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The conference Materials, Materiality, and Knowledge: Science, Innovation, and Labour in Antiquity, organized by Rubina Raja (Aarhus University), Nathanael Andrade (Binghamton University), and William Wootton (King's College London), took place at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters,…

New feature in Current World Archaeology by Rubina Raja.

New publication by Olympia Bobou, Ilaria Bucci and Rubina Raja in Syria: Archéologie, Art et Histoire.

A. Kubiak-Schneider, R. Raja, J. Steding & J-B Yon's new book provides the first comprehensive revision to the study of banqueting tokens since the 1955 publication "Recueil des tessères de Palmyre", with 168 newly identified tesserae types, including numerous previously unpublished examples.

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.