🏺🇦🇿 Here's another video of our fieldwork in #Azerbaijan.😀 youtu.be/uXzdz5sTnN4?...

🏺📜 Our colleague, Asoss Qader, visited the University of #Augsburg, where he discussed loan transactions in the Kingdom of Arrapḫa compared with Roman law with Prof. Christoph Becker and students from the Department of Legal History.

🏺Job offer: Postdoctoral position in Hethitology at Marburg University, project: 'Das Corpus der hethitischen Festrituale'. Apply now! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/8...

🏺Learn something new about the discoverys at Agalıq Tepe! 🇦🇿 #Azerbaijan #fieldwork youtu.be/gPn9ozUZPmE?...

🏺📰Oman Observer published an article on @archaeoman.bsky.social's lecture at the German Embassy in Muscat on "Life after Death in Ancient Oman". www.omanobserver.om/article/1187...

Also on Instagram, if you prefer 😊: www.instagram.com/reel/DXHlsjS...

🏺Some insights into our fieldwork in 🇦🇿Azerbaijan: www.facebook.com/www.science....

We have updated our website! Discover our work on shared cultural heritage, now with fresh design, new content and improved navigation. Explore our partners and insights. 🌍 Link in bio! #SHARITAGE #ArchaeoTrail #erasmusPLUS #culturalheritage

🤩New publication from our team!

💀 I’ll be giving a lecture at the German Embassy in #Muscat on burial customs in ancient #Oman, from the Neolithic to the pre-Islamic era. Do come and join! 😊

🏺📝Job vacancy (100%, 1 year) in #Assyriology in the MagEIA research group. Task: Research on magical ritual texts for the royal person in Mesopotamia in the 1st millennium BC. Applications until 31 March 2026. #academic #job

🏺📝Stellenausschreibung (100%, 1 Jahr) in #Asssyriology in der Kolleg-Forschungsruppe MagEIA. Aufgabe: Forschung zu magischen Ritualtexten für die königliche Person im Mesopotamien des 1. Jt. v. Chr. Bewerbung bis 31.3.2026. #academic #job www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

🚨✍️ Application deadline is tomorrow (22 February)!

📚 New publication from the closing conference of our Lost Cities project in #Oman It explores abandoned mudbrick settlements, their past, present & future through #archaeology, #ethnography & #sociology. Free to read online ✨ @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

😊Here is a reminder of what is going to happen this week:

🚆✨ Great excursion to the Uruk Warka Collection @uniheidelberg.bsky.social ! Students handled original objects from the Uruk excavations, practiced dating and identification, and gained insights into archive work and exhibition design 📐📝🏺. Many thanks to @hcchunihd.bsky.social 🙏

🏺📝Job advertisement (50%, 2 years) in science communication for our project ‘Show me the capital of the Hittites!’. Task: Development of smartphone tours for Boğazköy-Ḫattuša. Application deadline: 22 February 2026. #academic #job www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

🏺📝Stellenausschreibung (50%, 2 Jahre) in #WissKomm für unser Projekt "Zeig mir die Hauptstadt der Hethiter!". Aufgabe: Entwicklung von Smartphone-Touren für Boğazköy-Ḫattuša. Bewerbung bis 22.2.2026. #academic #job www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

📚✨ Daniel Schwemer (Würzburg) gives a lecture @goetheuni.bsky.social on learned magic and therapeutic practice in 1st-millennium Babylonia. 🗓️ Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 6pm www.uni-frankfurt.de/78792673/%C3...

📣 <philtag n="19"/> at the ZPD! 🗓️February 4–5, 2026 🎭Day 1 explores #Drama 🏺🏛️Day 2 highlights #Archaeology & #CulturalHeritage 🌍 Join in person or online – everyone welcome! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd/veransta...

🌟Take a look at what our SHARITAGE partners are doing! 🏺

🏺📣 Einladung zum Vortrag: „Der Puls der Stadt - Neue Untersuchungen in Uruk (Irak) als Bausteine zur Rekonstruktion antiker städtischer Lebenswelt in Südmesopotamien“ 🗓️ 15.01.2026 | ⏰ 16:15 Uhr 🎙️ Simone Mühl @dai-weltweit.bsky.social www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...

✨🏺May 2026 bring you curiosity, new discoveries, and inspiring moments! From all of us – happy New Year! 🥳🎉

Heute (16.12., 18:15h) findet online die 6. Bruno-Güterbock-Gedenkvorlesung der DOG statt. Margarete van Ess spricht zum Thema: „Archäologische Forschungen in Uruk. Feldforschungen als Kulturerhalt - Konservierung als Beitrag zur Wissenschaft“.🏺 www.orient-gesellschaft.de/aktuelles/mi...

📣 Einladung zum Vortrag: „Göbekli Tepe: Neue archäologische Erkenntnisse und aktuelle Entwicklungen im Kontext der Taş Tepeler-Region“ 🗓️ 15.12.2025 | ⏰ 18:15 Uhr 🎙️ Lee Clare @dai-weltweit.bsky.social Die Online-Teilnahme ist ebenfalls möglich! www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...

Today! You can also join via Zoom!

🎉 Great news for our team! @dfg.de has approved funding for the Berlin–Würzburg research network “New Perspectives on Monsters, Hybrids, and ‘Zwischenwesen’ in the Ancient Near East.” We’re excited to begin this collaborative journey! 👹🧌👺👾

🎶 🏺News from our team! Our Musical Instruments of Ancient Mesopotamia (MIAM) project presented new findings at the ISGMA (International Study Group on Music Archaeology) 2025 conference in Vienna. More on MIAM: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...

The talk will be in English. Everyone is welcome!

🏺Nächste Woche ist wieder Vortragszeit! Sara Pizzimenti von der Universität Pisa wird über die Ausgrabungen in Lagash sprechen. 📅 Donnerstag, 4.12. 16:15h 📍Seminarraum, Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik oder online www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...

Wir freuen uns schon darauf 😍

🏺📝 The preliminary report on the 2024 season in Boğazköy-Ḫattuša, including the subproject funded by the @volkswagenstiftung.de at @uni-wuerzburg.de on the western slope, has been published and can be downloaded here: doi.org/10.34780/q3k.... 🤩

Asoss Qader published a previously unpublished Nuzi text (SM.041996) in the new MDOG 157 📜 The Sulaymāniyya Museum text offers new insights into the organisation of harvests🌾. Research for this publication was supported by the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft. www.orient-gesellschaft.de/publikatione...

🎓 Das Würzburger Altertumswissenschaftliche Zentrum/Kolleg Mittelalter & Frühe Neuzeit sucht eine/n Mitarbeiter/in. Im Beschäftigungszeitraum soll ein Förderantrag für ein Promotionsvorhaben entstehen. ✉️ Bewerbung bis 23.1.2026 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Heute 🤩

🤩 First kick-off meeting of the @sharitage.bsky.social project!

🪄 On 12 Nov at 18:15 is our keynote lecture: ‘Die Modellierung der Welt – Zur materiellen Kultur unheilabweisender Rituale aus dem alten Mesopotamien’. www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...

Join us 12-14 Nov in Würzburg for the 2nd international symposium on “Mechanics & Materials of Magic” 🎩✨ www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/mageia/veran...

Für alle, die heute Nachmittag noch nichts vorhaben. Zuhören ist auch per Zoom möglich: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...

🏺 We now have our own Bluesky account for our new project!

📣 Einladung zum Vortrag: „Zwischen Jordan und Euphrat: Forschungen zu Überlebensstrategien vorzeitlicher Bevölkerungen in den Wüsten Nordarabiens“ 🗓️ 06.11.2025 | ⏰ 16:15 Uhr 🎙️ Stefan Smith @leizarchaeology.bsky.social 📍 Residenz, Seminarraum der Bibliothek Wir freuen uns auf euer Kommen!

🏺✨We are launching our new research project. We will combine archaeological and philological sources with digital methods. Our aim is to enhance the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz using LLM, LOD, geolocation and more. @dai-weltweit.bsky.social @volkswagenstiftung.de www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

I am very much looking forward to presenting at the Digital Lunch series on www.archaeotrail.org and and talking about our new SHARITAGE project!🏺

🏺🧪📊 Our paper is now open access! “The production of Bahlā Ware in the context of late Islamic Oman” is published in PSAS. We analysed 32 sherds to investigate compositional variability, raw-material provenance, and glaze techniques. archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.ph...

We’re excited to collaborate with our SHARITAGE partners🤝: Univ. Wrocław 🇵🇱, Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia 🇷🇸, Univ. Belgrade 🇷🇸, Univ. Nitra 🇸🇰, @incipitcsic.bsky.social 🇪🇸, Charles Univ. Prague 🇨🇿, Univ. South Bohemia 🇨🇿, Autentek 🇩🇪, @goetheuni.bsky.social 🇩🇪 2/2

Exciting news 🎉 We’re happy to start a new Erasmus+ project @uni-wuerzburg.de 🤝🌍🇪🇺 SHARITAGE creates digital trails at archaeological sites with local communities and develops teaching materials that bring community engagement into university archaeology. 👉 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei... 1/2

🏺This year’s excavation campaign in Boğazköy-Hattusa is coming to an end. ✨ We made some exciting discoveries again – stay tuned for more insights into the finds! 🔎 @uni-wuerzburg.de

Noch schnell bewerben 🙂

💸 Hiwi-Stellen im Projekt SHARITAGE! Für das internationale EU-Kooperationsprojekt SHARITAGE suchen wir engagierte studentische Hilfskräfte. 📝

🎉 Huge congratulations to Beatrice Baragli on her #ERC Starting Grant! She’ll be investigating how Sumerian endured in the Ancient Near East long after people stopped speaking it 📜