
Queen Puabi’s Headdress: Splendour, Death, and Modernity

III: "The Most Ancient Past": Mesopotamian Antiquities and ModernityĬhapter 5: Ur: Modernity and the Matter of Antiquity between Two World WarsĬities of Abraham: Rewriting Biblical Histories of Ur Lachish: Identi˜cations, Texts, and SherdsĪrchaeology and Physical Anthropology: Collaborations and Interpretations Internationalizing Jerusalem: Publicity, the Media, and the City of DavidĬaulifowers Sprout on the City of David: The Value of AntiquityĬhapter 4: Lachish: Excavation, Land, and Violence-Tell ed-Duweir, c.1932–1945 Mount Ophel: From Underground Jerusalem to the City of David-a Genealogy of Excavations The War on the Past: Re-Defining Heritage in the Greater Great WarĪ Regime of Excavations: Visions of Intellectual Cooperation˛and˛Internationalist RhetoricĬhapter 2: Illustrating the Bible: Travel, Archaeology, and Modernity in Mandated Biblical Landsīiblical Materiality: Archaeology, Display, and Scriptural AntiquityĬhapter 3: Cities of David: Planning and Excavating JerusalemĪntiquities: Preservation, Discovery, and Renewal Loot: The First World War and the Spoils of AntiquityĪ Post-War Order: General Characteristics I: Antiquity and the New Post-War Imperial OrderĬhapter 1: Mandated Pasts: War, Peace, and the New Regime of Antiquities

The New Order of Antiquities: An Entangled History and Its Agents Taking Stock of the Historiographies: A Note Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914–1950
