A preliminary set of placemarks (ANE.kmz) for Google Earth of a selection of the most important archaeological sites in the Ancient Near East can be downloaded here (as an alternative try right-click or ctrl-click).

Ancient Near East Placemarks on Google Earth with alphabetic listing.

ANE.kmz works with Google Earth, which has to be downloaded (free at earth.google.com). When opened inside Google Earth, ANE.kmz gives, to the left, an alphabetic list of ancient sites and, to the right, on the satellite photo the same sites marked. For the moment, there are some 2500 sites with modern names; among them some 400 have ancient names. Additions of more sites are planned.

Ancient name is written without parenthesis. Modern name is within parenthesis. Most sites have been identified on the satelite photos. However, a few sites are only placed in the possible area, e.g. in a village with the right name when the site may be outside (if so marked with question mark ? after the parenthesis around the modern name). Question mark after ancient name means that identification is not yet proven. Question mark efter modern name (but before parenthesis around the name) means spelling of name uncertain. Two question marks ?? at the end indicate that it may not be a site but could possibly be a natural hill.

The preliminary work has received support from the University of Uppsala, the Urban Mind Project at Mistra, and the Excellence Cluster Topoi at Freie Universität Berlin.

A short introduction to the project dealing with ANE on Google Earth can be read in my manuscript paper Ancient Near East on Google Earth: Problems, Preliminary results, and Prospect.

Van Nice, Robert L. Saint Sophia in Istanbul : an architectural survey. [1965-1986]. DBL-FOLIO NA5870.A9 V36 1965. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C. 
 

[Front matter] (seq. 1-2)

Installment 1 booklet (seq. 3-10)

[Installment 2] booklet (seq. 11-18)

Portfolio of plates (seq. 19-70)

f. [1]. Half-title page(seq. 19)

f. [2]. Title page(seq. 20)

f. [2]v.(seq. 21)

f. [3]. Plates title page(seq. 22)

f. [4]. Saint Sophia : view from the southwest (color plate). Frontispiece(seq. 23)

pl. 1. General plan at ground level(seq. 24)

pl. 2. General plan at gallery level(seq. 25)

pl. 3. General plan at springings of main arches and semidomes(seq. 26)

pl. 4. Transverse section, looking east(seq. 27)

pl. 5. Longitudinal section, looking south(seq. 28)

pl. 6. West elevation(seq. 29)

pl. 7. South elevation: projecting elements shown in trace outline; unbonded breaks …(seq. 30)

pl. 8. East elevation(seq. 31)

pl. 9. Plan at ground level, western areas: nave, side aisles, narthex, exonarthex(seq. 32)

pl. 10. Plan at ground level, central areas: nave, side aisles(seq. 33)

pl. 11. Plan at ground level, eastern areas: nave, side aisles, apse(seq. 34)

pl. 12. Plan at ground level, southeastern exterior areas(seq. 35)

pl. 13. Plan at ground level, southwestern exterior areas: baptistry, ramp, vestibule …(seq. 36)

pl. 14. Plan at ground level, northwestern exterior areas: vestibule, ramp(seq. 37)

pl. 15. Plan at ground level, northeastern exterior areas: treasury, ramp, arcosolium(seq. 38)

pl. 16. Plan at intermediate level, southwestern exterior areas: space between ground and gallery(seq. 39)

pl. 17. Plan at gallery level, western areas(seq. 40)

pl. 18. Plan at gallery level, central areas(seq. 41)

pl. 19. Plan at gallery level, eastern areas(seq. 42)

pl. 20. Plan at gallery level, southwestern exterior areas(seq. 43)

pl. 21. Plan at level of upper cornice of nave, western areas: springings of main arch …(seq. 44)

pl. 22. Plan at level of upper cornice of nave, central areas: springings of main arches …(seq. 45)

pl. 23. Plan at level of upper cornice of nave, eastern areas: springings of main arch ...(seq. 46)

pl. 24. Plan at level of main semidomes: west(seq. 47)

pl. 25. Plan at level of main semidomes: center(seq. 48)

pl. 26. Plan at level of main semidomes: east(seq. 49)

pl. 27. Plan at level of buttress roofs; cutting through pendentives and dome base(seq. 50)

pl. 28. Plan of dome at cornice and window levels(seq. 51)

pl. 29. Transverse section looking east : nave floor to dome cornice(seq. 52)

pl. 30. Transverse section looking east : higher elements (upper parts of gallery and dome(seq. 53)

pl. 31. Longitudinal section looking south : apse, east semidome, and main piers(seq. 54)

pl. 32. pl. 32A. Longitudinal section looking south ; pl. 32B. Cutaway isometic view(seq. 55)

pl. 33. Longitudinal section looking south : higher elements (apse, east semidome, and main dome)(seq. 56)

pl. 34. pl. 34A. West semidome, south elevation ; pl. 34B. Longitudinal section, looking south(seq. 57)

pl. 35. Transverse section, looking south: nave floor to dome cornice(seq. 58)

pl. 36. Transverse section, looking west: higher elements(seq. 59)

pl. 37. West elevation: gallery roof to dome(seq. 60)

pl. 38. South elevation: higher elements (apse shell, east semidome, and dome)(seq. 61)

pl. 39. East elevation: higher elements (gallery roof to dome)(seq. 62)

pl. 40. Sections of narthex, vestibules, and peripheral constructions(seq. 63)

pl. 41. Vault sections: eastern half of south aisle and gallery(seq. 64)

pl. 42. End walls of buttresses (minus projecting elements)(seq. 65)

pl. 43. Main arches, pedentives, semidomes, and central domes: true contours …(seq. 66)

pl. 44. Trace plans superimposed : showing relation of elements at successive levels(seq. 67)

pl. 45. Eastern piers and buttresses: principal sections(seq. 68)

pl. 46. Western piers and buttresses: principal sections(seq. 69)

Portfolio back cover(seq. 70)

 

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This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, it gives a thorough analysis of all uses of the copula, which is one of the least understood and most frequently misinterpreted and consequently mistranslated morphemes in Sumerian.

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In defence of graffiti
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The French commemorative inscription at Philae-IV
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The French commemorative inscription at Philae-VI
Supplement on travellers’ comments regarding the French commemorative inscription at Philae
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This long-awaited manual represents an extraordinary new chapter in the history of the Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. In the manual, a century of tradition joins with modern technological innovation for an exciting glimpse into the future of our epigraphic recording. This manual, available in PDF format and also in an innovative eBook format, is another tool in an arsenal of groundbreaking new tools now at our disposal.

During the past several decades the Epigraphic Survey has refined its conventions and recording methodologies to fit with the widely divergent nature of the inscribed surfaces we record and the changing conditions in Egypt that are resulting in the accelerating decay of those inscribed surfaces. For the past two years we have been experimenting with new digital tools, software, and equipment that have allowed us to streamline our recording process while still achieving the highest degree of accuracy, the bottom line of any scientific documentation. It has always been our aim to share these conventions and methodologies with our friends and colleagues, and it is our great pleasure to present the initial results here now. The digital formats in which this manual is made available are particularly appropriate and will be updated and changed regularly, since the manual will always be a work in progress. The possibilities are limitless.

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The site is now being completely rebuilt. Whereas the previous version was largely a "picture book", the
version now under construction will be of a more educational nature. As the majority of our worldwide
visitors do not have access to egyptological literature, we are posting full text web editions of "classic"
works from the early days of our science: Maspero, Smith, Daressey, Brugsch etc., the words of people
who were there when Egyptology was in its childhood, with digitally improved images of their original
black & white plates and marginal comments and corrections of outdated and incorrect material. An
improved navigational system of links allows instant comparison of equivalent text passages and images
which apply to more than one source. We suggest that new visitors read the instructions for efficient use
of the system which can be called from the site directory. This project will obviously take much time.
It is "open-end" and will never cease to being augmented with new material from CESRAS' thousands of
original, largely unique, and growing, photograph archive. We place all of our material in the public
domain. You may download and use any parts of it for non-commercial purposes.  
As before, the site will consist largely of original photographic material made by CESRAS researchers
during the past 15 years in Russian museums, in republics of the former Soviet Union, and naturally in
Egypt. You may address any questions without hesitation to admin@cesras.org and we will give any
possible answers. All questions are valid and will be answered to the best of our ability as time allows.
The early texts are published as .jpg images of each page, thus allowing you to download only the pages
that you need.                                                                                                                                                             
Our re-excavation of the "Royal Cache", Theban Tomb 320, between 1998 and 2006 has caused us to
collect as much material possible on the 21a Theban Dynasty (1070-945 BCE), the family dynasty of
Pianch pAyanx, the dynasty of the High Priests of Amun (HPA) in Thebes. This period forms the central
theme of the site. Scroll down.

 Click here for basic instructions on efficient use of the systemAll underlined brilliant blue subjects/objects are linked (click)
21a Theban Dynasty of the High Priests of Amun 1070-945 BCE (family members,
their relationships, and chronology)
Cache of the Royal Mummies, Theban Tomb TT320, 21a DynastyCoffins, Funerary Equipment, Mummies of the 21a Dynasty High Priests family linked with corresponding
texts
Coffins directory (Photographic CESRAS studies of coffins, mostly painted anthropoid coffins of the
21a Dynasty 1070-945 BCE, in Cairo, Russia, and republics of the former Soviet Union)
Leather Funerary Baldachin of Isetemkheb B, Cairo National Museum JE-26276
Maspero G.: Les Momies Royales de Déir el-Baharî (Memoires de la Mission Française au
Caire, Paris, 1889), complete text and plates with modern annotations and corrections; indexed and
subjects/persons linked with parallel material in other sections of this site.)
Mummies Directory (Mummies of Kings, Royals, and high ranking persons in the National Museum,
Cairo)
Network Directory of associated and other websites
Persons Directory (Ancient Egyptian persons mentioned on this site. Personal names and those of
deities are transcribed differently in both modern languages and linguistic misunderstandings of Ancient
Egyptian in the early days of egyptological studies. We have grouped the various orthographies to the
current English versions.
Smith G. E.: The Royal Mummies, (Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du
Caire, 1912: CG numbers 61051-61100); complete text with modern annotations and digitally improved plates;
Linked navigation to parallel material on this site. Smith gives a detailed forensic pathological study of the
royal mummies. This material is well illustrated and still valid today.
They were not yellow (21a Dynasty painted anthropoid coffins from the "Royal Cache" TT320)
Photographs by Sergej V. Ivanov to lecture by Edward R. Loring (Proceedings of the International
conference Achievements and Problems of Modern Egyptology held by the Centre for Egyptological
Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sept.29-Oct. 2, 2009 in Moscow.

Welcome to the Great Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Karnak. In antiquity, Karnak was the largest religious sanctuary in Egypt's imperial capital of Thebes (modern Luxor) and was home to the god Amun-Re, king of the Egyptian pantheon. For over 2000 years, successive pharaohs rebuilt and expanded the temples of Karnak, making it the largest complex of religious monuments from the ancient world. 

At the heart of Karnak, the Nineteenth Dynasty pharaoh Sety I (reigned ca. 1291-1279 BCE) erected his Great Hypostyle Hall, a colossal forest of 134 giant sandstone columns supporting a high clerestory roof and enclosed by massive walls that after 3300 years remain substantially intact today. The Great Hall is vast. It covers an acre of land, and its great columns soar to heights of 20 meters. Not only does the scale and completeness of this monument remain a rarity among ancient Egyptian temples, but it is also the largest and most elaborately decorated of all such buildings in Egypt. Visitors often remark on the bewildering array of inscriptions covering every surface: the walls, columns, and even the roof! The patchwork of artistic styles and different royal names seen in these inscriptions and relief sculptures reflect the different stages at which they were carved over the centuries. Successive pharaohs, Roman emperors, high priests and common Egyptians added to its wealth of inscriptions and relief decoration, made architectural alterations and restorations, and even left pious graffiti on its walls... 

The Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project of the University of Memphis, William J. Murnane, Founding Director (1945-2000)
 
Although the University of Memphis' mission to Karnak only began in 1990, the roots of the Project go back decades earlier. From the early 1970s until his untimely death in 2000, Dr. William J. Murnane was the driving force behind the recording and study of the Great Hypostyle Hall. We dedicate this site and our ongoing work to our beloved colleague...

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 Inscriptions

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The Project

Epigraphy

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Preliminary Report 1992-2002

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Preliminary Report 2004-2005

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Preliminary Report 2011

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Reliefs and Inscriptions

The main goal of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project is to record and publish all of the hieroglyphic text from the monument and to make them as widely accessible as possible through dissemination of English translations of all the texts with photographs and line drawing facsimiles of all the inscriptions. From this page, the user will find links to PDF documents of all the inscriptions that we have recorded and translated.

The Interior Wall Scenes

The War Scenes of Sety I

The research project

The archaeobotanical database is part of a research project ( for details follow this ) that investigates the development of prehistoric wild plant floras of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. The geographic area ( go to map ) represented in the data, includes Greece, Turkey, Western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Northern Egypt. The chronological frame comprises the Chalcolithic period, Bronze and Iron Ages, up to Medieval periods.

The project is established at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters der Universität Tübingen) and conducted by Simone Riehl.

Financial support has been provided by the Ministry of Arts and Science (Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg) and the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

Archaeobotanical data in the web: the idea of this website

Archaeobotanical data from 250 archaeological sites in the area under investigation have been collected, and will be analysed within an ongoing research project. Part of the data is available for archaeobotanists, archaeologists and other interested groups. Site or taxa related queries can be conducted. Please follow the
database login to become a registered user.

As new data are produced, the database will be updated at regular intervals. Users who wish to be included with their research data are invited to download a sample table ("sample.xls", 20 KByte, MS Excel 2000) with Excel sheets for new data. New data should be sent via an Excel file attachment to
simone.riehl@uni-tuebingen.de.

The archaeological data services at the University of Tübingen

The archaeobotanical database will be part of the University of Tübingen Archaeological Data Services (Archäologie SERVER) including several web-interfaces to access the documentation and research databases of projects in archaeology, archaeometry and related subjects at the University of Tübingen. Since the software of the services is not yet updated to the most recent versions of PHP and MySQL the archaeobotanical database is privately hosted at www.cuminum.de/archaebotany/. After moving from this private site to the server of the University of Tübingen a permanent redirecting page will be set up.

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Melammu volumes have broadened the horizons of studies of antiquity by encouraging the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries between ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection of papers offer new insights and perspectives into connections between the Mediterranean World, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia and India.

Preface: The Globalization of Knowledge in the Ancient
Near East
J. Renn

Introduction to Melammu: Early Globalization
M. J. Geller

1 Globalization of Religion:
Jewish Cosmology in its Ancient Near Eastern Context
Simo Parpola

2 Global Monotheism:
The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets
Baruch A. Levine

3 Globalization and Imperialism:
Political and Ideological Reactions to the Assyrian Presence in Syria (IXth–VIIIth Century BCE)
Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault

4 The Tale of the Wild Man and the Courtesan in India
and Mesopotamia: The Seductions of Ṛśyaśṛnga in the
Mahābhārata and Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Tzvi Abusch, Emily West

5 Globalization in Literature:
Re-Examining the Gilgameš Affair
Cynthia Jean

6 Gilgamesh’s Plant of Rejuvenation and Qāṭīne’s Sīsīsāmbur
Nineb Lamassu

7 Some Observations about “Foreigners” in Babylonia
during the VI Century BCE
Kabalan Moukarzel

8 The Religious Reform of Nabonidus: A Sceptical View
Kabalan Moukarzel

9 New Light on George Smith’s Purchase of the
Egibi Archive in 1876 from the Nachlass Mathewson
Strahil V. Panayotov, Cornelia Wunsch

10 Phrygian Bronzes in the Greek World:
Globalization through Cult?
Maya Vassileva

11 Power and Ritual in the Achaemenian Royalty
Antonio Panaino

12 Religious Ontology and Taxonomic Structures in Indo-Iranian Oral Poetry
Velizar Sadovski

13 Elements of “Globalization” in Ancient Iranian Numismatics
Andrea Gariboldi

14 The Spread of the Cuneiform Culture to the Urartian North (IX–VII Century BCE)
Mirjo Salvini

15 India and World Trade: From the Beginnings to the
Hellenistic Age
Klaus Karttunen

16 Ancient Near Eastern Polities and the Greek Polis: Secondary States, Structural Similarities and the Problem of Diffusion
Kristoffer Momrak

17 Seeing Otherwise: On the Rules of Comparison in
Historical Humanities
Amar Annus

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