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New publication by J. A. Baird, Olympia Bobou, Zena Kamash and Rubina Raja in American Journal of Archaeology.

Did you ever wonder about the life of women in the past? Then this is an exhibition for you. Visit for free, from 23 June to 25 August 2026 at Dokk1, Aarhus.

Professor Rubina Raja has been elected as fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zur Berlin (WIKO) for the academic year 2026/27.

What did portraits look like on the edges of the Roman Empire? In the new publication "Portraying the Individual in the Roman East", editor Rubina Raja shifts the focus away from Rome itself to the vibrant borderlands where local identities met imperial power.

We are pleased to share a recent review of The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East by Céline Debourse (Harvard University), published by Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

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.