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1: G. Buccellati, March 2004
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One will find here a list of websites, sorted topically, with a brief evaluation. Since the world wide web scene is changing rapidly and constantly, we can certainly not claim that we maintain a thorough and exhaustive coverage of the field. Nor can we provide thoughtful rankings according to established and objective categories, though the section on Evaluation provides some guidelines in this direction and some of our choices for certain categories. We are grateful to Rick Hauser for calling our attention to some of the links listed here Back to top |
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A guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet. This is the premier list for the Ancient Near East as a whole, but so complete that it may be difficult for a beginner to select relevant items. It is now housed within the Etana project. Back to top |
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An elegant site, devoted to “exploring and resourcing the Ancient Near East”, with some useful categories not found on other sites, such as events, academic centers, exhibitions. Back to top |
| Hittite Home Page |
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A guide to Hittite civilization – later than Urkesh and further to the north, but very important for the transmission of Hurrian culture. Back to top |
| Internet Ancient History Sourcebook |
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A comprehensive bibliography by Paul Halsall, Department of History, Fordham. Back to top |
| Okeanos. Ancient Near Eastern Studies |
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A directory that includes a variety of resources including practical information about books, jobs, etc., maintained by Scott B. Noegel of the University of Oregon. Back to top |
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A French outfit that organizes trips and conferences, and posts online (in French, under the entry “Biliothèque”) the text of high quality, thoughtful papers delivered by some of the most prominent French scholars, on a variety of topics including archaeology and the ancient Near East.
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A bird's eye view of basic sites and events in the ancient Near East.
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Fifty masterpieces of ancient Near Eastern art from the collections of the Museum, with a brief general introduction, a useful timeline and beautiful images and descriptive notes for each item.
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A consortium of institutions that aims to combine philology and archaeology, with a substantial re-issue in electronic format of pre-1925 “core texts” in our field. It now houses the ABZU project as well.
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The premier organization for the dissemination of technical knowledge at levels that are both authoritative and widely accessible. A portion of its website is specifically devoted to archaeology, with various case studies.
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A brief overview of a rich Exhibit that travelled in Europe, Canada and the US between 2000 and 2003.
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Websites describing a recent exhibit at the following Museums: McLung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago The University Museum, The University of Pennsylvania: Conservation Back to top |
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A rich website for one of the major collections of Mesopotamian materials in the world.
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A nice visual presentation, with authoritative sections and some scholarly information Back to top |
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A beautifully crafted website – about one of the most beautiful archaeological sites of the ancient world. Back to top |
| Abstracts of technical articles with a special section devoted to archaeology. |
| The online version of a premier newsletter in the field. Listed below are the issues that deal more specifically with archaeology. |
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1997 12/2 Preservation of Archaeological Sites 2001 16/1 Hearthen Architecture |
| Established in 1956 within the framework of UNESCO, and based in Rome (hence the abbreviation for "International Center for Conservation" in "Rome") this is a vast organization with a wide range of activities. |
| A well integrated publicatino of the original records of a classical excavation, this is a philological model of the effort to recover and make available the richness of primary documentation. |
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The premier Assyriological website, this is a pace-setting project for the encoding of cuneiform texts of the third millennium, with a host of important spin-offs.
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A nicely presented publication of a collection of 19 tablets, mostly from the Ur III period, maintained by Eva von Dassow. Back to top |
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Sumerian literary texts in transliteration and translation, with bibliography, maintained by the University of Oxford. Back to top |
| Snapshot biographies of major figures in anthropology and archaeology. |
| An exemplary archival presentation, that includes photos, diaries, and letters of Gertrude Bell, who travelled extensively in the Near East at the turn of the twentieth century, and had great influence on the political and cultural life of Iraq, where she was instrumental in founding the Iraq Museum. |
| A useful set of criteria, dating to 1999, by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate. Of particular interest is the section on Informational Web Pages. |
| An early style sheet for websites by Tim Berners-Lee, who introduced HTML and founded the World Wide Web Consortium. |
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Aesthetic qualities Saqqara |
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Straightforward archival qualities The Gertrude Bell Archive |
| An exemplary portion of a major archaeological website, with such featurs as the option to “write like a Babylonian”... |
| A “Cybermuseum” with a section on Mesopotamia that includes a game situated in the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash (accessible for a fee). |