Ancient Near Eastern Studies (ANE)

The Ancient Near Eastern collection in the Doe Library supports the teaching and research interests of the faculty and students in Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology program. Areas of interest include archaeology, art, history, languages, and cultures of Ancient Egypt, Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Iran.

Ca. 2700 BCE

At the British Museum

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E-Journals titles covering Ancient Near Eastern Studies:

Anthropology Plus
Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture. This database combines the resources of Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature.
ATLA Religion Database
Indexes scholarly journals, books, edited volumes worldwide, and book reviews related to religion and theology.
British Museum collection database
Feature around 5,000 objects that reflect the range of the British Museum's collections.
DYABOLA
The Realkatalog DAI Rom is the subject catalogue of one of the world's largest and oldest collections of books, journals, and research material on Classical, Egyptian, and Near Eastern archaeology; Byzantine art; epigraphy; numismatics; and ancient history.
eHRAF Archaeology
A collections of documents on archaeological traditions, subtraditions, and important sites worldwide.
FRANCIS
Indexes over 3,000 journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique, most records are in French, with about 33% in English.
JSTOR
Includes over 1000 scholarly journals with access to more than 2 million articles. JSTOR is an archive which means that current issues (generally the most recent 3-5 years) of the journals are not yet available. For more sophisticated search capabilities, go directly to JSTOR advanced search.
Online Egyptological Bibliography
Indexes articles from important egyptological journals, festschriften, and conference volumes. Includes access to materials indexed in the print counterpart, Annual Egyptological Bibliography, as well as newly published books and articles.

A Rhyton from Ecbatana(National Museum, Tehran)

A selected list

The ancient gods speak : a guide to Egyptian religion / edited by Donald B. Redford. Doe Reference BL2428 .A53 2002 Read at Google Read at Google

The Cambridge ancient history / edited by John Boardman ... [et al.] Doe Reference D57 .C26 (v.1-14) Read at Google Read at Google

Dictionary of the ancient Near East / edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard. Doe Reference Reference Hall DS56 .D5 2000 Read at Google Read at Google

A companion to the ancient Near East / edited by Daniel C. Snell Doe Reference DS57 .C56 2005 Read at Google Read at Google

Civilizations of the ancient Near East / Jack M. Sasson, editor in chief Doe Reference Reference Hall DS57 .C55 1995 Read at Google Read at Google

Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East / by Michael Roaf. Doe Reference DS69.5 .R63 1990 Read at Google Read at Google

Historical atlas of the ancient world / edited by Anne-Maria Wittke, Eckart Olshausen, and Richard Szydlak Doe Reference Atlases G1033 .H5713 2010 Read at Google Read at Google

The new cultural atlas of Egypt / edited by Leon Gray. Doe Reference G2491.E6 M3 2010 Read at Google Read at Google

Lexikon der Ägyptologie / hrsg. von Wolfgang Helck und Eberhard Otto Doe Reference PJ1031 .H41

Encyclopaedia Iranica
A multi-disciplinary reference work and research tool about Iranian history and civilization.
Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Over 260 contributors from around the globe. Represents the diversity of issues and theoretical paradigms that drive archaeological research.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
600 entries covering the prehistoric, predynastic, and dynastic phases of ancient Egypt within the context of its contiguous and sometimes conquering neighbors.
Oxford Reference Online - Linguistics
Access to dictionaries and companions published by Oxford University Press on the topic of mythology, folklore, fables and superstition.
Oxford Reference Online - Religion
Access to 12 reference sources published by Oxford University Press on the topics in the area religion and philosophy.
Oxford Reference Online - Encyclopedias
The World Encyclopedia from Oxford University Press.
Oxford University Press - Mythology and Folklore
Access to six dictionaries of folklore and mythology. Search sources collectively or search within an individual title.

Faience amulet in the shape of an ankh

Said to be from Gebel Barkal, Egypt
25th Dynasty to Late Period, about 700-500 BCE

At the British Museum

ebrary
A database of more than 37,000 complete e-books.
HathiTrust
Pronounced "hah-tee", this cooperative system contains millions of books scanned from UC and other major research libraries, including those digitized by Google and the Internet Archive.
eScholarship: UC Archaeological Research Facility (ARF)
The ARF is a research unit supporting UC Berkeley archaeologists who are faculty members and researchers from a wide range of academic departments. The eScholarship site hosts a selection of field and laboratory reports that ARF archaeologists produced from 1977 to the 2008. Most of these reports are not catalogued in OskiCat or Melvyl.
Google Book Search
Searches the full text of books on many subjects, including some from the University of California libraries. The full text of a book can be displayed only if the book is out of copyright (generally, published before 1923) or if the copyright holder has given permission. Entries include links to "Find this book in a library". This system is still in "beta" stage, so results may vary as Google makes changes in its programming.
Google Scholar
Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas.

Silver Paleo-Elamite vase

Silver Paleo-Elamite vase
Marv-Dasht, near Persepolis.
19cm high, middle of 3^rd millennium BC

Listed below are a few useful online sources for free articles, images, and general information about the Ancient Near East:

Archive of Mesopotamian Site Reports (AMAR)

Ashmolean Museum - Antiquities (University of Oxford)

AWOL - Ancient World Online: Over 1000 Open Source Journals

A Bibliography of Semitic Linguistics

The British Museum: The Middle East Program

The Chicago Oriental Institute

The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL)

The Egyptian Museum

International World History Project

Institut français d’archéologie orientale Le Caire, Égypte

Institut français du Proche-Orient

Iraq Museum, International

The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)

Sumerian Language Page

Dhiban Excavation and Development Project team members excavate a fifteenth century CE building at Tall Dhiban in Jordan during their 2009 season:

Dr. Benjamin Porter (UC Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies), Saleh al-Thibani (Dhiban community member and archaeology student), Colleen Morgan (UC Berkeley, Anthropology graduate student), and Dr. Jeffrey Pearson (UC Berkeley Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Program, alumnus)