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Divination Techniques in the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World


Twentyfifth Workshop of the Melammu Project
Sofia
29–30 May 2025


Organiser: Zozan Tarhan
Workshop Program

Divination and prophecy played an important role in decision-making in the ancient world. Royal courts, political elites, military commanders, and ordinary people relied on divination and prophecy to make the right decisions. The 25th Melammu Workshop is dedicated to divination techniques, provoked and unprovoked omens and prophecy in the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World. The workshop aims to analyse divination techniques, their development and the context they have been used in, the experts behind them, their conceptual setting, and their diffusion in the ancient world.

The call for paper can be found here.

Further information will follow in due time.

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