Online Resources

“Alphabet.” AncientScripts.com A compendium of worldwide writing systems from pre-history to today. Lawrence Lo. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010). This resource has great visuals of the different types of alphabetic scripts, including Proto-Sinaitic (or Proto-Canaanite), Ugaritic, Phoenician, Greek and Hebrew, among others.

“Alphabet.” Wikipedia. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

“Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh: with an account of the Royal Libraries of Nineveh, The.” E.A. Wallis Budge. British Museum Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, 1920. Link to resource (accessed May 10, 2009).

“Cuneiform Script.” Wikipedia. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2009).

“Cuneiform Tablet with the Atrahasis Epic.” The British Museum. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

“Egyptian Language.” Wikipedia. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

“Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture.” Ed. Seth L. Sanders. Oriental Institute Seminars Vol. 2. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

“Origins of Early Writing Systems.” Conference Papers from the Institute of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Peking University, October 5-7, 2007. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World. University of Oxford. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

“Writing Systems.” AncientScripts.com: A compendium of worldwide writing systems from pre-history to today. Lawrence Lo. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

BLOGS & VLOGS:

Ancient World Group Bloggers. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

VIRTUAL ONLINE TOURS AND/OR INTERACTIVES:

Egyptian Section. Penn Museum. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

Classroom Connections

Christopher Woods

Associate Professor of Sumerology, University of Chicago

MAPS:

Iraq Site Map. Oriental Institute: University of Chicago. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).

Egypt Site Map. Oriental Institute: University of Chicago. Link to resource (accessed May 13, 2010).