Product Description: Umm al-Biyara, the highest mountain in Petra, southern Jordan, was the first Iron Age Edomite site to be extensively excavated. It was a domestic, unwalled site of stone-built longhouses dating to the 7th-6th centuries BCE. The stratigraphy, pottery, small finds and inscribed material, including the important bulla of Qos-Gabr King of Edom, are described, supplemented by chapters on the use of space and a landscape study of mountain-top sites in the Petra region...read more

Product Description: This volume of essays, in honour of Professor Michele Daviau, focuses on the archaeology of the area of central Transjordan known in antiquity as Moab. The range is wide, covering social organisation (the polycentric nature of social order, tribalism and segmentary society), studies of the environment and settlements in Iron Age Moab, Moabite pottery production, the concept of sacred space in ancient Moab, studies of particular sites and objects, and a survey of bioarchaeology in Transjordan...read more

Product Description: Twenty documentary papyri of the Roman period from the collection of the Aegyptisches Museum-Berlin are here published for the first time. All texts are equipped with full commentary and recent bibliography on relevant issues, as well as black-and-white photographs of each piece...read more

Product Description: Most of the papers published in this volume were originally presented at a conference of the same name, organised by the editors, and held in Atlanta, Georgia, in November 2003. The Wadi Arabah falls between the two areas of southern Jordan and Negev, and has traditionally been seen as a barrier and border...read more

Product Description: This book honors the significant and enduring work of Old Testament scholar Alan Millard. The contributors to this festschrift take up all of his concerns with the relationship between writing, the development and Israel, and ancient Near Eastern society.

Product Description: This volume is the long-awaited final report on the late Crystal Bennett's 1971-1980 excavations at Busayra, the major city of the Iron Age kingdom of Edom in southern Jordan. Dr. Bienkowski and specialist contributors describe and illustrate the architecture, stratigraphy, pottery and other finds of this impressive fortified administrative and religious center...read more

Product Description: Jordan is a country with a very long and fascinating history that is strikingly documented by archaeology. A major introduction to this region, detailing each phase of Jordan's archaeology and history in a series of chapters specially written by leading experts, this title also includes sections on individual topics, such as ecology and architecture...read more

Product Description: Selected by Choice magazine in 2000 as an Outstanding Academic BookThe earliest farms, cities, governments, legal codes, and alphabets developed in the ancient Near East. Four major religions—Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam—began in the region...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Forward by Her Majesty Queen Noor Al-Hussein of Jordan. Leading art scholars offer a comprehensive exploration of Jordan's history and archaeology, and the development and variety of its art-forms.

Product Description: This is the final report on Bennett's excavations at Tawilan, an Iron Age site in southern Jordan, known as the biblical Kingdom of Edom. Paying particular attention to the cuneiform tablet and gold jewelry hoard (the first to be discovered in Jordan), Bienkowski provides a comprehensive analysis of the stratigraphy, ceramics, and other finds, and an overview of the development and nature of the site...read more

Product Description: The beautiful & extraordinary objects that have survived from Egypt's ancient civilization have always excited awe & wonder. Buried in tombs, many were originally intended for everyday use, & they give us an amazing picture of the world of ancient Egyptians...read more

Product Description: New evidence and research has challenged old assumptions for the early Iron Age kingdoms of Edom and Moab in southern Jordan; the sixteen essays in this volume focus on the archaeological, textual and literary sources for this region between the thirteenth and seventh centuries BC, and constitute an up-to-date summary of present knowledge...read more

Product Description: A concordance of Liverpool Museum's 4000 provenanced Egyptian objects.