Art of the Ancient Near East
Last updated January 2012
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 Eastern Art, Thematic Essays through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- Near Eastern Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Archaic Mesopotamia
- Mesopotamia (through the British Museum), with links to
- The Royal Tombs at Ur (through Sumerian Shakespeare)
- Queen Puabi’s Diadem and Headdress (part of Iraq’s Ancient Past – Rediscovering Ur’s Royal Cemetery)
- The Standard of Ur: War and Who is the king on the Standard or Ur? (through Sumerian Shakespeare), with
- Middle Eastern Art in the British Museum, London
- 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
- Mesopotamian Art in the collection of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
- ABZU: a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world
- Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries, with a link to Browse the collection
- 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)
- Ziggurat of King Untash Napirisha
- Excavations at Khorsabad, through the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- 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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