Reading: What lies under Istanbul? Hidden Byzantine structure beneath Molla Zeyrek Mosque? Read more by Koray Erdogan. buff.ly/sgbRLuf 📷 Türkiye Today team

Museum Happenings: Byblos, cite millénaire du Liban, at L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, from March 24 to August 23. This exhibition celebrating Byblos’ long and enduring history. buff.ly/D11LMYC 📷 Institut du Monde Arabe

In the News: According to Richard Whiddington, it turns out that ancient Egyptians had their own version of “white-out” to correct mistakes on their papyri. Read more at ArtNet! buff.ly/f1xYpJQ 📷 Courtesy The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

In the News: Restoration work at the Great Mosque of Homs (ancient Emesa) in western Syria revealed a Greek inscription. Read more of Dario Radley's piece from Archaeology News Online Magazine here! buff.ly/C3MMOOl 📷 Credit: Teriz Lyoun

The Ancient Near East Today tells us The Myth of the Servant: A New Tale of Kingship by Christopher Metcalf. Subscribe and explore here! buff.ly/uzlG5nn 📷 Digital Image via The Clothworkers’ Company (CLC/TN/002), Public Domain.

Take a look at an older read from ANE Today: Biblical Archaeology Forum Lecture: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Legacy, written by Marian Feldman. buff.ly/OV8D1pU

In the News: Here's more from Guillermo Carvajal of LBV Magazine, "Keys to Identifying the Elderly in the Iron Age Found in a Building Destroyed by the Assyrians". Read more here! buff.ly/VYEbEZL 📷 The footbath. Credit: A. Faust 2026

In the News: Egypt uncovers cache of colored coffins of Amun chanters in Luxor. Learn more here! buff.ly/1oPuv7W 📷 DailyNews Egypt

What We're Watching: The hidden gold of ancient Egypt: London's new landmark exhibit. Watch more with AfricaNews Youtube channel! youtube.com/watch?v=LUYpVX…

What We're Reading: In the Spotlight – the Girsu Project with Sébastien Rey. Pictured is the archaeological site of Tello, where students from universities across Iraq gathered for hands-on training during the autumn 2024 program buff.ly/F331WJ3 📷 Alberto Giannese

In the News: Taylor Nicioli from CNN tells us, "Scientists extracted DNA from mummified cheetah remains and made a surprising discovery". Learn more here! buff.ly/PrcO1ow 📷 National Center for Wildlife

What We're Watching: From the BBC, take a look inside a 12,000-year-old kitchen in Neolithic Anatolia. Watch here! buff.ly/3KAUu7s 📷 BBC Archaeology

Join us for the next Friends of ASOR webinar TODAY Wednesday, March 11th at 7:00pm ET: “Anatolian Futures: Archaeologies of Anatolia within the Larger Mediterranean,” presented by Dr. Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver. Tune in later today! buff.ly/Qa8YDz0

What We're Listening to: A new podcast, called Classical Arabic Literature Podcast. Each week's episode tackles a particular work or theme of Classical Arabic literature, by James Montgomery and Lydia Wilson. Listen here! buff.ly/Viz2prI 📷 RSS America LLC

What We're Reading: Science history: Carbon-14 is discovered, opening a window into past civilizations. Read more by Tia Ghose, from LiveScience, here! buff.ly/uwW3XwU 📷 Credit: Department of Energy. Office of Public Affairs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In the News: From Türkiye Today, 1,600-year-old underground tunnels discovered under Hagia Sophia during restoration. Read more about this fascinating discovery here! 📷 Works overseen by Türkiye’s Culture and Tourism Ministry (AA Photo). buff.ly/YIr743h

In the News: A Tamil Brahmi inscription identified by scholars with the name Cikai Koṟraṉ at the entrance of one of the tombs at Valley of the Kings in Egypt, by N. Sai Charan. Read more here! buff.ly/IYEpooQ 📷 Credit: The Hindu e-paper, special arrangement