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General Resources

Gateway to online resources of the Oriental Institute
(Chicago). ABZU electronic
bibliography indexes advanced scholarly research on the ANE by author,
project title, subject or journal.
Core Texts provides free access to digital editions of ANE documents;
while eTACT is the definitive
archive of English translations of Akkadian texts on the web.
Ellie Crystal's illustrated e-dictionary of
ancient peoples & places includes pages on
Akkadia,
Amorites,
Egypt,
Iran,
Assyria,
Babylon,
Canaan,
Chaldeans,
Kassites,
Medes,
Mesopotamia,
& Sumer.
Homepage of the publishers of
Biblical
Archaeological Review features a
Bible
History Daily blog,
free ebooks,
and a library of
over 7,000 articles from back issues of BAR & other BAS journals.
The Special Collections of Duke U offers
on-line access to texts about & images of 1373 Egyptian papyri from late
antiquity (Greco-Roman era).
Religion-related
papyri range from pagan cults &
magic to Coptic Christianity & early Islam.
Mark McDonald's extensive
well-researched collection combines excerpts from historical & biblical
texts, archaeological reports, & images of places & peoples spanning the
eastern Mediterranean from Turkey to Egypt to Iran from prehistoric times
through the early centuries
CE & acts as gateway to
related resources elsewhere on the internet.
This guided tour of the UCOI's resources
provides highlights of the collections, photographic archives, archaeological
& philological projects.
K. C. Hanson catalogs 250+ major on-line resources
for research on the Mediterranean world in antiquity.
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Language Tools

From Internet Archive: a
facsimile edition of classic 1836 Egyptian grammar (in French).
Jacques Kinnaer's
elegantly-illustrated e-textbook includes an introduction to heiroglyphic
script, sign lists, a concise grammer & a key to deciphering royal
names & titles (Ancient
Egypt Site).
Robert Oshana provides an audio-visual
introduction to Aramaic script, phonetics & vocabulary.
Electronic
Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature offers an introduction to the
oldest known Mesopotamian language & the deciphering of
cuneiform
script.
Electronic edition
of I. J. Gelb's 1961 textbook
(archived by Oriental Institute of U Chicago).
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27 January 2023
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