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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.

Lecture on 6 May on Denmark’s Role on the International Antiquities Collectors' Scene in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

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.

Meet our new Postdoc Giovanni Colzani

Meet our new Postdoc Giulia Vannucci