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ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML

"Abzu is an experimental guide to the rapidly increasing and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet." There are a variety of organizational indexes available, including author, institutional affiliation, subject/topic, region, and material type.

Author: Charles E. Jones (cejo@midway.uchicago.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Keywords: Egypt; Mesopotamia

Akhet Egyptology

http://www.akhet.co.uk/

Information about ancient Egypt, including Egyptian mythology, mummification, a list of kings (with biographical material), Egyptian art and sculpture, and an annotated guide to Egyptological Web sites.

Author: Iain Hawkins (akhet@iname.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Social Sciences--Anthropology

Social Sciences--Archaeology

Keywords: Egypt; Egyptology

Azerbaijan International

http://azer.com/

"Azerbaijan International is an independent magazine published since 1993 and committed to the discussion of issues related to Azerbaijanis around the world." In addition to magazine articles, this site contains information on other topics of interest, including music, art, and international business. Also contains personal accounts written by Azerbaijanis.

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Regional & Country Information--Middle East

Keywords: Middle East; former Soviet Union; CIS

Byzantium: The Byzantine Studies Page

http://www.bway.net/~halsall/byzantium.html

An extremely thorough website that has been prepared as a WWW gathering point for Byzantine studies. Information is divided into categories: News; Academic and Teaching Resources; Texts, Images and Sounds; And Links to other resources. Also has links to sourcebooks for other areas of history.

Author: Paul Halsall

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Europe--Middle Ages (Medieval)

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Keywords: Roman Empire; Greece; Medieval; Orthodox Church; Christian; Greek

Costumes of the Levant

http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600.technology/640/646/costumes_of_the_Levant/

The site provides an overview with photographs of historical Lebanese, Syrian, Bedouin and Kurdish clothing.

Author: Margaret Clark Keatinge (almashriq@hiof.no)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Middle Eastern

Social Sciences--Customs, Etiquette, Folklore--Costume & Dress

Keywords: Clothing; Fashion; Arab

Encyclopaedia of the Orient (CIAS)

http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm

A reference tool allowing searches on anything concerning the Arabic World, "built on the idea that improved knowledge between the Muslim world and the countries of Europe and North America was extremely important both for the people suffering from misunderstandings and artificial distance, and for helping to avoid the crisis predicted by scholars for the decades to come." Has frames.

Author: Tore Kjeilen (tore@i-cias.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Arts & Humanities--Religion & Theology--Faiths & Denominations--Islam

Regional & Country Information--Middle East

Keywords: Arabic; Islam; North Africa

Frontline : The Gulf War

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/index.html

This is the companion website to the PBS Frontline documentary "The Gulf War". It offers transcripts of interviews with participants in the war from both sides, as well as maps, a chronology of the conflict, and descriptions of the weapons employed during the war.

Author: Frontline and WGBH Educational Foundation

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--Wars

Keywords: Desert Storm; Kuwait; Iraq; Persian Gulf War

History of Iran/Persia

http://homepages.go.com/~hrolfkrake/history/history.html

Traces the history of Iran from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Includes a bibliography.

Author: Khodadad Rezakhani (khodadad21@yahoo.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Keywords: Persia

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Directory of primary source material for medieval studies that is availble on the Net. Browse by type of source or search. Includes special sections for , Maps and Images, and secondary sources. A large number of the texts on this site are religion-related, chiefly Christianity and Islam.

Author: Paul Halsall

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Europe--Middle Ages (Medieval)

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Keywords: Medieval Studies; Primary Sources

Islam: Empire of Faith

http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/

"Online companion to the PBS film about the faith, culture, innovation, and people of the Islamic empires."

Author: PBS and Devillier Donegan Enterprises (www@ps.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Arts & Humanities--Religion & Theology--Faiths & Denominations--Islam

Keywords: Victorian England

Jerusalem in Old Maps and Views

http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/maps.html

"We love history. We love maps. And we think Jerusalem's kinda nifty, too. Imagine how delighted we were to find the Israeli government's Jerusalem in Old Maps and Views page. From the earliest known image of the city - a sixth-century mosaic - to a 1905 mizrach (a wall decoration indicating east), these maps depict Jerusalem with flair and symbolism. Symbolism, in fact, means more to these mapmakers than geography; were we lost in Jerusalem with one of these maps contemporarily in hand, we'd still be lost in Jerusalem. To be fair, we should say that most of the maps depict more the country than the city, but Jerusalem, being what it is, always seems to be a focal point. "

Author: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ask@israel-info.gov.il)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

Reference--Geography--Maps & Atlases

Keywords: Jerusalem

XHMI

http://www.emiws.com/ccc/

Database of photographs and Web resources relating to ancient Egypt. Also has links to news stories about Egypt and Egyptology.

Author: Emile Badir

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Middle East

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