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- Ancient Near Eastern Studies Journal - Annual journal from the University of Melbourne dedicated to the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East.
www.sfca.unimelb.edu.au/school/nearestfront.html
- Archaeological Sites in the Near East - List of links maintained by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU_SUBINDX_ARCH_SITES.HTML
- Archaeologists Excavate Monastery to Reveal Gaza Strips Ancient Lineage - From Ekathimerini, away from the ongoing violence, researchers uncover the vestiges of Palestines Byzantine past.
www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19621
- Archaeologists Unraveling Ancient Mideast Drug Trade - From Yahoo!, thriving Bronze Age drug trade supplied narcotics to ancient cultures throughout the eastern Mediterranean as balm for the pain of childbirth and disease, proving a sophisticated knowledge of medicines dating back thousands of years.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020808/ap_wo_en_po/israel_ancient_narcotics_1
- Archaeology in the Levant - The University of California San Diego reports on its projects in Israel and Jordan.
weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Anthro/classes/tlevy
- Archaeology of Legumes - Discussion of the archaeology of Old World legumes including pictures and readings.
www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/profiles/butler/annbute.htm#cool
- Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies (CSMS) - Founded in 1980 CSMS is interested in the stimulation of interest among the general public in the culture, history, and archaeology of Mesopotamia. Includes: membership information, a list of upcoming events, publications, and links.
www.chass.utoronto.ca/nmc/rim/csmshome.html
- Center for Archaeology of Middle East Landscape (CAMEL) - At CAMEL we aim to analyze and understand this landscape by combining both traditional on-the-ground archaeological surveys with remote-sensing methods such as satellite imagery and air photo analysis.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/CAMEL/Main.html
- Cobb Institute of Archaeology - The Cobb was founded at Mississippi State University was in 1971 and sponsors archaeological research in the Middle East and southern United States. Includes: faculty, history, and research.
www.cobb.msstate.edu
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) - Represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium.
cdli.ucla.edu/index.html
- History of the Ancient Near East - Mark McDonald provides information and links on the archaeological sites of the region from Turkey to Southwestern Iran.
ancientneareast.tripod.com
- Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamia - A description including: emergence, excavation, discovery and decipherment, reconstructing history, and a table of Mesopotamian chronology.
www.ianlawton.com/mes1.htm
- Naomi F. Miller - Bibliographies of archaeobotanical site reports from the Near East and watercolors.
www.sas.upenn.edu/~nmiller0
- National Museum of Saudi Arabia - Information on Islamic and Pre-Islamic sites and collections. Includes virtual tours for every gallery.
www.saudimuseum.com
- Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Undergraduate Student Association Website - Devoted to the study of the ancient (from c. 3100 BCE) and contemporary cultures found within modern day Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Rhodes, Cyprus, Iraq, (to some extent Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Georgia) and western Iran.
www.chass.utoronto.ca/nmcusa
- Near Eastern Archaeology - A Publication of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Includes: a back issue index and subscription information.
www.asor.org/nea/NEAHP.html
- Netherlands Institute for the Near East - Foundation for the study of the archaeology, history, languages and culture of the Near East. Participates in research and publication activities.
www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/nino.html
- Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD) - Includes: an index to Sumerian secondary literature, a mailing list, and news.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psd
- Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) - An international research project with the purpose of publishing editions of the cuneiform inscriptions of the rulers of ancient Mesopotamia.
www.chass.utoronto.ca/nmc/rim
- The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary - The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is compiling a comprehensive dictionary of the various dialects of Akkadian, the earliest known Semitic language. Includes: annual reports.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/CAD/CAD.html
- The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project (CHD) - CHD was conceived in answer to a recognized need for a Hittite-English lexical tool, a concordance for lexicographical research for all parts of the corpus of Hittite texts. Includes: annual reports and links.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/HIT/Hittite.html
- The Jazira Project - Report of the Oriental Institute's geomorphological projects within the Jazira of Syria, Turkey and Iraq.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/JAZ/Jazira.html
- The Joint Prehistoric Project - The Joint Prehistoric Project comprises several archaeological expeditions in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey dating from 1947. All of these separate excavations, however, sought the solution to a general problem: "How are we to understand those great changes in mankind's way of life which attended the first appearance of the settled village-farming community?"
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/PRE/Prehistoric.html
- The Stone Age Laboratory - Established in 1957, the lab maintains a unique research environment, combining the Peabody Museum's famous collections of stone tools dating from 1.8 million to 7000 years ago with state-of-the-art computer technology. Includes: links, staff, projects and contact information.
www.fas.harvard.edu/~stoneage
- The Wadi Araba Archaeological Research Project- (WAARP) - WAARP seeks to advance knowledge of the cultural environment of Wadi Araba for all periods, and to encourage and promote the economic development of Wadi Araba without violating or jeopardizing its cultural landscape.
www.wam.umd.edu/~amsii
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