Site Links Related to Mesopotamia or Language

Ancient Mesopotamia Sites

ABZU - Mesopotamian Study Resources
Akkadian Language (Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts)
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (site at UCLA)
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (mirror site in Berlin)
Press Release Describing the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Mesopotamian Year Names
Leiden Sumerian Text Archive
Sumerian Lexical Archives
Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (PSD) project
Search the PSD Index to Sumerian Secondary Literature (ISSL)
XML and the Corpus Based Dictionary - highly technical proposal for a future on-line PSD
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford
Old Babylonian Text Corpus - includes Old Babylonian-English dictionary and a sign list with all variant forms
TEXTOS ELAMITAS: Dirección, transcripciones y traducción
Eisenbraun's - Source for Scholarly Books
Oriental Institute Bookstore
Oriental Institute on the WWW
Samuel Noah Kramer Institute of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Mesopotamian Mathematics
Babylonian Mathematics
Babylonian Numerals
Babylonian Astronomy/Astrology Software Program
Bibliography of Mesopotamian Astronomy and Astrology
A Review of the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries (slow to load)
Vitas of Ancient Near Eastern Scholars on the Web
Names and Addresses of Scholars and Advanced Students Involved in Cuneiform Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology
E-mail Addresses for Ancient Near Eastern Scholars
Got an extra 100,000 Euros? - Contents of the late Dietz Otto Edzard's Assyriological Library - For Sale
Resources for Ancient Near Eastern Studies - bibliographies of publications by Assyriologists
Resources for Ancient Near Eastern Studies - bibliographies in certain subjects, such as Dance and Music
Internet Researcher: Library Tools for Ancient Near Eastern Research, from Catholic University of America
Gudea Cylinder transcription plates - see the Sumerian Text Archive for transliterations
CDLI presentation of Sumerian Sign-Lists - from Archaic to Ur III
Old Sumerian Signs copied from Labat (Labyrinths - Part4)
Akkadian Cuneiform Signs - with Index to Borger and Labat
Phillips 13 - tablet with a detailed item inventory from the royal household of King Shulgi of the Ur III dynasty, together with FAQ, glossary, and Ur III map
Dyke College Ur III Texts - photo, transliteration, & translation of 5 receipt tablets
Cuneiform Inscriptions of the University of Minnesota from Ur III Period - 16 Tablets
Cuneiform Tablet Collection of Ripon College, Clark Collection, from Ur III Period - 7 Tablets
Cuneiform Collection of the Science Museum of Minnesota - 12 Tablets
Tablets Relating to Sumerian History in the Schoyen Collection
Ashmolean Museum: The Weld-Blundell Prism: The Sumerian King-List
Sumerian temple records at the Australian Institute of Archaeology
Mesopotamian King List 2800 500 B.C., 199KB worth of material about each ruler of ancient Mesopotamia
Ur III Links
Political Change and Cultural Continuity in Eshnunna from the Ur III to the Old Babylonian Period
Archiv für Orientforschung journal
Journal of Cuneiform Studies Home Page
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
IRAQ, the journal of the British School of Archaeology in IRAQ (BSAI)
Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
51e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Chicago, July 18-22, 2005, "Classifications of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East: Lexicography, Iconography, Stratigraphy"
International Association for Assyriology
Sumerian Mythology FAQ
Sumerian Myths from a class on World Mythology
Civilization Begins - 224 KB worth of facts and quotes about Sumer and Sumerians, from C. McArver of the Porter-Gaud School
Mesopotamian Religion - Bibliography by Piotr Steinkeller
Magic and Divination in the Neo-Assyrian Period: A Selected Bibliography by Lorenzo Verderame
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus G. Pinches (Many Divine Names Are Now Read Differently, But This Detailed 1906 Work Is a Classic)
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
The Babylonian Nineveh Texts, a descriptive database created by Jeanette C. Fincke (2003) as part of The Ashurbanipal Library Project of the British Museum
Keilschriftforschung - Universitaet Goettingen
ANE Discussion List for the Study of the Ancient Near East (Oriental Institute)
Mesopotamia links from the Quartz Hill School of Theology
NM's Creative Impulse..Mesopotamia
Cuneiform Writing @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Brown University Seniors 'Crack' Cuneiform Tablets
USC's Introduction to Cuneiform Tablets page
Frayne - Scribal Education in Ancient Babylonia
La Mésopotamie ancienne - Naissance de l'écriture
Écriture cunéiforme
Unwrapping and Visualizing Cuneiform Tablets - successful project at Stanford University to digitize clay tablets
The Digital Classification of Ancient Near Eastern Cuneiform Data (Univ. of Birmingham)
The Cuneiform Digital Palaeography Project (a joint project at the Univ. of Birmingham and the British Museum)
A survey of cuneiform signlists
Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding (ICE)
News article about ICE and Digital Hammurabi Project
Cuneiform Signs, Lloyd Anderson's studies to support the Unicode encoding of the Cuneiform writing system
n2786.pdf - Final Proposal to Encode Cuneiform Script in Unicode (Adobe pdf document file from June 10, 2004)
Fonts developed by Bendt Alster for Transliterating Sumerian and Akkadian - not Cuneiform
Bendt Alster's updates to his Sumerian Proverbs publications
Ancient Near East.com - news, links, journals, etc. from University of Birmingham
In-Depth Information About Sumer, especially as it relates to the city of Nippur
Nippur, Sacred City of Enlil, Supreme God of Sumer and Akkad, by archaeologist McGuire Gibson
Iraq Site Map - Univ. of Chicago Oriental Institute Map Series
Architectural Marvels of Ancient Mesopotamia - informative, but graphics are slow to load
Housing and Plumbing in Mesopotamia
Land Markets in the Ancient Near East
Women in Mesopotamia (Women in World History Curriculum)
The En-hedu-Ana Research Pages - Unearthing the First Known Author
Enheduanna's Writings
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection: Ancient Near Eastern Art (page highlights 50 objects from 4,000 years)
Overview of "Treasures of the Royal Tombs of Ur" @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur, McClung Museum's Special Exhibition
Ancient Near Eastern Art - Emory University Carlos Museum
The Morgan Library Collections | Ancient Near Eastern Seals & Tablets
The British Museum, Department of the Ancient Near East
Field Museum 'reuniting' scattered collections from ancient Iraq site
Lost Treasures From Iraq, Objects From The Iraq Museum Database, hosted by Oriental Institute, Univ. of Chicago
Antiquities of Mesopotamia at the Vatican Museums
The Centrality of the Date Palm and its Sex Life to Sumerians
Ancient Flowers, Trees, Herbs, Fruits, Vegetables and Shrubs
Land of Sumer and Akkad - Mesopotamian Archaeology
27 University Level Essays on Third Millenium Mesopotamia (University of Manchester, Faculty of Arts)
The Development of Ancient Mesopotamian Law, paper by Dan King
Financing Civilization, book chapter by William N. Goetzmann
For six other papers on Ancient Mesopotamian subjects, click for the Fall 2002 class on Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Mesopotamia
Bibliography for the Formation of Early States in the Near East (4,000-2,000BC)
Iraqi History Page, by Ali al-Sammawy
Genesis in Sumer - book chapter on Sumerian civilization by Frank E. Smitha
Ethics of Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites by Sanderson Beck
Anthropologist Mike Shupp Summarizes Archaeological Evidence Relating to Origins of Sumerian Civilization
Anthropologist Mike Shupp Examines Evidence for an Uruk Period Prosperity Zone
School of American Research Advanced Seminar: Mesopotamia in the Era of State Formation
Book Review of Guillermo Algaze, The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization
The Life and Death of the Sumerian Language in Comparative Perspective - Piotr Michalowski
Papers on Ancient Mesopotamia - Ian Lawton
Mesopotamian Mystique: The Writings of James Christian
Tracing Assyrian Scholarship, Lecture by Stefan Maul
Ninurta as the God of Wisdom, 2001 paper by Amar Annus
Protohistory in Mesopotamia
Numerical notation and abstraction of concepts, Origins of Writing conf. paper by Pettersson
Who Began Writing? Many Theories, Few Answers (NY Times Science article)
Accounting with Tokens in the Ancient Near East, article by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
More Articles by Denise Schmandt-Besserat in Table of Contents at 'Ain Ghazal Excavation Reports
Animal Figurines, including Animal symbolism in the ancient Near East (Schmandt-Besserat)
Ancient Mesopotamia for Fourth Grade Students
Ancient Mesopotamia: Classroom & Museum Lesson Plans (from the Oriental Institute in Chicago)
Sargon I of Akkad
The Ancient World Web: A very ambitious collection of links
Mythology's Mythinglinks: the Tigris-Euphrates Region of the Ancient Near East - An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sacred Arts & Traditions
Gateways To Babylon - Extensive Links
Archaeology on the Internet - a collection of links
Guide to Universities that Teach Sumerian
U.Chi. Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
UCLA, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
News items about UCLA's Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Dept.
Univ. Of Michigan, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Univ of Michigan Library Near East Div: Links to other resources
Near East specialists at Oxford and relevant links
Kevin Fagan's comic Drabble on Language of the Ancient Sumerians
Sumerian greeting on Voyager spacecraft record: silim-ma he2-me-en = Welcome! [May you be healthy!]
Translating Elvis into Sumerian
Sumerian - Ural-Altaic Comparisons
Magyar Comparisons - even more ambitious than the preceding link - compares "Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Austro-Asiatic, Basque, Caucasian, Dravidian, Etruscan, Sino-Tibetan, Sumerian and even some Indo-European links."
LexiLine - Sumerian and Indo-European Similarities A to K - Archaic Baltic Latvian
LexiLine - Sumerian and Indo-European Similarities L to Z - Archaic Baltic Latvian Lithuanian
Austric Relationship of Sumerian Language
Linguistics 201: The Invention of Writing
Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Disease and Medicine (CDLI project with bibliography)
History of Dentistry - Ancient Mesopotamia
Archaeology of Grains and Beer-Making
The Goddess Ninkasi Hymn as a Guide to Beer-Making
The Origins and Ancient History of Wine
A Chronology of the Ancient Near East

Language or Research Sites

The LINGUIST List
Graduate-Student Guide to Linguistic Resources on the Internet
Yamada Language Guides
Language Conference Schedules
Numbers in over 5000 Languages
A Brief Introduction to the History of Names
Linguistic Exploration - links to on-line language projects and dictionaries
Search the Card Catalog of the New York Public Library
RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library
WorldCat, a worldwide library catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions
article on Sumerian Language in the Wikipedia free encyclopedia
The sci.lang Newsgroup FAQ
Google Groups - search the contents of the Usenet discussion forums
Ancient Scripts of the World, with Historical Linguistics Links
Ancient Indus Valley Script
Religion Reflected in the Indus Valley Script, Article by Asko Parpola
Dr. Steve Farmer's evidence that the so-called Indus script was not part of a true writing system nor was the Harappan civilization literate
Old Europe 'Writing' Bibliographic Rererences
The Early History of Indo-European Languages - by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov
Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis - edited by Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew
Phylogenetic network method puts origin of Proto-Indo-European language at 8100 BC ± 1,900 years
Early Date for the Birth of Indo-European Languages
The Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IED)
The Tower of Babel - Moscow protolanguage project headed by S. Starostin
About the Hungarian Language
The Chinese Language and its Development
Sanskrit-English Dictionary Project
Historical Linguistics links by the Netscape Open Directory Project
Language Origins Society
Evolution of Language - Program of a comprehensive April, 2000 conference
Margaret Magnuson's sound symbolism links
Archives of SOUNDSYMBOL List
The memetic origin of language: modern humans as musical primates
Deaf children create new sign language
American Scientist Online - The Gestural Origins of Language
Gesture Language in Naples - see 4th paragraph in particular
Dan Moonhawk Alford's Home Page
Speaking in Tongues:Theories on the Origins of Language
Language evolved in a leap:Nature News Service report on Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Solé, R. V. "Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language."
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