Last updated:  July 21, 2010

Mesopotamia map from website of John C. Sanders

Adapa and the Food of Life. Adapa's caution deprives him of immortality
Akitu:  The Babylonian New Year's Festival.
Akkadian--description of the various eras of the language
Akkadian Classic Texts.  Enuma elish, Gilgamesh and many more.
Akkadian Cuneiform
Akkadian Dictionary Online.
Akkadian Parser.  Can parse many Akkadian verbs.
Akkadian Sign List.
Alphabetic List of Rulers in Mesopotamia
American Academic Research Institute in Iraq
Ancient Near Eastern Art--Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Related to Marriage and Hieros Gamos.
Ancient Scripts:  writing systems, phonetics, historical linguistics, etc.
Ancient World Online--Lists dozens of volumes now available from the Oriental Institute, including the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.
ANE Fonts
Ancient Civilizations:  Assyria
Ancient Mesopotamia Links Related to Mesopotamia or Language
Ancient Tablets, Ancient Graves:  Accessing Women's Lives in Mesopotamia
Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean--a Critical Guide to Electronic Resources
Annals of the Kings of Assyria.  1902 publication!
Archaeological Site Photographs in Mesopotamia by John and Peggy Sanders
Assyria--outline of its history, links to maps and other web sites
Assyria--Wikipedia
Assyrian Empire.
Assyrian Identity in Ancient Times and Today.  By Simo Parpola
Assyrian King Lists
Assyrian Texts  Transliterations in a database.
Assyriology and Biblical Studies:  Time for Reassessment.  By Bill T. Arnold.  Bible and Interpretation website.
Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ  Everything you might want to know about gods and goddesses in ancient Mesopotamia

Babylon:  City of Nebuchadnezzar.  By Ferrell Jenkins
Babylon, hanging gardens of  One of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Babylon  A web site devoted to the history and culture of Babylonia.
Babylon's History from the Old Babylonian Period to the End.
Babylonia  By N. S. Gill.  Many sub directories dealing with Babylon as well
Babylonia.  Livius.  Links to much additional info.
Babylonia--History, Religion, Literature
The Babylonian Akitu Festival:  Rectifying the King or Renewing the Cosmos.  By Benjamin D. Sommer.  JANES 2000.
Babylonian and Other ANE Texts keyed to Britannica.  Page past the opening book ads and get to the real wealth.  Much info on Babylonian gods and goddesses.
Biography of King Sargon of Akkad
Budge and King, Annals of the Kings of Assyria 1902 translation



Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies
Casco Bay Assyriological Institute  Directed by Barbara Nevling Porter
Centuries of Darkness:  A Challenge to the Conventional Chronology of the ANE
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Concise Dictionary of Akkadian
Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship
Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi
The Creation of the Pickax.  Translation by Thorkild Jacobsen
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.  Cuneiform texts from Berlin and elsewhere.
Cuneiform writing  An introduction by the University of Pennsylvania
Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld
Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld.  Translated by E. A. Speiser.
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts.  University of California, Berkeley
Digital Hammurabi.  High resolution copies of cuneiform tablets.
Digital Ninveh Archives. Reports on University of California Expeditions to Nineveh.
Dumuzi's Wedding. Translation by Thorkild Jacobsen.
Early Ancient Near Eastern Law:  A History of Its Beginnings: The Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods. By Claus Wilcke.  Review by Michael S. Moore in Review of Biblical Literature.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature  400 literary works from Oxford University
Electronic Translations of Akkadian Cuneiform Texts (International Association for Assyriology)
Empire and Exploitation:  The Neo-Assyrian Empire.  By Peter Bedford.
Enlil and Ninlil.  Translation by Thorkild Jacobsen
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.
Excavations at Khorsabad.   1928-1935 by the University of Chicago.
Fact and Fiction in the Ancient Near East:  The Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, the Babylonian Chronicles, and the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.  By Jens Bruun Kofoed.
Gateways to Babylon  Collections of poems, info on religion, gods and goddesses
Gilgamesh Study Guide by Diane Thompson
Gilgamesh Summary by Richard Hooker
Gilgamesh Translation of the Eleven Tablets.
Governors,, diplomats and soldiers in the service of Sargon II, king of Assyria
Intellectual Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia in East and West.  A searchable database.
Internet History Sourcebooks.  Paul Hallsall of Fordham University
Isin Larsa and Old Babylonian Periods  Sometimes this site takes a long time to load, but it is well worth the wait.  The top of the site deals with the Twelfth dynasty in Egypt.  Page down to find Isin Larsa and the Old Babylonian period.
K. C. Hanson's Ancient World on the Web--relating to the Ancient Mediterranean World
K. C. Hanson's Collection of Mesopotamian Documents
K. C. Hanson's Mesopotamian Photo Gallery
Links related to Mesopotamia or Language  Much of value here, but randomly assembled
List of Rulers of Mesopotamia.

The Melammu Project:  The Intellectual Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia
Mesopotamia and the Bible.  Edited by Mark W. Chavalas and K. Lawson Younger, Jr.  Review from Review of Biblical Literature.
Mesopotamia:  Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Mesopotamian Chronicles.  By Jean-Jacques Glassner.  Review by R. J. van der Spek in Review of Biblical Literature
Mesopotamian Mytholody:  deities of Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumer.  185 articles!
Mesopotamian Timeline
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
A New Look at the Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III.  By Galil Gershom.  Bib 81 (2000):511-520.

Painting of Nineveh by James Ferguson in 1853.  Click for larger view.

Nippur, city of  Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago expedition
Nippur:  Sacred City of Enlil.  By Mcguire Gibson.
Northwest Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud.
Old Babylonian Online Dictionary.
Oracc Global Sign List
Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible.  Edited by Steven Holloway.  Review by Christopher Hays in Review of Biblical Literature
Oxford University Site. The threat to world heritage in Iraq
The Raging Torrent: Historical Inscriptions from Assyria and Babylonia Relating to Ancient Israel. By Mordechai Cogan. Review by Aren Maeir in Review of Biblical Literature.
Reading Babylon.  By Marc Van de Mieroop.  AJA 107 (2003):257-275.
Religion of Babylonia and Assyria.  By Theophilus G. Pinches.  Lecturer at University College, London
Religions of the Ancient World:  A Guide.  Ed. by Sarah Iles Johnston.  Review by Bill T. Arnold in Review of Biblical Literature
Sam Ruff's Tour of Iraq's Archaeology and Culture
Sennacherib's Palace without equal. By John Malcolm Russell.
State Archives of Assyria Online
Survey of Mesopotamian History and the Akkadian Language  J. Heise.
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur  A traveling exhibition organized by the University of Pennsylvania.
The Triumph of the Symbol: Pictorial Representations of Deities in Mesopotamia and the Biblical Image Ban. By Tallay Ornan. Review by Bernard F. Batto in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

Web Site Links to Mesopotamia or Language  A list of web sites dealing with Mesopotamia and linguistics.  Much of value here, but it is randomly assembled.
Who Were the Babylonians?  By Bill T. Arnold.  Reviewed by Joseph Cathey in Review of Biblical Literature
The Worm and the Toothache.  Translation by Ephraim A. Speiser.
Yale Babylonian Collection
Ziqqurat--Wikipedia
Ziggurats, The.

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