Last updated: April 29, 2008
Mesopotamia map from website of John C. Sanders
Sites dealing with
the damage to archaeological sites in the 2003 war
Oxford University Site
The 2003- Iraq War and Archaeology
Abbreviations used in
Assyriology
Adapa and the Food of
Life
Akitu: The
Babylonian New Year's Festival.
Akkadian
Classic Texts. Enuma elish, Gilgamesh and many more.
Akkadian Dictionary Online.
Akkadian Parser.
Can parse many Akkadian verbs.
Alphabetic
List of Rulers in Mesopotamia
American Academic Research Institute in Iraq
Ancient
Near Eastern Texts Related to Marriage and Hieros Gamos.
Ancient Scripts: writing systems,
phonetics, historical linguistics, etc.
Ancient World Online--Lists dozens of volumes now available from the Oriental
Institute, including the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.
ANE Fonts
Ancient Civilizatins:
Assyria
Ancient Mesopotamia Sites
Ancient
Tablets, Ancient Graves: Accessing Women's Lives in Mesopotamia
Annals
of the Kings of Assyria. 1902 publication!
Archaeological
Site Photographs in Mesopotamia by John and Peggy Sanders
Assyria--outline
of its history, links to maps and other web sites
Assyrian
Art Especially the campaign of Sennacherib.
Assyrian
Empire--9th to 7th centuries.
Assyrian Identity in Ancient Times and Today. By Simo Parpola
Assyrian
King Lists
Assyrian Texts
Transliterations in a database.
Assyriology
and Biblical Studies: Time for Reassessment. By Bill T. Arnold.
Bible and Interpretation website.
Assyro-Babylonian
Mythology FAQ Everything you might want to know about gods and
goddesses in ancient Mesopotamia
Babylon: City of Nebuchadnezzar. By Ferrell Jenkins
Babylon,
hanging gardens of One of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Babylon's
History from the Old Babylonian Period to the End.
Babylonia
By N. S. Gill. Many sub directories dealing with Babylon as well
Babylonia.
Livius. Links to much additional info.
Babylonia--History,
Religion, Literature
Babylonian
A web site devoted to the history and culture of Babylonia.
The
Babylonian Akitu Festival: Rectifying the King or Renewing the Cosmos.
By Benjamin D. Sommer. JANES 2000.
Babylonian
and Other ANE Texts keyed to Britannica. Page past the opening book
ads and get to the real wealth. Much info on Babylonian gods and
goddesses.
Babylonian Texts of the
First Millennium BCE The texts are mostly administrative, judicial,
and economic
A Bibliography of Semitic
Linguistics
Biography
of King Sargon of Akkad
Budge
and King, Annals of the Kings of Assyria 1902 translation
Canadian Society for
Mesopotamian Studies
Casco
Bay Assyriological Institute Directed by Barbara Nevling Porter
Digital
map of Ancient Near East. Temporarily unavailable.
Centuries of Darkness: A
Challenge to the Conventional Chronology of the ANE
Concise
Dictionary of Akkadian
Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi
The
Creation of the Pickax. Translation by Thorkild Jacobsen
Creative
Impulse--Mesopotamia Artists' view of world history.
Cultural
Heritage of Iraq University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Cuneiform
Digital Library Initiative. Cuneiform texts from Berlin and elsewhere.
Cuneiform
writing An introduction by the University of Pennsylvania
Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld
Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld. Translated by E. A. Speiser.
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical
Texts. University of California, Berkeley
Digital Hammurabi. High
resolution copies of cuneiform tablets.
Dumuzi's Wedding
Early Ancient Near Eastern Law:
A History of Its Beginnings: The Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods. By
Claus Wilcke. Review by Michael S. Moore
in Review of Biblical Literature.
Electronic
Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
400 literary works from Oxford University
Electronic
Translations of Akkadian Cuneiform Texts (International Association for
Assyriology)
Empire and Exploitation: The Neo-Assyrian Empire. By Peter
Bedford.
Enlil
and Ninlil. Translation by Thorkild Jacobsen
Etana.
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Culture. Classic scholarship on
the ANE (135 scanned in sources). Links to archeological sites and searchable
secondary literature.
Excavations at
Khorsabad. 1928-1935 by the University of Chicago.
Fact and Fiction in the Ancient Near East: The Assyrian Royal
Inscriptions, the Babylonian Chronicles, and the Books of Kings in the Hebrew
Bible. By Jens Bruun Kofoed.
Gateways
to Babylon Collections of poems, info on religion, gods and goddesses
Gilgamesh
Study Guide by Diane Thompson
Gilgamesh Summary by Richard Hooker
Gilgamesh
Translation of the Eleven Tablets.
Intellectual
Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia in East and West. A searchable
database.
Internet
History Sourcebooks. Paul Hallsall of Fordham University
Iraq: Sites and Excavations
Isin
Larsa and Old Babylonian Periods Sometimes this site takes a long time
to load, but it is well worth the wait. The top of the site deals with the
Twelfth dynasty in Egypt. Page down to find Isin Larsa and the Old
Babylonian period.
Journal
of Cuneiform
Studies Vol. 53
K. C. Hanson's Ancient
World on the Web--relating to the Ancient Mediterranean World
K. C. Hanson's
Collection of Mesopotamian Documents
K. C. Hanson's
Mesopotamian Photo Gallery
Kassite Rule in Babylonia ca. 1500 BC.
Land
of Sumer and Akkad By Kris Verhoeven.
Life
and Times of the Babylonians History, life and culture from the time
of Hammurabi
Links
related to Mesopotamia or Language Much of value here, but randomly
assembled
The Melammu Project: The
Intellectual Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia
Mesopotamia and the Bible. Edited by Mark W. Chavalas and K.
Lawson Younger, Jr. Review from Review of Biblical Literature.
Mesopotamia:
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Mesopotamian Chronicles.
By Jean-Jacques Glassner. Review by R. J.
van der Spek in Review of Biblical Literature
Mesopotamian
Mytholody: deities of Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumer. 185
articles!
Mesopotamian
Timeline
Neo-Assyrian Text
Corpus Project
A New Look at
the Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III. By Galil Gershom.
Bib 81 (2000):511-520.
Painting of Nineveh by James Ferguson in 1853. Click for larger view.
Nippur,
city of Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago expedition
Nippur:
Sacred City of Enlil. By Mcguire Gibson.
Northwest
Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud.
Old Babylonian Online
Dictionary.
Orientalism, Assyriology and
the Bible. Edited by Steven Holloway. Review by
Christopher Hays in Review of Biblical
Literature
Outline
of Assyrian History.
Compact, accurate information
The Raging Torrent: Historical
Inscriptions from Assyria and Babylonia Relating to Ancient Israel. By
Mordechai Cogan. Review by Aren Maeir in
Review of Biblical Literature.
Reading Babylon. By Marc Van de Mieroop. AJA 107
(2003):257-275.
Religion
of Babylonia and Assyria. By Theophilus G. Pinches. Lecturer at
University College, London
Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide. Ed. by Sarah Iles
Johnston. Review by Bill T. Arnold in
Review of Biblical Literature
Sam Ruff's Tour of Iraq's
Archaeology and Culture
Sennacherib's
Palace without equal
Spiritual
Systems of Mesopotamia Descriptions of various gods/goddesses by Lee
Huddleston.
Survey
of Mesopotamian History and the Akkadian Language J. Heise.
Treasures
from the Royal Tombs of Ur A traveling exhibition organized by the
University of Pennsylvania.
The Triumph of the Symbol:
Pictorial Representations of Deities in Mesopotamia and the Biblical Image Ban.
By Tallay Ornan. Review by Bernard F. Batto
in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
Upper
Tigris Archaeological Research Project
Web Site Links to Mesopotamia
or Language A list of web sites dealing with Mesopotamia and
linguistics. Much of value here, but it is randomly assembled.
Who Were the Babylonians?
By Bill T. Arnold. Reviewed by Joseph
Cathey in Review of Biblical Literature
Who's Who in Cuneiform Studies
The
Worm and the Toothache. Translation by Ephraim A. Speiser.
Write
Like a Babylonian See your own monogram as the Babylonians would have
written it.
Yale
Babylonian Collection
Ziggurat
of Marduk from Babylon
Ziggurats, The.
Send additions or corrections to rklein@lstc.edu
