Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Online Open Sources

OPEN SOURCE MATERIALS:

AWOL - Ancient World Online

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology

MUSEUM WEBSITES:

• Ashmolean Museum
• Baghdad Museum
• British Museum
• Brooklyn Museum
• Fitzwilliam Museum
• Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
• Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
• Le Louvre
• Manchester Museum
• Medelhavsmuseet
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Museo Egizio Turin
• Oriental Institute Chicago
• Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology/
• Penn Museum
• Petrie Museum
• Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung

Online Bibliographies

• Digital Topographical Bibliography
• ETANA (Includes ABZU)
• TRISMEGISTOS: An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources

Blogs:

• All Mesopotamia

OTHER USEFUL SITES:

• Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places.
• Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses (AMGG): Provides basic information about Mesopotamian gods and goddesses.
• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL):Provides translation to Sumerian literary texts.
• Diotima: Gender studies of the Ancient World (Mainly Hellenistic period)
• Digital Egypt for Universities - Good starting point, with A-Z references and bibliographies
• Herodotus Histories
• Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
• Archaeobotany (for those of you who are writing about beer) 
• SEAL: Source for Early Akkadian Literature

Use these criteria as applied: 

• UCB's guide to evaluate resources 
• NMU guide: Evaluating Internet Sources
• Georgetown Library guide: Evaluating Internet Resources
• Evaluating internet sources rubric. Copied from Deborah Kalkman and adapted by Stephanie Maynard.
• YouTube file for evaluating internet resources. 

DATABASES:

• The Giza Archives Project
• The Tutankhamun object database in Oxford. Now includes the Carter Diaries for the excavation
• Database of Early Dynastic Inscriptions
• Database 'Cachette de Karnak' (IFAO)
• Archives of Bernard Bruyère (IFAO)
• Anthroponymes et Généalogies de l’Égypte Ancienne (IFAO)
• Das altägyptische Totenbuch (Book of the Dead)
• The Deir el-Medina Database
• Deir el Medine online
• Meketre Middle Kingdom scene repository
• Oxford Expedition to Egypt: Scene-details Database
• Funerary Cones database and research material
• H.W. Müller photo archive (Heidelberg)
• Travelers in the Middle East Archive
• Ägyptologischen Datenbank AHA, Berlin
• Arielle Kozloff's Theban Tomb Photos (Only accessible via institutions participating in Artstor)
• Brooklyn Museum Egyptian Lantern Slides

Egypt

• Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt
• National Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
• German Archaeological Institute, Cairo
• Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Cairo
• Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo

USA

• Brown University
• The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• Johns Hopkins University
• University of Pennsylvania
• UC Berkeley
• UCLA
• Yale University