- Maps of War
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Interactive historical maps of Middle East war zones throughout history.
www.mapsofwar.com
- Wikipedia: Mesopotamia
Historical overview of Mesopotamia, covering language, writing, science, religion, culture, economy, government, and other aspects of ancient civilizations in this region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia
- British Museum: Mesopotamia
Exhibit exploring Mesopotamia, including the geography, mythology, and history of the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Sumerian civilizations.
www.mesopotamia.co.uk
- Face2Face Project, The
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Art project presenting enormous black-and-white portraits of Palestinians and Israelis who hold the same jobs.
face2faceproject.com
- Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Site offers online companions to exhibits for visual artists, including painters, and literary figures, including poets and novelists.
www.sakakini.org
- ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
Presenting excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core monographs, dictionaries, journals, and more. Includes the ABZU guide.
www.etana.org
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
Contains information on Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylonia, and other civilizations that flourished in the geographic region of Mesopotamia.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook03.html
- Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
Catalog of literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamie during the late third and early second millennia BC.
www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk
- Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport: Mesopotamia
Sections on the Fertile Crescent area include the Sumerians, the Assyrians, the calendar, writing, and Hammurabi.
www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html
- Gateways To Babylon
Tribute to Mesopotamia, with features and links on myths, religion, and gods and goddesses.
www.gatewaystobabylon.com
- Sumerian Language Page
Includes Sumerian lexicon, counting tokens, proverbs, and map of archaeological sites.
www.sumerian.org
- Wikipedia: Ziggurat
Temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat
- Web Directory: Ancient Mesopotamia by History Link 101
Directory of sites about Mesopotamia in the areas of art, biography, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.
www.historylink101.com/ancient_mesopotamia.htm
- Crimean Tatar
Culture and history of the Crimean Tatars.
www.euronet.nl/users/sota/krimtatar.html
- Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History
Interactive exhibit on ancient Mesopotamia, considered to be the cradle of civilization. From the Mesopotamian collection of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago.
mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu
- Ziggurat
Form of temple common to the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
www.crystalinks.com/ziggurat.html
- Persepolis
Catalog of photographs of the ruins of the ancient capitol of the Persian Empire. Presented by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/IRAN/PAAI/PAAI.html
- Historical Maps of the Middle East
Directory of reference maps from the ancient period through the Muslim conquest to World War II.
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_middle_east.html
- al-Assad, Hafez (1930-2000)
Tribute site for the former President of Syria.
www.assad.org
- Mesopotamia Glossary: Cuneiform
Introduction to the system of picture writing invented by the Sumerians and handed down to the Semitic peoples who conquered Mesopotamia in later centuries.
www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/CUNEI.HTM
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