New 2-volume set in the book series “Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History”, edited by Centre Director Professor Rubina Raja, Research Assistant Dr. Julia Steding, and Dr. Jean-Baptiste Yon.

On Sunday 14 March, the Danish newspaper Politiken’s PS section focused on the ten-year long conflict in Syria. Professor Rubina Raja, who has conducted research on the ancient oasis city of Palmyra in the Syrian Desert since 2010, was interviewed about her research and the destructions of cultural heritage during the war.

New book series by Professor Rubina Raja.

PhD course organised by UrbNet, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions.

UrbNet Centre Director Professor Dr. Rubina Raja (Aarhus University) and Professor Maura K. Heyn (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) organised and hosted the session “Unusual Choices in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography” at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Archive Archeology: Preserving And Sharing Palmyra’s Cultural Heritage through Harald Ingholt’s Digital Archives kicked off 2021 by participating in the AIA’s Annual Meeting. The project was presented to colleagues world-wide as part of the virtual conference.

By Postdoc Amy C. Miranda.

The Archive Archaeology project finds connections across space and time. By drawing parallels between the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire as well as the time of Harald Ingholt's scholarship with today’s, the archive suggests new potentials for Palmyrene funerary reliefs and Roman provincial sculpture more broadly.

New publication by Olympia Bobou, Nathalia B. Kristensen, Scott McAvoy and Rubina Raja.