Zwischen Tigris und Nil: 100 Jahre Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Vorderasien und Agypten.

• Author: BECKMAN, GARY
• Position: Review

Zwischen Tigris und Nil: 100 Jahre Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Vorderasien und [ddot{A}]gypten. Edited by GERNOT WILHELM. Mainz: VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 1998. Pp. 144, illustrated. DM 68.

To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Deutsches Orient-Gesellschaft in 1898, its current Vorsitzender, Gernot Wilhelm, has edited a volume intended to convey the high points of the history of this venerable organization to a popular audience. Nineteen short essays by sixteen authors discuss the excavations conducted by the society up through 1995. These have included work in Assyria, Babylonia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Anatolia. A particularly interesting contribution by the editor explains the social and political climate in mid-Wilhelmine Germany which favored the establishment of the DOG, and sketches its...