Organizations & Libraries • Archaeological Projects • Primary Sources • Publications • Utilities

Organizations & Libraries

•  American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)

Publications

Newsletter

•  Digital Library for International Research (DLIR)

Online Catalog

Mapping Mediterranean Lands (MEDMAPS)

Middle East Research Journals (MERJ)

Digital Full-Text

Searchable Article-Level Index

•  Jewish National and University Library

Ancient Maps of Historic Cities

Ancient Maps of Jerusalem

Digitized Book Repository

Digitized Manuscripts

Holy Land Maps

Mahzor Nuremberg

Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts

•  MALMAD : Israel Library Network

ULI : The Israel Union Catalog

ULS : The Israel Union List of Serials

ULE : Central List of Electronic Journals

RAMBI : Index of Articles on Jewish Studies

Israel Library Network Sites

•  Israel Antiquities Authority

IAA Library

Archaeological Survey of Israel

The Dead Sea Scrolls

•  Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

•  Israel Exploration Society

•  Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)

Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem : Library

British Institute, Amman : Library

•  École Biblique et Archéologique Française

Bibliothèque St Étienne de Jérusalem

•  Deutsche Evangelische Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes / German Protestant Institute of Archaeology

Jerusalem Institute : Bibliothek des DEI Jerusalem

Amman Institute : Online-Katalog des DEI Amman

•  Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Archaeology Projects

Catalog of Publications

Dissertations On-Line

Individual Scholarship

Map Series

On-Line Catalog

Research Projects

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Archaeological Projects

•  American Institute for Yemen Studies : Projects in Yemen

•  American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Agora Excavations

Corinth Excavations

•  Ancient Egypt Research Associates : Projects

Sphinx Project

Giza Plateau Mapping Project

Lost City of the Pyramids

Pyramids Radiocarbon Dating Project

•  Archaeological Project Archives at Archaeology Data Service

•  Archaeology in Turkey, 2004-2005 (American Journal of Archaeology, 111:2 2007)

•  Archaeology of the Eastern Desert

•  Assur : Eastern Tigris Area (University of Heidelberg)

•  Athenian Agora Excavations

•  The Bible and Interpretation

Archaeological Commentary & Reports

Archaeological Excavations

•  City of David Excavations

From Shiloah to Silwan : An Alternative Archaeological Tour in Ancient Jerusalem

•  The Danaos Project

•  Digital Karnak

•  Digs in Egypt on the Web

•  Egypt Exploration Society Research Projects

•  Ešnunna Project

•  ETANA :

Archaeological Projects

ETANA-DL : DigBase & DigKit

•  Giza Archives Project (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

•  Giza Necropolis : Cemetery G 2100

•  Göksu Archaeological Project

•  Hazor

•  Hierakonpolis : Archaeology’s Interactive Dig

•  Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project

•  Kerkenes

•  Megiddo (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Publications) –

Megiddo 1. Seasons of 1925-34: Strata I-V / Robert S. Lamon and Geoffrey M. Shipton

Megiddo 3. Final Report on the Stratum VI Excavations / Timothy P. Harrison

•  Mishrifeh/Qatna (Syrian Directorate of Antiquity)

•  Mishrifeh/Qatna (Italian Expedition)

•  Mount Zion, Jerusalem

•  Netherlands Institute for the Near East

Early Farming Communities in the Eastern Marmara Region

•  Nisa Expedition

•  Oxford Expedition to Egypt

•  Persepolis Fortification Archive Project

•  Saar (London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition)

Excavation Archive

Excavation Reports

•  Sidon Excavations

•  Sirkeli Höyük

•  Tel Dor Excavation Project

•  Tell Aushariye (Syria)

•  Tell Beydar (Syria)

•  Tell El-Balamun, Excavation in Egypt (The British Museum)

•  Tell en-Nasbeh Research Project

Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology

•  Tell Kurdu Project (The Netherlands Institute in Turkey)

•  Tell Schech Hamad (Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäolgie der Freien Universität Berlin)

•  Temple Mount :

Jerusalem's Temple Mount : Historical Preservation with 3D Laser Scanning

Observations from the Temple Mount / A.S. Kaufman

•  Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings)

•  Virtual Qumran (Orion Center)

•  Virtual Qumran (UCLA)

•  Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt : Archaeological Expeditions

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Primary Sources

•  The Aleppo Codex (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem)

•  American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Collections Archives

Digitized Collections of the Gennadius Library

•  Ancient Texts Online (PaleoJudaica.com)

•  BIBEL+ORIENT Museum : Datenbank

•  Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (University of California at Los Angeles & Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

•  Cuneiform Tablets : From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III (Library of Congress)

•  The Dead Sea Scrolls (Dorot Foundation Information Center, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

•  Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation

•  Description de l'Égypte, 1809-1822 (Bibliotheca Alexandrina & L'Institute d'Egypt)

•  Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (University of California at Berkeley)

•  Digitales Turfan-Archiv (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

•  Digital Scriptorium (Columbia University Libraries)

•  DigMaster : A Database of Artifacts from the Ancient Near East (The Cobb Institute)

Maresha Persian Figurines Database

Pierides Foundation Museum, Larnaca, Cyprus

Tell Halif Persian Figurines Database

•  Duke Papyrus Archive

•  eBeth Arké : The Syriac Digital Library

•  Electronic Cuneiform Processing Projects

Cuneiform Dictionary

Cuneiform Texts Resources

•  Epic of Gilgamesh (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

•  EOS : University of Chicago Electronic Open Stacks Project

•  ETANA : Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives : Core Texts

•  Giza Archives Project (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

•  Greek and Latin Texts (LacusCurtius)

•  Greek Law in Roman Times : Computerized Databank of Greek Legal Documents from Egypt and the Hellenistic World (Uri Yiftach Firanko)

•  HolyLandPhotos.org

•  Jerusalem Virtual Library : Academic Database on Historic Jerusalem

•  Mari Texts

•  Musée Achéménide

•  Nabonidus Chronicle (ABC 7) (Jona Lendering, Livius.org)

•  Online Critical Pseudepigrapha (Society of Biblical Literature)

•  PACE : Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement

•  PANDEKTIS : Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

•  Parthia : Coins

•  Perseus Digital Library (Department of the Classics, Tufts University)

Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri

Greek and Roman Materials

•  Perugia Genizah (Biblioteca del Dottorato, University of Perugia)

•  Pyramid Texts Online

•  Quatremère de Quincy : Bibliothèque numérique

•  Sites and Photos

•  State Archives of Assyria (Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire)

Letters, Queries, and Reports

Selected Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum

•  Sumerian Literature (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford)

Diachronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

•  Syriac Printed Texts On-line

•  Syriac Studies Reference Library (Brigham Young University & The Catholic University of America)

•  Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection (Cambridge University Library)

Genizah On-Line Database

History in Fragments : A Genizah Centenary Exhibition

•  Tell Hadidi Tablets

•  TIMEA : Travelers in the Middle East Archive (Institute of Museum and Library Services, CITI & Rice University)

TIMEA Historical Maps and Plans

TIMEA Research

TIMEA Texts

TIMEA Visual Materials

•  Treasures from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary

•  Tombs of Ancient Egypt

•  Trismegistos

•  Van der Meer-Cools Collection (University Library of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

•  West Semitic Research Project (University of Southern California School of Religion)

Image Catalog for Scholars

InscriptiFact : Image Database of Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions

•  Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem : Online Library (Hebrew)

•  Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library

AdHoc : Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity

EIKON : Image Database for Biblical Studies

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Publications

•  Abgadiyat (Bibliotheca Alexandrina Calligraphy Center)

•  American Journal of Archaeology (Archaeological Institute of America)

•  American School of Classical Studies at Athens : Publications

ASCSA Digital Library

Collections Archives

•  The Ancient World Online

•  The Ancient World Online 1 : CEFAEL : Collections de l'Ecole française d'Athènes en ligne

•  The Ancient World Online 2 : Oriental Institute Electronic Publications Initiative

•  The Ancient World Online 3 : Giza Archives Project

•  The Ancient World Online 4 : Propylaeum-DOK

•  The Ancient World Online 5 : Online Publications of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

•  The Ancient World Online 6 : ETANA Core Texts

•  Anistoriton : Journal of Archaeology, Art History and History

•  Annales islamologiques (v.1-30 1954-1996)

•  Antiquity : electronic supplement

Project Gallery

New Doctorates

•  Archaeological Computing / Harrison Eiteljorg II, with GIS chapter by W. Fredrick Limp

•  Archaeology (Archaeological Institute of America)

•  ArchAtlas Journal (University of Sheffield)

•  Arkamani Sudan : Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology

•  Arta : Achaemenid Research on Texts and Archaeology (Achemenet)

•  The Bible and Interpretation

Archaeological Commentary & Reports

Articles

•  Biblical Archaeology Review

•  Biblical Studies on the Web

BSW Journal

Biblica

Filología Neotestamentaria

•  Bibliography (Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire)

•  Bioarchaeology of the Near East

•  Books & Theses/Dissertations Online (PaleoJudaica.com)

•  British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan

•  Bryn Mawr Classical Review

•  Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists

•  Bulletin d'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (v.1-85 1901-1985)

•  Byzantina Symmeikta

•  Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire

•  CEFAEL: Collections de l'Ecole française d'Athènes en ligne

•  Chroniques Yéménites

•  Collections électroniques de l'Ifpo (L'Institut français du Proche-Orient)

•  Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin

Cuneiform Digital Library Journal

Cuneiform Digital Library Notes

•  Digitorient.com

•  DOAJ : Directory of Open Access Journals

•  Egyptian Towns and Cities / Eric Uphill

•  E-Journals and Digitized Paper Periodicals (Egyptology)

•  E-journals in Philosophy (Université Catholique de Louvain)

•  Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies

•  ENiM : Égypte nilotique et méditerranéenne

•  EZB : Electronic Journals Library (University Library of Regensburg)

•  Giza Digital Library : Giza Archives Project (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

•  Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies

•  Hadashot Arkheologiyot : Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Israel Antiquities Authority)

•  Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies

Classics@

Online Publications

•  Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies

e-cmes

•  Historiae

•  History of the Later Roman Empire / J. B. Bury (LacusCurtius)

•  Hugoye : Journal of Syriac Studies

•  The House of Ptolemy / Edwyn R. Bevan (Bill Thayer, LacusCurtius)

•  Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East : Electronic Pre-Publications

•  Internet-Beitrage zur Agyptologie und Sudanarchaologie

•  Intute : Arts and Humanities : Electronic journals

•  Jewish Studies : an Internet Journal

•  Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies

•  Journal of Hebrew Scriptures

•  Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology

JIIA Eprints Repository

JIIA MyOpia Repository (till 2005)

•  Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society

•  Journals Online (PaleoJudaica.com)

•  Kurzbibliographie zu den übersetzten Tempeltexten der griechisch-römischen Zeit / Christian Leitz, ed. (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale)

•  LIVIUS : Articles on Ancient History

•  The Melammu Project

Digital Library

Melammu Symposia

•  The Meroitic Newsletter

•  Mission Archéologique en Iran : Publications

•  Nabu : Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (Achemenet)

•  Oral Tradition

•  Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Catalog of Publications

Dissertations On-Line

Individual Scholarship

•  PACE : Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement

•  Pagan and Christian Rome / Rodolfo Lanciani (LacusCurtius)

•  PalArch : Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology

•  Persée

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales

Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique

Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne

l'Homme

Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome

Paléorient, Revue Internationale et Pluridisciplinaire

•  Polish Egyptological Journal

•  Proceedings of the British Academy

•  Propylaeum, Virtual Library Classical Studies

Propylaeum-DOK : Digital Repository

•  Pyramid Texts Online

•  I Quaderni del Ramo d'Oro (Università di Siena)

•  Religion Compass : Ancient Near East

•  Review of Biblical Literature

•  Revista de Estudios Ibéricos

•  Revues.org

•  Rheinisches Museum für Philologie

•  Rosetta (Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham)

•  Saudi Aramco World

•  Stanford Journal of Archaeology

•  Studia Orontica

•  Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico (v.1-21 1984-2004)

•  Sumerian Mythology / Samuel Noah Kramer

•  Svenska Institutet i Rom / The Swedish Institute at Rome : Online Publications

•  Syriac Printed Texts On-line

•  TC : A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism

•  Understanding the History of Ancient Israel / H. G. M. Williamson, ed. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 143)

•  Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony

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Utilities

•  Abstracta Iranica

•  ABZU (ETANA : Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives)

•  Achemenet

•  AIGYPTOS : Database for Egyptological Literature (University of Munich & University of Heidelberg)

•  Akkadian Dictionary (Association Assyrophile de France)

•  Amarna Tablets (Shlomo Izre'el)

•  Ancient Olympics (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & Peking University)

•  Annotated Parthia Bibliography

•  Arabic-English Lexicon / Edward William Lane

•  Aramaic Peshitta Bible Repository

•  Archaeology Data Service (University of York)

•  ArchAtlas (University of Sheffield) :

Atlas & Gazetteer

Themes

•  Archeologia Egiptu : Polish Archaeology in Egypt

•  Assyrian Dictionary (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)

•  BAESL : Bibliography of Archaeological Excavations in the Southern Levant (Stewart Library, Weber State University)

•  BiBIL : Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne

•  The Bible and Interpretation

•  Biblical Criticism Online

•  Biblical Theology Index (Biblical Studies on the Web)

•  BIBLindex (Institut des Sources Chretiennes)

•  BILDI : Bibelwissenschaftliche Literaturdokumentation Innsbruck

•  Bibliography of Emar Studies

•  Bibliography of Semitic Linguistics

•  Chroniques Assyriologiques

•  Compendius Syriac Dictionary / J. Payne Smith, ed., 1903

•  Cuneiform Revealed : introduction to cuneiform script and the Akkadian language

•  Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions

•  Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts

•  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities / William Smith (LacusCurtius)

•  Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines / Daremberg & Saglio

•  Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land

•  Digitale Keilschriftbibliothek Lexikalischer Listen aus Assur (Universität Göttingen)

•  eBeth Gazo : Syriac Musical Tradition

•  Egyptian Antiquities Information System

•  Egyptian Royal Genealogy : The Ptolemaic Dynasty

•  Egyptology Resources (University of Cambridge)

Essential Reference Material

•  Electronic Cuneiform Processing Projects

Cuneiform Dictionary

Cuneiform Texts Resources

•  Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (University of Oxford)

•  Emar Online Database

•  Encyclopedia Iranica

•  Giza Archives Project (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

•  Google Earth placemarks for Ancient Near Eastern sites (Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala)

•  Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies

Homer and the Papyri

Homer Multitext Project

•  Hethitologie Portal Mainz (Hittite Concordance)

•  Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East (Universität Zürich & Brill Academic Publishers)

•  Iranian studies (Harvard University)

•  JSesh : Open Source Hieroglyphic Editor

•  LacusCurtius : A Gateway to Ancient Rome

•  Language Resources Online (PaleoJudaica.com)

•  Leuven Database of Ancient Books (Trismegistos)

•  Lexicon to the Syriac New Testament (Peshitta) / William Jennings, 1926

•  Linear A Texts & Lexicon

•  LIVIUS : Articles on Ancient History

•  Nostratic Dictionary / Aharon Dolgopolsky

•  Old Babylonian Text Corpus

•  Online Critical Pseudepigrapha (Society of Biblical Literature)

•  Oriental Institute Map Series (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)

•  Oxford Expedition to Egypt : Scene-details Database

•  PACE : Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement

•  Papyrology Online

•  Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology)

•  Practical Guide to the Grammar of Egyptian Demotic, more files

•  Prosopography of Ebla

•  Pyramid Texts Online

•  RAMBI : Index of Articles on Jewish Studies

•  Sinleqiunnini : Emar Archives (Francesco Di Filippo)

•  The Sources of Biblical Narrative (Tzemah Yoreh)

•  Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities

•  Syriac Tools and Resources

•  TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien) Index (Academy of Sciences in Berlin)

•  A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome / Samuel Ball Platner (LacusCurtius)

•  Yale University Library Near East Collection : Selected Internet Resources

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Updated October 18, 2009