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Digital Library Collections By Subject: Civilization, Ancient

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• Abzu: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet (Compiled by Charles E. Jones; hosted by the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, IL). Directory of Internet resources, including electronic publications, about the ancient Near East.
• Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS). Hosted by Columbia University (New York, NY, USA). A database with links to over 20,000 digital facsimiles of papyri from the collections of six academic institutions, including Columbia. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World (University of Chicago Digital Library Project, IL). Full-text electronic editions of various scholarly works on the ancient Near East and Mediterranean civilizations published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet. Hosted by the University of Evansville (Evansville, Indiana, USA) . Established in 1996, this is a peer-reviewed guide and search engine to pre-Renaissance Internet/Web resources. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Bibliothèque numérique. Lyons, France: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée. A digitized collection of 50 public-domain works in various languages and from various dates pertaining to ancient Egyptian and Graeco-Roman civilizations, and the history of archaeology. Date accessed: 2005-09-25. Date added: 2005-09-25.
• CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. "A joint project of the University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science." Launched in 1998, the CDLI is an international initiative involving several museums with significant collections of cuneiform texts and an attempt to recreate on the Internet the administrative archives of the city-states and empires of Mesopotamia. Alternate URL (Berlin, Germany): http://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ Date added: 2001-12-25.
• Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III. Washington, D.C.: African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress, 2005. Part of: Global Gateway. Summary: "This collection presents clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient pictographic writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of Congress' collections. The Sumerians invented this writing system, which involves the use of a wedge-shaped reed stylus to make impression in clay. Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III includes school tablets, accounting records, and commemorative inscriptions. This online presentation features 38 cuneiform tablets, presented with supplementary materials. The 38 tablets are dated from the reign of Gudea of Lagash (2144-2124 B.C.) to Shalmanassar III (858-824 B.C.) during the New Assyrian Empire (884-612 B.C.)." The collection can be browsed by title or Library of Congress subject headings or keyword searched. Date accessed: 2005-03-03. Date added: 2005-03-03.
• Demotic Texts Published on the World Wide Web (Compiled by Alexandra A. O'Brien; hosted by the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, IL). Directory to and images of Demotic (ancient Egyptian hieratic script) language materials.
• Jump to Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World.
• Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP). Durham, NC: Special Collections Library, Duke University. Hosted by the Perseus Project as: Papyrological Resources in Perseus. A database that can be searched or brosed for transcriptions of papyri. See also: Duke Papyrus Archives. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• Duke Papyrus Archives. Durham, NC: Special Collections Library, Duke University. Browse or search for text and digital facsimles of papyri preserved at Duke University. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online). Berlin, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and others. Digital facsimiles that document the achievements and diffusion of Western and Eastern civilizations beginning with Sumerian cuneiform tablets (3000 B.C.) as represented in the CDLI and ranging across time and topics to the 20th cenutry. Date accessed: 2004-03-06. Date added: 2004-03-06. Date updated: 2005-02-27.
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures: An Introduction to Ancient World Cultures on the World-Wide Web. General Editor, Anthony F. Beavers. Evansville, Indiana: University of Evansville. An on-line course supplement for teachers and students of the ancient and medieval worlds, EAWC features primary texts, original essays and selected Internet links to other Web sites. All primary texts are presented in English translation in HTML. The site features its own index to quickly locate primary texts, as well as a link to Argos, a peer-reviewed subject gateway to Internet resources on ancient and medieval worlds.
• InscriptiFact: An Image Database of Inscriptions and Artifacts. West Semitic Research Project, University of Southern California. Summary: "As of October 1, 2004, InscriptiFact will have approximately 5,200 images, with another 5,000 to be added by the end of the year. These images include Dead Sea Scrolls from the Amman Citadel Museum, Phoenician inscriptions from the National Museum in Beirut, inscriptions and artifacts from the University of Southern California Archaeological Research Collection, Egyptian scarabs from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Elephantine Papyri from the Aegyptisches Museum in Berlin and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and many more." In order to access the database at no cost and for scholarly or classroom use only, a user application form in Adobe Acrobat PDF must be downloaded, completed and faxed. Date accessed: 2005-05-23. Date added: 2005-05-23.
• Institut für Papyrologie. Heidelberg, Germany: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Use the "Projekte und Forschung" link to search or browse for descriptions and digital facsimiles of Greek and Demotic papyri preserved at the university. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• The Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections World Wide. Maintained by Willy Clarysse and others. Leuven, Belgium: Section of Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Search or browse for papyrus collections around the world. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• Oriental Institute Electronic Resources (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, IL). Guide to electronic information in a variety of media, including digital facsimile projects, on the ancient Near East and Egypt produced by the Oriental Institute.
• Papyrology Home Page. Compiled by John D. Muccigrosso. Hosted by Drew University. Guide to papyrology resources on the Internet/Web, including digital facsimile collections. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• Papyrus Database. New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Search this database for descriptions and digital facsimiles of papyri preserved at Yale University. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• Project Libellus. Compiled by Konrad Schroder and Owen Ewald. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. Summary: "...an ongoing attempt to provide a library of classical Latin (and Greek) texts with minimal redistribution restrictions. ... The intent of the project is to make available fairly good-quality texts at no cost; it is not to provide guaranteed top quality texts." The texts are only available in the TeX format. Date accessed: 2005-06-19. Date added: 2005-06-19.
• Society of Biblical Literature: Resources: Web Resources. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature. Annotated and categorized list of Web resources for the scholarly study of texts relating to the Christian Bible. Date accessed: 2005-05-23. Date added: 2005-05-23.
• State Archives of Assyria Online (SAAo). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. Summary: "State Archives of Assyria Online (SAAo) is an open-access web resource that aims to make the rich Neo-Assyrian materials found in the royal archives of Nineveh, and elsewhere, more widely accessible. Based on an existing ASCII text database created by Simo Parpola and his team at the University of Helsinki, the online transliterations and translations are those of the standard editions in the series “State Archives of Assyria”. All of the published volumes are accessible online. The web presentation and linguistic annotation are carried out using tools and standards developed by Steve Tinney (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)." Date accessed: 2010-04-28. Date added: 2010-04-28.
• The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities. Among its many sponsored projects is Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World.
• University of Michigan Papyrus Collection. Ann Arbor, MI: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan. Search for nearly 2,500 descriptive records and digital facsimiles of papyri preserved at the university. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• World Civilizations: An Internet Classroom and Anthology. Edited by Richard Hooker. Pullman, WA: Washington State University, 1996-. Alternate title: World Cultures. This site combines online or e-learning with links to and/or transcriptions of texts covering ancient and modern global cultures and civilizations. Date accessed: 2005-05-23. Date added: 2005-05-23.

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