Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...

Ancient Near East studies examines the history, languages and cultures of the Near East from the beginning of recorded history to the Roman times (approximately from 3000 BCE to 200 CE). Even though ...

We can therefore be grateful to Marian Welker, who in a paper entitled "The Painted Pottery of the Near East in the Second Millenium B.C. and its Chronological Background", has brought together in ...