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85. Shana Zaia: The end of empires

84. Gioele Zisa: The plant world

83. David Kertai: The palaces of Assyria

82. IAA prize winners 2025

81. Lisa Wilhelmi: Bronze Age Diplomacy

80. Ea-nasir: everyone's favourite copper merchant

79. Rocío Da Riva and Nathan Wasserman: Carnival in Babylon

78. Mustafa Faraj: The Gates of Nineveh

77. Augusta McMahon: Excavations at Nippur

76. Tina Greenfield: Zooarchaeology in Mesopotamia

75. Moudhy Al-Rashid: Engaging interest in Mesopotamia

74. Michael Danti and John MacGinnis. Nimrud: post-conflict archaeology in the heartland of Assyria

73. Zoltán Niederreiter, Erika Roboz: Kingdom of Gods and Demons

72. Christopher Jones: Court politics in the Neo-Assyrian empire

71. 2024 IAA Prize winners

70. Simo Parpola and the State Archives of Assyria project

69. Carolyne Douché: Carpology in the archaeology of ancient western Asia

68. Witold Tyborowski: Finding a job during Hammurabi's reign

67. Amy Gansell: Dressing Assyria's queens

66. Rune Rattenborg, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt: Geomapping Cuneiform

65. Omar N'Shea: Masculinities in Mesopotamia

64. Ali Kadhem Ghanem: Managing the site of Ur

63: Enrique Jiménez: the electronic Babylonian Library

62. Prize-winning assyriology

61. Shigeo Yamada: Yasin Tepe: on the margins of empire

60. Susanne Paulus: Back to School in Babylonia

59. Louise Pryke: Ishtar then and now

58. Looking back at RAI Leiden: on conferences, and catching up with guests

57. Looking forward to Leiden

56. Nicholas Reid: The Big House

55. Agnès Garcia-Ventura: The historiography of assyriology

54. Eckart Frahm: A new history of Assyria, the world's first empire

53. Parsa Daneshmand: Consensus decision-making in divination

52. Birgül Öğüt: phytoliths in west Asian archaeology

51. Ali al-Juboori: Reflections

50. Dr Basima Jalil Abed

49. George Smith: the man behind the headlines SHORT VERSION

49. George Smith: the man behind the headlines

48. Amanda Podany: A New History of the Ancient Near East

47. Louise Quillien: Textiles from Babylonia

46. Laerke Recht: The agency of animals

45. Victor Klinkenberg: An archaeological approach to tablets

44. Sophie Cluzan: Votive statues from Mari

43. Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem: Iraqi antiquities dealers of 19th century

42. Julian Edgeworth Reade: Reflections

41. Farouk al-Rawi: reflections

40. Davide Nadali: Excavating Tell Surghul

39. Saana Svärd: Digital Assyriology in Helsinki

38. Tonia Sharlach: The power behind the throne

37. Tim Clayden: The Kassites

36. Amir al-Zubaidi: Nasiriyah Museum, and engaging Iraqi audiences

35. Małgorzata Sandowicz: Law and order in Babylonia

34. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni: Urartu and digital public engagement

33. How did we get here?

32. András Bácskay: Fever!

31. Stefania Ermidoro: Revisiting a Victorian explorer: Layard in the archives

30. Elynn Gorris: Locating the Neo-Elamite kingdom

29. Elena Devecchi, Stefano de Martino, Walther Sallaberger. Virtual assyriology: RAI 67,Turin

28. Sophus Helle: 150 years of Gilgamesh

27. Reinhard Pirngruber: Babylonian astronomical diaries

26. Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver: Hittite art

25. Adelheid Otto, Nicolò Marchetti, Ingolf Thuesen: ICAANE: archaeology coming together

24. Ariane Thomas: a curator’s life at the Louvre

23. Heather Baker: Babylonian houses and housing

22. Jaafar Jotheri: Wonderful waterways: the geo-archaeology of southern Iraq

21. Fabienne Huber Vuillet: Meanings from the mundane

20. Xiaoli Ouyang: Silver in Sumer: money in Mesopotamia?

19. Shiyanthi Thavapalan: Colour in Mesopotamia

18. Carmen Gütschow: Archaeological conservation

17. Strahil Panayotov: Assyrian eye medicine

16. Ilgi Gerçek and Selim Adalı: The Istanbul Sippar Project

15. Daniel Nicky: Teaching Mesopotamia through music

14. Aaron Tugendhaft: Images, idols and iconoclasm

13. Nicolò Marchetti: Nineveh 2020. How and why archaeology?

12. Gojko Barjamovic: International trade

11. Carlos Gonçalves: The human face of Mesopotamian maths

10. Licia Romano: Death and Burial in Sumer

9. Elisa Rossberger: Reflections in clay: the tactile art of terracottas

8. Saber Amiri Parian: Re-reading the Elamite version of Behistun

7. Dahlia Shehata. Anzu: the many faces of a monster

6. Paul Collins: Displaying the ancient Middle East in the 21st century

5. Jacob Jawdat and Rients de Boer: Gardening on the frontline

4. Gina Konstantopoulos: A demon haunted world

3. Richard Dumbrill: Music in Mesopotamia

2. Jana Matuszak: Misogyny and the ideal Sumerian woman

1. Laith Hussein: Tell Harmal, heart of Eshnunna

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