Ancient Mesopotamian recipes!

The Silk Road Gourmet offers some recipes for ancient Mesopotamian cuisine gleaned from and inspired by the Mari mersu recipe and the Yale Babylonian culinary tablets

Anyone for lamb with licorice and juniper berries, or a date and pistachio mersu?


(picture from Silk Road Gourmet)

ASOR Newsletter on open-access

The Newsletter of the American Schools of Oriental Research is now available on open access from 1996 onward.
It contains summaries and reports  of ASOR's research and activities in Amman, Jerusalem and Nicosia

Latest projects in Petra

Catch up on the International Khubtha Tombs Project at Petra - background, latest reports, further reading and great photos!
The project is directed by Dr Lucy Watson of Oxford University's School of Archaeology