About the Journal

Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East is dedicated to publishing Open Access peer-reviewed scholarship on Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia from the third through first millennia BCE that crosses and disrupts disciplinary boundaries.

Submissions should explicitly seek to adopt, adapt, or integrate theories and methodologies from within the traditional fields of ancient studies (i.e. archaeology, Assyriology, biblical studies, Egyptology, Hittitology, etc.), as well as from socio-anthropological and scientific disciplines. 

Avar is an Open Access publication, allowing users to freely access, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles for any lawful purpose without requiring permission from the publisher or author. 

Avar accepts traditional length articles and short notes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

ISSN: 2752-3527 (Print) ISSN: 2752-3535 (Online) | Avar is published twice a year in January and July.

Avar is indexed and abstracted in:


Code of Conduct and Publishing Ethics

Avar follows the rules of publication ethics to ensure academic objectivity and rigour of the journal. Transnational Press London is committed to maintaining the publication ethics standards. We, therefore, ask that all contributors and reviewers adhere to publishing ethics. Further guidance can be found through Transnational Press London Publishing Ethics Policy which closely follows the COPE guidelines.


Open Access Policy

Avar is an open-access publication, allowing users to freely access, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles for any lawful purpose without requiring permission from the publisher or author. 

Article Processing Charges

Open Access Article Processing Fee for Avar is £295. 

OA Fees can be paid directly at: https://www.tplondon.com/product/oaf/

This journal offers a limited number of Open Access fee waivers to authors from disadvantaged backgrounds. to benefit from this policy, please email the editor once your paper is accepted.

Once the payment is made, please email the receipt of payment along with the title of the paper and name(s) of the author(s) to: admin@tplondon.com


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Creative Commons License

The works published in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Authors of articles published in this journal retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

This journal allows all versions to be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.


This journal is included in PKP Preservation Network archives:

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Journal History

Avar was launched in 2021.

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