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Steve Watson
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Websites
A connoisseur's listing. Scott B. Noegel Okeanos Interdisciplinary resource for the study of the Ancient, Biblical, Classical, and Late Antique Near East John Halloran Site Links Related to Mesopotamia or Language A long list of ANE resources; especially Sumer-related sites Lishtar Gateway to Babylon An enthusiast's site with many interesting links and good content Sigrist/Damerow Mesopotamian Year Names, CDLI Neo-Sumerian and Old Babylonian date formulae Nigel Strudwick Egyptology Resources, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Language, archaeology, personal pages, etc. Everything for the amateur enthusiast of Egyptology Mike Duncan The History of Rome Podcast, LearnOutLoud Beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending (someday) with the exile of Romulus Augustulus.
Libraries
The Camelot Project, University of Rochester. Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information..
Paul Halsall, Sourcebooks, Online Reference Books. Huge collection of full text sources.
Classical Civilisation
Texts Greek and Roman Materials, Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University. Comprehensive collection of texts and translations with amazing textual analysis tools. The Internet Classics Archive, MIT. Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994 Killings and Tennant, The Online Medieval and Classical Library A selection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization A digital library of Latin literature Yves Lassard, Alexandr Koptev,The Roman Law Library. All the laws, in original and in translations. Litteraturae et artis collectio. Maintained by Ulrich Harsch edited by William L. Carey from U-Washington Daremberg/Saglio Le Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines An online version of the 10-volume French work (1877-1919) Language resources Greek and Latin learning tools
Mesopotamia
Texts ETANA Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives A vast store of material Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oriental Institute, Oxford University. Texts in transliteration, translations and bibliographical information for each composition. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA/MPIHS Amazing access to collections of cuneiform texts Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, UCLA Making ancient dictionaries searchable Old Babylonian Text Corpus, Cuneiform Circle A large text database of the Old Babylonian Akkadian Language Language resources John Halloran Sumerian Language Page Including the Sumerian Lexicon vn. 3.0 (pdf 159 pages!) Daniel A. Foxvog Introduction to Sumerian Grammar (pdf 170 pages!) Elementary Sumerian Glossary (pdf 73 pages!) Jon Heise lišanum akkaditum Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts, an introduction Robert Whiting Introduction to the Babylonian Language A course with an exam and answers (pfds) Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, UP Museum Has an online and a downloadable print version Akkadian Dictionary, Association Assyrophile de France Online search. No graphs
Ancient Egypt
Texts Ancient Egypt, Internet Sacred Texts Archive. Old, out of copyright texts Language resources Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae Das virtuelle Wörterbuch und die Textdatenbank im Internet. A dictionary and text collection, which includes the zettelarchiv. Requires (painless) registration. Janet Johnson Thus wrote Onchysheshonqy: An introductory grammar of Demotic (2000) OIC The grammar. Janet Johnson The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (2001) OIC The lexicon. Hans van den Berg Manuel de Codage CENTRE FOR COMPUTER-AIDED EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCH A standard system for the computer-encoding of Egyptian transliteration and hieroglyphic texts
Ancient China
Texts D. T. Sturgeon Chinese Texts Project Ancient Chinese texts, particularly those relating to Chinese philosophy Language resources An Historical and Comparative Encyclopaedia of Chinese Conceptual Schemes Shuhai Wenyuan University of Hawai'a (steve_watson, *##) Academically rigorous texts and tools in an innovative Worktable format Richard Sears Chinese Etymology An independent scholar's 20-year effort. Recommended by those in a position to judge.
Precolumbian America
Language resources John Montgomery Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs FAMSI Fancy glyph pictures included.
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