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Publications

2025

Blömer, Michael, Olympia Bobou, Eleanor Q. Neil, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “From ‘Secondary’ City to Primary Focus: A Historiographical Approach to the Urbanity of Seleucia in Pieria.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 229–243. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151435 

Bobou, Olympia, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “Cities ‘Lost’ and ‘Found’: The Impact of Western Research on Ancient Sites in the Perception of Their Urbanism.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 141–148. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151430. 

Bobou, Olympia, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “Archival Palimpsests: Investigating the History of Harald Ingholt’s Archive of Palmyrene Sculptures.” In Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge, ed. by Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja, and Maria Stamatopoulou, Archive Archaeology 6 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 405- 428. 

Bobou, Olympia, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “From Tadmor to Palmyra, 1923–1929: The (Re-) creation of an Ancient City.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 215–228. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151434. 

Bobou, Olympia, Miriam Kühn, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “Lost Cities in the Near East: Reassembling Knowledge through Archival Research and Excavation Documentation.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 177–200. 

Bobou, Olympia, Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar, Miriam Kühn, Eleanor Q. Neil, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “Shelving Urban Excavations: Revisiting Ottoman and Mandate Period Archives in the Near East.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 149–176. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151431. 

Bobou, Olympia, and Rubina Raja, eds.2025. Journal of Urban Archaeology 12. Special section on “Lost Cities and Legacy Data.” Turnhout: Brepols. Kühn, Miriam. 2025. “Beyond the Finds: Digitising Ctesiphon’s Photographic Archive for Research and Plus.” in Living the Past Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Strategies in the Middle East and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Ute Franke, ed. by Karin Bartl, Thomas Urban, and Stefan Weber (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz), pp. 203–218. 

Kühn, Miriam. 2025. “Revisiting Herzfeld’s Letters and Diaries from the Samarra Excavation 1911–1913.” in Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Cultural Knowledge, ed. by Olympia Bobou, Maria Stamatopoulou, and Rubina Raja, ARC, 6 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 57–87. 

Raja, Rubina. 2025. “The Organization of Archaeological Fieldwork and Selective Publication of Findings as Appropriation of Knowledge: Observations on the 1931 Spring Campaign in Gerasa.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 245–268. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151436. 

Raja, Rubina. 2025. “In the Field and through the Archives. The 1928 American-British Campaign in Gerasa and the Excavation of the Church of St Theodore.” In Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge, ed. by Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja, and Maria Stamatopoulou, Archive Archaeology 6 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 105-187.