Last updated: June 1, 2010
Last updated: June 1, 2010
General Resources for the
Ancient Near East
Imperial History of
the Middle East--90 second overview of the successions of powers in the Mid-East
for the last 4,000 to 5,000 years. Also shows how successive religions
developed.
ABZU. Now associated with Etana.
The best guide to the Ancient Near East prepared by the Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago. Links to authors, institutions, museums,
libraries. Regional indexes (Turkey, Egypt, Mesopotamia) What's
New Archive.
List of Entries organized in the
order in which they entered the database.
Abzu search engine.
ABZU:
Recent additions.
Ancient Mesopotamia: This
History, Our Hisotry. Developed by the University of Chicago in
collaboration with Chicago Public School teachers.
Ancient Near East and Classic Studies
Database and search engine. Bar Ilan University
Ancient
Near East--Exploring Ancient World Cultures. University of Evansville.
Ancient
Near East Myth and History Developed by Gary Greenberg, author of The
Moses Mystery: African Origins of the Jewish People.
Ancient Near East dot Com.
Near Eastern history, language, and culture
Ancient
Near East Net A wonderful portal, but in very early stages of
development. Good links to museums.
Ancient
Near Eastern Art Introduction Prepared by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient
Near Eastern Links of William C. Poe Good place to begin searching on
the web.
Ancient Near Eastern Religion
and Cultures. Course by James Watts of Syracuse University
Ancient Near Eastern Thought
and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew
Bible. By John Walton. Review by
Alan Lenzi in Review of Biblical Literature.
Ancient Texts for the Study of
the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature. By
Kenton L. Sparks. Review by Mark S. Smith
in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
Ancient World Online--Lists dozens of volumes now available from the Oriental
Institute, including the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.
Ancient
World--Selected by K. C. Hanson All sorts of good references; will
lead you on and on
Ancient World Web More than
one thousand sites broken down into convenient categories: Archaeology,
Art, Language and Literature, Mythology, Science, etc.
Ancient Writing
Systems in the Mediterranean Basin--Electronic resources
Argos Search of Ancient and Medieval
Internet Sites This is a search engine for ancient
history. Subject to peer review.
Art
and Architecture of the Ancient Near East.
Bibliography of Comparative
Semitic Linguistics. Compiled by Gregorio del Olmo Lete.
Center for
Mid Eastern Studies at the University of Texas
Civilizations in the Eastern
Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BCE Austrian Academy of
Science.
Cleopatra--a Multimedia Guide
to the Ancient World Developed by the Art Institute of Chicago
Comparative chart of documents
included in ANET and COS. (Context of Scripture)
Current Issues and the Study of
the Ancient Near East. By Gonzalo Rubio, Steven Garfinkle, Gary Beckman,
Daniel Snell. Edited by Mark Chavalas. Review by
Aren Maeir in Review of Biblical Literature.
Department
of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch
Diotima: Women and Gender in the
Ancient World. One of the best guides to the
role of women in antiquity.
Etana.
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Culture. Classic scholarship on
the ANE (135 scanned in sources). Links to archeological sites and searchable
secondary literature.
From
an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature. Edited
by Carl S. Ehrlich. Review by Aren Maeir in Review of Biblical Literature
History
of the Ancient Near East. Electronic Compendium.
Iconography of Deities
and Demons in the Ancient Near East. Emphasis on first millennium
Palestine/Israel
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook Very rich site from Fordham University; links to
many ANE countries.
Index to
Context of Scripture and Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old
Testament. By Kevin P. Edgecomb.
Internet Resources on Mesopotamia.
Washington State University
Jacobsen
remembers the 30s at the Oriental Institute and Excavating in Mesopotamia.
A nostalgic piece by Thorkild Jacobsen, one of my favorite professors.
Links2Go
Resources on the Ancient Near East The developers have scoured the
Internet to find the best sites.
Mnemotrix
Archaeo Search Database for Ancient Near East and Classical Studies
National Geographic Articles
on ANE, from 1903-2004
Near
East--Ancient Classical History Many links to all kinds of resources
about Israel's neighbors.
Near Eastern Archaeology.
Also Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology
Netherlands
Institute for the Near East NINO, in Leiden.
Okeanos
Website for classical, biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Links to
scholarly periodicals and excavations.
On Evaluating
Claims of Literary Borrowing. By Jeffrey H. Tigay. University of
Pennsylvania.
Oriental
Institute Electronic Publications
People
in the Ancient World
Perseus
Project This fantastic site deals mostly with ancient Greece and Rome. But there is info here relevant to the Ancient Near East as well.
Resources for Ancient Near Eastern
Studies Edited by Marco Bonechi. So far Third Millennium only
Rutgers
University--Virtual Religion Index A collection of general resources
and language tools for the student of the Ancient Near East. Sections on
Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Syria, Palestine.
Synchronization
of Civilizations in the Second Millennium BCE. Austrian Science Fund.
University
of Michigan Links to the Ancient Near East Wonderful resource!
Virtual
Religion Index--Ancient Near East--Rutgers University
Egypt 
Click on "Egypt" to go to
a list of web sites.
Hittites Last updated: October 23, 2009
All
about the Hittites
Boghazkoy-Hattusha Excavations.
Catalog of Hittite Texts
Chicago
Hittite Dictionary Project
Language used from ca 1650-1180 BCE
The Code of
the Nesilim--a law code of the Hittites 1650-1500 BCE.
History of the Hittites
Hittite Dictionary
from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Hittite
Home Page University of Alberta
Hittite Home Page
Resources for Hittite Studies from Emory University
Hittite
Hurrian Mythology Paragraphs on individual deities.
Hittite
Hurrian Mythology FAQ
Hittite King List.
Lists of kings and their probable dates.
Hittite
Literature in Translation. So far four texts.
Hittite
Portal--Mainz. Links to many sites, but references are in
German
Hittite Writing System--Signs
Hittites
A web site devoted to the history and culture of the Hittites. Edited by
Ellie Crystal
Hittites: A History of the
Hittites by Robert A. Guisepi
The Hittites and their World.
By Billie Jean Collins. Reviews by Willemijn
Waal and Dirk Paul Mielke in Review of Biblical Literature.
The Hittites by Robert A Guisepi
K. C. Hanson's
Chronology of Hittite Kings
Staatsverträge
der Hethiter. List of state treaties of the
Hittites (in German)
Treaty
between Mursilis and Duppi-Tessub of Amurru
Hurrians
Hurrian
Empire of Mitanni. 1500-1365
Hurrian
and Mitanni Kingdoms.
Nuzi
and the Hurrians From the Semitic Museum at Harvard
Urkesh. A
report on the discovery of this Hurrian city by Tiffany McElroy
Persia in Biblical Times
Achemenet. Sponsored by
Pierre Briant
Achaemenid Royal
Inscriptions from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Achaemenid
Web Site The Achaemenid Dynasty ruled Persia during the time they
ruled Israel as a colony, from 539 BCE to 332 BCE, the coming of Alexander the
Great. Many resources, but in French.
Aeschylus,
Persians.
Perseus website. Another
edition of The
Persians.
Ancient
Iran--Persepolis--Persia
Ancient
Ozbaki site. Neolithic to Iron Age on Iranian Central Plateau
Ancient Persia from
Earth's Ancient History
British
Institute of Persian Studies
Characterization
of Cyrus the Great in Greek Sources
Cyrus Cylinder and Ezra
1
Cyrus
the Great Website
From Cyrus to
Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. By Pierre Briant.
Review by Lester L. Grabbe in RBL 5/2003.
Internet
History Sourcebooks. Paul Hallsall of Fordham University
Iranian
Cultural Heritage Sponsored by Cultural Heritage Foundation in Iran
New
Trends in Achaemenid History
Noruz Lecture 2001. By Pierre Briant
Parthian empire The Parthians
defeated Alexander the Great's successors, the Seleucids, conquered most of the
Middle East and southwest Asia, and built Parthia into an Eastern superpower
(247 BCE to 228 CE).
The Euphrates was the boundary between the Roman and Parthian empires. Web
site of the month, July, 2001.
Persepolis: a virtual
reconstruction. Wonderful movies of the Apadama.
Persepolis
and Persepolis
and Persepolis
Persepolis
and Ancient Iran. Web site sponsored by the Oriental Institute
Persepolis
Exhibit. Detroit Institute of Art
Perseus Project--Resources for the
Classical World
Persia.
Links to royal persons and toponyms. Lots of pictures too.
Persia's Antique
Splendor--Exhibit at Bochum Germany
Royal
Inscriptions from Persepolis in Electronic Form.
Sculptures
and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia.
Sumer
Ancient Sumer. From
Earth's Ancient History
The
Birth of Kingship: From Democracy to Monarchy in Sumer. By Jacob
Klein
Chronology of Ancient Mesopotamian History
Duranki: The Myths of
Sumer
Early
Mesopotamia--Sumerian Art
Electronic
Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Oxford. 400 literary works
Enki
and Ninmah
Enki
and the World Order
Enki
builds the E-Engurra
Eridu
Genesis
Eridu
Genesis
Ereshkigal
Gudea
of Lagash. 2141-22 BCE.
How
Grain Came to Sumer. The Electronic Corpus of Ancient Sumer
Inana's Descent to the Nether World
Kings of Sumer and Akkad
Starts out with Egyptian King Lists, but if you page down there is a wonderful
section on Sumer and Akkad.
Myth of Etana
Pennsylvania Online Sumerian Dictionary.
Sumerian
History, culture, religion
Sumerian
Art. Maintained by Nick Cahill
Sumerian Grammar. By
Dietz Otto Edzard. Review by John Gee in
Review of Biblical Literature
Sumerian
Home Offers free monthly lexicon of cuneiform languages
Sumerian
Kinglist
Sumerian
Literary Compositions University of Alberta
Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary
Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language. By John Alan Halloran. Review by
John Engle in Review of Biblical
Literature.
Sumerian Mythology
FAQ. By Christopher Siren
Ziggurat of Un-Nammu.
Send additions/corrections to rklein@lstc.edu