Open Educational Resources for the study of the Ancient Near East list compiled by Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni with the assistance of Rachel Williams at the University of Central Florida.
This OER compilation is provided under a Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0
.Primary Sources/Text Translation Projects
Description: Co-display of multiple digital papyrological resources in a scholarly web resource. Includes collections from Yale, Michigan, Berkeley, and other libraries; nearly 35,000 paypri in all, in Arabic, Coptic, Greek, Ancient Egyptian, and other languages.
Persepolis Fortification Archive Project
Description: A collection of texts and objects discovered in Perspepolis.
PNAo: Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire online
Description: Provides a collection of additions and corrections to the printed fascicles of The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. A separate section is devoted to new information about Neo-Assyrian eponym officials.
Description: Provides a global registry of compositions rather than objects, supporting the creation of scores on Oracc.
RIAo: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online
Description: This project intends to present annotated editions of the entire corpus of Assyrian royal inscriptions, texts that were published in RIMA 1-3.
RIBo: Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online
Description: This project intends to present annotated editions of the entire corpus of Babylonian royal inscriptions from the Second Dynasty of Isin to the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty (1157-539 BC).
Rim-Anum: The House of Prisoners
Description: Rīm-Anum, king of Uruk (ca. 1741–1739 BC) revolted against Samsuiluna of Babylon, son of Hammurapi, and enjoyed a short-lived independence. The archive edited in this project derives from the house of prisoners (bīt asiri) that kept the prisoners of war.
RINAP: Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period
Description: Presents fully searchable, annotated editions of the royal inscriptions of Neo-Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), Esarhaddon (680-669 BC), Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630-627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626-612 BC).
SAAo: State Archives of Assyria Online
Description: The online counterpart to the State Archives of Assyria series.
SAA: State Archives of Assyria
Description: State Archives of Assyria (SAA) is a series of critical text editions of Neo-Assyrian texts, primarily those from the royal palaces at Nineveh, but also including some texts from other sites, organized by text genres.
Description: Sources of early Akkadian literature. A catalogue of Akkadian literary texts from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, many with translations.
Suhu: The Inscriptions of Suhu online
Description: This project presents annotated editions of the officially commissioned texts of the extant, first-millennium-BC inscriptions of the rulers of Suhu.
Description: Provides a global registry of cuneiform manuscripts, supplementary to CDLI.
Subject Bibliographies
Bibliography of the cuneiform texts and inscriptions kept in Syrian Museums
Description: Overview of the collections of tablets in Syrian museums.
Keilschriftbibliogrpahie (KeiBi) Online
Description:
(open access) The International Keilschriftbibliographie (KeiBi) was first published by the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome in the journal Orientalia in 1940 (Orientalia N.S. 9). It became an essential tool for the study, research, and teaching of Ancient Near Eastern Studies. In the KeiBi online Database, all issues already published can be searched simultaneously.
Online Egyptological Bibliography
Description:
Includes the volumes 1947 to 2001 of the previous Annual Egyptological Bibliography, some 46,000 titles in total. From early 2009, titles will be added as they become available, after review by the editor.
Videos
1177: the Year that Civilization Collapsed
Description: Author Eric Cline outlines the central arguments from his book in an accessible lecture.
Description: ASOR's YouTube channel with lectures and other video resources.
Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing
Description: Irving Finkel discusses the development of cuneiform writing.
Description:
A YouTube channel run by scholars of the ancient Near East featuring a variety of relevant topics.
Description: The world's oldest epic suffers from a lack of film adaptations. Here is an animated version.
Description: Video lectures, curator talks and other presentations on the OI YouTube channel.
Videos from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Description: Videos about Egypt and to a lesser extent the wider ancient Near East.
Description: Educational videos organized by collections, e.g. Ancient Near East.
Description:
Various videos relevant to Egypt and ANE topics.
YouTube Channel from the Museo Egizio
Description: Episodes available in Italian with English captioning.