No longer does digital research impact only scientific and technical studies, but it has been established as a powerful approach for revealing new information and supporting new interpretations in the humanities. Disciplines such as archaeology, art history, history, and literature have begun to benefit. Today more and more researchers of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean extend their traditional investigations by using digital technologies as standard and experimental tools. However, the space dedicated to cyber-research in the humanities, and especially in the study of the ancient world, is still not enough, probably because the digital humanities (DH) is a relatively new field that has, until recently, lacked of critical discussions among practitioners across projects. This volume was conceived as an overview of the latest interdisciplinary research projects in which digital approaches and computer science play a central role in the investigation of humanities-based q

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