Lidewijde de JongLidewijde de Jong is Assistant Professor in Archaeology at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. She has extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East and has co-directed projects in Syria. She was awarded a Visiting Scholar Fellowship atthe Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She has published widely on mortuary archaeology and Roman Mesopotamia. She serves on the Advisory Board of the American Journal of Archaeology and is the chair of the Center for the Study of Culture, Religion and Society - Interdisciplinary Studies in the Ancient World (CRASIS) at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Read More Read Less