Web resources
General
ABZU The ultimate guide
to the Ancient Near East on the Internet.
Aerial
Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East An
Australian project archive of aerial photographs of sites in the
Near East, particularly the 1953 Hunting Aerial Survey of
Jordan.
Akkadica Lists Ancient Near Eastern
collections in museums and other institutions across the world;
outlines Assyriological courses in Belgium; provides an author
index for the journal Akkadica.
Ancient Near East.Com An
excellent resource which includes a valuable guide to internet
resources - "The Brum Index".
Art History Resources on
the Web Comprehensive resource listings by Christopher L. C. E.
Witcombe.
Archaeological Resource Guide for
Europe
Association for the Study of Travel in
Egypt and the Near East
BANEA The British
Association for Near Eastern Archaeology
The British Society for Middle
Eastern Studies
Center for
Archaeology of the Middle East Landscape (CAMEL)
Tony Wilkinson uses his extensive fieldwork experience from the
Near East to demonstrate changing patterns of landscape use in
antiquity. Case studies are drawn from Iraq, Syria, Turkey and
Yemen.
The Detroit Institute of Arts Ancient Art
Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut
Electronic Cultural
Atlas Initiative ECAI is a collaborative project which combines
global mapping, imagery, and texts. ECAI provides scholars and
other users with a research resource based on digital technology
which presents complex combinations of data from multiple
disciplines visually and immediately.
The Fitzwilliam
Museum
The Institute of
Archaeology University College, London.
Livius A
non-commercial website on ancient history maintained by Jona
Lendering.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The
Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art
The Miho
Museum, Japan Collections include the Canford Assyrian
Relief.
The National Art
Collections Fund
Near
Eastern and Asian Civilizations Department (NEAC) Royal Ontario
Museum.
The Online Medieval and
Classical Library A collection of some of the most important
literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
The West Semitic
Research Project
source of images of the Dead Sea scrolls
and Biblical manuscripts
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Anatolia
The British
Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
A detailed website about the famous neolithic
site of Çatalhöyük
The Chicago
Hittite Dictionary Project
The Fall of Troy on
the Online Medieval and Classical Library. A 4th century AD
classical text.
Fall
of Troy an illustrated path by Mark Morford and Daniel Holmes
of the University of Virginia.
Gordion Excavation Project
Current research at the Phrygian city of king Midas, with extensive
bibliography.
Hethitologie
Portal Mainz German site for Hittite studies with concordance
of Hittite texts from excavations at the Hittite capital of
Hattusha.
The Kerkenes Project
Project homepage for archaeological investigations at the important
Iron Age site of Kerkenes Dag in central Turkey which has been
identified as the Median city of Pteria.
The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener
Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology at Cornell
University Latest results of tree-ring dating of archaeological
sites from the Mediterranean and Turkey.
Projekt Troia Details in
English or German the results of the latest archaeological
investigations by the Universities of Tubingen and Cincinnati.
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Arabia
http://www.arabianseminar.org.uk/
The Seminar for Arabian Studies
organises an annual conference in Britain
http://www.adias-uae.com/
Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/
Indexes and on-line copies of the Saudi-based "Aramco World
Magazine"
http://exploresaudiarabia.com/
Aimed at British schoolchildren and intended to educate about Saudi
Arabia
http://www.dur.ac.uk/red.sea%20
Al Ain
Museum including recent discoveries in the UAE.
American
Institute for Yemeni Studies based in Sana'a, has an active
research programme, gives advice on permits and publishes collected
works as well as Yemen Update.
The British
Archaeological Expedition to Kuwait
The
British-Yemeni Society publishes an annual journal and
organises regular lectures and other events in England.
Corpus
of South Arabian Inscriptions A project directed by Professor
Avanzini to make available in digital form all ancient
South-Arabian inscriptions.
Italian
Mission to Oman A University of Pisa project. Excavation and
Restoration of Khor Rori in the Dhofar Governorate.
The
National Museum of Ras al-Khaimah Including Kush excavation
details revealing the first sequence of Sasanian and Islamic
remains in south-east Arabia
Makeda, Queen of
Sheba Popular literature on the Queen of Sheba.
Project Sheba
Reviews literature about the Queen of Sheba.
Society for Arabian
Studies
Yemen
Update is published by The American Institute of Yemeni Studies
and is an essential guide to research in Yemen.
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Iran
Achemenet.com
The
Ancient India & Iran Trust organises lectures and other
events, and maintains a library in Cambridge.
The Ancient
Persia Fund was established in memory of the Russian scholar
Vladimir G. Lukonin and offers grants and organises lectures on
ancient Iran.
Ancient routes in southern Iran
The British Institute of
Persian Studies based at the School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS) in the University of London, publishes a newsletter
and organises lectures on the pre-Islamic art and archaeology of
this region.
Circle of Inner Asian Art
based at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the
University of London, publishes a newsletter and organises lectures
on the pre-Islamic art and archaeology of this region.
The Detroit Institute of Arts -
Persepolis/Ancient Iran
The
Encyclopaedia Iranica is a large project based at Columbia
University.
The Gans collection of Sasanian seals in the
University of California
at Berkeley
Grifterrec.com
featuring Information and illustrations of Sasanian coins.
The Hermitage Museum - Sassanian
Iran
Iranian
Cultural Heritage Centre News, and details of projects, museums
and events relating to the history, archaeology and architecture of
Iran.
The
Iran Heritage Foundation
Parthia.Com General information on
the Parthians, including excavations at their early capital at
Nysa.
A Rough guide
to Kushan History Gateway to more information on the Kushans,
supported by the Keele Wargames Club.
Sasanian Seals from the
Collection of the Late Edward Gans at the University of California,
Berkley.
Tal-i Malyan -
Archaeological excavations at the site of Tal-i Malyan, the ancient
Elamite city of Anshan.
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Levant
The 'Ain Ghazal Statue Project British Museum-funded project to
restore neolithic statues found at 'Ain Ghazal in Jordan.
The Palestine
Exploration Fund
Sidon Excavation A British
Museum supported excavation.
Tell Nimrin Excavations at
the multi-period Jordan valley site in Jordan.
http://www.sabi-abyad.nl/
One of the most important late neolithic sites in Syria.
http://www.slsa.ch/Projekte/QasrAl-HayrAl-SharqiD.htmExcavations
of a major Umayyad "desert castle" complex in Syria
Mesopotamia
Assyrian Treasures from the city
of Kalhu (Nimrud)
BBCi
Ancient History Mesopotamia Written by Dr Dominique Collon,
Department of the Ancient Near East, The British Museum.
British School of
Archaeology in Iraq
The Cuneiform Database
Project
The Cuneiform Digital
Library Initiative
http://www.dur.ac.uk/derek.kennet/samarra.htm
The Early Islamic capital at Samarra
The Electronic Text Corpus of
Sumerian Literature is based at the University of Oxford. Its
aim is to make accessible over 400 literary works composed in the
Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and
early second millennia BC.
Mesopotamia - British
Museum educational website designed to support the Key Stage 2
curriculum.
The
threat to world heritage in Iraq
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