Preface

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Content and goals

The aim of the present website is to provide the reader with a comprehensive, as far as possible, list of the bibliography or directly related to the Urkesh/Tell Mozan archaeological site or related topics in archaeology tout court.

As far as it is possible, each bibliograhical entry is correlated by a brief summary authored by different people who have come and gone over time.

The main and first aim of this website is to offer, as far as possible, a comprehensive bibliography about publications directly related to the Urkesh/Tell Mozan site and published by members of the “Urkesh/Tell Mozan Archaeological Project”, or to related topics, divided into two categories:

• “Urkesh specific”;
• “General interest”.

When it is possible (mostly because of copyright reasons), for each bibliograhical entry a link to a PDF version of the publication is given.

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References

At the beginning, the “e-Library” was a section og the “urkesh.org” website (Version 1).

From 2024, with the “urkesh.org” Version 2 the “e-Library” was structured as an independed website (the very present one).

In “Version 1” and “Version 1a” (a transitional step) the bibliographical entries were basically coded in HTML, with the addition of a “new format” (run by the DABI program written by Bernardo Forni) in “Version 1a”.

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History of the e-Library

The history of the “e-Library” (i.e., the Urkesh “electronic-Library”, often abbreviated “e-L”) is strongly rooted in time; it started thanks to the initiative of Giorgio Buccellati, who was responsible for this website from 2002 onwards.

Here it follows a list of the “historical steps” of the “e-Library”:

1. 2002-2010: Giorgio Buccellati began building up the website, adding the first bibliographical entries;
2. 2013-2017: the responsibility of the project passed to Laerke Recht, who contributed to several new bibliographical entries;
3. 2018-ongoing: Marco De Pietri took over the reponsibility for the updating of the whole “e-Library”.

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Ongoing projects

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