A new publication in the Journal for Open Archaeological Data introduces the most comprehensive collection of Palmyra's public inscriptions to date, bringing together 1134 stone-carved records from the first four centuries CE.

Two new features have been published in Current World Archaeology, 136. Read more about Urbicide and Denmark's archaeological landscape.

Organized within the framework of the Locally Crafted Empires project, the confernce brought together scholars to examine how local and regional communities in Western Asia and Egypt responded to various imperial hegemonies through the creation of individual portraits.

Two new features have been published in Current World Archaeology, 135. Read more about Urban Jungles and how to communicate classical Antiquity.

A new monograph by Olympia Bobou, Ilaria Bucci and Rubina Raja, exploring how vessels in Palmyrene funerary sculpture reveal values, rituals, social identity, and economic networks.

Meet our new Postdoc Giovanni Colzani

Meet our new Postdoc Giulia Vannucci

Meet our new Postdoc Julia Steding

On 1-2 December 2025, the conference Local portrait habits in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) took place in Copenhagen. It brought together researchers to explore how locally produced portraits from Western Asia and Egypt express identities shaped by shifting imperial regimes. It centered on…