Ash sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East No 9 1 2 2025

Ash-sharq Vol. 9 Nos. 1–2 (2025) combines both 2025 issues in one print volume, presenting interdisciplinary studies on Near Eastern archaeology, art, and society from prehistory to the Ottoman era, including funerary practices, material analyses, iconography, long-term surveys, and memoryscapes. Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East Vol. 9 Nos. 1–2 (2025) brings together the journal’s two 2025 issues in a single printed volume, offering a wide-ranging collection of studies on the archaeology, art, history, and societies of the Near East from prehistory to the Ottoman period. Contributions address funerary architecture and socio-economic dynamics in northern Kuwait, scientific analysis of Neo-Elamite metalwork, domestic architecture in eighteenth-century Damascus, and religious objects from Byzantine and post-Byzantine Cilicia. Further articles explore Mesopotamian deities and iconography, the reception of Babylon in modern media, glyptic imagery, Halaf-period ceramics, and social history in Presargonic Ĝirsu. Several studies focus on the Koya/Koisanjaq region of Iraq, combining archaeological survey, long-term chronology, oral history, and memory studies to examine borderland dynamics across millennia. Together, the volume highlights the journal’s interdisciplinary approach and its engagement with both material and interpretive methodologies.