MESOPOTAMIA & The Fertile Crescent

MESOPOTAMIA & The Fertile Crescent
An Internet Hotlist on MESOPOTAMIA & Fertile Crescent

created by Marilyn Abramowitz
Mineola High School Library

Introduction
Consult the print resources, online databases, and these links for information on the various cultures that made up the area of MESOPOTAMIA.

The Internet Resources

Mesopotamia=Assyrians,Babylonians,Sumerians

Ancient Babylonia -
Ancient Mesopotamia - Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria
Ancient Sumer -
Assyria -
Assyrian Collection - from the Oriental Institute Museum
Babylon, Iraq -
Babylonia - links from The Ancient History Sourcebook
Babylonian Mathematics -
Brief History of Assyrians -
Creation and a Great Flood - surviving Sumerian myths
Hammurabi's Babylon -
Hammurabi's Code of Laws - from Yale Law School
Hebrews & Assyrians -
Map of Ancient Mesopotamia -
Mesopotamia (1) - from Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Mesopotamia (2) - from Mr. Dowling
Mesopotamia - Why Do Civilizations Fall? -
Mesopotamia: Assyria, Babylonia, Sumer -
Mesopotamian Protohistory -
Sargon and the Vanishing Sumerians -
Sumerian -
Sumerian Mythology -
The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology -
The Beginnings of Assyria and Babylonia -
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Holy City of Nippur - for thousands of years the religious center of Mesopotamia, where Enlil, the supreme god of the Sumerian pantheon, created mankind
The Mesopotamian Collection - of the Oriental Institute Museum
The Sumerians -

Persians

Ancient Persia - articles
Ardashir and the Persians -
History of the Persian Empire -
Manichaeism, a Universalist Faith -
Parse or Persepolis: Ancient Capital of Persian-Achaeminid-Empire - from History Of Iran
Persia - Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Persian Empire -
Perspolis - Ancient Persia
The Persian Wars -
The Sassanids -

Hebrews

Biblical History - from the Jewish History Resource Center
Hebrew - the language
Hebrews and Assyrians -
Holy Land Maps -
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook -
Israel - Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Scrolls From The Dead Sea -
The Hebrews - from Ancient Worlds Library
The Hebrews - A Learning Module -
The Hebrews to 1000 BCE -
Zoroastrians and Judaism -

Hittites

Ancient Worlds: The Hittites -
Code of the Nesilim: 1650-1500 BCE - Nesilim is the Hittites' name for themselves
Great Hittite Kingdom -
Hatti and Hittite Principalities -
Hittite/Hurrian Mythology -
Hittites -
Mesopotamia: The Hittites -
Timeline of the Hittites -

Phoenicians

Ancient Greek Civilizations: The Phoenicians -
Ancient Iberia - scroll down to: Iron Age and Colonial Period for info on Phoenician colonization, etc.
Encyclpedia Phoeniciana -
Evolution of the Alphabet - Phoenician contributions
Hellenes & Phoenicians, 430 BCE -
History of Lebanon - whose first known occupants were the Phoenicians
Mesopotamia's Region of PHOENICIA -
New Article on Phoenicia -
Phoenicia (1) - map, history, timeline
Phoenicia (2) -
Phoenician Ships -
Phoenicians -
Phonecian Alphabet -
The Ancient Phoenicians -
The Ancient World: Phoenicians -
The Phoenician Experience -
The Phoenicians -
Timeline: 1000 - 501 BCE - includes info on the Phoenicians
Who Were The Phoenicians? - article from National Geographic
Who are the 'Canaanites'? - Greeks renamed the Canaanites the Phoenikes or Phoenicians

All Ancient Cultures

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (Hotlist) - includes Myths & Legends

Content by Marilyn Abramowitz, mabramowitz@mineola.k12.ny.us
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listbabylonima.html
Last revised Wed Oct 24 5:49:28 US/Pacific 2007