Liat Naeh

Dr. Liat Naeh is a scholar and a museum professional focusing on the art and archaeology of the Middle East. She teaches broadly about the cultures of the ancient Middle East, including ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia, the history of archaeological excavations, and critical approaches to collecting and displaying antiquities in museums, and is the recipient of both the 2023 and 2024 Sessional Instructor Award for Excellence in Art History, given by the Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga. As a Levantine specialist, she has published extensively on Levantine cult sites during the Bronze and Iron Ages, bone and ivory craft, and Levantine ritualistic furniture, and is the co-editor of a volume on thrones in the ancient world. Before arriving in Toronto, Liat was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bard Graduate Center, both in New York. She is also a published, award-winning poet in her native language of Hebrew. 

Selected Publications:

• Naeh, L. 2025. Bone-Inlaid Boxes from Tomb 16/H/50. Chapter 9 in Megiddo VII. The Shmunis Excavations of a Monumental Middle Bronze Tomb and its Environs, edited by M. Adams, M. S. Cradic, and I. Finkelstein. Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 43, Pp. 169-204. Tel Aviv: The Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University [link: Megiddo VII]