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2025

Publications

Al-Bashaireh, K., Lichtenberger, A., & Raja, R. (2025). "Marble Analysis and Provenance Study of Objects from the Northwest Quarter of the Decapolis City of Gerasa, Jordan", Egyptian Journal of Archaeological and Restoration Studies 15(2), 251-261. 
DOI: doi.org/10.21608/ejars.2025.471792

Andrade, N. & Raja, R. (2025). "Pompey and the Near East", in: Raja, R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 227-242.
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Berthelot, K., Dochhorn, J., Niehoff, M., Raja, R., Rüpke, J., Smith, C., Tommasi, C. O., Vinzent, M. & Weissenreider, A. (2025). "Editorial", Religion in the Roman Empire 11(1), 1-6.
doi.org/10.1628/rre-2025-0002

Blömer, M., Bobou, O., Neil, E.Q. & Raja, R. (2025). "From ‘Secondary’ City to Primary Focus: A Historiographical Approach to the Urbanity of Seleucia in Pieria", in Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (eds), Lost Cities and Legacy DataJournal of Urban Archaeology 12, 229–243. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151435

Bobou, O. (2025). "Palmyra", in: Raja, R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 591–606.
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Bobou, O. (2025). "Parthian Art and Coinage", in: Raja, R.(ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 149-162. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Bobou, O., Bucci, I., & Raja, R. (2025). "Small Rings, Great Power: Assessing the Vimose Mail Coat", Current World Archaeology 134, 38-42.

Bobou, O., Bucci, I. & Raja, R. (2025). "The Golden Fields of Denmark: Uncovering the Power and Prestige of the Vindelev Hoard", Current World Archaeology 132, 40-44.

Bobou, O., Bucci, I. & Raja, R. (2025). "The Hoby Cups: Tracing Connections in Iron Age Denmark", Current World Archaeology 131, 38-41.

Bobou, O., Bucci, I., Rowan, R. S. & Raja, R. (2025). "Weapons from the Waters: Exploring Scandinavia’s First Professional Army at Illerup Ådal", Current World Archaeology 133, 35-38.

Bobou, O., Kühn, M. & Raja, R. (2025). "Lost Cities in the Near East: Reassembling Knowledge through Archival Research and Excavation Documentation", in Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (eds), Lost Cities and Legacy DataJournal of Urban Archaeology 12, 177–200. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151432

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2025). "Archival Palimpsests: Investigating the History of Harald Ingholt’s Archive of Palmyrene Sculptures", in: Bobou, O., Raja, R. & Stamatopoulou, M. (eds.), Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge, Archive Archaeology 6, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 405–428.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.ARC-EB.5.144489

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2025). "Cities ‘Lost’ and ‘Found’: The Impact of Western Research on Ancient Sites in the Perception of their Urbanism", in Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (eds), Lost Cities and Legacy DataJournal of Urban Archaeology 12, 141–148. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151430

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2025). "From Tadmor to Palmyra, 1923–1929: The (Re-)creation of an Ancient City", in Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (eds), Lost Cities and Legacy DataJournal of Urban Archaeology 12, 215–228. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151434

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2025). "Palmyra in the Third Century CE: Looking for the Invisible ‘Crisis’ at Home", in: Raja, R., & Heldaas Seland, E. (eds.). Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third Century Crisis: Zooming in and Scaling up from the Evidence, Oriens et Occidens 46, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 149-166.
DOI: www.steiner-verlag.de/en/index.php/detail/f1c2ded0fa98520f961e3c5ae3de311d

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2025). "Roman Art in the Near East", in: Raja, R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 111-132. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (eds.) (2025). Journal of Urban Archaeology 12, Special section on ‘Lost Cities and Legacy Data’, Turnhout: Brepols.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151430

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2025). "The Decapolis", in: Raja, R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 731-748.
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2025). "The Impact of Rome in the Near East after the Battle of Actium and the Rise of Herod: Politics and Art Intertwined", in: Raja, R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 243-260.
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2025). "Urbanization and Cities in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East", in: Raja, R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 437-454. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Bobou, O., Raja, R. & Stamatopoulou, M. (2025) (eds.). Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge, Archive Archaeology 6, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers.
Doi: doi.org/10.1484/M.ARC-EB.5.144099

Bobou, O., Raja, R. & Stamatopoulou, M. (2025). "Turning the Page: Critical Archival Studies and Archaeological Historiographies", in: Bobou, O., Raja, R. & Stamatopoulou, M. (ed.), Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge, Archive Archaeology 6, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1–12.
Doi: doi.org/10.1484/M.ARC-EB.5.144099

Bobou, O., Çağlar, F.T., Kühn, M., Neil, E.Q. & Raja, R. (2025). "Shelving Urban Excavations: Revisiting Ottoman and Mandate-Period Archives in Western Asia", in: Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (eds), Lost Cities and Legacy DataJournal of Urban Archaeology 12, 149–176. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151431

Boschetti, C., Schibille, N., Harvey, C., Intagliata, E. E., & Raja, R. (2025). "Broken Glass on the Via Nova Traiana: Roman, Late Antique and Early Islamic Activity at Khirbet al-Khalde (South Jordan)", Antiquity (e-pub), 1-18. 
DOI: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10248

Brughmans, T. & Cortés Vicente, A. (2025). "Introducció a la investigació arqueològica amb la ciència de xarxes". Empúries 59, 211–232.
DOI: https://raco.cat/index.php/Empuries/article/view/980000002377

Croix, S. (2025). "Figurative Miniatures as Prolonged Echoes of Pre-Christian Rituals", in: Sindbæk, S. M., Croix, S. & Nygaard, S. (eds.). Ritual Performance in the Viking Age: Proceedings of the 39th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium, 20 th May 2022, Aarhus University, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 87-106.

Croix, S. (2025). "Gender and Relationality in the Viking Age: Mortuary Archaeology beyond Grave-Goods", in: Pedersen, U. Moen, M. & Skogstrand, L. (eds.). Gendering the Nordic Past: Dialogues between Perspectives, Women of the Past 4, Turnhout: Brepols, 137-157.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.WOP-EB.5.135552

Croix, S. (2025). "Review of: S. Kalmring, Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2024, 277 pp., illustrations. ISBN 978-1-009-298094", Early Medieval Europe 33(3), 458-460.

De Soto, P., Pažout, A., Brughmans, T., Vahlstrup, P. B., Auir, Á., Bongers, T., et al. (2025). "Itiner-e: A High-Resolution Dataset of Roads of the Roman Empire", Scientific Data, 12(1), 1731. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06140-z

Hallett, C. & Raja, R. (2025). "Caesar’s monumentum and his Vision for Rome. Missing Entrances and Conjectural Connections: Probing the Boundaries of Rome’s First Imperial Forum", in: Matijević, K., Raja, R. & Rüpke, J. (2025) (eds.). Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record for the 40s bc, Rome Studies 2, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 25-55.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.RS-EB.5.150292

Harvey, C.A., Intagliata, E.E. & Raja, R. (2025). "Asserting Control Through Water in the Roman Period: The Evidence from Southern Jordan and the Case of Khirbet al-Khalde", American Journal of Archaeology 129(2), 203-218.
DOI: doi.org/10.1086/734062

Harvey, C., Intagliata, E. E., & Raja, R. (2025). "Ceramic Building Materials", in: Harvey, C. A., Intagliata, E. E. & Raja, R. (eds.). Khirbet al-Khalde: Final Publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, The Archaeology and History of Western Asia (300 BCE–750 CE) 2, Turnhout: Brepols, 157-184.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.AHWA-EB.5.149708

Harvey, C. A., Intagliata, E. E. & Raja, R. (eds.) (2025). Khirbet al-Khalde: Final Publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, The Archaeology and History of Western Asia (300 BCE–750 CE) 2, Turnhout: Brepols.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.AHWA-EB.5.149708

Harvey, C., Intagliata, E. E., & Raja, R. (2025). "Other Finds — Coins, Metal and Stone Artefacts, Metal Slag, Crucibles, and Coral", in: Harvey, C. A., Intagliata, E. E. & Raja, R. (eds.). Khirbet al-Khalde: Final Publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, The Archaeology and History of Western Asia (300 BCE–750 CE) 2, Turnhout: Brepols, 207-214.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.AHWA-EB.5.149708

Harvey, C., Intagliata, E. E., & Raja, R. (2025). "Overview of the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023 Campaign", in: Harvey, C. A., Intagliata, E. E. & Raja, R. (eds.). Khirbet al-Khalde: Final Publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, The Archaeology and History of Western Asia (300 BCE–750 CE) 2, Turnhout: Brepols, 3-28.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.AHWA-EB.5.149708

Harvey, C., Intagliata, E., & Raja, R. (2025). "Preface and Acknowledgements", in: Harvey, C. A., Intagliata, E. E. & Raja, R. (eds.). Khirbet al-Khalde: Final Publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, The Archaeology and History of Western Asia (300 BCE–750 CE) 2, Turnhout: Brepols, 1-2.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.AHWA-EB.5.149708

Harvey, C., Intagliata, E. E., Mokránová, K., Raja, R., & Zoppi, M. (2025). "Damage Assessment at Khirbet al-Khalde", in: Harvey, C. A., Intagliata, E. E. & Raja, R. (eds.). Khirbet al-Khalde: Final Publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, The Archaeology and History of Western Asia (300 BCE–750 CE) 2, Turnhout: Brepols, 29-52.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.AHWA-EB.5.149708

Haase, K., Pallesen, T. M., Sindbæk, S. M. & Kristiansen, S.M. (2025). "Predicting Buried Archaeological Heritage in a 3D Environment—Modelling the Urban Subsurface Using Voxels", Geoarchaeology 40 (3), e70014. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1002/gea.70014

Lichtenberger, A. & Raja, R. (2025). "The Earthquake of AD 749: A Watershed Event in the History of the Southern Levant?", in: Lichtenberger, A. & Raja, R. (eds.). Jerash, the Decapolis, and the Earthquake of AD 749: The Fallout of a Disaster, Jerash Papers 14, Turnhout: Brepols, 1-16.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.JP-EB.5.143919

Lichtenberger, A. & Raja, R. (2025). "The Impact of the 749 CE Earthquake on Gerasa. Old and New Evidence — Old and New Questions — Old and Persisting Problems", in: Lichtenberger, A. & Raja, R. (eds.). Jerash, the Decapolis, and the Earthquake of AD 749: The Fallout of a Disaster, Jerash Papers 14, Turnhout: Brepols, 73-96.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.JP-EB.5.143923

Lichtenberger, A. & Raja, R. (eds.) (2025). Jerash, the Decapolis, and the Earthquake of AD 749: The Fallout of a Disaster, Jerash Papers 14, Turnhout: Brepols.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.JP-EB.5.138140

Matijević, K., Raja, R. & Rüpke, J. (2025) (eds.). Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record for the 40s bc, Rome Studies 2, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.RS-EB.5.150292

Matijević, K., Raja, R. & Rüpke, J. (2025). "Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record for the 40s BC", in: Matijević, K., Raja, R. & Rüpke, J. (2025) (eds.). Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record for the 40s bc, Rome Studies 2, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1-8.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.RS-EB.5.150292

Neil, E. Q. (2025). "Childlike Joy—Participation and Perspectives on the Arts of Irish Youth", Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy 11(1), 59-65.
DOI: www.culturalpolicy.ie/index.php/ijamcp/article/view/2861

Neil, E. Q. (2025). "Posthumanist Community Archaeology in Cyprus: Reframing Engagement in a Contested Landscape", Journal of Social Archaeology
DOI: doi.org/10.1177/14696053251398864

Nygaard, S., Croix, S. & Sindbæk, S.M. (eds.) (2025). Ritual Performance in the Viking Age. Proceedings of the 39th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium, 20th May 2022, Aarhus University, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

Nygaard, S., Croix, S. & Sindbæk, S.M.  (2025). "Introduction", in: Sindbæk, S. M., Croix, S. & Nygaard, S. (eds.). Ritual Performance in the Viking Age: Proceedings of the 39th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium, 20 th May 2022, Aarhus University, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 7-8.

Pažout, A. (2025). "Road and Transport Networks in Hellenistic and Roman Syria", in: Raja, R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 295–310. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Raja, R. (2025). "Globalisation Networks: The Role of Urban Nodes and Ties", in: Davies, P. J. E. & Williamson, C. G. (eds.), The Cambridge Urban History of Europe vol. 1: Ancient Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 502-524.

Raja, R. (2025). "Late Antique Churches in Gerasa, Jordan, as Reflections of Urban Heterarchies", Religion and Urbanity Online, e-pub. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1515/urbrel.13901165

Raja, R. (ed.) (2025). Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1017/9781009532044

Raja, R. (2025). "Palmyra in the Mediterranean World", in: Raja, R. (ed.), Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-20. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1017/9781009532044

Raja, R. (2025). "Palmyrene Iconographic Traditions and Their Mediterranean Connections: A Note on Some Signet Seal Impressions on the Palmyrene Tesserae", in: Raja, R. (ed.), Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 49-109. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1017/9781009532044

Raja, R. (2025). "Religion and the Urban: Network Evolutions Perspectives as Lenses", Religion and Urbanity Online, e-pub. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1515/urbrel.35516989

Raja, R. (2025). "Staying at Home or Taking Away: Palmyrene Priestly Iconography as Expressions of Local Religious Traditions and Societal Status", in: Brody, L. R. & Chen, A. H. (eds.), Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future, Studies in Classical Archaeology 16, Turnhout: Brepols, 171-184.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.SCA-EB.5.144239

Raja, R. (2025). "The Hellenistic and Roman Near East: An Introduction", in: Raja, R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3-10. 
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Raja, R. (2025). "The Organization of Archaeological Fieldwork and Selective Publication of Findings as Appropriation of Knowledge: Observations on the 1931 Spring Campaign in Gerasa", in Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (eds), Lost Cities and Legacy DataJournal of Urban Archaeology 12, 245–268. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151436

Raja, R. (ed.) (2025). The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI: doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858155.001.0001

Raja, R. (2025). "In the Field and through the Archives: The 1928 American-British Campaign in Gerasa and the Excavation of the Church of St. Theodore", in: Bobou, O., Raja, R. & Stamatopoulou, M. (ed.), Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge, Archive Archaeology 6, Turnhout: Brepols, 105–188.
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/M.ARC-EB.5.144481

Raja, R., & Heldaas Seland, E. (2025). "Palmyra and the Third Century Crisis: Entangled Perspectives", in: Raja, R., & Heldaas Seland, E. (eds.). Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third Century Crisis: Zooming in and Scaling up from the Evidence, Oriens et Occidens 46, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 7-14.
DOI: www.steiner-verlag.de/en/index.php/detail/f1c2ded0fa98520f961e3c5ae3de311d

Raja, R., & Heldaas Seland, E. (eds.) (2025). Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third Century Crisis: Zooming in and Scaling up from the Evidence, Oriens et Occidens 46, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
DOI: www.steiner-verlag.de/en/index.php/detail/f1c2ded0fa98520f961e3c5ae3de311d

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2025). "Collapse and Decline", Current World Archaeology 129, 58-59.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2025). "From Ruins to Riches", Current World Archaeology 133, 56-57.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2025). "Garden Cities", Current World Archaeology 131, 58-59.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. (eds.)(2025). Journal of Urban Archaeology 12, Turnhout: Brepols.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2025). "Mother of Invention", Current World Archaeology 134, 58-59.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2025). "Ratting Out", Current World Archaeology 132, 58-59.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2025). "The Exultation of Discovery", Current World Archaeology 130, 58-59.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. (2025). "The House We Live in", Journal of Urban Archaeology 12, 17–18. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151424

Raja, R. & Steding, J. (2025). "Come, Tell Me How You Live: a National Archaeology Outreach Programme in Denmark", Current World Archaeology 129. 

Sindbæk, S. (2025). Fyrkat, Vikingetidens Ringborge 3, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. 

Sindbæk, S. & Larsen, M. (2025). "Trelleborg Revisited: the Context and Distribution of Artefact Finds", Danish Journal Archaeology 14(1), 1-17.
DOI: doi.org/10.7146/dja.v14i1.152953

Sindbæk, S. M. (2025). "Heritageization of Viking Age Ring Forts", in: Saloul, I. & Baillie, B. (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, London: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, e-pub.
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5

Sindbæk, S.M. (2025). "Lyrens Hus", Skalk 2025(6), 4-6. 

Sindbæk, S. M. (2025). "Review of: Mads Runge (red.): Nonnebakken. Odenses vikingeborg", Kuml, 286-289.

Sindbæk, S.M. & Jensen, S. H. (2025). "Jernalderens stavblender", Skalk 2025(6), 6-7. 

Sindbæk, S.M. & Lehner, M. (2025). "The Laser’s Edge: The Great Pyramid South Floor Survey", Aeragram 25(1-2), 10-17.

Witsell, A. & Sindbæk, S.M. (2025). "The Data’s in the Detail", Aeragram 25(1-2), 3-9.