The Netherlands Institute for the Near East

General In Memoriam Wilfred van Soldt

We regret to share the news that our colleague, friend, and former professor of Assyriology at Leiden University, passed away on 15 May 2021.

Publication “The Ikūn-pîša Letter Archive” (PIHANS vol. 131) out now

Publication of 56 Old Babylonian letters from Tell ed-Dēr (ancient Sippar-Amnānum), Iraq.

News from NIT: publication uses Barcın Höyük genomes to study Neolithic kinship traditions

An international team of geneticists, anthropologists and archaeologists have used ancient genomes to study people whose burials are associated with some of the earliest houses in history, some 10,000-8,000 years ago in Anatolia. The data includes genomes from Barcın Höyük, a site excavated by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey, and three other Neolithic sites.