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Selected websites

Links to extensive lists of Archaeology web resources compiled by various authoritative individuals and organizations. There is overlap but each has a slightly different orientation and covers different aspects of Archaeology.

  • ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index is an annotated bibliographic database compiled by an international team of specialists initiated in 1997 by the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • Abzu: Guide to resources for the study of the Ancient Near East produced by the Oriental Institute at Chicago University. This is an excellent academic website which is updated regularly and organises resources into logical subject categories.
  • Archaeology on the net links to a large range of individual sites on a wide range of relevant subject areas for archaeology students at Monash University.
  • ArchNet: WWW Virtual Library Information is categorized by geographic region and subject. Journals, publishers, academic departments and museums are covered. There is a news section, a search engine and a questions and answers section.
  • Biblical Archaeologist was a journal produced by the American Schools of Oriental Research. The library holds a CD-ROM covering 1977-1992. This journal is continued by Near Eastern archaeology.
  • BUBL LINK 930 History of ancient world selected high-quality resources of academic relevance. Site is based in the UK and uses the Dewey Decimal Classification numbering system to organise information. Links to other sites are regularly updated and have a brief description. There are many important links to resources here.
  • Centre for Computer Aided Egyptological Research (CCER) at Utrecht University in The Netherlands specializes in matters related to the application of computers in Egyptology. The Centre's activities concern developing general methods and programs, and providing world-wide advice and support. In this respect it coordinates the activities of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists. The activities of the CCER in the past few years have resulted in a number of publications and computer programs. The site includes Institutions and Museums, a directory of over 1,000 Egyptologists, a multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus, the complete hieroglyphica, the coffin text word index and prosopographia Aegypti.
  • Classics and Ancient World from Digital Librarian : a librarians choice of the best of the web. Links to a broad range of archaeological related information.
  • Division of Classics, University of Kentucky Library pages provides excellent links to a range of classics resources.
  • Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts and images of approximately 1400 papyri from Ancient Egypt.
  • Egyptology Resources produced by University of Cambridge. It has a large range of resources and links.
  • Hatti-Homeland of the Hittites specialises in resources on HATTI, homeland of the Hittites, one of the most powerful near-eastern empires of the second millennium B.C.
  • The House of Ptolemy created by Adam Philippidis. It has not been updated since 2002, however many links are still valid.
  • Index to Archaeology (journal of the Archaeological Institute of America) with abstracts from 1991. It includes book and multimedia reviews and articles from 1996 with related links.
  • KMT: a modern journal of Ancient Egypt the table of contents and selected articles from current and recent issues of this journal of Egyptology. Includes an index from the first issue 1990.
  • Menne C Kosian's Archaeology site contains all kinds of archaeological information for European archaeology, especially the Mediterranean. It covers European, Greek and Roman Archaeology, computers in Archaeology and Archaeology News and a list of further useful web sites.
  • World Atlas of Archaeology on the Web each country, state, territory or province has a page listing researchers, sites and university programs.
  • Monash University, School of Historical Studies, Archaeology and Ancient History, Links the Centre provides its own links to a range of sites.
  • Tables of contents of journals of interest to Classicists ( TOCS-IN) provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies and Religion journals. Project originated at University of Toronto in 1992. The database indexes approximately 185 journals.
  • The WWWorld of Archaeology is provided by the Archaeological Institute of America. It includes indexes to archaeological web sites and the home pages of archaeological organizations and journals.

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