Lecture by Dr. Marwan Kilani (FU Berlin) Abstract: For centuries, the Lebanese city of Byblos enjoyed a unique position in the local and international landscape, as it played the role of “contact zone” between the Near East and Egypt. This reality, however, seems to change during the Late Bronze Age, following a declining trajectory that […]

Lecture by Marta D’Andrea – Sapienza University of Rome The investigation of the passage from the Early to Middle Bronze Age in Syria has attracted scholarly attention since the early days of Levantine archaeology, as this critical nexus is traditionally connected with urban regeneration between the third and second millennium BC and the emergence of […]