Amy Karoll, PhD Candidate in Levantine Archaeology, received the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research’s Educational Cultural Affairs Junior Research Fellowship to study in Israel from August to December 2018…
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Jeremy Smoak Publishes in Near Eastern Archaeology
Published: November 21, 2017“Reading and Writing in the Dark at Khirbet el-Qom: The Literacies of Ancient Subterranean Judah,” by Alice Mandell and Jeremy Smoak is now available in the latest edition of Near Eastern…
Read MoreUCLA Recruitment: Assistant Professor in Early Judaism
Published: August 1, 2017The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in early Judaism at the rank of Assistant…
Read MoreJaffa Excavations Featured in Archaeology Magazine
Published: June 20, 2017NELC professor Aaron Burke’s research of the Egyptian fortress in Jaffa are the subject of Archaeology magazine’s cover story by Roger Atwood in the July/August 2017 issue. Read more: http://www.archaeology.org/issues/262-1707/features/5627-jaffa-egypt-canaan-colony
Read MoreUCLA’s Excavations in Jaffa were Published in Israel’s Haaretz Newspaper
Published: October 21, 2016“Previously unknown Canaanite revolt against Egypt revealed in ancient Jaffa. There is no record of the Canaanites ousting their Egyptian overlords, but 3,100-year-old remains of fiery destruction suggest they did just…
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