Art of the Ancient Near East
Last updated September 2008
ANCIENT NEAR EAST
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- Lost Treasures from Iraq, since May 2003
- Protecting Ancient History in Iraq
- Mesopotamian Art (through ArtLex)
- Ancient Near East (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Ancient Near Eastern Art (Special Topics, through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Near Eastern Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Archaic Mesopotamia (through Images from History)
- Mesopotamia (through the British Museum), with links to
- Department of the Middle East at the British Museum, London, with a link to Galleries
- Mesopotamian Art in the Gregorian Egyptian Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
- Ancient Near Eastern Art in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Metalwork and Ceramics in the Ancient Near East in the collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, with links to page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5
- Near Eastern Antiquities (182 selected examples) in the collection of the Louvre Museum, Paris
- The Middle East in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, with a link to
- Ancient Near Eastern Art in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Art
- Mesopotamian Art in the collection of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
- ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East available on the Internet (Oriental Institute, Chicago)
- Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries, with a link to Browse the collection
- Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with a link to Ten selected examples
- Mesopotamia (Highlights of the Museum of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
- Ancient Tablets, Ancient Graves: Accessing Women's Lives in Mesopotamia (through Women In World History Curriculum)
- The Ziggurat (through Archimedia I- Architecture in Ancient Near East), with links to:
- Ziggurat of King Untash Napirisha
- Excavations at Khorsabad, through the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- The Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (University of Pennsylvania) Quicktime movie
- The Northwest Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud, An Interactive Publication -- Prototype (through Learning Sites, Inc.)
- The Babylonian Collection, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
- Museum of the Ancient Near East, Berlin
- Assyria (Highlights of the Museum of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
- Assyrian Treasures from the City of Kalhu (Nimrud): The Tombs of the Assyrian Queens Yaba, Banitu, and Atalia
- Persepolis and Ancient Iran, a Catalogue of Expedition Photographs in the collection of the Museum of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Persepolis
- Persepolis (mostly images)
- Iran (Highlights of the Museum of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
- Images of Ancient Iran (through the Iranian Cultural and Information Center)
- Sassanian Iran in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Sassanian Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Sasanian Seals Collection and Sasanian Empire Project
- Anatolia, and page 2 (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Ancient West Asia (through Images from History), with links to:
- Bogazkale (Bogazköy) and the Hittite city of Hattusha, Turkey (photographs)
- Achaemenid Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Persian Art Through The Centuries (through IranSaga, Persian History and Culture)
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