ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Art of the 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)
- Sumeria (Mesopotamia) and page 2
- Assyria and pages 2, 3, and 4
- Babylonia
- Iran / Persia
Ancient Near Eastern Art, Thematic Essays through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- The Ubaid Period (5500–4000 B.C.)
- Art of the First Cities in the Third Millennium B.C.
- Uruk: The First City
- Ur: The Ziggurat
- Ur: The Royal Graves
- Ebla in the Third Millennium B.C.
- Epic of Creation (Mesopotamia)
- Flood Stories
- Gilgamesh
- Ugarit
- Urartu
- The Akkadian Period (ca. 2350–2150 B.C.)
- The Hittites
- Eynan/Ain Mallaha (10,000–8200 B.C.)
- List of Rulers: Mesopotamia
- Mesopotamian Deities
- The Gods and Goddesses of Canaan
- The Origins of Writing
- Assyria, 1365–609 B.C.
- Palmyra
- Nabataean Kingdom and Petra
- The Phoenicians (1500–300 B.C.)
- The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.)
- The Seleucid Empire (323–64 B.C.)
- Parthian Empire (247 B.C.–224 A.D.)
- The Sasanian Empire (224–651 A.D.)
Near Eastern Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
Archaic Mesopotamia (through Images from History)
Mesopotamia (through the British Museum), with links to
- Geography
- Gods, Goddesses, Demons and Monsters
- Time
- Writing
  Assyria
- Palaces of Assyria
- Warfare
  Babylonia
- The Astronomers of Babylon
- Trade and Transport
  Sumer
- The Royal Tombs at Ur
- Ziggurats
Department of the Middle East at the British Museum, London, with a link to Galleries
- Mesopotamia 6000-1500 BC (Room 56)
- Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC (Room 55)
- Assyrian sculpture and Balawat Gates (Room 6)
- Assyria: Nimrud (Rooms 7-8)
- Assyria: Nineveh (Room 9)
- Assyria: Lion Hunts (Room 10a)
- Assyrian Life (Room 89)
- Ancient Iran (Room 52)
- Ancient Levant (Rooms 57-9)
Mesopotamian Art in the Gregorian Egyptian Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
- Room VIII. Cuneiform tablets and seals from Mesopotamia; vases and bronzes from Syria-Palestine (3rd-1st mill. BC) Reliefs from Palmira (1st-3rd cent. AD)
- Room IX. Reliefs and inscriptions from Assyrian palaces (883-612 BC)
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
- Oriental Coins (with examples from the Ancient Near and Middle East)
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:
- White Temple at Warka or Uruk (Sumer)
- The ziggurat (and temple?) of Ur-Nammu
- Ziggurat of Marduk (Tower of Babel)
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
- Introduction
- Persepolis Terrace: Architecture, Reliefs, And Finds
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:
- Early Dynastic Sumer (2900-2370 B.C.)
- Classical Akkad (2370-2004 B.C.)
- Old Babylonian period (c. 2004 - 1595 B.C.)
- Assyria (14th c. to 612 B.C.)
- Neo-Babylonian Empire
- Early to Middle Bronze Age Anatolia (3000-17-- B.C.)
- Hittite Old Kingdom and Hittite Empire
- Neo-Hittite and post-Hittite States of Anatolia
- Elburz Mountains (Tepe Hissar)
- Ancient Kurdistan (Hasanlu, Ziwiyeh)
- Luristan (Goden Tepe, Diyala Valley, etc.)
- Khuzistan (archaic Susa, Elam)
- Fars (Persopolis)
- Median and Achæmenid Empire of Iran
- Parthian Empire
- Sassanid Empire (3rd to 7th c. A.D.)
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)
- Neolithic
- Elamite
- The Arrival of the Iranians
- Luristan
- Marlik
- Mannai
- The Medes & Achaemenians
- The Achaemenians
- The Hellenistic Period
- The Parthians
- The Sassanians -1
- The Sassanians -2

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