Archive for Orient Research

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Archive for Orient Research (abbreviated AfO ) is one of the world's most respected journals in the field of ancient oriental studies .

The journal is used to research the ancient Orient and contains articles, reports and reviews as well as bibliographic contributions in German, English, French and Italian by scientists from all over the world who deal with the entire ancient Orient.

The journal was founded in 1923 by Ernst Friedrich Weidner under the name Archiv für Keilschriftforschung and received its current name three years later. They appear every year and is currently at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Vienna moved ; current editors are Hermann Hunger , Michael Jursa , Gebhard J. Selz and Michaela Weszeli.

Since volume 25, it has also regularly included the so-called Assyriology register , which lists all the new publications of ancient oriental literature and arranges them alphabetically according to subject. In addition to the magazine, the so-called AfO supplements also appear irregularly ; these are monographs on the ancient Orient.

Web links

  • Archive for Oriental Studies on the homepage of the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna