Ancient Near East


West Semitic Research Project : Educational Site: Ancient texts relating to the Bible
The Educational Site of the West Semitic Research Project offers ancient texts, Ugaritic, Moabite etc.

Etana – Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
ETANA has digitized, and continues to digitize texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to Ancient Near Eastern studies.

Abzu – A Guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
The site offers search options in the primary sources digitized by ETANA and other resources in the Internet related to the Ancient Near East.

InscriptiFact
An Image Database of Inscriptions and Artifacts, University of Southern California, West Semitic Research.
The InscriptiFact Project is a database designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. Included are, for example, Dead Sea Scrolls; cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia and Canaan, papyri from Egypt, etc.
These ancient texts represent religious and historical documents that serve as a foundation and historical point of reference for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged.


Research Archives The Oriental Institute
Search options in the on-line catalogue of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Okeanos - Ancient Near Eastern Studies
An interdisciplinary resource for the study of the Ancient, Biblical, Classical, and Late Antique Near East. Edited by Scott B. Noegel.

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt: general information, ancient texts, archaeology etc.

AEB - Annual Egyptological Bibliography
The home page of the Annual Egyptological Bibliography.
Offers besides the Bibliography other internet resources related to Egypt.

AIGYPTOS
A database which offers search options in books and articles related to Egypt.

IDE - International Directory of Egyptology
The International Directory of Egyptology comprises data for universities, research institutes and museums as well as their scientific staff, edited by Joachim Selim Karig.

Explore Ancient Egypt
The Egyptian Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: Overview, Archaeology, Daily life, Hieroglyphs, Mummies, Style, Learning resources.

Egyptology Resources
The site provides a World Wide Web resource for Egyptological information, edited by Nigel Strudwick.

The Deir el-Medina Database
The Deir el-Medina Database is meant to be an intermediate presentation of the ongoing research project A Survey of the New Kingdom Non-literary Texts from Deir el-Medina of Leiden University. The database is a search tool enabling the user to retrieve the documents relevant to his/her research activities from the corpus of non-literary texts from Deir el-Medina.

West Semitic Research Project : Scholarly Site: Assyriological Texts
The Scholarly Site of the West Semitic Research Project offers Assyriological texts.

Ancient Near East: Babylonia
Ancient Babylonia: Archaeology, history, culture etc.

World Wide Web Sites Relating to the Ancient Mediterranean
A site edited by K. C. Hanson which offers internet resources: ancient document collections, papyrology and epigraphy, Ancient Near East etc.

K.C. Hanson Collection of West Semitic Documents
A site edited by K. C. Hanson which offers West Semitic Texts: Ammonite, Aramaic, Hebrew, Moabite, Phoenician, Ugaritic etc.

K.C. Hanson Collection of Mesopotamian Documents
A site edited by K. C. Hanson which offers Mesopotamian Documents – Sumerian and Akkadian.

Academy for Ancient Texts
A site which offers Mesopotamian texts: The Code of Hammurabi, Epic of Gilgamesh etc.

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Mesopotamian Texts Archive with search options.

The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
The website of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD).

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts with search options.

Old Babylonian Text Corpus by Cuneiform Circle
The Old Babylonian Text Corpus (OBTC) comprises a large text database of the Old Babylonian Akkadian with search options, edited by Furat Rahman. Includes a catalogue of Cuneiform signs etc.

Hittite Home Page
Resources for Hittite Studies, Ancient Anatolia, Institutions and Museums etc.

Akkadian language
Home page on Akkadian, an introduction collected by John Heise: Mesopotamia, Cuneiform texts, Akkadian language etc.

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, initiated in 1921 by James Henry Breasted, is compiling a comprehensive dictionary of the various dialects of Akkadian.

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