RELG 433 - Biblical Archaeology
InterNet Links
Module 5 - Mesopotamia, from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Ages
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InterNet Resources
- Ancient NearEast site : Jarmo || Ur || Sumer || Akkad / Agade | Sippar || Jemdet Nasr Ubaid culture
- Yale U. site : The Code of Hammurabi - Introduction || The Code of Hammurabi - Discussion || The Code of Hammurabi - Translation
- Dr. Bruce Owen's Lecture Notes (no pictures) : Introduction to Archaeology || The Origins of Agriculture || Defining "civilization" and a few theories of how it came about || The emergence of civilization in Mesopotamia || Mesopotamia: Ubaid and Uruk || Mesopotamia: Late Uruk || Mesopotamia: The origins of writing || Mesopotamia: Early Dynastic || More Theories on the emergence of civilization ||
- Jewish Christian Literature site : Ancient Near Eastern Myths and Stories - Index Page || Epic of Gilgamesh - Index Page || Gilgamesh Prologue - Kramer's Translation || Ra and the Serpent || Ancient Near Eastern Prayers, Hymns & Psalms || An Assyrian Prayer Against the Evil Spirits
- Don Hitchcock's website :
Stone Age tools - mainly from sites in Europe, but they give a good pictures of the types and varieties ||
Shanidar Cave - mainly Neolithic. Includes a long account by Dr. Ralph Solecki, the primary excavator
- Facts and Details site :
The Development of Agriculture ||
The Samarran culture ||
The first grains ||
Beer and Bread ||
Early Villages ||
Mesopotamia ||
Development of Mesopotamia, 5500-2400 BC ||
Sumerians ||
Sumerian culture ||
Sumerian city-states ||
Ur ||
Nippur ||
Akkad ||
Babylonians ||
Babylonian culture ||
Mesopotamian city-states
- Joseph Berrigan's site : Royal Tombs of Ur || Early Sumerian Warfare
- Oriental Institute of Chicago : Jarmo - letters from the field || Halaf bowl - missing from the Iraq National Museum || Halaf jug || Halaf bowl - missing from the Iraq National Museum || Ubaid bowl - missing from the Iraq National Museum || Samarra pottery - missing from the Iraq National Museum || Letters from Jarmo - Prof. Braidwood's reports
- The Oriental Institute, Chicago - Teaching the Middle East : The Origins of Civilization || From hunters to Farmers || The Neolithic Revolution || Domestication of Plants and Animals || The Consequences of sedentism || Images for the lesson
- Archaeology.org : Neolithic Winemaking in Iran - Archaeology 49.5 September/October 1996
- MetMuseum site : The Halaf period, 6,500-5,500 BC || Halaf figurine || Halaf bowl || Halaf pottery || Ubaid Culture, 5,500-4,000 BC || Ubaid stamp seal || Chalcolithic storage jar || "Eye idol" from Uruk ||
- Oriental Institute of Chicago : Royal Treasures of Ur slideshow || Tell Kurdu || Tell Judaidah || The Royal Cemetery of Ur || Ur of the Chaldees || Ur - archaeological site || Eridu - slideshow || Girsu near Lagash - slidshow || Pottery - scroll down for Khirbet Kerak ware || Khirbet Kerak ware || Uruk - links to more photos at bottom of page || Tin Smelting - the Oriental Institute of Chicago reproduces methods of tin smelting as discovered in Kestel and Goltepe - pdf file
- Art Course at Chapman University : Mesopotamia || Art of the Ancient Near East ||
- Websites listed by url :
Ebla
Old World Prehistory course - scroll down for pictures
the Akkadian Empire
Sumerians
Mesopotamian Climate Change
Royal Tombs of Ur - British Museum
Victory Stele of Naram Sin in the Louvre
The Neolithic Revolution - BBC site
Ebla
Old Testament Life and Literature
Tell Leilan
Royal tombs of Ur
The History of Plumbing - Babylonia
Sumerian History
Shanidar cave - another Neanderthal skeleton
Victory Stele of Naram Sin
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