Ancient Near Eastern Studies (ANE)

The Royal Stanard Box of Ur

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:29:24 -0800

Ca. 2700 BCE

At the British Museum

Purchase recommendation

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You can suggest items that the Library should consider purchasing. Use the Purchase Recommendation form to submit your suggestion.

About ANE

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:09:05 -0700

The Ancient Near Eastern collection in the Doe Library supports the teaching and research interests of the faculty and students in Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology program. Areas of interest include archaeology, art, history, languages, and cultures of Ancient Egypt, Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Iran.

E-Journals

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:43:24 -0700

E-Journals titles covering Ancient Near Eastern Studies:

Core ANES Databases

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:11:06 -0700

Achaemenid rython

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:25:43 -0800

A Rhyton from Ecbatana(National Museum, Tehran)

Print sources

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:52:07 -0700

A selected list

Online Reference

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:12:39 -0700

Faience amulet in the shape of an ankh

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:43:31 -0800

Said to be from Gebel Barkal, Egypt
25th Dynasty to Late Period, about 700-500 BCE

At the British Museum

Online Books

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:58:47 -0700

Silver Paleo-Elamite vase

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:40:08 -0800

Silver Paleo-Elamite vase
Marv-Dasht, near Persepolis.
19cm high, middle of 3^rd millennium BC

Dhiban Excavation and Development Project

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:35:10 -0700

Dhiban Excavation and Development Project team members excavate a fifteenth century CE building at Tall Dhiban in Jordan during their 2009 season:

Dr. Benjamin Porter (UC Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies), Saleh al-Thibani (Dhiban community member and archaeology student), Colleen Morgan (UC Berkeley, Anthropology graduate student), and Dr. Jeffrey Pearson (UC Berkeley Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Program, alumnus)

Web Souces

skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu (Shayee H. A. Khanaka) — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:50:36 -0700

Listed below are a few useful online sources for free articles, images, and general information about the Ancient Near East:

Archive of Mesopotamian Site Reports (AMAR)

Ashmolean Museum - Antiquities (University of Oxford)

AWOL - Ancient World Online: Over 1000 Open Source Journals

A Bibliography of Semitic Linguistics

The British Museum: The Middle East Program

The Chicago Oriental Institute

The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL)

The Egyptian Museum

International World History Project

Institut français d’archéologie orientale Le Caire, Égypte

Institut français du Proche-Orient

Iraq Museum, International

The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)

Sumerian Language Page