Archaeology
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- Wikipedia - Shahr-i Sokhta
- Encyclopedic entry for Shahr-e Sukhteh or Shahr-i Sokhta(literally Burnt City), a Bronze Age urban settlement in the southeast of Iran.
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- 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. [PDF]
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- Human Sacrifice Was Common in Burnt City
- From Iran News, 5000-year-old burnt city, in eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, sacrificing human beings was a common practice in ancient times. (December 27, 2004)
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- An Early Achaemenid Administrative Text from Uruk
- Translation, transliteration, and drawing of tablet.
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- World's Oldest Backgammon Discovered In Burnt City
- From Iran News, Iranian archeologists working on the relics of the 5,000-year-old civilization argue this backgammon is much older than the one already discovered in Mesopotamia and their evidence is strong enough to claim the board game was first played in the Burnt City and then transferred to other civilizations. (December 04, 2004)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
- Project collecting all published and non-published Assyrian texts to make them available on-line.
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- 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.
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- Northern Ireland Archaeology Forum
- A network of individuals and organisations aiming to protect, study and promote the historic environment.
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- From Archaeology to Archaeometry and Back
- Describes the work of Hebrew University professor Jan Gunneweg on the archaeology of Israel and the eastern Mediterranean.
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- Herodian
- Brief article by Jay Levinson in The Jewish Magazine describes this fortified palace located 15 kilometers south of Yerushalayim. With photos.
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- Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science
- Statement, goals, and contact information for the academic department.
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- King David's Tomb
- Provides some historical dates, a virtual museum tour, and descriptions and illustrations of artifacts.
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- Material Culture of the Ancient Canaanites, Israelites and Related Peoples
- An information database from excavations. Includes images and text.
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- Oil Lamps from the Holy Land
- The Adler Collection includes more than 1,000 oil lamps, dated from the Bronze Age until the late Islamic Period. The collection represents all of the main types of oil lamps known throughout the periods.