Web Links for Ancient Near Eastern Studies

I. EGYPTOLOGY LINKS

THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet
Abzu Regional Index: Egypt
Oriental Institute Research Archives On-Line Catalogue
On-line catalogue of one of the most complete research libraries on the ancient Near East.

Home Page
Directory
FTP File Server (Dir /pub)
ANE Electronic Discussion List (and Archives)
ANE Discussion List for the Study of the Ancient Near East
Map Series
Egypt and Nubia: Thumbnail Images
All the available on-line photos and images of Egypt the Near East at The Oriental Institute.


REFERENCE MATERIALS

EGYPT WEB RINGS

Ancient Nile Webring
Egypt's Web Ring Members

ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION LISTS ON ANCIENT EGYPT

Ancient Mediterranean E-Mail List Archives
Meroitic Mailing List Rules & Subscription Info
Ancient Egyptian Language Email List
Egyptologist's Electronic Forum
EEF NEWS
EEF ARCHIVES: Sources for the Study of Egyptology


Annual Egyptological Bibliography
Aegyptisches Woerterbuch
Wörterbuch Digitized Slip Archive
Archaeological Resources: Egypt & Near East
Beinlich Word List (Egyptian/German)
CCER List of Egyptologists: America
CLINE Database
Coffin Texts Word Index
Deir el-Medina Database
Diotima's Course Material
Diotima's ANE Bibliography
Directory of North American Egyptologists
Egypt: Fieldwork Directory
Egyptological Abbreviations
Email addresses of Egyptologists
Informationsblatt of German Egyptology
Manuel de codage
Museum Studies Home Page
O.I. Research Archives Catalogue
O.I.Research Archives: RABooks list
Prosopographia Aegypti: Database of Ancient Egyptian Names
Tutankhamun Excavation Database
Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp)
Which (Luxor) Tombs & Temples are open?

EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS

A. E. R. A.: Giza Plateau Project
American Schools of Oriental Research
ARCE Homepage
ARCE/North California
ARCE/North Texas
Brown University Egyptology Dept.
Cambridge University Faculty Oriental Studies
CCER home page Prague
Czech Institute of Egyptology,
Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut - Abteilung Kairo
Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut
Egypt Exploration Society (main)
Egyptian Center for Documentation
Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)
Egyptology in Poland (in Polish)
Griffith Institute
Humboldt University, Berlin d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO)
International Association of Egyptologists
Johns Hopkins University (Egyptology program)
Manchester Museum: Egyptology
MÜNCHEN LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT
LEHRSTUHL FÜR ALTES TESTAMENT, INSTITUT FÜR BIBLISCHE EXEGESE
Netherlands Institute for the Near East - NINO
Papyrus Collections World Wide, Leuven
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PAPYRUS HOME PAGE
Service Informatique de Recherche Archéologique
Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (SSEA)
SSEA Egyptological Links
Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt
University of California Berkeley
University of California Los Angeles
University of Freiburg Biblical Institute
University of Göttingen: Egyptology and Coptology
University of Hamburg: Arbeitsbereich Ägyptologie
Universität Hamburg: Ägyptologie
Institut Français
University of Leiden: Egyptology
University of Leipzig Aegyptologisches Institut
University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität): Egyptology
University of Memphis, TN: Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
University of Muenster Institut fuer Aegyptologie
University of Pennsylvania Egyptian Section
University of Trier: Egyptology
Waseda University: Egyptian Culture Center,
Yale University

EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIBRARY ON-LINE CATALOGS

O.I. Research Archives Catalogue
University of Chicago Library Catalog
Search The University of Chicago Library Catalog
Ashmolean/Oxford Libraries Catalog
Heidelberg: Egyptology Library Catalogue
U. S. Library of Congress
New York Public Library Catalog
NY Public Library Oriental Division
Master List of Finding Aids in Manuscript and like Collections in the Princeton University Library
Waseda University: Bibliography of Architectural History
Wilbour Library of Egyptology
Wilbour Library:Recent Acquisitions

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS & BOOKS

Abstracts: "Egypt & Nubia: Gifts of the Desert"
abstracts of the desert colloquium, British Museum, 23-24 July 1998
M. Bernal, Review of Not out of Africa, by M. Lefkowitz
Blyth, "Ballistic Properties in Ancient Egyptian Arrows"
Callender, "Role of the Pharaoh in the New Kingdom"
Foster et al., "Evaluation of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy"
A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar: Answer Key
J. E. Hoch, Middle Egyptian Grammar: Answer Key
M. Lefkowitz, "Response to Review of Not out of Africa, by M. Bernal
Library of Congress, Area Handbook: Egypt
Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek Lexicon
D. Lorton, "Autofellatio and Ontology"
D. Lorton, "Hatshepsut, the Queen of Sheba, and Immanuel Velikovsky"
D. Lorton, "Reading the Story of Sinuhe"
D. Lorton, "Technical Terms in Ancient Egyptian"
Sturt Manning, A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the ...
P. Piccione, "Black Athena" Report
R. Ritner, "Practical Egyptian Magical Spells"
D. Rohl, "Reply to Kitchen"
D. Rohl, "Response to Yurco"
M. Roth, "Building Bridges to Afrocentrism"
Sellars, "The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt"
B. Williams, Archaeology and Historical Problems of the Second Intermediate Period

Fordham University Ancient History Sourcebook
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Egypt
John Regenstein Library Electronic Open Stacks (EOS)
Full web publication of older Egyptological books

EOS Index
JRL Electronic Open Stacks
Allen, T. G. Egyptian Stelae in Field Museum
Champollion le Jeune. Grammaire Egyptienne
Jondet, G. Les Ports Submerges de L'ancienne Ile de Pharos
Lefebvre, G. Tombeau de Petoisiris. 1iere Partie
Lefebvre, G. Tombeau de Petoisiris. 2eme Partie
Lefebvre, G. Tombeau de Petoisiris. 3eme Partie
Montet, P. Scènes de la Vie Privée
Petrie, W. Fl. Naukratis
Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Illahun, Kahun and Gurob. 1889-90
Petrie, W. Fl. Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara
Sellers, The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt
Sethe, K. Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte 1
Sethe, K. Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte 2
Smith, G. E. Royal Mummies

JOURNALS & SERIALS

ABZU JOURNAL INDEX
American Journal of Archaeology
Antiquity
Archaeology Magazine
Bulletin of the American Schols of oriental Research (Near Eastern Archaeology)
Biblical Archaeologist
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale Catalogue and Index (with Abstracts)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review
Egypt Revealed
Journal: Orient Express
KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt
KMT Readers' Forum: KV55!
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
National Geographic: Egypt Index
National Geographic Magazine, "At the Tomb of Tutankhamen"
Interactive version of tomb excavation reports from National Geographic Magazine (1923)
Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (OBO)
Studien zur Altaegyptischen Kultur

BIBLIOGRAPHIES & BOOKLISTS

Annual Egyptological Bibliography home page
African History Sources: Egypt
AIGYPTOS - Bibliographical Databank
el-Amarna Bibliography
Levant Bibliography (Brandeis)
Deir el-Bahari Bibliography
Deir el-Medîna Bibliography
EEF: Ancient Egypt Bibliographies on the Net
Internet Archaeology Home Page
Leuven database of ancient books
O.I.: Recommended Readings
Recherche im Fachkatalog Ägyptologie
Theban Mapping Project: Bibliography
Wilbour Library:Recent Acquisitions
Women in Egypt: Bibliography
Women in the ANE (O.I. Bibliography)

Near East & Egypt (+Sales)

Ägyptisches Altertum Buchliste
Egyptology
Near East
Babylonians
Hittites
Sumerians
Assyrians
Persians

Near Eastern Archaeology Bibliography
Archaeology on the Net: NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY.
More information available at:
http://www.serve.com/archaeology/books/index.html
Bibliography: Ancient Anatolia

PUBLISHERS' CATALOGS

Assn. of American University Presses Online Catalog
Dissertation Abstracts Online: Search
Griffith Institute Publications.
Leila Books (Cairo)
UMI: Ordering dissertations and theses
UMI Dissertation Express
Univ. of Chicago Press Online--Books

EGYPTOLOGICAL PROJECT PAGES

Theban Tombs Publication Project
Theban Tombs Publication Project (new address)
Van Eynde: Thebes Photographic Project
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN THE EASTERN DESERT OF EGYPT
EPIGRAPHIC SURVEY
GIZA PLATEAU MAPPING PROJECT
GIZA PLATEAU MODEL 1
GIZA PLATEAU MODEL 2
GPMP: Radiocarbon Project
LUXOR-FARSHÛT DESERT ROAD PROJECT
BIR UMM FAWAKHIR SURVEY
NUBIA SALVAGE PROJECT
Ancient Egyptian Quarries
Cambridge Amarna Project
Champollion Project (download)
DNA Extracted from Mummy in San Jose
Giza Archives Project
Giza On Line: Egyptology Clearinghouse
Institute of Nautical Archaeology - Egypt
Manchester Museum Kahun Project
Milan: Tomb of Harwa Project (TT37)
Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus
The Mummy Tissue Bank
Oxyrhynchus Papyri Main Menu
Papyrus Westcar Home Page
Quseir Al-Qadim Project, Egypt
Theban Mapping Project
Tokai-Waseda Expedition to Dahshur
Topographical Bibliography.
University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition
KV 5 Index of Images

INDIVIDUAL EGYPTOLOGISTS' HOME PAGES

Eric Cline Page
Franck Goddio - Homepage
Joseph Manning Page
Manuelian Design: Egyptological & Academic Publishing Services
Peter A. Piccione Home Page
Zahi Hawass Home Page
Donald Ryan Home Page
David Lorton Home Page
David Rohl Homepage
Stuart Tyson Smith Home Page

EGYPTOLOGICAL MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS

Berlin Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Ancient Egypt
British Museum, London
World Wide Arts Resources - The Definitive Arts and Culture Information Gateway
Bologna Archaeological Museum
Michael C. Carlos Museum (Emory University): Egyptian Art
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Life in Ancient Egypt
Cleveland Museum of Art Pharaoh Exhibition
Cairo Coptic Museum - Culturenet
Detroit Institute of Art: Ancient Art (General)
Detroit Institute of Art: Mesopotamian Art
Detroit Institute of Art: Persepolis/Ancient Iran
Detroit Institute of Art: Egyptian Art
The Egyptian Museum, Cairo (official)
Virtual Egyptian Museum (Museum Tours)
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Florida International Museum: Splendors of Ancient Egypt
Harvard Semitic Museum
Harvard Semitic Museum: Sphinx and the Pyramds
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Houston Museum of Art: Splendors of Ancient Egypt
Louvre Museum: Egyptian Collection
Louvre : Egyptian Antiquities Department
Louvre: Indexs of Images (all!)
Manchester Museum: Egyptology Daily Life Gallery
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MMA Giftshop
MMA, The Art of Ancient Egypt
Musei Archeologici
Musei Vaticani
Museo Egizio Torino
MuseumShop.com Home
Frank H. McClung Museum
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
Royal Ontario Museum Home Page
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Swansea Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Tulane University: Egypt Photos
Univ. of Glasgow Hunterian Museum: Egyptian Exhibit
Univ. of Leipzig Aegyptisches Museum
Univ. of Michigan Papyrus Collection
UofMN Museum: Ancient Egyptian Culture
Univ. of Pennsylvania University Museum
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Wellcome Museum, University of Wales
Zagreb Arch. Museum Egyptian Collection

EGYPTOLOGICAL NEWS AND TOPICAL PAGES

News

InSCIght - 13 February 1999: Ancient Egyptians Make Up Chemistry
National Geographic News (daily)

Topical Pages

FAQ: How to Become an Egyptologist
So you want to become an Egyptologist?
Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - the most comprehensive site on ancient Egyptian mythology on the web
Ti-Ameny-Net Mummy (U. Richmond, Va.)
Ancient Egypt -- by Joanne O'Brien, ICOREC
A Short Introduction to Hieroglyphs
Ancient Egypt : the Mythology
Ancient Egypt and World Prehistory
Ancient Egypt Discovery Case
Ancient Egypt Medicine
Ancient Egypt Site
Ancient Egyptian Culture
Basic Lessons in Hieratic - Index
Decline of Library of Alexandria
Djoser Complex
Egypt: 1st Intermediate Period
Egypt - Guardian's Egypt - Main Gate
Egypt Revealed - History, Archaeology and Travel
Egyptian Female Art: Sweet Briar college
Egyptian Royal Genealogy
Hugh Lester: Index of Egypt Images
Middle Bronze Age: Egypt & Canaan
Narmer Serekh Sign
The Nile's Other Kingdom
People of The Amarna Period
Ptolemaic Dynasty
Ramses II: The Battle of Kadesh
Restoring Egyptian Art by Computer (CCER)
Senet - A game of Ancient Egypt
Skinner-Simpson, Egyptian Stuff
Traditions of Magic
Trismegistus: Akhnaton, Moses & Oedipus
Valley of Kings Virtual Tour
Carlo Vidua and the Travellers of 1800 in Egypt


EGYPTOLOGICAL WEB RESOURCES

Abzu Regional Index: Egypt
ARGOS Ancient and Medieval Internet Search
University of Evansville .
L'Egitto dei Faraoni - Links
Egypt WWW Index (Univ. of San Francisco)
Egyptology: German Speaking (Web sites)
Egyptology Resources (Cambridge)
ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
Fordham University Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Egypt
Internet Information Resources on Ancient Egypt
Okeanos: Web Resources
Scattered Remains on the Web, papyrus, papyri, Egypt, Demotic, Greek, Roman, Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, Hellenistic, Ptolemaic and post-Pharaonic Egypt, and Egyptian language material, scans of papyri


MODERN EGYPT

Al-Ahram Weekly
American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt (AMCHAM)
Americans in the Egyptian Army
ArabNet
ArabNet -- Egypt, Contents
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Egy.com (Cairo)
Egypt Ministry of Tourism: TOUR EGYPT
Egypt State Information Service
Egypt State Information Service: Images of Egypt
Egypt State Information Service: The New Valley (Western Oases)
Egypt Today Magazine
The Egyptian Gazette Online Edition
Luxor Magazine Online
Al Mashriq - Egypt
Middle East on-Line
Nubia SIS Page


II. Near Eastern Studies Links

Archaeology from Space

Archaeology from Space
SIR-C/X-SAR Image Dakhla Oasis, Egypt
SIR-C/X-SAR image Ubar Optical/Radar
SIR-C/X-SAR image Safsaf Oasis, Egypt
SIR-C/X-SAR Image Safsaf Oasis, Egypt
SIR-C/X-SAR image Lost City of Ubar
SIR-C/X-SAR image Wadi Kufra, libya
SIR-C/X-SAR image Jerusalem and the Dead Sea

Bibliographies and Booklists

Books on AE
TELA: Scholars Press WWW Site
ASOR Publications
Bibliography: Old Testament & Near East (Fox U.)
Univ. of Chicago Library: Ancient Near East
Univ. of Chicago Middle East Photo Archive
Univ. of Chicago Middle East Photo Archive: Contents

Course Pages

Classics & Near East Course Database
History of Art 522
Kristin Koptiuch's Homepage
Mesopotamian Mathematics
OSU Hist 500 Syllabus (ANE)
Syllabus Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

News and Topical Pages

Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
The Complete Petra
History of Cuneiform
Hittite Home Page
Latest Scoop in Biblical Archaeology: ABR
Material Culture of Near East (Boston University)
Mesopotamia in the Era of State Formation

Mesopotamian Mathematics (Melville)

Mesopotamian Mathematics
Bibliography of Mesopotamian Mathematics
Cuneiform Numbers
Old Babylonian Mathematics
Old Babylonian
A brief summary of Old Babylonian mathematics. This is the period for which we have the most evidence. Old Babylonian mathematics showed high development of problem solving, typically characterized as algebraic.
Old Babylonian Metrology
babylonian weights and measures.
Old Babylonian Multiplication Tables
Quadratic Equations
Mesopotamian procedures for solving rectangular problems involving square roots
The Technique
Procedure for finding the reciprocals of regular numbers

Nuzi and the Hurrians
Sumerian Mythology FAQ
Wine, Origins and History of (University of Pennsylvania)
Write Like a Babylonian

Organizations

American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
Assyrian Academic Society Home Page
Cyprus American Arch. Research Institute
Istituto per la civilta' Fenicia e Punica
Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
UC Berkeley, Dept. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Project Pages

Çatalhöyük Excavations
Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Ashkelon Excavation Information
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: Home Page
Aegean Dendrochronology Project
The Jazira Project (Oriental Institute)
The Diyala Project (Oriental Institute)
The Nippur Expedition (Oriental Institute)

Publications

Journals

Biblical Archaeologist
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Selected Electronic Journals

Monographs and Essays

"Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia" (Anon.)
Unsigned essay. Indiana University
"The New Crusade" (James H. Breasted)
American Historical Association Presidential Address, Indianapolis, 1928
A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh (Austen H. Layard)
New York: J. C. Derby, 1854.
"Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and The Epic of Gilgamesh" (A. A. Brown)
Erudite essay on the Epic of Gilgamesh
Anthropology Biography on the Web
Minnesota State University, Mankato. Biographies of famous anthropologists and archaeologists, geomorphologists, and philologists, including Egyptologists and Assyriologists.

Reference Materials

Anthropology Biography on the Web
Minnesota State University, Mankato. Biographies of famous anthropologists and archaeologists, geomorphologists, and philologists, including Egyptologists and Assyriologists.

Research Organizations

American Oriental Society

Sources, Texts, and Readings

Akkadian language (cuneiform texts)
Amazing Ancient World - Premier Ancient Civilization Internet Book ACT I
Ancient & Medieval Studies Reading Room Electronic Journal
Avalon Project : Code of Hammurabi
Canaanites in the Bible: Readings
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Oxford University compendium of over 400 literary works in the Sumerian language of ancient Mesopotamia, late 3rd - early 2nd
millennia B.C.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Fordham University Ancient History Sourcebook

Fordham University: Ancient History Sourcebook
Ancient History Sourcebook: The Ancient Near East and Egypt
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Persia
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Hellenistic World
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Human Origins


"Hammurabi's Code of Laws"
Hammurabi's Code of Laws, translated by L. W. King
Proto-cuneiform Cuneiform Texts Database
Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia
Sumerian Dictionary Project (UPenn)
Sumerian Lexical Archive (O.I.)


Web Resources and Directories

Abzu Regional Index: Mesopotamia
Index of Resources for the Study of Ancient Mesopotamia, Including the Territory under the Control of the Modern State of Iraq and Parts of Iran, Syria, and Turkey
ARGOS Ancient and Medieval Internet Search
University of Evansville .
Ancient & Medieval Studies Reading Room Electronic Journal
Ancient Near East.com
The Ancient World Web: Main Index
The Ancient World Web:Geography Index:Mid and Near East
AncientNearEast.Net Home
Exploring and Resourcing the Ancient Near East
Archaeological Resources: Egypt & Near East
Archaeology on the Net
ArchNet: Regions / Near East
Columbia U. ANE & Medieval Links
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: The Ancient Near East
University of Evansville. An Introduction to Ancient World Cultures on the World Wide Web
FORVM ANTIQVVM: Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
Eric J. Kondratieff presents a collection of Web sites relating to Near Eastern, Mesopotamian and Biblical studies. Categories include journals, bibliographies, archaeological field projects, and more.
Land of Sumer and Akkad - Mesopotamian Archaeology
Network of an Inter-University Attraction Pole on the History and Environment of the Mesopotamian Plain, Brussels, Belgium. An Inter-University Attraction Pole Project of the Belgian Government
Links to Ancient Near Eastern Web Sites
U. Michigan Near Eastern Links
Mnemotrix ArchaeoSearch - DataBase of Ancient Near East and Classical Studies
Multidisciplinary Directories for Scholars
Okeanos: Web Resources
Website for Biblical, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
WWW Bible Gateway


III. Selected Archaeological/Classical Links

Ancient & Medieval Studies Reading Room Electronic Journal
The Ancient World Web: Main Index
Archaeology on the Net
Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities
Archaeological Remote Sensing Consortium
Archaeology Info Page
Association of Ancient Historians - Welcome
The Atrium: For Students and Fans of Ancient Greece and Rome
Classics Course Database
Comprehensive List of Archaeological Links
Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World
Diotima (Essay Links)
Images of Women in Ancient Art
MIT: Internet Classics Archive
Commentarium: Ancient World in Popular Press
Ring of Classics
Stoa | Welcome to the Suda On Line (SOL)