W. F. Albright Institute
of Archaeological Research
On-line Resources
Organizations & Libraries • Archaeological Projects • Primary Sources • Publications • Tools & Utilities
Organizations & Libraries
• American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
• Digital Library for International Research (DLIR)
Middle East Research Journals (MERJ)
Mapping Mediterranean Lands (MEDMAPS)
Local Archives and Libraries Directory (LALORC)
• Jewish National and University Library
Ancient Maps of Historic Cities
Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts
• MALMAD : Israel Library Network
ULI : The Israel Union Catalog
ULS : The Israel Union List of Serials
ULE : Central List of Electronic Journals
RAMBI : Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
• Israel Antiquities Authority
Archaeological Archive of Israel
Archaeological Survey of Israel : Survey of Israel website
• Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem : Library
British Institute, Amman : Library
• École Biblique et Archéologique Française
Bibliothèque St Étienne de Jérusalem
Jerusalem Institute : Bibliothek des DEI Jerusalem
Amman Institute : Online-Katalog des DEI Amman
ZENON DAI : Zentraler Onlinekatalog des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
• Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Archaeological Projects
• American Institute for Yemen Studies : Projects in Yemen
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens
• Ancient Egypt Research Associates : Projects
Pyramids Radiocarbon Dating Project
• Archaeological Project Archives @ Archaeology Data Service
• Archaeology of the Eastern Desert
• Assur : Eastern Tigris Area (University of Heidelberg)
• The Bible and Interpretation
Archaeological Commentary & Reports
From Shiloah to Silwan : An Alternative Archaeological Tour in Ancient Jerusalem
• Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto)
• Egypt Exploration Society Research Projects
• ETANA : Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives : Archaeological Projects
• Fasti Online (International Association of Classical Archaeology & Center for the Study of Ancient Italy, University of Texas, Austin)
• Giza Archives Project (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Göksu Archaeological Project
• Hazor
• Hierakonpolis : Archaeology’s Interactive Dig
• Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project
• Institute of Nautical Archaeology Projects
• Jericho-Tell Es-Sultan (Sapienza Università di Roma)
• Kerkenes
• Maresha (Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University)
• Megiddo : Selected online reading
• Mishrifeh/Qatna (Syrian Directorate of Antiquity)
• Mishrifeh/Qatna (Italian Archaeological Expedition)
• Netherlands Institute for the Near East
Early Farming Communities in the Eastern Marmara Region
• Persepolis Fortification Archive Project
• Saar (London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition)
• Tayinat Archaeological Project (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto)
• Tell El-Balamun, Excavation in Egypt (The British Museum)
• Tell en-Nasbeh Research Project
Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology database
• Tell Halif (Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University)
• Tell Kurdu Project (The Netherlands Institute in Turkey)
• Tell Madaba Archaeological Project (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto)
• Tell Schech Hamad (Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäolgie der Freien Universität Berlin)
• Temple Mount :
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount : Historical Preservation with 3D Laser Scanning
Observations from the Temple Mount / A.S. Kaufman
• Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings)
• Tombs of the Nobles (The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University)
• Virtual Qumran (Orion Center)
• Virtual Qumran (UCLA)
• Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt : Archaeological Expeditions
Primary Sources
• Aerial Photos of the Near East, 1917–1919 :
Bildsammlung Palästina (Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv = Bavarian State Archives)
Digital Media Center (Nazarian Library, University of Haifa)
• The Aleppo Codex (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem)
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens
• ARCHIBAB : Archives babyloniennes (XXe-XVIIe siècles)
• Beth Gazo D-ne'motho : The Treasury of Chants (Syriac Orthodox Resources)
• BIBEL+ORIENT Museum : Datenbank
• Cairo Genizah Collection of the Bodleian libraries
• Classical Art Research Centre : Beazley Archive
• Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University : Artifacts from the Ancient Near East
Maresha Persian Figurines Database
Pierides Museum, Larnaca, Cyprus
Tell Halif Persian Figurines Database
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) (University of California at Los Angeles & Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
• Cuneiform Tablets : From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III (Library of Congress)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls (Israel Antiquities Authority)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
• Description de l’Égypte, 1809-1822 (Bibliotheca Alexandrina & L’Institute d’Egypt)
• Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (University of California at Berkeley)
• Digitales Turfan-Archiv (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
• Digital Scriptorium (Columbia University Libraries)
• Duke Papyrus Archive (Duke University Libraries)
• eBeth Arké : Beth Mardutho, The Syriac Institute
• Egyptologists' Electronic Forum : Online resources for ancient Egyptan texts
• Electronic Cuneiform Processing Projects
• Epic of Gilgamesh (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
• EOS : University of Chicago Electronic Open Stacks Project
• ETANA : Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives : Core Texts
• Giza Archives Project (Art of the Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Greek and Latin Texts (LacusCurtius)
• Jerusalem Virtual Library (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Al-Quds University)
• Nabonidus Chronicle (Livius.org)
• Old Babylonian Text Corpus (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen; Cuneiform Circle)
• Online Critical Pseudepigrapha (Society of Biblical Literature)
• Online Syriac Resources (Beth Mardutho, The Syriac Institute)
• Oracc : Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus
• OsirisNet : Tombs of Ancient Egypt
• PACE : Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement (York University)
• PANDEKTIS : Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
• Papyrus of Ani; Egyptian Book of the Dead / translated by E.A. Wallis Budge (African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania)
• Perseus Digital Library (Department of the Classics, Tufts University)
• Perugia Genizah (Biblioteca del Dottorato, University of Perugia)
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani (Internet Archive)
• Quatremère de Quincy : Bibliothèque numérique
• Sinleqiunnini : Digital Cuneiform Archives
Ebla Digital Archives (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Middle Euphrates Digital Archive (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale")
• State Archives of Assyria (Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire)
Selected Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum
• Sumerian Literature (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford)
Diachronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
• Synallagma : Greek Contracts in Context (Uri Yiftach)
• Syriac Printed Texts On-line
• Syriac Studies Reference Library (Brigham Young University & The Catholic University of America)
• Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection (Cambridge University Library)
History in Fragments : A Genizah Centenary Exhibition
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (University of California, Irvine)
• TIMEA : Travelers in the Middle East Archive (Institute of Museum and Library Services & Rice University)
TIMEA Historical Maps and Plans
• Treasures from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
• Van der Meer-Cools Collection (University Library of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• The Warburg Institute : Digital Collections
• West Semitic Research Project (University of Southern California School of Religion)
InscriptiFact : Image Database of Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions
• Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem : Online Library (Hebrew)
• Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library
AdHoc : Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity
EIKON : Image Database for Biblical Studies
Publications
• Abgadiyat (Bibliotheca Alexandrina Calligraphy Center)
• Aegean Prehistoric News (Aegeus - Society for Aegean Prehistory )
• American Journal of Archaeology (Archaeological Institute of America)
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens : Publications
Digitized Collections of the Archives
• AMIR : Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources
• Anadolu Araştırmaları (İstanbul Üniversitesi)
• Ancient Near East Monographs (Society of Biblical Literature & Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente)
• Ancient World Digital Library (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World @ New York University)
AWOL 1 : CEFAEL : Collections de l’Ecole française d’Athènes en ligne
AWOL 2 : Oriental Institute Electronic Publications Initiative
AWOL 3 : Giza Archives Project
AWOL 5 : Online Publications of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
• Anistoriton : Journal of Archaeology, Art History and History
• Annales : Histoire, Sciences Sociales (Persée)
• Antiquity : Projects, Theses
• Archaeological Computing / Harrison Eiteljorg II, with GIS chapter by W. Fredrick Limp
• Archaeology (Archaeological Institute of America)
• Archaeonautica (Persée)
• ArchAtlas Journal (University of Sheffield)
• Archive of Mesopotamian Site Reports (AMAR) (Stony Brook University)
• Arkamani Sudan : Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology (Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
• Arta : Achaemenid Research on Texts and Archaeology (Achemenet)
• Atiqot (Israel Antiquities Authority)
• Aula Orientalis : Revista de Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo
• The Bible and Interpretation
• Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics
• Bioarchaeology of the Near East
• British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan
• Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (Persée)
• Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française (Persée)
• Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
• Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz (Persée)
• Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire
Egyptologists' Electronic Forum
• CEFAEL: Collections de l’Ecole française d’Athènes en ligne
• Collections électroniques de l’Ifpo (L’Institut français du Proche-Orient)
• Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Persée)
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin
Cuneiform Digital Library Journal
Cuneiform Digital Library Notes
• Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne (Persée)
• Digitalisierter Drucke (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen)
• DOAJ : Directory of Open Access Journals
• Egypt and the Near East – the crossroads (Proceedings of an International Conference on Relations of Egypt and the Near East in the Bronze Age, Prague, 2010)
• Egyptian Towns and Cities / Eric Uphill
• Egyptologists' Electronic Forum
Egyptological Book Series Online
E-Journals and Digitized Periodicals
Urkunden des aegyptischen Altertums
• Egyptology Resources : Journals and Magazines (The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University)
• E-journals in Philosophy (Université Catholique de Louvain)
• Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies (Universiteit Utrecht)
• ENiM : Égypte nilotique et méditerranéenne (Institut d'Égyptologie François Daumas, Université Montpellier)
• ETANA : Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives : Core Texts
• EZB : Electronic Journals Library (University Library of Regensburg)
• Filología Neotestamentaria (Biblical Studies on the Web)
• Getty Conservation Institute : Free PDF Publications
• Ginzei Qedem : Genizah Research Annual (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem)
• Giza Digital Library : Giza Archives Project (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies (Duke University)
• Hadashot Arkheologiyot : Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Israel Antiquities Authority)
• Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies
• Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies : e-CMES
• Historiae (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas)
• History of the Later Roman Empire / J. B. Bury (LacusCurtius)
• The House of Ptolemy / Edwyn R. Bevan (LacusCurtius)
• Hugoye : Journal of Syriac Studies (Beth Mardutho : The Syriac Institute)
• Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East : Electronic Pre-Publications
• Internet-Beitrage zur Agyptologie und Sudanarchaologie
• Jewish Studies : an Internet Journal
• Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (Lancaster University)
• Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology (PalArch)
• Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
• Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology
JIIA MyOpia Repository (till 2005)
• Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society (Jewish Theological Seminary)
• Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire : Bibliography
• LIVIUS : Articles on Ancient History (Jona Lendering)
• Loeb Classical Library (Ryan Baumann)
• Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome (Persée)
• Mètis : Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens (Persée)
• Mission Archéologique en Iran : Publications (Internet Archive)
• Nabu : Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (Achemenet)
• Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies (The Ancient World Online)
• Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• PACE : Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement (York University)
• Pagan and Christian Rome / Rodolfo Lanciani (LacusCurtius)
• PalArch : Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology
• Paléo : Revue d’Archéologie Préhistorique (Persée)
• PaleoAnthropology Journal (Paleoanthropology Society)
• Paléorient (Persée)
• Persée : Revues Scientifiques
• Polish Egyptological Journal
• Propylaeum-DOK : Digital Repository Classical Studies (University Library of Heidelberg)
• Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée (Persée)
• Publications de l’École Française de Rome (Persée)
• I Quaderni del Ramo d’Oro (Università di Siena)
• Religion Compass : Ancient Near East
• Review of Biblical Literature (Society of Biblical Literature)
• Revista de Estudios Ibéricos (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas)
• Revue des études byzantines (Persée)
• Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (Persée)
• Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (Universität zu Köln)
• Rosetta (Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham)
• Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology
• Stanford Journal of Archaeology
• Studia Orontica : Bulletin du Centre Syrien de la Recherche Archéologique
• Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico (Instituto de Estudios Islámicos y del Oriente Próximo)
• Sumerian Mythology / Samuel Noah Kramer
• Svenska Institutet i Rom / The Swedish Institute at Rome : Online Publications
• Syria : Archéologie, Art et histoire (Persée)
• Syriac Printed Texts On-line
• TC : A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (Society of Biblical Literature)
• Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies
• Uppsala Studies in Egyptology (Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History)
• Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony
Tools & Utilities
• ABZU (ETANA : Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives)
• AIGYPTOS : Database for Egyptological Literature (University of Munich & University of Heidelberg)
• Akkadian Dictionary (Association Assyrophile de France)
• The Amarna Tablets (Shlomo Izre’el)
Amarna Letters from Canaan and vicinity:
• Ancient Egypt (British Museum)
• Ancient Near Eastern archaeological sites on Google Earth (Uppsala Universitet)
• Ancient Near Eastern Languages
• Ancient Olympics (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & Peking University)
• Ancient World Mapping Center (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Annotated Parthia Bibliography
• Arabic-English Lexicon / Edward William Lane : 1863, 1968
• Aramaic Peshitta Bible Repository
• Archaeology Data Service (University of York)
• ArchAtlas (University of Sheffield) :
• ArchNet : WWW Virtual Library of Archaeology (Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University)
• Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• BAESL : Bibliography of Archaeological Excavations in the Southern Levant (Stewart Library, Weber State University)
• Beth Gazo D-ne'motho : The Treasury of Chants (Syriac Orthodox Resources)
• The Bible Student's Guide / by W. Wilson, 1850 (Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies)
• BDTNS : Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
• BiBIL : Bibliographie biblique informatisée de Lausanne (Université de Lausanne)
• The Bible and Interpretation
• Biblical Criticism Online (Tzemah Yoreh)
• BIBLindex (Institut des Sources Chretiennes)
• Bibliography of Emar Studies (Instituto de Estudios Islámicos y del Oriente Próximo)
• Bibliography of Semitic Linguistics
• The British Museum, Department of the Middle East : Web Resources
• Classics Studies Web (American Library Association)
• A Compendius Syriac Dictionary / edited by J. Payne Smith, 1903
Net Bible Library (Sergej A. Fedosov)
Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies
• A Coptic Dictionary / compiled by W. E. Crum, 1939 (Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies)
• Cuneiform Revealed : introduction to cuneiform script and the Akkadian language
• Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions (Ilona Regulski)
• Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities / William Smith (LacusCurtius)
• Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines / Daremberg & Saglio (Université de Toulouse Le Mirail)
• A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature / Marcus Jastrow (Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies)
• Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land
• Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
• Digitale Keilschriftbibliothek Lexikalischer Listen aus Assur (Universität Göttingen)
• Egyptian Antiquities Information System (Minister of State for Antiquities, Egypt)
• Egyptian Royal Genealogy : The Ptolemaic Dynasty
• Egyptology Resources : Essential Reference Material (The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University)
• Electronic Cuneiform Processing Projects
• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (University of Oxford)
• Emar / Meskene (Propylaeum, the Virtual Library Classical Studies)
• Emar Online Database (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz & Universität Würzburg)
• Emar Studies (Instituto de Estudios Islámicos y del Oriente Próximo)
• Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia University)
• Giza Archives Project (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Gnomon Online (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
• Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies
• Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament / by H.W.F. Gesenius (Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies)
• Hethitologie Portal Mainz (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz & Universität Würzburg)
• Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East (Universität Zürich & Brill Academic Publishers)
• Index of Egyptian History (Proceedings of the Friesian School)
• Index of Mesopotamian and Ancient Middle Eastern History (Proceedings of the Friesian School)
• Iranian studies (Harvard University)
• JSesh : Open Source Hieroglyphic Editor (Serge Rosmorduc)
• LacusCurtius : Into the Roman World (Bill Thayer)
• Leuven Database of Ancient Books (Trismegistos)
• Lexicon to the Syriac New Testament (Peshitta) / William Jennings, 1926
• LIVIUS : Articles on Ancient History (Jona Lendering)
• MEGA-Jordan : Geodatabase for archaeological sites (Getty Conservation Institute, World Monuments Fund, Jordanian Department of Antiquities)
• Museum of Egyptian Antiquities collection (Egypt Centre, University of Swansea)
• NESTOR : Bibilography of Aegean Prehistory & Related Areas (Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati)
• Northwest Semitic Inscription Archive (Robert Suder)
• Nostratic Dictionary / Aharon Dolgopolsky
• Old Babylonian Text Corpus (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen; Cuneiform Circle)
• Online Critical Pseudepigrapha (Society of Biblical Literature)
• Online Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (Hebrew Union College)
• Online Syriac Resources (Beth Mardutho, The Syriac Institute)
• Oracc : Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus
• ORBIS : The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
• Oriental Institute Map Series (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
• Oxford Expedition to Egypt : Scene-details Database
• PACE : Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement (York University)
• Papyrology Online (G.W. Schwendner)
• Papyrology Resources (John D. Muccigrosso)
• Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology)
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection : Historical Maps of the Middle East
• Pleiades (historical gazetteer)
• Practical Guide to the Grammar of Egyptian Demotic, more
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
• Prosopography of Ebla (Sapienza Università di Roma)
• RAMBI : Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (National Library of Israel)
• Searchable Greek Inscriptions (Packard Humanities Institute)
• Sinleqiunnini : Digital Cuneiform Archives
Ebla Digital Archives (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Middle Euphrates Digital Archive (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale")
• The Sources of Biblical Narrative (Tzemah Yoreh)
• Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (University of California, Irvine)
• TITUS : Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (Universität Frankfurt, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Københavns Universitet, Universidad de Oviedo)
• A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome / Samuel Ball Platner (LacusCurtius)
• The Warburg Institute : Gateway to Online Resources
• Yale University Library Near East Collection : Selected Internet Resources
Updated May 2013