The Minerva Center

Angelika Berlejung, RIAB Center co-director recently published (as co-editor) a comprehensive volume dealing with archaeological evidence...

RIAB Center Member Dr. Assaf Kleiman (BGU) has just published a book in the RIAB Series. The book is: Kleiman, A. 2022. Beyond Israel and...

The Minerva Stiftung has just informed the RIAB Minerva Center co-directors that the center's tenure will be extended for an additional...

On Sept. 18-20, 2022, a conference will be held at Bar-Ilan University "Urbanization in the Iron Age Levant and Beyond." In the...

A "Minerva School", organized by RIAB Center members Shira Albaz, Laura Gonnermann and Vanessa Workman, entitle "Crafting for the Gods:...

As part of the RIAB Center's public outreach, we have decided to put up a "Mini-MOOC" (=mini Massive Open Online Course) in which short...

The 4th volume of the RIAB series has appeared. The volume, edited by Felix Hagemeyer (RIAB Center member), is the proceedings of a RIAB...

Laura Gonnermann, Vanessa Workman, and Shira Albaz, RIAB Center members, received funding from the Minerva Stiftung to organize a...

Save the date! Mark this in your calendars! First notice and invitation to a full-day seminar on “Material Religion in the Ancient Near...

The Minerva RIAB Center is happy to announce the publication of the 3rd volume in the center's book series (RIAB, Mohr Siebeck). The...

Vanessa Workman, Laura Gonnermann, and Shira Albaz, three RIAB Center members, have been awarded funding for a "Minerva School," which...

On Monday, Sept. 13th, 2021 (9:00-15:45, Central European Time), the RIAB Center conducted an online workshop "New Studies on Iron Age...

RIAB center members Laura, Johannes, Juliane, Hendryk and Felix have put together a series of podcasts (in German) on archaeology in...

On Thursday, April 22, 2021, the RIAB Minerva Center in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, conducted...

A workshop/hands-on seminar on the interface between maritime and coastal archaeology was held at the University of Haifa on Thursday,...

The RIAB Minerva Center and the Institute of Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University will be hosting an online zoom workshop entitled "Cult...

Here are recordings of the zoom lectures of the two day (April 7-8, 2021) RIAB Center workshop "Egyptiaca outside of Egypt" that was...

RIAB Center member, Johny Messo, has kindly recorded himself reciting versions of Psalm 51 (according to the Peshitta Aramaic translation...

A RIAB Center workshop will be held 13 September 2021 that will deal with "New Studies on Iron Age Syria and Nearby Regions: Regional and...

* On April 7-8, 2021, a RIAB Minerva Center online workshop was held. The workshop dealt with "Egyptiaca Outside of Egypt." The meeting,...