By Mike Cummings, YaleNews
Photograph by Allie Barton
About 4,300 years ago, in the island city of Elephantine on the Upper Nile, a son sent his father a letter. In it, he mentions local gods as well Ptah, a god of artisans...
Evelyne Koubková, a former PhD student in the NELC Department now holding a position as Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the Research Center for West Asian Civilizations at the University of Tsukuba (Japan), has ...
On May 20th, 2026, Agnete W. Lassen, Associate Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection, delivered the annual Roger Moorey Lecture at Oxford University. The lecture was entitled “Set in Stone? Object Biography and the...
