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

Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie relocated

For your information, print holdings of the journal Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie have been relocated from the Ancient Near East reference section (Level B) to the journals collection in the Level F mobile stacks.
The classamark is Per 5 / 16472

Ancient Near East reference collection relocated

The stock moves in the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica collection are now complete. The reference collection has now been reunited with the main collection on Level B. There is also a dedicated seating area for research

The Philistines were not so bad after all ...

Report from the Jerusalem Post's online edition on excavations at Gath (home town of the notorious Goliath) that throw a new light on Philistine culture and history

Stock moves in ANE section

All large and standard sized books in the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica section have now been moved to their new location on Level B of the Library. This includes material on the Semitic languages of Ethiopia.
Reference books for these sections are still located on Level C for the time being. They will be moved up to Level B shortly