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Asher, A. The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela. London, 1841. Link to resource
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Dieulafoy, Jane. A Suse: Journal Des Fouilles. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1888. Travels of the Dieulafoys in French
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Herodotus. Trans. G.C. Macaulay. An Account of Egypt. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).
Layard, Austen Henry. Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : With Travels in Armenia. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).
Les voyages en Asie au XIVe siècle du bienheureux frère Odoric de Pordenone. American Libraries. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).
Odoric of Pordenone’s travels in French.
Rich, Claudius James. Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811. Duncan and Malcolm, 1839. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).
Vaux, William Sandys Wright. Nineveh and Persepolis. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co., 1851. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).
Yule, Sir Henry (Trans.). The Travels of Friar Odoric. Michigan: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002.
Chapters of Odoric of Pordenone’s travels in English.
Matthew W. Stolper
Professor of Assyriology and the John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies
MAPS:
Fer, Nicolas de. L'Asie : Suivant les nouvelles decouvertes dont les point principaux sont placez. David Rumsey Map Collection. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).
Jaillot, Alexis-Hubert. Map of the Ottoman Empire in 1600. Wikimedia Commons, 1696. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).
Map of the Middle East. University of Texas. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).
