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Top papers from your news feed from the last week Kushite tomb groups in Late Period Thebes by Julia Budka | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Is There Opium Here? - Analysis of Cypriot Base Ring Juglets From Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel by Zvi Lederman and Zuzana Chovanec | Bookmarked by Kasia Szpakowska Over half a century ago Robert Merrillees raised a brilliant hypothesis according to which Late Cypriot Base Ring juglets, supposedly shaped like inverted poppy seed pod to advertise their contents, traded opium over the Eastern Mediterranean. This most appealing idea was enthusiastically embraced by students of the Ancient Near East, in spite of the meager scientific evidence supporting it. In order to provide new insights to this intriguing issue four Base Ring I juglets recently found in a secured Late Bronze IIA (14th century BCE) context at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel, were submitted for... Download Bookmark Coarse Kitchen and Household Pottery as an Indicator for Egyptian Presence in the Southern Levant: A Diachronic Perspective by Alexander Fantalkin | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece: Observations on a Difficult Relationship by Jan Bremmer | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Gebel Sheikh Suleiman : a First Dynasty Relief after all... by Claire Somaglino and Pierre Tallet | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Folder about the Meketre project by Lubica Hudáková, Uta Siffert, and Claus Jurman | Bookmarked by Mariam Ayad Download Bookmark The Lost Port City of the Pyramids by Mark Lehner | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Analysis of material culture from the Heit el-Ghurab (HeG) settlement has identified Levantine combed ware pottery and wood charcoal, including olive wood. Combined with other archaeological and historical information, these traces suggest we should view the HeG as part of a major Nile port, at the Egyptian end of the Old Kingdom Byblos run. A more detailed publication of this hypothesis follows this popular summary, which complements the piece on water transport infrastructure in AERAgram 15.1-2. Download Bookmark "Child's Toy or Ritual Object?" by Angela M J Tooley | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark State and Empire in the Middle and New Kingdoms by Stuart Smith | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Early Bronze Age Seal Impressions from the Jezreel Valley and the Problem of Sealing in the Southern Levant" in Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas L. Esse, (S. Wolff, ed.), pp. 355-375. Oriental Institute Press. (2001) by Alex Joffe | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris