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Adumatu
Adumatu is a semi-annual journal of the Arab world, with articles in both Arabic and English.

American Schools of Oirental Research
ASOR is a research institution which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2000. In addition to operating as a clearing house for archaeological information about the Near East, ASOR conducts independent overseas institutes in Cyprus, Israel, and Jordan.

American Schools of Oriental Research
THE contact in the United States for doing middle eastern and near eastern research; extensive excavations lists and a bunch of wonderful resources.

Ancient Near East
A new webpage that promises to be portal for conferences, news, and excavations on the Near East.

ANE
An electronic discussion list on Ancient Near Eastern Studies, from the Indus to the Nile, and from the beginnings of human habitation to the rise of Islam. Based at the Oriental Institute in Chicago.

Biblical Archaeology Review
A journal published by the Biblical Archaeology Society.

Canaan
Canaan (also called Phoenicia) is the name of a Bronze Age culture and country in what is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon.

Early Medieval Islamic Metallurgy
A hoard of metal alloys and coins represents a ‘stock-in-trade’ of a Fatimid Moslem artisan’s workshop, on the outskirts of Tiberias in northern Israel; investigations by the University of Nottingham.

Encyclopedia of the Orient
A comprehensive, politically neutral encyclopedia on North Africa and the mideast, edited by Norwegian Tore Kjeilin, at the Centre d'Information Arabe Scandinave.

German Archaeological Institute: Damascus Branch
The Damascus branch of the Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts conducts work on the archaeology of Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, regardless of period.

Mnemotrix ArchaeoSearch
A plain, but hardly boring, search engine for helping navigate the world wide web for topics on the Ancient Near East and Classical Studies; from the Institute of Archaeology at Bar Ilan University in Israel.

Natufian Culture
The Natufian culture was a group of sedentary people living in the Levant region of the middle east between about 9000-8500 BC.

Near Eastern Archaeology
The journal of biblical archaeology (the renamed Biblical Archaeologist) from the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Orion
An electronic discussion list for persons interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Parthian Empire
Parthia was an early Persian empire, centered in northeastern Iran between 247 BC and AD 228.

Rocking the Cradle
The Smithsonian magazine has a story on the latest findings in Iran by archaeologist Yousef Madjidzadeh, who believes he has found a literate Bronze Age society predating the Mesopotamian civilization. The entire story is downloadable from their website, along with other resources.

The Advent of Islam
From Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, a new website out of the Museum of Sharjah.

Wadi Raba Culture
The Wadi Raba culture is the name given to the neolithic culture of the Levant, dated to the 5th millennium BC.

World Atlas of Archaeology on the Web
  From your About.com Guide, a link to resources of the Middle East.

World Atlas: Middle East
The World Atlas of Archaeology is currently undergoing extensive revisions. Here is the original index page for the cultural resources of the Middle East.