External resources

General resources

ABZU [http://www.etana.org/abzu]
A guide to information related to the study of the ancient Near East on the web, 1994-. A portal run by the University of Chicago.

Achemenet [http://www.achemenet.com/]
A resource website on all matters concerning Achaemenid history and Late-Babylonian time studies with expansive publications online.

Livius, articles on ancient history [http://www.livius.org/babylonia.html]
History and epigraphy especially of the first millennium B.C. but not only. A very useful catalogue of transliterated and translated Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles.

Knowledge and scholarship

Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire [http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk]
A website on the scholars under Assyrian rules with editions online of SAA 10 (Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian scholars), SAA 4 (Queries to the Sungod: divination and politics in Sargonid Assyria) and SAA 8 (Astrological reports to Assyrian kings).

Related projects

The Cuneiform Digital Library [http://cdl.museum.upenn.edu/]
Directed by Steve Tinney at the University of Pennsylvania and Bob Englund at UCLA

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative [http://cdli.ucla.edu/]
The library of cuneiform tablets since the beginning of writing until the end of the pre-Christian era.

Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (DCCLT) [http://cdl.museum.upenn.edu/dcclt/]
Project lead by Professor Niek Veldhuis of the University of California at Berkeley.

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk]
Sumerian compositions now accessible online.

State Archives of Assyria [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/]
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project directed by Simo Parpola at the University of Helsinki

Museums housing GKAB tablets

British Museum [http://www.britishmuseum.org/]

Musée du Louvre [http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp]

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara [http://www.anadolumedeniyetlerimuzesi.gov.tr/Default.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFF670AAAC19264C5A83279AE04412C3F4F]

Staatliche Museen, Berlin [http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/smb/index.php]

Specialist catalogues and bibliographies

The Babylonian Nineveh Texts [http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~n53/nineveh/index.htm]
By Jeannette Fincke at the University of Heidelberg, 2003. A specialists' catalogue of the scholarly tablets from Nineveh that were written in Babylonian dialect, not Assyrian.

Bibliography of Mesopotamian Astronomy and Astrology [http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/babylon/babybibl.htm]
By R. H. Van Gent at Utrecht University.

Magic and Divination in the Neo-Assyrian Period: a Selected Bibliography [http://www.orientalisti.net/na_magic.htm]
By Lorenzo Verderame at Università di Roma "La Sapienza", 2004.

Research Sources for Astrology: Mesopotamian and Near Eastern Sources [http://www.smoe.org/arcana/astrol4.html]
By Lester Ness, 2002.

 
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Knowledge and Power [http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk]
State Archives of Assyria [http://cdl.museum.upenn.edu/saa/]
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