Cultural history and archaeological investigations into the ancient worlds of the Middle East.
Conducts archaeological and paleontological studies in Abu Dhabi, and has a public outreach component including an extensive archaeology of Abu Dhabi page.
Adumatu is a semi-annual journal of the Arab world, with articles in both Arabic and English.
A megalithic site in an area long considered too arid for occupation, dated to the Bronze age ca. 2400 and 800 B.C, an abstract in Archaeology Magazine.
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.
A new webpage that promises to be portal for conferences, news, and excavations on the Near East.
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.
A journal published by the Biblical Archaeology Society.
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.
A comprehensive, politically neutral encyclopedia on North Africa and the mideast, edited by Norwegian Tore Kjeilin, at the Centre d'Information Arabe Scandinave.
The Damascus branch of the Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts conducts work on the archaeology of Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, regardless of period.
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.
The Natufian culture was a group of sedentary people living in the Levant region of the middle east between about 9000-8500 BC.
The journal of biblical archaeology (the renamed Biblical Archaeologist) from the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Parthia was an early Persian empire, centered in northeastern Iran between 247 BC and AD 228.
The ancient caravan site of Qaryat al-Fau is located at an oasis in central Saudia Arabia.
A good overview of the archaeology of Qatar by Francis Gillespie.
Information about archaeological sites and culture of the emirate of Sharjah, in English and Arabic.
From Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, a new website out of the Museum of Sharjah.
The Wadi Raba culture is the name given to the neolithic culture of the Levant, dated to the 5th millennium BC.
