WWW-VL: HISTORY: ANCIENT NEAR EAST

• Research Centers
• American Schools of Oriental Research , Boston University
• Ancient and Medieval Middle East, Department of Middle East Studies, Columbia University, New York
• Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden University
• The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
• Newton Institute Egyptology Homepage, University of Cambridge
• Egyptology Resources, from Cambridge University
• Excavations
• General
• ABZU: Ancient Near East
• Near East Archaeological Sites, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
• Ancient Near East , University of Evansville, IL
• Ancient Near East Art
• Mesopotamian Art , Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College, Virginia
• Associations and Societies
  • American Oriental Society, founded 1842
  • Egyptology Resources Index of Asssociations and Societies
  • International Association of Papyrologists [Association Internationale de Papyrologues]
    • International Association of Papyrologists List of Members
  • Middle East Studies Association (MESA), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
• Libraries and Electronic Sources
• Catalogue: Research Archives, Oriental Institute
• Near East Division, University of Michigan Library
• Museums, Ancient Near East Collections
  • WWW-VL: History: Museums ==>
  • ABZU Guide to Museums and Collections on the Internet
  • Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin [Egyptian Museum, in English]
  • The Oriental Institute
  • Louvre, Paris [English version]
  • British Museum, London
  • Egyptian Museum in Cairo
  • Iraq Museum International Baghdad
  • Nubia Exhibits at the Oriental Institute Museum, U. Chicago
  • Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
  • Vatican Museum: Ancient Near East Collection, Rome, Italy
  • Wellcome Museum, Museum of Egyptian Antiquities University of Wales Swansea Egypt Centre
• Mesopotamia
• Mesopotamia, Ancient (Oriental Institute, Univ. of Chicago)
• Sumer
• Sumerian History
• City of Ur
• Uruk
• Lagash
• Larsa
• City of Babylon
• History of Babylonia
• City of Mari
• Kanesh
• Chronology of Mesopotamia
• Middle and Neo-Assyrian Period
• Iran
• The Persians
• Egypt
• Prehistory
• Archaic Period
• Old Kingdom
• First Intermediate Period
• Middle Kingdom
• Second Intermediate Period
• New Kingdom
• Third Intermediate Period
• Late Period
• Ptolemaic and Roman Period
• WSU Compilation on Ancient Egypt
• Palestine
• Ancient Near East and Palestine
• Archaeology in Israel
• Ancient Synagogues in the Holy Land - What Synagogues?
• Abila of the Decapolis [Jordan]
• Ancient Shikhin and Sepphoris, Israel
• Yodefat, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Biblical Archaeology
• Biblical Archaeology
• Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit
• The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship
• Turkey
• Northeastern Turkey Archaeological Project
• Excavations at Ciftlik (Sinop): Turkey
• Objects from Karanis (Kelsey Museum)
• History of Cappadocia
• Ancient Anatolia
• Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Period
• Kanesh
• The Hittites
• Hittites
• Hittite and Hurrian Mythology
• Catal Hüyük
• Language and Writing
  • Ancient Fonts from Reinhold Kainhofer
  • Akkadian language: Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform text, Utrecht University
  • Aramaic
  • Sumerian
  • Sumerian
  • Ugaritic
  • Old Persian
  • Egyptian
  • Coptic
  • Coptic fonts for Windows, University of Oregon [ftp download]
  • Proto-Sinaitic
  • Ugaritic
  • Phoenician
  • Aramaic
  • Hebrew