Tom Boiy

TL;DR: It is argued that advances in radiocarbon chronology, palaeobotany, genetics, and archaeology‐history have profoundly refined the history of olive trees in the Middle East, and the heartland of primary olive domestication must be enlarged to the Levant and not only focus on the Jordan Valley.

TL;DR: A stratified radiocarbon-based archaeology with anchor points in ancient epigraphic-literary sources, Hittite-Levantine-Egyptian kings and astronomical observations is reported to precisely date the Sea People event, establishing an absolute age range of 1192–1190 BC for terminal destructions and cultural collapse in the northern Levant.

TL;DR: The use of Hanu troops in the Chronicle of the Successors does not exclude the high chronology for the Second Diadoch War as discussed by the authors, but it is not pivotal for the low chronology because it is only in low-chronology scenario that it is possible.

TL;DR: In this article, a volume en l'honneur de Karel Van Lerberghe contient 47 contributions de ses collegues et des etudiants portant sur l'histoire et l'archeologie de la region syro-mesopotamienne.

TL;DR: In the course of research on cuneiform tablets, no fewer than three years have been identified with the first year of Antigonus Monophthalmus (317/16, 316/15, and 315/14 B.C) as mentioned in this paper.