| 28 November 2025 | 23 | Elena Devecchi | Of Fields, Granaries, and Power |
| 21 November 2024 | 22 | Theo van den Hout | The Compassionate Master, or the Limits of Hittite Propaganda |
| 1 December 2023 | 21 | Daniel Schwemer | Living in a precarious world: Magical rituals from ancient Mesopotamia |
| 2 December 2022 | 20 | Eleanor Robson | Access to knowledge in cuneiform culture: case studies from Tell Khaiber and Kish |
| 10 December 2021 | 19 | Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum | Guardians of the written word: the dawn of philology in the Ancient Near East |
| 22 November 2019 | 18 | Francesca Rochberg | These Bones Live! Cuneiform Knowledge and Natural Knowledge |
| 9 November 2018 | 17 | Douglas Baird | Skulls and houses. Boncuklu, the development of the Neolithic in central Anatolia and the antecedents of Çatalhöyük |
| 24 November 2017 | 16 | Daniele Morandi Bonacossi | The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire as seen from the Nineveh countryside. Results of the Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 2012-2017 |
| 25 November 2016 | 15 | Stefano Anastasio | Pioneering photography in Egypt and Mesopotamia in John Alfred Spranger’s 1929-1936 photo reportages |
| 20 November 2015 | 14 | Cécile Michel | The Assyrian settlement at Kültepe/Kaneš
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| 21 November 2014 | 13 | Wouter Henkelman | De inscriptie van Bisotun, poort naar het Oude Nabije Oosten
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| 1 November 2013 | 12 | Pascal Butterlin | Mari — 80 years of archaeological research in perspective |
| 16 November 2012 | 11 | Peter Pfälzner | Politics and Diplomacy in Syria, 3500 years ago: Archaeological Excavations in the Kingdom of Qatna |
| 18 November 2011 | 10 | Klaus Schmidt | Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic Sanctuary in Upper Mesopotamia |
| 19 November 2010 | 9 | Alfonso Archi | The Gods of Ebla |
| 20 November 2009 | 8 | Jesper Eidem | Qala’at Halwanji — a 4000 year old fortress in Syria |
| 22 November 2008 | 7 | Peter Jablonka | Troy — archaeology, legend, history |
| 23 November 2007 | 6 | Dominique Charpin | Unexpected aspects of Mesopotamian civilization — the role of the temples |
| 17 November 2006 | 5 | Harald Hauptmann | Temples and Deities in Early Upper Mesopotamia. A new picture of the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East |
| 18 November 2005 | 4 | Stefan Maul | Sickness and Healing in the Ancient Orient |
| 19 November 2004 | 3 | Tony Wilkinson | Arabia’s First Towns: Bronze Age Chiefdoms in Highland Yemen |
| 21 November 2003 | 2 | Guillermo Algaze | Trade and development of early Mesopotamian social complexity |
| 14 May 2002 | 1 | Nicholas Postgate | Trade before writing — Learning the lessons of the future |
