- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sumerian Language Page
Includes Sumerian lexicon, counting tokens, proverbs, and map of archaeological sites.
www.sumerian.org
- 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
- 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
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Working to make available online the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, circa 3200 BC, until the end of the third millennium.
www.cdli.ucla.edu
- al-Assad, Hafez (1930-2000)
Tribute site for the former President of Syria.
www.assad.org
- History of Plumbing: Babylonia
From theplumber.com.
www.theplumber.com/history.html
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