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Renewed attention also continues to be given to archival and photographic material and historiographical studies analyzing previous scholarship on the subject matter. Rubina Raja and Jean-Baptiste Yon have edited Harald Ingholt’s excavation diaries (covering his campaigns at Palmyra in 1924–1925, 1928, and 1937) for publication in the new series Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History. Archival research has already revealed how the most famous of all Palmyrene funerary reliefs, known as “the Beauty of Palmyra” and part of the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, came from a specific tomb in Palmyra excavated by Inholt: its precise place of discovery previously unknown, it can now be connected with other finds from the same tomb (Raja and Sørensen 2015). Away from Palmyra, the landmark publication of the correspondence between Cumont and Rostovtzeff (Bongard-Levine et al. 2007) has allowed new insights into the early days of scholarship on Dura-Europos, another site now destroyed (cf. Praet et al. 2020, the first of two installments in the Bibliotheca Cumontiana dealing with Cumont’s output on the Euphrates small town, the second being the republication of his 1926 monograph Fouilles de Doura-Europos, 1922–1923, both with historiographical introductions by the current writer). The late Judith McKenzie, in what her obituary referred to as “a remarkable tale of modern detective work in archaeology” (Walmsley 2019: 3), used Nelson Glueck’s field records, archived in Harvard’s Semitic Museum, to revisit Glueck’s reconstruction of the temple at Khirbet-Tannur (McKenzie et al. 2013). McKenzie also created the Manar al-Athar photo archive, a free resource providing high-resolution, searchable images of sites, buildings, and art from the Middle East (http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk).