All Stories

  1. Challenge of the Astronomical Diaries from Babylon

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, December 2022, American Oriental Society

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  2. Introduction to the Ancient world. Third Edition.

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  3. Economy and Society in the Ancient Near East. Chapter in Textbook.

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  4. Government

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  5. The third millennium

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  6. Introduction

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  7. Epilogue of Introduction to the Ancient World.

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  8. Overview of the history of the first millennium BC in the Near East.

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  9. Religion

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  10. The second millennium

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  11. Book on the history of money and monetary policy from 2000 BC to AD 2000

    Article • May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  12. Debates on the world of Berossus

    Article • Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte / Journal for Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Law, January 2018, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  13. The Latest on Seleucid Empire Building in the East

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, January 2018, American Oriental Society

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  14. Review of: Alain Bresson (!), The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy (2016)

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  15. The Land of the Elephant Kings. Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire, written by Kosmin, P.J.

    Article • Mnemosyne, June 2016, Brill

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  16. Stratonice

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  17. Seleuceia (1) on Tigris

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  18. Seleucus (3) III Ceraunus, 'Thunderbolt', Seleucid king, c. 243–222 BCE

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  19. Seleucus (4) IV Philopator, 'Father-lover', Seleucid king, c. 218–175 bce

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  20. Antiochus (3) III, 'Megas' ('the Great'), Seleucid king, c. 242–187 BCE

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  21. Laodice (2), Seleucid queen, wife of Antiochus (2) II, 3rd cent. bce

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  22. Seleucus (2) II Callinicus, 'Gloriously Victorious', Seleucid king, c. 265–225 bce

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  23. Laodice (3), Seleucid queen, consort of Antiochus (3) III, late 3rd cent. BCE

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  24. Seleuceia (2) in Pieria

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  25. Seleucus (1) I Nicator, 'Conqueror', founder of the Seleucid empire, c. 358–281 bce

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  26. Carrhae

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  27. Alexander (10) Balas

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  28. Antiochus (7) VII, 'Sidetes', Seleucid king, c. 159–129 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  29. Antiochus (2) II, 'Theos' ('God'), Seleucid king, 286–246 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  30. Antiochus (6) VI, 'Epiphanes Dionysus', Seleucid king

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  31. Antiochus (4) IV, 'Epiphanes' ('Manifest God'), c. 215–164 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  32. Antiochus (1) I, 'Soter' ('Saviour'), Seleucid king, c. 324–261 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  33. Antiochus (8), 'Hierax', ruler of Seleucid Anatolia, c. 263–226 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  34. Antiochus (5) V, 'Eupator' ('with a good father'), c. 173–162/161 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  35. Seleucids

    Article • July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  36. The Volatility of Prices of Barley and Dates in Babylon in the Third and Second Centuries BC

    Article • August 2014, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  37. A History of Market Performance

    Article • August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  38. Factor Markets in Hellenistic and Parthian Babylonia (331 BCE-224 CE)

    Article • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, March 2014, Brill

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  39. Hangende Tuin van Babylon in Ninevé? - Stephanie Dalley, The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon. An elusive world wonder traced (Oxford University Press; Oxford 2013) 352 p., €33,95 ISBN 9780199662265

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, November 2013, Amsterdam University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  40. Economy, Near East (Hellenistic)

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  41. The ‘Silverization’ of the Economy of the Achaemenid and Seleukid Empires and Early Modern Chin

    Article • June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  42. An Introduction to the Ancient World

    Article • October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  43. Sense and Nonsense in the Statistical Approach of Babylonian Prices

    Article • Bibliotheca Orientalis, December 2003, Peeters Publishers

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  44. Susan Sherwin-White and Amélie Kuhrt: From Samarkhand to Sardis: a new approach to the Seleucid empire, x, 261 pp. London: Duckworth, 1993. £35.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, June 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  45. Joachim Oelsner: Materialien zur Gesellschaft und Kultur in hellenisticher Zeit. (Az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Ókori Történeti, Assziriológiai és Egyiptológiai Tanszékeinek Kiadványai 40. Assyriologia VII.) 547 pp. Budapest, 1986.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, June 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  46. G. F. SEIBT, Griechische Söldner im Achaimenidenreich. Bonn, Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977. 236 p

    Article • Mnemosyne, January 1985, Brill

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  47. The Hellenistic Near East

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  48. Money and Trust is chapter 1 in a volume on monetary history

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  49. Money in Ancient Mesopotamia

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  50. Comparison of the introduction of money in Ancient Greece, the Near East and China.

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  51. Conclusion of the book 'Money, Currency and Crisis (2018)

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek