ACADEMY
Resources
The ARWA Resources section provides a collection of different web-based pages, documents, and software that relate to the archaeology of Western & Central Asia from the Lower Palaeolithic to the end of the Achaemenid period. Online resources include links to websites of current field missions, projects, associations and institutions involved in the archaeological research or communication. These are classified by geographical area, chronological period, and a selection of relevant keywords. Note that resources in the form of videos and podcasts are accessible in a separate section of our website (Podcasts).
For suggesting new contents, please contact the ARWA Resources section via the following link: arwa.info@yahoo.com
ONLINE COLLECTIONS
Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME): https://dlme.clir.org/
Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, USA): https://www.clevelandart.org/open-access
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?department=10
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, USA): https://www.penn.museum/collections/
Carlos Museum (Atlanta, USA): https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/collections/2439/ancient-egyptian-nubian-and-near-eastern-art
The Oriental Institute (Chicago, USA): https://oi-idb.uchicago.edu/
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA): https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315170/ennancient-near-eastern-collection-highlights;jsessionid=A7B1A873B203A636C348A3BEC0C3A0AB/objects
The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, USA): https://art.thewalters.org/browse/category/ancient-near-east/
Yale Babylonian Collection (Yale, USA): https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/
The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (formerly Harvard Semitic Museum) (Cambridge, USA): https://sketchfab.com/hmane/models
The Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, England): https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/collection-online
British Museum (London, England): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm, Sweden): http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web
Pergamonmuseum, Staaliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany): http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection
Musée du Louvre (Paris, France): https://collections.louvre.fr/
The Vatican Museum (Roma, Italy): https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/reparti/reparto-antichita-egizie.html
History Museum of Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia): https://historymuseum.am/en/
Israel Museum (West Jerusalem, Israel): https://www.imj.org.il/en/wings/archaeology
The Jordan Museum (Amman, Jordan): https://www.jordanmuseum.jo/en
VIRTUAL TOURS
Assyrian Collection of the British Museum: https://www.cyark.org/projects/assyrian-collection-of-the-british-museum/virtual-tour
Babylon (a 3D Model): https://www.cyark.org/projects/babylon/3D-Explorer
Google Arts & Culture (very rich): https://artsandculture.google.com/
Turkish Museums: https://sanalmuze.gov.tr/
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Archive.org (Many old references): https://archive.org/
Core (a collection of open access research papers): https://core.ac.uk/
HathiTrust (a huge collection of titles with partnership of academic and research institutions): https://www.hathitrust.org/
Jstor: https://www.jstor.org/
Library Genesis (a huge collection of books, including for archaeology): http://libgen.li/
Persée: https://www.persee.fr/
Scihub (searching and downloading papers from doi): https://sci-hub.se/
DIGITALIZED ARCHIVES
Arachne (Archives of the German Archaeological Institute): https://arachne.dainst.org/
Archives ouvertes de l’Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo): https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/IFPO/
Afghanistan Digital Library (New York University) (Afghan publications from the period 1871–1930) : http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/index.html
The Rare Books and Special Collections Digital Library (American University in Cairo) (Arts, culture, and society in Egypt and the Middle-East) : http://digitalcollections.aucegypt.edu/digital/
GIS, MAPS AND SATELLITE
GIS
Ancient Near Eastern Landscapes Dataverse : https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ancientlandscapes
Ancient Locations (a huge collection of data exportable): http://www.ancientlocations.net/
Atlas des Sites du Proche-Orient ASPRO (Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon): https://web.archive.org/web/20110724201049/http://www.mom.fr/Aspro/login.jsp
Geographic Data for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeological Sites (mostly Syria & Irak) (Uppsala Universitet, Department of Linguistics and Philology): https://www.lingfil.uu.se/research/assyriology/earth/
Atlas of the Holy Land (Levant) : https://daahl.ucsd.edu/DAAHL/DaahlGESearch.php#s1
CAMEL Project (Anatolia): https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/camel/anatolian-atlas
Archaeological Settlements of Turkey (TAY): http://tayproject.org/enghome.html
Hittite Monuments (Turkey): https://www.hittitemonuments.com/?fbclid=IwAR3nGL6LcY2NM0ll8IYho02E-PlVy-8TS4lgdvwpH-TZv-UJTXP2Q6j-2uw
The Gaia Lab JADIS TimeMap Application (Jordan): https://web.archive.org/web/20081005151735/http:/gaialab.asu.edu/home/JadisTM.html
EblaChora Project GIS (Ebla Region, Syria): https://www.orientlab.net/eblachora/map/
Mosul Dam Reservoir Survey, 1980 (Irak) : https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DPNEXP
The West Bank and East Jerusalem Searchable (Israeli-Palestinian Archaeology Working Group): http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15799coll74
Maps
CartOrient (Cartes & Atlas interactifs): http://cartorient.cnrs.fr/accueil
Satellite
Maxar (DigitalGlobe): https://discover.digitalglobe.com/
U.S. Geological Survey (Declassified US Satellite Imagery) (Registration required): https://www.usgs.gov/
CORONA satellite maps & archaeological sites: https://corona.cast.uark.edu/atlas#zoom=5¢er=5077865,2677436
CHRONOLOGY & DATINGS
ARCANE Project (focused on the 3rd millennium BCE): http://www.arcane.uni-tuebingen.de/
14C Near Eastern Radiocarbon Context Database (Cologne, Germany): http://context-database.uni-koeln.de/
DATABASES
Near-Eastern Sites providing cuneiform resources (Microsoft Excel): https://www.lingfil.uu.se/digitalAssets/557/c_557094-l_1-k_csi_v_0_1_csv.csv
Open Context: https://opencontext.org/
OTHER WEBSITES GATHERING ONLINE RESOURCES
Ancient World Online (AWOL) (Blogpost providing many open-access publications relating to ancient world studies): https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives (ETANA): http://www.etana.org/home
University of Cambridge – Department of Archaeology. Online Resources for Mesopotamia: https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/about-us/mesopotamia/online-resources-for-mesopotamia
INFORMATION ON SOME ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND REGIONS (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Turkey
Turkish Archaeological News: https://turkisharchaeonews.net/
Catal Hoyuk: http://www.catalhoyuk.com/
Kerkenes: http://www.kerkenes.metu.edu.tr/
Israel
Index of Archaeological sites in Israel (Government Source): https://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/israelexperience/history/pages/cumulative%20table%20of%20contents%20-%20archeological%20sites.aspx
Palestine
Tell Qilah: https://archeologie.culture.fr/fr/a-propos/tell-qilah; https://www.facebook.com/projetkeila
Syria
Monuments of Syria: http://monumentsofsyria.com/
Dja’de el-Mughara: https://archeologie.culture.fr/proche-orient/fr/a-propos/village-dja-el-mughara
Ebla (Tell Mardikh): http://www.ebla.it/eindex.html
Mari (Tell Hariri): https://archeologie.culture.fr/mari/fr
Qatna (Mishrifeh): http://www.qatna.org/en-index.html
Tell Acharneh: http://www.acharneh.hst.ulaval.ca/francais/cadreInter.html
Tell Arbid: http://www.tellarbid.uw.edu.pl/
Tell Beydar (Nabada): http://www.beydar.org/
Irak
Amyan (Irakian Kurdistan): https://archeologie.culture.fr/proche-orient/fr/a-propos/amyan
Babylone: https://archeologie.culture.fr/babylone/fr
Khorsabad (Dur Sharrukin): https://archeologie.culture.fr/khorsabad/fr
Nimrud (Kalkhu): https://archeologie.culture.fr/nimrud/fr
Ur (Ur-Online Project): http://www.ur-online.org/
Iran
Bibliographia Iranica: https://www.iranicaonline.org/
Encyclopedia Iranica: https://www.biblioiranica.info/
UCLA Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran: https://irangazetteer.humspace.ucla.edu/
The Achemenet Project (Resources on the Achaemenid Empire and the Hellenistic period) : http://www.achemenet.com/fr/
The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS): http://www.cais-soas.com/index.htm
Bam & Tell-e Atashi. Mission Archéologique Franco-Iranienne en Iran du Sud-Est (MAFISE): https://archeologie.culture.fr/proche-orient/fr/a-propos/bam
Arabian Peninsula
Centre Français de Recherche de la Péninsule Arabique (CEFAS): https://cefas.cnrs.fr/
Recherches archéologiques franco-koweïtiennes de l’île de Failaka (Kuwait): https://mafkf.hypotheses.org/tag/koweit
Bat (Sultanate of Oman): https://www.batarchaeologicalproject.com/
ANCIENT TEXTS & EPIGRAPHY
General
Semitic Roots Repository: http://www.semiticroots.net/index.php?r=site/index
Classical texts : http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
Cuneiform
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI): https://cdli.ucla.edu/
CDLI Collections websites: https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cuneiform_tablet_collections
The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC): http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/
The Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP) (Edits Babylonian and Assyrian commentaries) (Yale University, USA): https://ccp.yale.edu/
Middle Euphrates Digital Archives: http://virgo.unive.it/emaronline/cgi-bin/index.cgi
Late Babylonian Signs (LaBaSi) (Online cuneiform sign list of the Late Babylonian period): https://labasi.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/
CuneifyPlus (converts texts to cuneiforms and Microsoft Word fonts): http://cuneifyplus.arch.cam.ac.uk/cuneify
Virtual Cuneiform Tablet Reconstruction Project: https://virtualcuneiform.org/index.html
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) texts: http://ebda.cnr.it/
Emar (Tell Meskene) texts: https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/emarkonk/index.html
Akkadian
Supplement to Akkadian Dictionaries (eSAD): https://altorient.gko.uni-leipzig.de/etymd.html
Source of Early Akkadian Literature (SEAL): https://seal.huji.ac.il/
Archival Texts of the Assyrian Empire (ATAE): http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/atae/corpus
State Archives of Assyria Online (SAAo): http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/
The Codex Hammurapi (Hammurabi) (Transliterated by Walter Sommerfeld): https://www.uni-marburg.de/cnms/forschung/dnms/apps/ast/ob
Dictionnaire français/anglais-akkadien de l’Association Assyrophile de France: http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/akkadian/index_fr.php
Late Old Babylonian Personal Names Index (LOB-PNI): https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/late-old-babylonian-personal-names-index-lob-pni
Archibab (Babylonian Archives, 20e-17e centuries BCE): http://www.archibab.fr/4DCGI/recherche1.htm
Prosobab (Prosopography of Babylonia between 620-330 BCE) (ERC project Babylonia & Persia, University of Leiden): https://prosobab.leidenuniv.nl/
Sumerian
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI): http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/introduction/index.html
Electronic Textual Corpus of Sumerian Literature: https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/
Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (ePSD): http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/nepsd-frame.html
Database of Neo-Sumerian texts: http://bdtns.filol.csic.es/index.php?p=home
Walter Sommerfeld’s Sumerian Glossary: https://www.uni-marburg.de/cnms/forschung/dnms/apps/sgi
Lexique sumérien-français (Pascal Attinger): https://zenodo.org/record/2585683#.YH1M6-gzZPZ
Old Anatolian & Armenian languages
University of Mainz Hittitology portal: https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HPM/index.php
Hittite Personal Names repertory: https://cuneiform.neocities.org/laman/finder.html
Catalog der Texte der Hethiter (CTH): https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/CTH/
Winfred P. Lehmann & Jonathan Slocum (The University of Texas at Austin) Hittite classes: https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/hitol/00
Annotated Corpus of Luwian Texts (ACLT): http://web-corpora.net/LuwianCorpus/search/
Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT) Project: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/pager/
Old Iranian languages
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project (CAL): http://cal.huc.edu/
David Taylor (Oriental Institute, Oxford) Aramaic classes: http://arshama.classics.ox.ac.uk/aramaic/index.html
Scott L. Harvey & Jonathan Slocum (The University of Texas at Austin) Old Iranian classes: https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/aveol
P. Oktor Skjærvø (Harvard University) Old Avestan classes: https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/OldAvestan/index.html
P. Oktor Skjærvø (Harvard University) Young Avestan classes: https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Avesta/index.html
P. Oktor Skjærvø (Harvard University) Old Persian classes: https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/OldPersian/index.html
Avesta (Collection of Zoroastrian texts): http://www.avesta.org/#zscript
Avestan Digital Archive (Freie Universität Berlin): https://ada.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/
Parthian Sources Online: http://parthiansources.com/
TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text und Sprachmaterialien): http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexf.htm
Arabian Peninsula
Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions (DASI) (Include OCIANA North Arabian, South Arabian, Aramaic, and Nabataean texts) : http://dasi.cnr.it/
Glyptic
Mesopotamian seals: https://cdli.ucla.edu/projects/seals/seals.html
The Morgan Library & Museum Seals & Tablets: https://www.themorgan.org/taxonomy/term/40?id=Seals
TEACHING TOOLS
Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History (Oriental Institute Museum): http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/
Digital Syria https://digitalsyria.org.uk/
Ducksters (Section Ancient Mesopotamia): https://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/ancient_mesopotamia.php
Esagil Games (Marie-F. Besnier teaching tools about Ancient Mesopotamia): https://esagil.co.uk/
National Geographic Education Resources: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/
Social Studies Online Resources (Section Mesopotamia): https://sites.google.com/logan.k12.nj.us/socialstudiesonlineresources/6th-grade/mesopotamia
A SELECTION OF INSTITUTIONS & LABORATORIES PROVIDING USEFUL RESOURCES
American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT): http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara: https://biaa.ac.uk/
Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (Koç University): https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/
Turkish Ministry of Culture: https://www.ktb.gov.tr/
The American Center of Oriental Research: https://acorjordan.org/
The Oriental Department of the German Archaeological Institute: https://www.dainst.org/standort/-/organization-display/ZI9STUj61zKB/14586
Archéorient, Environnements et Sociétés de l’Orient Ancien (Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon): https://archeorient.hypotheses.org/
LINKS TO OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
Routes de l’Orient: https://rdorient.hypotheses.org/
The American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR): https://www.asor.org/about-asor/
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft e. V. https://www.orient-gesellschaft.de/index.php