About the Journal

 

The Isin Journal for Archaeology, History and Ancient Languages (IJAHAL) is a peer-reviewed, double-anonymized, open-access journal published by the College of Archaeology, University of Al-Qadisiyah, under the sponsorship of the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR).

The journal publishes original research articles in English and is dedicated to advancing scholarly studies related to Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations from the Palaeolithic to the Ottoman periods.

Aims and Scope

IJAHAL aims to promote high-quality interdisciplinary research in the fields of archaeology, history, heritage, and ancient languages. The journal welcomes original studies in:

  • Archaeology and excavation studies

  • Ancient Mesopotamian history and civilizations

  • Ancient languages and cuneiform studies

  • Cultural heritage and museum studies

  • Arts, religions, and social history

  • Landscape archaeology and geoarchaeology

  • Bioarchaeology and preservation studies

  • Archaeological surveys and digital heritage documentation

IJAHAL is published exclusively online and provides free open access to all its contents. Authors are permitted to self-archive the final accepted versions of their articles in compliant institutional or subject-based repositories.

Publishing in IJAHAL is governed by strict academic and ethical standards. The journal is committed to integrity, transparency, and originality in scholarly publishing and aligns its editorial practices with the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). By submitting a manuscript to IJAHAL, authors confirm that the work is original, has not been published elsewhere, all contributors have approved its content, and the manuscript complies with the journal’s editorial scope, policies, and ethical guidelines.

The journal is named after the ancient city of Isin in Diwaniyah Province, Southern Iraq, a major Sumerian center that flourished between the fourth and first millennia BC.

Published by the University of Al-Qadisiyah. This is an open-access journal distributed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License.