Akkadian at Yale: interview with Professor Benjamin Foster

In an interview taken from the Yale Daily News, Katerina Karatza interviews Benjamin Foster, the Lattan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Professor Foster talks about his exceptional students, extinct languages and the Yale Babylonian Collection

Amorites and Canaanites: two videos on ancient migrations

(1) Tracing the Amorites (1) - traces the movement of the western Semitic speaking Amorites from Arabia to the Levant

(2) The Semitic Amorites (2) - looks at the establishment of the Amorite peoples in northern Canaan (Phoenicia) between 1200 and 539 BC