Ancient Near East

Nippur

The history and current excavations of the capital of the Mesopotamian culture, first settled around 6,000 years ago, from the Oriental Institute.[Archaeological Sites]...

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Inscription of Tiglath Pileser I - (38k)

Assyrian and Babylonian texts...

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Tell Abu Duwari

A large early second millennium B.C. village, research abstracted in Journal of Field Archaeology; and an abstract from a subsequent season.[Archaeological Sites] [Iraq]...

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Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II - (24k)

Assyrian and Babylonian texts...

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The Ka'bah-i-Zardusht

PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN, Multiple images (with high resolution photos) Oriental Institute, University of Chicago http://www-oi.uchicago.edu...

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Annals of Assur-Nasir-Pal - (71k)

Assyrian and Babylonian texts...

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The Prehistoric Mound Of Tall-i-Bakun

PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN, Multiple images (with high resolution photos) Oriental Institute, University of Chicago http://www-oi.uchicago.edu...

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Learning Sites Inc. - Til Barsib Syria

The Aramaean city of Tel Barsib, and a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire for some 250 years beginning about 850 BC, from the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne. [Archaeological Sites] [Iraq]...

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Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar - (30k)

Assyrian and Babylonian texts...

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ISTAKHR, THE ISLAMIC CITY MOUND

PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN, Multiple images (with high resolution photos) Oriental Institute, University of Chicago http://www-oi.uchicago.edu...

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