Today’s deal: 2-for-1 on conference reports. European Association for Biblical Studies Annual Conference, 20-23 July 2026, Leuven This was my first time visiting this conference, prompted by …

In this paper we present novel aspects concerning the possible connection between the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of Uralic languages f…

A nice discussion with Marwan Kilani about the recently sequenced genome of a man from Old Kingdom Egypt this morning got me thinking about some connections between historical linguistics, archeolo…

Een scherf, gevonden in de omgeving van Krefeld, heeft een Aramese inscriptie en documenteert de meertaligheid van het Romeinse Rijk.

NINO initiates, supports, and conducts scholarly research in the civilizations of the Near East from the ancient to the early modern period. In particular, it concentrates on the archaeology,…

For the start of the academic year, I got to teach a two-hour introduction class to try and persuade freshmen in Leiden’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies programme (where I just started a perman…