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ABZU
Abzu is an experimental guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data
relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet.
Al Mashriq - The Levant Cultural MultiMedia Servers
American Oriental
Society
The Society was founded in 1842, preceded only by such distinguished organizations of
general scope as the American Philosophical Society (1743), the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences (1780), and the American Antiquarian Society (1812). From the beginning its
aims have been humanistic. The encouragement of basic research in the languages and
literatures of Asia has always been central in its tradition. This tradition has come to
include such subjects as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography,
epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and
imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations, especially of philosophy, religion,
folklore and art.
American Oriental Society - News Pages
American Schools of Oriental
Research
The American Schools of Oriental Research's U.S. based coordination center, its
publications program and its affiliated overseas centers in the Middle East have been in
the forefront of American research efforts and publications related to these efforts since
1900. The main object of Schools is to enable properly qualified persons to pursue
biblical, linguistic, archaeological, historical, and other kindred studies and researches
under more favorable conditions than can be secured at a distance from the Holy Land.
ANE
[Ancient Near East]-List
ANE is a mailing list on topics and issues of interest in Ancient Near Eastern Studies,
from the Indus to the Nile, and from the beginnings of human habitation to the rise of
Islam. It is intended to provide a medium for discussion among scholars and students
actively engaged in research and study of this broad field. Subscription is open and
unmoderated.
Annual
Egyptological Bibliography
The AEB is published by the International Association of Egyptologists in cooperation with
the Netherlands Institute for the Near East. The contents of the most recent
volumes, AEB 1992-1994, are available for on-line browsing.
Archaeological
Survey in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Report of the University of Michigan/University of Asiut Project to the Egyptian
Antiquities Organization.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery:
Preserving ancient statues from Jordan
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery are the two national museums of
Asian art at the Smithsonian Institution.
Bakhtiari
Archaeological Finds
The high mountains of the Bakhtiari country were largely left out of the archeological
equation despite their proximity to the heartland of Mesopotamian and Elamite
civilization. Work in the region indicated the long settlement history of these mountains.
The region was utilized probably as early as the Middle Paleolithic and certainly by the
Upper/Epi-paleolithic. The region experienced a unique Neolithic experience, exemplified
by finds at Qal'e Rostam and other Neolithic sites in the region. Villages become
increasingly common during the Early Chalcolithic, reaching a high point during the Middle
Chalcolithic. Especially exciting is evidence of "colonies" on one of the major
routes through the mountains with ties to communities from the Central Plateau and the
Khuzistan lowlands (specifically Sharak and S 17). Much less common is Iron Age material,
although the cache from Gandomkar is especially exciting.
Tell
Beydar Project
Excavations undertaken from 1992 by an European mission and since 1994 by a joint Syrian
and European mission at Tell Beydar, 35 km north of Hassake in the Syrian Djezireh, have
revealed susbstantial official architecture from the Early Dynastic III period, dating
from the 25th and 24 th centuries BC. 165 cuneiform tablets, dated around 2400 BC, were
found from 1993 in several areas (Private houses, Palace area). They bring new information
about Upper Mesopotamian Bronze Age Civilization.
The British Museum - Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities
British School of
Archaeology in Iraq
Principally funded by the British Academy, the aim of the British School of Archaeology in
Jerusalem is to provide a centre for the study of all aspects of the archaeology, history
and culture of the Levant from the earliest times and to encourage research in these
subjects.
British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem
The Brooklyn Museum: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
The
Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies
The purpose of the Society is to stimulate interest among the general public in the
culture, history, and archaeology of Mesopotamia. The Society was founded in 1980 and is a
chartered non-profit organization with no political or ideological affiliations or
functions.
Center for
Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
The Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project.
The
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, initiated in 1921 by James Henry Breasted, is compiling a
comprehensive dictionary of the various dialects of Akkadian, the earliest known Semitic
language that was recorded on cuneiform texts that date from c. 2400 B.C. to A.D. 100
which were recovered from archaeological excavations of ancient Near Eastern sites. The
Assyrian Dictionary is in every sense a joint undertaking of resident and non-resident
scholars from around the world who have contributed their time and labor over a period of
seventy years to the collection of the source materials and to the publication of the
Dictionary.
The
Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project
The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project (CHD) was officially started in 1975 with the
awarding of an NEH grant to Harry A. Hoffner and Hans G. Güterbock, the editors. It was
conceived in answer to a recognized need for a Hittite-English lexical tool, a concordance
for lexicographical research for all parts of the corpus of Hittite texts.
Tell Chuera
The Site and the Excavation Areas
Colby College
Research Projects in Israel
Archaeology at Colby College draws together faculty and students from the Departments of
Religious Studies, Anthropology, Classics, and Geology in an interdisciplinary
collaboration which has proved to be both stimulating and rewarding.
Dead Sea Scrolls
Exhibit
The exhibition Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern
Scholarship brings before the American people a selection from the scrolls which have been
the subject of intense public interest. Over the years questions have been raised about
the scrolls' authenticity, about the people who hid them away, about the period in which
they lived, about the secrets the scrolls reveal, and about the intentions of the scrolls'
custodians in restricting access. The Library's exhibition describes the historical
context of the scrolls and the Qumran community from whence they may have originated; it
also relates the story of their discovery 2,000 years later. In addition, the exhibition
encourages a better understanding of the challenge s and complexities connected with
scroll research.
Deh Luran
Archaeological Project
A slide show of images from the project.
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Djoser
Complex
The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser (also spelled Zozer) was built during the Third Dynasty
(ca. 2800 B.C.) in what is now Saqqara, Egypt. Djoser's Step Pyramid is generally
considered the first tomb in Egypt to be built entirely of stone.
Tel Dor
Archaeological Expediton
UC Berkeley - Santa Barbara
The Edinburgh
Ras Shamra Project
The project is based in the Hebrew and Old Testament Department, New College, at the
University of Edinburgh. Provided are digital images of some of the texts written in the
alphabetic cuneiform script developed at the ancient city of Ugarit, as well information
on matters Ugaritic in general.
Egyptology
Egyptology Resources was set up in 1994, and was the first web page set up specifically
for the benefit of those interested in Egyptology, whether laymen or professionals.
El Ahawat Excavation A
'Sea Peoples' Fortified Site in Israel. The site of el-Ahwat is located on a high hill
some 18 km. east of the mediterranean coast. It overlooks broad view of western Israel,
from the Carmel mountains to the Samarian hills. The 7.5 ha. place is surrounded by a 600
m long city-wall designed in ‘wavy’ lines, with no parallels in the eastern
mediterranean. Unparalleled also are the city-gate, the strange ‘corridors’ in
the city-wall and the ‘tholoi’ (round stone huts roofed by the corbelled dome
method).
Emar - Margueron,
Jean-Claude: Emar, Capital of Astata in the Fourteenth Century bce. (Biblical
Archaeologist, Volume
58, Number 3, September 1995).
European
Centre for Upper Mesopotamian Studies - (ECUMS)
ECUMS was created in 1994 in order to promote interdisciplinary Upper Mesopotamian
Studies, to develop European and Euro-Syrian collaboration in this field, to establish and
to coordinate stable scientifical links between the European universities presently
Partners of ECUMS.
Franciscan Archaeological Institute, Jordan
Greg Reeder`s
Egyptology Page
This page is dedicated to examining the art, archaeology, religion and history of Egypt.
Tel
Hazor Excavations - Israel
Hazor was an ancient Canaanite and Israelite city located in the north of modern day
Israel. Recent archaeological excavations have revealed how important this city was in
antiquity. This site provides information about Tel Hazor and information for prospective
volunteers.
Institute of
Egyptian Art and Archaeology
The Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology, founded in 1984, is a component of the
Department of Art of The University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee (USA), and is a
Tennessee Center of Excellence. It is dedicated to the study of the art and culture of
ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition, and community education. As part of
its teaching and research, the Institute conducts an epigraphic survey in the Great
Hypostyle Hall of Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt.
Iraq-L (discussion list about Iraq) - List Archive
Jerablus-Tahtani
Project, Syria
Principle aims: investigation of the precocious expansion of the world's earliest known
literate civilisation, the Uruk of South Mesopotamia c. 3500 BC, and secondary state
formation in the Early Bronze Age of Syria. Both topics are currently the subject of
international scholarly debate and research. While there are initial studies of the
phenomenon of state formation in other regions of Syria, in the Jezira and at the cities
of Ebla and Mari, the Tishreen zone of the Euphrates has not been investigated with this
purpose in mind. The zone has different environmental constraints and it lies on a major
riverine communication route between the resource-rich highlands and the consumer centres
of the Near Eastern lowlands. In their Carchemish excavations at the beginning of the 20th
century, Woolley and Lawrence demonstrated that this area was far richer in metals than
the Jezira and possibly even Ebla during the Early Bronze Age, hence state development may
have occurred for other reasons here, primarily because of long-distance trade and wealth
finance.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Journal of Cuneiform Studies [JCS]
Judaism and
Jewish Resources
The Internet is rich with Jewish resources. This page shows you the gates to these
resources, so that you may go in and explore.
KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt
Landscape
Studies In Upper Mesopotamia
During the past twenty years both The Oriental Institute and Tony Wilkinson, the
Institute's geomorphologist, have undertaken a number of projects within the Jazira of
Syria, Turkey and Iraq. In order to provide a broader framework for future work, three
major regional study areas are being proposed based on this previous work, geographical
representativeness and suitable, and available area coverage (preferably aerial
photographs, secondarily good maps). An overall geographical framework can be provided by
either LANDSAT or SPOT images used in conjunction with GIS reference systems. Three Main
Study Areas:
1.Western Jazira, Syria 2.Iraqi North Jazira 3.Turkish Hilly Flanks
Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit "Orient to Rome"
The Marki Project, A Prehistoric Bronze Age town in Cyprus
Tell
Mashnaqa
Tell Mashnaqa is located at the Khabur, a tributary river to the Euphrates, about 30
kilometers south of Hassake in northeastern Syria. It is of moderarte size covering less
than four hectares. To the west the mound rises to a height of more than 11 meters forming
a so-called High Mound. The eastern part of the tell is a low and a flat mound, rising
four meters above plain level.
Tell
Melebiya, Syria
Space Speaks Volumes: Quantifying Spatial Characteristics of 3rd-Millennium B.C. Houses at
Tell Melebiya, Syria
Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Art - Ancient Near Eastern Art
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Musee du Louvre - Department of Oriental Antiquities
The
Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)
The Institute is located in Leiden, traditionally an important centre of Oriental studies
in the Netherlands. Founded in 1939, the NINO has been publishing journals, monographs and
other books dealing with the Near East ever since. It houses an extensive library and is
host to the departments of Assyriology and Egyptology of Leiden University. In addition,
it carries out research programmes in various branches of Near East studies.
Nineveh - Russell, John Malcolm: Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack Of Nineveh. (Archaeology Online)
The
Nippur Expedition
In the desert a hundred miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, lies a great mound of man-made
debris sixty feet high and almost a mile across. This is Nippur, for thousands of years
the religious center of Mesopotamia, where Enlil, the supreme god of the Sumerian
pantheon, created mankind.
Oman Archaeology
Network
Archaeological information on Oman.
Orient Express: Notes et Nouvelles d'Archéologie Orientale
Oriental Institute - Virtual Museum
The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
The Royal
Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project
The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia is an international research project founded in
1978. The project is based at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations of
the University of Toronto and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada and the University of Toronto.
Tell
Sabi Abyad (Syria)
Excavations in the burnt village. Since the spring of 1986 the site of Tell Sabi Abyad
('Mound of the White Boy') has been the focal point of a regional research project of
survey and excavation in the Balikh basin of northern Syria. The site measures over 4 ha
at its base and it rises about 10 metres above the surrounding plain. The tell is situated
within a hitherto archaeologically poorly understood region of Syria, close to the
Syro-Turkish border.
Scriptorium:
Center For Christian Antiquities
The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities is a non-sectarian research center
working in conjunction with The Van Kampen Foundation which serves as the repository for
The Van Kampen Collection of ancient artifacts, manuscripts, and rare printed materials.
The collection consists primarily of biblical texts in all representative forms and is
supplemented by secondary resources and the personal library of Eberhard Nestle, a leading
nineteenth-century German biblical scholar.
Second Temple
Synagogues
This site is devoted to the study of Second Temple Synagogues--that is, synagogues which
existed prior to the Temple's destruction in 70 CE.
State Archives of Assyria The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
The
Sumerian Text Archive
The Sumerian Text Archive offers a growing collection of transliterated Sumerian texts.
These texts have been transliterated using only characters from the ASCII alphabet so that
the text files can be used on every type of computer. As a result, however, the
transliterations deviate in a number of ways from what is common practice in Sumerology.
Tell
Tuneinir, Syria
Michael Fuller and Neathery Fuller, St. Louis Community College (SLCC) report on the
1987-1997 campaigns at Tell Tuneinir, Syria. Rescue excavations have been conducted in ten
different areas of the site. Research objectives include the definition of the city's
Islamic Period commercial structures, identification of features related to the church and
monastery used by a Syriac speaking congregation, and investigation of various pre-Islamic
strata.
UCSD Summer Session: Archaeological Field Schools in the Middle East
University of New England (Australia): Museum of Antiquities - South West Asia
University of Calgary, Current Research in the Near East
The Yale Babylonian Collection
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