Ancient Near East

Bronze Age

 

Mesopotamia

Sumer

Ziggurat - Teppah Sialk - Great Flood - Royal Tombs of Ur

Akkadian Empire

Sargon - Naram-Suen

Gudea - 3rd Dynasty of Ur

Mesopotamian Mythology - Epic of Gilgamesh

Elam - Amorites - Abraham

Old Assyrian Empire

Shamshi-adad I

Babylonia

Hammurabi - Larsa - Mari - Code

Old Hittite Kingdom

Hattusa - Mursili I

Kassites

Nippur

 

Ancient Egypt

Protodynastic

Narmer - Mastaba

Early Dynastic

Djoser - Imhotep - Step Pyramid - Saqqara

Khufu - Great Pyramid

Old Kingdom

First Intermediate Period

Thebes - Mentuhotep II

Middle Kingdom

12th Dynasty - Senusret I - Senusret III

Second Intermediate Period

Hyksos - Joseph

New Kingdom

Amenhotep I - Hatshepshut

Thutmose III - Amenhotep III

Akenaten - Amarna Letters

Tutankhamen - 19th Dynasty

Rameses II - Battle of Kadesh

Tale of Two Brothers

Exodus - Merneptah Stele

Sea Peoples - Rameses III

Philistines - Deborah

New Hittite Kingdom

Suppiluliuma II - Mursili II - Hattusili III

Middle Assyrian Empire

Ashur-ubalit I - Nebuchadrezzar I - Tiglath-Pileser I

 

Aegean Civilization

Minoan Civilization

Minoan Pottery - Phaistos Disk - Linear A

Knossos - Thera Eruption - Linear B

Mycenaean Greece

Mycenae - Mask of Agamemnon - Cup of Nestor

Tiryns - Pylos - Palace of Nestor

Uluburun Shipwreck - Beehive Tomb

Troy - Dorians

Greek Dark Ages

 

• Timeline: Bronze Age (pdf)
• Map: Modern States and the ANE

• Mesopotamia

• ABZU (Oriental Institute)
• Archimedia (University of Haifa)
• Archaeological Discoveries: Mesopotamia

• Art of the First Cities (metmuseum)
• Mesopotamian Art (sbc.edu)
• Art Loss in Iraq (ifar.org)
• The threat to world heritage in Iraq (oxford)

• Mesopotamia (wiki)
• Mesopotamia (AHS)
• Mesopotamia (British Museum)

• Map: Mesopotamia
• Map: Ancient Mesopotamia (bible-history.com)
• Map: Fertile Crescent (jpg)

• Sumer (3500-2334) (wiki)
• Sumerians (British Museum)
• Map: ANE in the 3rd Millenium
• "Sumer Loses Bragging Rights"

• Ziggurat (wiki)
• Ziggurats (British Museum)
• Ziggurats (archimedia)
• Ziggurats (bible-history.com)
• 2900 Tappeh Sialk (wiki)

• 2750 Woolley and the Great Flood (McClung Museum)
• Map: Table of Nations I

• 2650 Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur (St. Louis, 2006)
• Treasures from the Royal Tombs (Cleveland Museum, 2000)
• Treasures from the Royal Tombs (McClung Museum, 1999)
• Royal Cemetery of Ur (U Penn)
• Standard of Ur (wiki)

• Akkad (2350-2150) (wiki)
• Images from Classical Akkad (uab.edu)

• Sargon of Akkad (2334-2279) (wiki)
• Map: Sargon's Akkadian Empire (jpg)

• Naram-Suen of Akkad (2190-2154) (wiki)

• Gudea (2144-2124) (wiki)
• Seated statue of Gudea (metmuseum)

• Third Dynasty of Ur ( 2112-2004) (wiki)

• Mesopotomian mythology (wiki)
• Sumerian Mythology FAQ
• Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ

• 2100 Epic of Gilgamesh (wiki)
• Text: Epic of Gilgamesh (ancienttexts.org)
• Sumerian Creation Myth (wiki)
• Atrahasis Epic (wiki)
• Flood Tablet (British Museum)

• 2004 Elam (wiki) sacks Ur

• Amorites (wiki)
• Amorites (British Museum)

• Abraham (wiki)
• Map: Migration of Abraham

• Old Assyrian Empire (wiki)
• Assyrians (British Museum)

• Shamshi-Adad I (1813-1791) (wiki)

• Babylonia (wiki)
• Babylonians (British Museum)

• Hammurabi ( 1792-1750) (wiki)
• Hammurapi (British Museum)
• 1763 Takes Larsa (wiki)
• 1759 Destroys Mari (wiki)
• Map: Empire of Hammurabi (jpg)
• Text: Code of Hammurabi (ancienttexts.org)

• Old Hittite Kingdom (wiki)
• Hattusa (wiki)

• Mursili I (1620-1595) (wiki)
• 1595 Sacks Babylon

• Kassites (wiki)
• Kassite Dynasty (British Museum)
• Nippur Expedition (UChicago)

• Ancient Egypt

• Digital Egypt for Universities (University College London)
• Egyptology Resources (Cambridge)
• NOVA Egyptian QuickTime VRs (PBS)
• Luxor Epigraphic Survey (UChicago)
• Texts: Ancient Egyptian Texts (nefertiti.iwebland.com)

• Ancient Egypt (wiki)
• Ancient Egypt (British Museum)
• Map: Egypt

• Protodynastic Period (3200-3000) (wiki)
• Narmer (wiki)
• Mastaba (wiki)

• Early Dynastic Period (2920-2575) (wiki)
• Early Dynastic Period (British Museum)

• Djoser (2630-2611) (wiki)
• Imhotep (wiki)
• Step Pyramid (wiki)
• Saqqara (British Museum)

• Khufu (2589-2566) (wiki)
• Great Pyramid of Giza (wiki)
• Giza Plateau Mapping Project (UChicago)
• The Pyramids (archimedia)

• Old Kingdom (2575-2134) (wiki)
• The Old Kingdom (British Museum)
• Egypt in the Old Kingdom (British Museum)
• Map: Egypt: Old and Middle Kingdoms (jpg)

• First Intermediate Period (wiki)
• First Intermediate Period (British Museum)

• Thebes (wiki)
• Thebes (British Museum)

• Mentuhotep II (2046-1995)(wiki)
• Mentuhotep II (British Museum)

• Map: ANE in Time of Patriarchs

• The Middle Kingdom (1991-1648)(wiki)
• The Middle Kingdom (British Museum)

• Twelfth Dynasty (wiki)

• Senusret I (1971-1926) (wiki)
• Senwosret I (British Museum)

• Senusret III (1878-1839) (wiki)
• Senwosret III (British Museum)

• Second Intermediate Period (wiki)
• Second Intermediate Period (British Museum)

• Hyksos (wiki)

• Joseph (wiki)
• Map: Journeys of Joseph
• Map: Tribal Allotments of Israel

• Map: Expulsion of the Hyksos

• The New Kingdom (1570-1070) (wiki)
• The New Kingdom (British Museum)
• Map: Egypt: New Kingdom (jpg)

• Amenhotep I (1525-1504) (wiki)
• Amenhotep I (British Museum)

• Hatshepsut (1503-1482) (wiki)
• Hatshepsut (British Museum)

• Thutmose III (1479-1425) (wiki)
• Thutmose III (British Museum)

• Map: Campaigns of Thutmose III & Amenhotep II
• Map: Balance of Power c. 1400 BC

• Amenhotep III (1389-1353) (wiki)
• Amenhotep III (British Museum)

• Akhenaten (1353-1336) (wiki)
• Amarna Letters (wiki)
• Amarna Period (British Museum)
• Tell el-Amarna (British Museum)

• Tutankhamun (1333-1323) (wiki)
• Tutankhamun (British Museum)

• Nineteenth Dynasty (wiki)
• Ramesside Period (British Museum)

• Map: Egyptian Empire & the Hittites

• Ramesses II (1279-1213) (wiki)
• Ramesses II (British Museum)
• Battle of Kadesh (wiki)
• The Exodus (wiki)

• The Tale of Two Brothers (wiki)
• Text: The Tale of Two Brothers (touregypt.net)

• Merneptah (1213-1203) (wiki)
• Merneptah Stele (wiki)

• Sea Peoples (wiki)
• Map: Sea Peoples

• Map: ANE 1200-1000 BCE

• Ramesses III (1183-1152) (wiki)
• Philistines (wiki)
• Deborah (wiki)

• New Hittite Kingdom

• New Hittite Kingdom (wiki)

• Suppiluliuma I (1358-1323) (wiki)

• Mursili II ( 1322-1295) (wiki)

• Hattusili III ( 1265-1235) (wiki)
• Peace Treaty with Ramses II

• Middle Assyrian Empire

• Middle Assyrian Empire (wiki)

• Ashur-uballit I (1365-1330) (wiki)

• 1225 Assyrians sack Babylon
• 1158 Elamites sack Babylon

• Nebuchadrezzar I of Babylon (1135-1104) (wiki)

• Tiglath-Pileser I (1115-1077) (wiki)

• Aegean Civilization

• Aegean Civilization (wiki)
• Helladic period (wiki)
• Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean (Dartmouth)
• Map: Map of Ancient Greece
• Map: Interactive culture map of Greece

• Minoan Civilization (wiki)
• History of Crete (wiki)
• Minoan Crete (metmuseum.org)
• Minoan Crete

• Minoan pottery (wiki)
• Phaistos Disc (wiki)
• Linear A (wiki)
• Knossos (wiki)
• Thera Eruption (wiki)
• Linear B (wiki)

• Mycenaean Greece (wiki)
• Mycenaean Civilization (metmuseum.org)

• Mycenae (wiki)
• Mycenae VR (stoa.org)

• Mask of Agamemnon (wiki)
• Cup of Nestor (wiki)

• Tiryns (wiki)
• Tiryns VR (stoa.org)

• Pylos (wiki)
• Palace of Nestor VR (stoa.org)
• Palace of Nestor (archimedia)

• Uluburun shipwreck (wiki)

• Beehive tomb (wiki)

• Troy (wiki)
• Troia VR (tubingen)

• Dorians (wiki)

• Greek Dark Ages (wiki)

• Martin: Overview of Classical Greek History (Perseus)
• Chapter 2: Geographical and Historical Introduction
• Chapter 3: Early Greek Dark Age and Revival in the Near East

rev. 8-10-08