Open Educational Resources for the study of the Ancient Near East list compiled by Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni with the assistance of Rachel Williams at the University of Central Florida.
This OER compilation is provided under a Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0.
Description: The Harvard Museum of the ancient Near East has produced a sketchfab gallery of objects.
Description: Virtual tour of the Assyrian collection at the British Museum.
Description: Visitors can explore a model of the 1st millennium BCE city of Babylon.
Description: A diachronic study of visibility and ritual landscapes at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara.
Description: This public project aims to tell the story of the world using objects in the musuem as narrative hooks.
Description: CDLI database of Mesopotamian seals and tablets.
Description: Mobile app (IOS and Android) that showcases 3D models of Armenia.
Description: Allows you to search the collection within an interactive GIS.
Description: A collection of virtual resources from the British Museum. Available on Google Arts and Culture app (iOS and Android).
Description: Includes the famed Ishtar Gates/processional way. Available on Google Arts and Culture app (iOS and Android).
Offers information about the fifty most important Mesopotamian gods and goddesses and provides starting points for further research.
Description: Essays and classroom activities available freely as a PDF with a Creative Commons license.
Description: Description and analysis of art in the ancient Near East by Met curators.
Description: This corpus of letters between the kings and their high officials, the largest known from antiquity, gives first-hand insight into the mechanisms of communication between the top levels of authority in an ancient empire.
The primary aim of the website is support for learning across different disciplines - including learners and teachers who may know nothing about, or even be interested in, Egypt.
Description: This course traces the continuum of socio-political and cultural developments in the Near East that led, over the course of three millennia, from stateless societies to the emergence of Assyria as the first empire in history.
Description: Educational pages on the apogee of the Neo-Assyrian empire in the 7th c. BCE.
A portal to all things related to the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud (Kalhu/Calah), on Oracc and beyond. Explores how scientific and historical knowledge is made from archaeological objects.
Description: Accessible articles about the ancient Near East written by scholars and specialists in the field.
Combines essays and works of art in an interactive timeline.
Description: Virtual exhibits related to topics such as the Book of the Dead and Hieroglypics.
Description: Dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent.
Description: The peer-reviewed articles of the UEE are written by leading scholars in disciplines related to Egyptology.
Description: List of digital archives containing images related to the study and exploration of the ANE.
Description: Collections related to Egypt and the Ancient Near East.
Description: ANE and Egyptian materials, highlights include Egyptian sarcophagi, the Balawat Gates, palace bas-reliefs from Nineveh etc.
Description: An important collection of Egyptian objects.
Description: Specialized collection of Egyptian artifacts including the famed bust of Nefertiti and other artifacts from Amarna.
Description: Key collection of Egyptian artifacts, to be superceded by the Grand Egyptian Musuem. Currently reduced web presence.
Description: Important archaeological collections from Armenia.
Description: Collection related to the history of Israel.
Description: Large dedicated collection of Egyptian artifacts.
Description: ANE and Egyptian materials. Robust educational and public-facing materials available.
Description: Collection related to the history of Iraq.
Description: Collection of Jordanian antiquities.
Description: ANE collection includes Codex Hammurabi, Stele of the Vultures and Egyptian sarcophagi.
Description: Important ANE and Egyptian collections.
Description: Important collection and research related to the ANE.
Description: Important collection of ANE materials, including famed processional way and Ishtar Gate.
Description: ANE and Egyptian materials.
Description: Important collections of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian objects.
Description: Collection includes artifacts and art objects from the Royal Tombs of Ur.
Description: A collection of texts and other educational resources related to the Achaemenid Persian Empire from the Bosphorus to the Indus river, from 550 to 330 B.C
Description: A growing collection of online resources for ANE educators.
The project features an influential blog on digital projects relevant to the ancient world and OER resource listings of open monographs and textbooks.
Description: A list with links to more than hundreds of OER related to Egyptology.
Description: More than 700 monographs freely available for download on topics such as archaeology, Assyriology, Demotic, Hittite etc.
Resources include Akkadian, Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Demotic etc.
Description: Many educational resources from open publications to recipes.
Description: A textbook covering topics such as marriage, vocations, adornment and violence.
Description: Audio interviews with scholars of the ancient Near East.
Description: Multiple relevant episodes, e.g. Gilgamesh, Perspepolis, Babylon, Archaeology and Imperialism etc.
Primary Sources/Text Translation Projects
Description: ADsD provides an online edition of the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries. The project is based on the editio princeps prepared by Abraham Sachs and Hermann Hunger, incorporating collations and corrections that were made after publication.
Description: AkkLove presents all early Akkadian literary texts related to love and sex known to date. The project is based on Wasserman, Akkadian Love Literature of the Third and Second Millennium BCE, Harrassowitz, 2016, where commentary to the texts and an introduction to the corpus are found.
Description: An important collection of more than 30,000 Old Babylonian texts. French site with English interface option.
Description: The project presents annotated and searchable editions of Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian. The texts have been adapted, lemmatized, and translated into English.
Description: ARMEP, with its multi-project search engine, enables users to simultaneously search the translations, transliterations, and catalogues of multiple Oracc projects on which ancient records of Middle Eastern polities (especially those of the first millennium BC) are edited.
Description: ARRIM Digital Archive makes all nine issues of “The Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia" (1983-1991) freely available in searchable PDF files.
Description: The Ashurbanipal Library Project documents the most important collection of texts from the ancient Near East. Future versions of the project will include text editions of the tablets from the library.
Description: The most important cuneiform source for the topography of Babylon, which lists and explains the sacred names of the city, its temples, and its other important topographical features and whose purpose was to glorify Babylon as Babylonia's pre-eminent religious center.
Description: A searchable electronic corpus of Neo-Sumerian administrative cuneiform tablets dated to the 21st century B.C.
Description: BLMS provides editions of bilingual narrative texts, hymns, proverbs, prayers, rituals, and incantations dating to the first millennium BCE.
Description: Editions and translations of a wide range of Mesopotamian scholarly writings, contributed by many different people and projects.
Description: An on-going project that provides a digital resource for these important Akkadian prayers and lays the foundation for a comprehensive critical edition.
Description: Provides fully searchable, annotated editions of text commentaries written by Assyrian and Babylonian scholars between the eighth and second centuries BCE. The texts commented on include literary, magical, divinatory, medical, legal, and lexical works.
Description: The foundational online cataloging and archiving project for the cuneiform corpus, directed by Bob Englund at UCLA. The Oracc presentation is based directly on public CDLI data which is updated nightly.
Description: Editions of Sumerian Kassite texts: Royal Inscriptions, Literary, and Lexical texts.
Description: CMAwRo presents online critical editions of Mesopotamian rituals and incantations against witchcraft.
Description: Data contributed to Oracc for reuse by others, normally under the CC BY-SA license.
Description: Cuneiform texts and onomastic data pertaining to Israelites, Judeans, and related population groups during the Neo-Assyrian, Neo- and Late Babylonian, and Achaemenid Periods (744-330 BCE).
Description: Editions and translations of lexical texts (word lists and sign lists) from all periods of cuneiform writing.
Description: Catalogue of around a thousand published cuneiform mathematical tablets, with several hundred transliterations and translations.
Description: The project presents fully annotated and searchable editions of numerous cuneiform sources from the Kingdom of Urartu, which are mainly written in the Urartian language.
Description: Provides listings of over 12,000 Sumerian words, phrases and names, occurring in almost 100,000 distinct forms a total of over 2.27 million times in the corpus of texts indexed for the Dictionary. The corpus covers, directly or indirectly, about 100,000 of the 134,000+ known Sumerian texts.
Description: ETANA is a multi-institutional collaborative project initiated in August 2000, as an electronic publishing project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East.
Description: Comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.
Description: An annotated, grammatically and morphologically analyzed, transliterated, trilingual (Sumerian-English-Hungarian), parallel corpus of all Sumerian royal inscriptions.
Description: The Open Access download of Andrew George's critical edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Description: This project provides editions and translations for cuneiform technological recipes. The texts include Assyrian and Babylonian tablets that provide instructions for producing glass that imitates precious stones and procedures for processing perfumed oils.
Description: Cuneiform texts, iconography and onomastic data from Hellenistic Babylonia, primarily from Uruk.
Description: HPM has been continuously expanded within the framework of the academy project “Hethitische Forschungen” as well as through the contributions of numerous Hittitologists worldwide, who have made their own projects accessibly through platform of HPM.
Description: Over 70,000 references to the Sumerian secondary literature which also indexes all of the transliterations of word writings in ePSD.
Description: This project illuminates how issues of law and gender were practiced in the ancient Near East, utilizing a digital corpus of legal and non-legal texts as its database.
Description: Edition of the corpus of 1st-millennium-BCE texts from Assyria and Babylonia with rituals and verbal ceremonies involving Marduk, Zarpanitu and Ištar of Babylon.
Description: The MTAAC project develops and applies new computerized methods to translate and analyze the contents of some 67,000 highly standardized administrative documents from southern Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) from the 21st century BC.
Description: Inscribed cuneiform artifacts catalogued by the CDLI number nearly 350,000 individual pieces.
Description: Edition of the Corpus of Old Babylonian Model Contracts by Gabriella Spada.
Description: A catalogue and corpus of Old Babylonian tabular accounts by Eleanor Robson at University College London.
Description: Provides a global registry of sign names, variants and readings for use by Oracc.
Description: OIMEA, with its multi-project search engine, enables users to simultaneously search the translations, transliterations, and catalogues of multiple Oracc projects on which official inscriptions are edited.
Description: Co-display of multiple digital papyrological resources in a scholarly web resource. Includes collections from Yale, Michigan, Berkeley, and other libraries; nearly 35,000 paypri in all, in Arabic, Coptic, Greek, Ancient Egyptian, and other languages.
Description: A collection of texts and objects discovered in Perspepolis.
Description: Provides a collection of additions and corrections to the printed fascicles of The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. A separate section is devoted to new information about Neo-Assyrian eponym officials.
Description: Provides a global registry of compositions rather than objects, supporting the creation of scores on Oracc.
Description: This project intends to present annotated editions of the entire corpus of Assyrian royal inscriptions, texts that were published in RIMA 1-3.
Description: This project intends to present annotated editions of the entire corpus of Babylonian royal inscriptions from the Second Dynasty of Isin to the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty (1157-539 BC).
Description: Rīm-Anum, king of Uruk (ca. 1741–1739 BC) revolted against Samsuiluna of Babylon, son of Hammurapi, and enjoyed a short-lived independence. The archive edited in this project derives from the house of prisoners (bīt asiri) that kept the prisoners of war.
Description: Presents fully searchable, annotated editions of the royal inscriptions of Neo-Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), Esarhaddon (680-669 BC), Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630-627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626-612 BC).