Geography and Maps

Assur (Qal'at Sherqat)
From the University of Heidelberg, information on the recent excavations at this Assyrian capital. German and English.

Baghdad
Past Perfect: An article on Benjamin of Tudela's 12th century trip to Baghdad in Biblical Archaeology.

Nineveh
A news brief from Archaeology Magazine describing the recent looting at this important archaeological site.
    Nineveh Iraqi news report on the site.
    Discoveries at Nineveh On-line version of the book by A.H. Layard (1854)

Nippur
The history and current excavations of the capital of the Mesopotamian culture, first settled around 6,000 years ago, from the Oriental Institute.

Tell Abu Duwari
A large early second millennium B.C. village, research abstracted in Journal of Field Archaeology; and an abstract from a subsequent season.

Tell Ahmar
The Aramaean city of Tel Barsib, and a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire for some 250 years beginning about 850 BC, from the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne.

Umm al-Hafriyet
Part of the Nippur program, a nearby site, occupied in the Uruk  (ca. 3500 b.c.), Ur III to Old Babylonian (2200-1800 b.c.), Kassite (ca. 1250 b.c.), and Seleucid (ca. 300 b.c.) periods. Excavations from the Oriental Institute.

Ur
From the University of Pennsylvania Museum, a bit of information on this Mesopotamian culture, in a site put together for a new travelling exhibit.

University College at London
Department of Western Asiatic Archaeology, research in Bahrain, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

Clemens Reichel
A dissertation proposal, from ABZU at the Oriental Institute, on work in Eshnunna from the Ur III to the Old Babylonian Period.

Paul Zimansky
Boston University, Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of Anatolia, Syria, and Mesopotamia, worked at  Tell Abu Duwari (Iraq), Tell Hamide (Iraq), and American contingent at Tell 'Ain Dara (Syria)

History of Iraq
From ArabNet.

Iraq Resource Information Site
A rather strongly politicized, but nonetheless quite interesting resource on Iraq's political and cultural resources.