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    • The Ancient Near East Today
      • The Ancient Near East Today: Vol. V, No. 1!
      • The Ancient Near East Today: Vol. V, No. 2!
    • Near Eastern Archaeology
      • Archaeology Returns to Ur: A New Dialog with Old Houses
      • “You Have Entered Joppa”: 3D Modeling of Jaffa’s New Kingdom Egyptian Gate
      • A Clay Bread Stamp from Khirbet et-Tireh
      • A Rare Discovery at Tel Achziv: A Phoenician Clay Mask Mold from the Ninth Century B.C.E.
      • Graphite-Treated Pottery in the Northeastern Mediterranean from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age
    • Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR)
      • A Diachronic Look at the Agricultural Economy at the Red Sea Port of Aila: An Archaeobotanical Case for Hinterland Production in Arid Environments
      • Men, Women, Eunuchs, Etc.: Visualities of Gendered Identities in Kassite Babylonian Seals (ca. 1470–1155 B.C.)
      • Late Roman Workshops of Beit Nattif Figurines: Petrography, Typology, and Style
      • Back to Solomon’s Era: Results of the First Excavations at “Slaves’ Hill”
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