The aim of this new international journal is to contribute to developing the study of the interpretation and understanding of the ancient cultures of Syria, remaining as open as possible to the different methodologies and problems that characterize present-day research.
Thanks to the generous policy of international collaboration pursued by the cultural authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic, the increase in archaeological research in Syria, particularly from the 1970s on, opened up a series of new perspectives on the study of ancient Syria. The discovery of the Royal Archives of Ebla was decisive in this renaissance, as well as the role that Ebla played in establishing the very foundations of cultural development in ancient Syria.
This project originates at a time of serious crisis for Syria, whose plight does not even spare the country’s magnificent, thousand-year-old cultural heritage. It is also intended as the strongest of hopes for a not-too-distant future of peace, prosperity, harmony and justice for the whole of the Syrian people.

From the contents (altogether 9 contributions):
M. D’Andrea, The Religious Complexes at Megiddo and Khirbet ez-Zeraqon and the Early Bronze Age Interregional Connectivity
J. Pasquali, Entre deuil et nécromancie: le lexique de la lamentation funèbre à Ébla et dans l’Antiquité classique à la lumière de l’ethnologie et de la religion comparée
S. Dibo, Nouvelles réflexions sur la question du Bît-Hilâni à travers les données du Bâtiment I à Hama
M. Montesanto, Lost in Transition: The Late Bronze-Iron Age Pottery Assemblage in Tell Atchana/Alalakh
M. Abdulkarim, The Preservation of the Agricultural Land Divisions in the Limestone Massif of Northern Syria during the Roman and Byzantine Eras