Recommended Sites:

• Resource for music: Music of the Ancient Near East
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures (EAWC) - Near East Chronology
• Oriental Institute Museum - includes Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia
• Oriental Institute Website Links
• ABZU Mesopotamia
• Notes on Sumeria
• Proverbs in Sumerian Cuneiform
• The Origin and Development of Writing in Mesopotamia: An Economic Interpretation
• Hammurabi's Code of Laws
• Mesopotamia - Gilgamesh
• The Epic of Gilgamesh - The Flood Story
• Mesopotamia Art and Archaeology
• The Fertile Crescent & Eastern Aegean - Art History
• Amorites
• Akkadia
• The Kassites
• Chaldeans
• Iran Photo Album - includes Elamite artifacts
• Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires - good notes
• Jersalem in the First Temple Period (1006-586 BCE)
• Second Temple Period (536 BCE - 70 AD)
• Hittite Home Page
• Focus on Turkey -Index of Anatolian Civilizations and Tourist Centers
• Hittite/Hurrian Mythology
• All About Turkey
• Discover Turkey
• History of Anatolia
• History of Anatolia
• Anatolian Civilization
• Assyrian Info.com
• Lebanon History

Other Sites:

• Architecture in Ancient Near East
• Journal of Field Archaeology - MidEast
• Cultural Timeline 3200 BC - Present
• History of Art - Royal Cemetery of Ur
• Cuneiform
• Dr. Vess's World Civilization Virtual Library - Mesopotamia
• The Hymn to Ninkasi: 19th Century B.C.E. Recipe for Sumerian Beer
• Archaeological Parameters for the Beginnings of Beer
• Mesopotamia Lectures
• Mesopotamia Civilization in the Tigrus-Euphrates Valleys - Professor's Outline
• Mesopotamia
• The Sumerians
• The Emergence of Civilization in the Ancient Near East
• Sumerian Text Archive
• Mesopotamia Links
• Ur
• Ziggurats
• Mesopotamia Holy City of Nippur
• Sargon II, 763-705 BCE, King of Assyria
• Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia, 605-562 BCE
• Akkadian Language
• Mesopotamia
• Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
• Mesopotamian Materials
• Excavation of Royal Cemetery of Ur
• Photographs of Mesopotamia
• Ancient Mesopotamia - detailed timeline
• Babylon - brief history
• Scrolls from the Dead Sea
• Hittite/Hurrian Mythology
• Persia.Net Online
• Cyrus the Great
• Persian Empire Chronology
• The Persian Empire
• The Persian Wars by Herodotus
• The Story of Iran
• Iran Photo Album
• Quotations from Zoroaster
• Traditional Zoroastrianism: Tenets of the Religion
• Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
• Bakhtiari Archaeological Finds

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