Web Directory

» Agade
   A short description of the ancient city of Agade.
   http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/archaeology/sites/middle_east/agade.html

» Akkadian Healing Therapies in the Babylonian Talmud
   A preprint version of an article by M. J. Geller of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Geller proposes utilising the Babalonian Talmud as an account of then current Akkadian cultureal practaces.
   http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P259.PDF

» An Early Achaemenid Administrative Text from Uruk
   Translation, transliteration, and drawing of tablet.
   http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlb/2004/cdlb2004_001.html

» Comets, Meteors, and Myths
   From Space.com, suggests evidence that a giant comet impact and associated meteor storms could have wiped out early civilizations and caused a great flood.
   http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/comet_bronzeage_011113-1.html

» Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III
   Clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient pictographic writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of Congress’ collections.
   http://international.loc.gov/intldl/cuneihtml/cuneihome.html

» Diyala Miscellaneous Objects Publication Project
   This project is the final pre-publication work on a two-volume set that will complete the presentation of base data from the 1930-38 in the Diyala River basin of northeast of Baghdad.
   http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/DIY/Diyala1.html

» Enheduanna, Daughter of King Sargon: Princess, Poet, Priestess
   Transoxiana 8. Portrait of a Near Eastern woman, in 2300 B.C. Enheduanna represented a strong and creative personality, an educated woman, and one who fulfilled diverse roles in a complex society, not unlike women's aspirations today.
   http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/0108/roberts-enheduanna.html

» Iraq Appeals to Berlin for Return of Babylon Gate
   From the Guardian, Iraq urges Germany today to return chunks of Babylon shipped to Berlin at the beginning of the last century in a heritage seizure which makes Britain's removal of the Parthenon Marbles look tame.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/04/iraq.babylon

» Iraq Museum International
   The history and cultural heritage of Iraq. Invites the active participation of the Iraq reconstruction community as well as students, professors, professionals and cultural enthusiasts from all countries.
   http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/

» Iraq: Navel of the World
   A collection of ancient and pre-modern Iraqi objects on display at the Ashmolean Museum.
   http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/amps/iraq-navel/

» Khorsabad Excavations
   A report of the excavations by the Oriental Institute at Khorsabad from 1928 to 1935.
   http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/KHO/Khorsabad_Ex.html

» Kill Looters, Urges Archaeologist
   From Guardian Unlimited, an American archaeologist urged her compatriots to kill the looters who are pillaging archaeological sites in Iraq.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/jul/09/iraq.internationaleducationnews

» Museum Madness in Baghdad
   Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2004. April 2003, during the mayhem that followed the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, looters entered the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad, and stole or destroyed artifacts. In the confusion, no one outside Iraq knew exac
   http://www.meforum.org/article/609

» Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
   Project collecting all published and non-published Assyrian texts to make them available on-line.
   http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/cna.html

» Nippur - Sacred City of Enlil
   Archeological findings, this article originally appeared in Al-Rafidan, Vol. XIV, 1993.
   http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/PUB93/NSC/NSC.html

» Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh
   Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites since the Gulf War. Illustrated feature by John M. Russell in Archaeology includes clickable map of the throne room suite.
   http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/nineveh/index.html

» The 2003- Iraq War and Archaeology
   Francis Deblauwe gathers articles and information about the impact of the war on the archaeological remains in Iraq, including the losses from looting.
   http://iwa.univie.ac.at

» The Nippur Expedition
   A description of University of Chicago excavations at Nippur. Includes: annual reports, articles and images.
   http://asmar.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/Nippur.html

» The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
   By gathering all available data on persons and personal names in the Neo-Assyrian period, PNA is a research tool that makes this large body of information accessible to Assyriologists and scholars in related fields.
   http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/pna.html