Anthony McNicoll Visiting Lecture: Karkemish on the Euphrates
Anthony McNicoll Visiting Lecture Nicolò Marchetti Karkemish on the Euphrates: Recent Discoveries by the Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition More than 6000 years of history are represented at Karkemish, located at a crossroads of civilizations in the modern province of Gaziantep. Besides new finds for the Halaf period, we now also obtained an almost complete sequence …
Anthony McNicoll Visiting Lecture: Nineveh on the Tigris
Anthony McNicoll Visiting Lecture Nicolò Marchetti Nineveh on the Tigris: Recent Discoveries by the Iraqi-Italian Archaeological Expedition An integrated strategy of excavations, surface surveys and geophysical prospections is revealing how this enormous (700 hectares) imperial capital was organized by king Sennacherib at the beginning of the 7th century BCE: road networks, ordinary houses, wealthy villas …