Middle East Regional Archaeology

The investigation of past cultures of the Middle East through the study and scientific analysis of material remains (i.e., osteological, artifactual, architectural, etc.).

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• - List of links maintained by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
  
• - Report of the Oriental Institute's geomorphological projects within the Jazira of Syria, Turkey and Iraq.
  
• - Images and descriptions of objects in the University of Chicago center's collection.
  
• - Archive of news, articles, blog postings and commentary, as well as links and directory listings.
  
• - Bibliographies of archaeobotanical site reports from the Near East and watercolors.
  
• - Discussion of the archaeology of Old World legumes including pictures and readings.
  
• - From Ekathimerini, away from the ongoing violence, researchers uncover the vestiges of Palestine's Byzantine past.
  
• - From Yahoo!, thriving Bronze Age drug trade supplied narcotics to ancient cultures throughout the eastern Mediterranean as balm for the pain of childbirth and disease, proving a sophisticated knowledge of medicines dating back thousands of years.
  
• - A description including: emergence, excavation, discovery and decipherment, reconstructing history, and a table of Mesopotamian chronology.
  
• - From The Daily Star, a reinterpretation of Neolithic plastered skulls from Jordan, Syria, Israel and Turkey is changing the way scholars think about cult, death and the afterlife in the Neolithic and the ancient Middle East.
  
• - Mark McDonald provides information and links on the archaeological sites of the region from Turkey to Southwestern Iran.
  
• - The Joint Prehistoric Project comprises several archaeological expeditions in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey dating from 1947. All of these separate excavations, however, sought the solution to a general problem: "How are we to understand those great changes
  
• - A clearing house for information pertaining to the archaeology of the ancient Near East including a forum listing useful links, discussions, upcoming events, and news .
  
• - The project aims to take up previously recognised indications of Bronze and Early Iron Age environmental and economic change in northern Syria and southern Turkey and specify these developments through new carpological, anthracological and geoarchaeologic
  
• - Presents research of Avraham Negev regarding the legendary tribe of Nabateans.
  
• - Devoted to the study of the ancient (from c. 3100 BCE) and contemporary cultures found within modern day Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Rhodes, Cyprus, Iraq, (to some extent Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Georgia) and western Ira
  
• - WAARP seeks to advance knowledge of the cultural environment of Wadi Araba for all periods, and to encourage and promote the economic development of Wadi Araba without violating or jeopardizing its cultural landscape.
  
• - Established in 1957, the lab maintains a unique research environment, combining the Peabody Museum's famous collections of stone tools dating from 1.8 million to 7000 years ago with state-of-the-art computer technology. Includes: links, staff, projects an
  
• - A multi-year excavation and survey project aimed at defining archaeological correlates of ancient imperialism, colonialism and culture contact in the Mesopotamian frontier zone.
  
• - The University of California San Diego reports on its projects in Israel and Jordan.
  
  

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