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- Ancient World Online By Charles Jones – Your one-stop destination for all open access Internet resources about the ancient world.
- Archaeology, Academia and Access By Emily Johnson – Blogging archaeology, also the originator of #FreeArchaeology.
- ASOR Blog Official blog of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
- Bible History Daily The Official Blog of Biblical Archaeology Review Magazine.
- Bible Places Blog By Todd Bolen – Finds and Artifacts from Israel.
- Bones and Skulls By Victoria Pía Spry-Marqués – A blog about archaeology, food past & present, and other bits and bobs.
- Conflict Antiquities By Sam Hardy – Tracking the illicit antiquities trade around the world.
- Doug's Archaeology Blog By Doug Rocks-Macqueen – Blogging CRM, professional issues, jobs, etc.
- Faces & Voices By Roberta Mazza – A Papyrology Blog.
- Luke Chandler's Blog By Luke Chandler – archaeology, culture and geography in Israel.
- Penn Museum Blog The official blog of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
- PhDiva By Dorothy King – Classics, Archaeology and hunting looted antiquities.
- Pompei79 By Sophie Hay – An archaeologist explores Rome.
- Powered by Osteons By Kristina Killgrove – One of the web’s premiere blogs on osteology and bioarchaeology.
- Public Places Past and Present By Alexis McBride – Thinking about the use of ancient and modern public places.
- Rollston Epigraphy By Christopher Rollston – blogging Semitic epigraphy and philology.
- Textual Cultures By Michael Press. Writing about cultural history both in the ANE and the present.
- TrowelBlazers Profiling women in archaeology, paleontology and geology.
Assyrioblogs
- All Mesopotamia A blog frequently highlighting Mesopotamian artifacts.
- ArchéOrient Blog of the Archéorient research unit at the French National Center of Scientific Research and Lyon University.
- Ṭuppublog
Biblioblogs
- Ancient Jew Review Articles, resources, interviews and collaboration on ancient Judaism.
- Apocryphicity By Tony Burke – Studying the Christian Apocrypha
- Bible Junkies By John W. Martens
- Biblioblog Top 50 Your one-stop destination for the most popular Biblioblogs on the Internet.
- Evangelical Textual Criticism Multi-author blog about textual criticism from an evangelical Christian perspective.
- Exploring Our Matrix By James McGrath
- Ferrell's Travel Blog By Ferrell Jenkins – A blog about biblical archaeology and geography.
- Kateantiquity By Kate Cooper – Early Christianity, Late Antiquity and Modern Theology.
- NT Blog By Marc Goodacre – New Testament and Christian Origins.
- Paleojudaica By Jim Davila – dedicated to studying ancient Judaism and its context.
- Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman By Lawrence H. Shchiffman – Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism.
- The Jesus Question By Victoria Jones – Exploring depictions of Jesus in art across history and cultures.
- The Lying Pen of Scribes Manuscript Forgeries and Counterfeiting Scripture in the Twenty-First Century
- Triablogue By Jason Engwer, Steve Hays and Patrick Chan – Early Christianity, theology, apologetics, Biblical Studies.
- Unsettled Christianity By Joel Watts – Theology, Bible Scholarship, Early Christianity, and more.
- XKV8R By Robert Cargill – Biblical Studies, Archaeology and Early Christianity.
- Zwinglius Redivivus By Jim West – Theology, Biblical Studies, archaeology, culture, and more.
Classicistblogs
- Following Hadrian By Carole Raddato – On the trail of the emperor Hadrian all across the Roman world.
- History for Atheists By Tim O’Neill – Debunking New Atheist bad history, written by an atheist.
- Late Roman Paganism By David Walsh – The decline of paganism and Mithraism at the end of the Roman Empire.
- Pop Classics By Juliette Harrisson – Blogging the intersection of classics and pop culture.
- Rambambashi By Bill Thayer (LacusCurtius) and Jona Lendering (Livius.org) – News and updates from their respective sites.
- Rogue Classicism By David Meadows – Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and their legacies in the modern world.
- Zenobia: Empress of the East By Judith Weingarten – blog on ancient and modern Palmyra.
Digs
Egyptoblogs
- Egyptians By Timothy Reid – A large collection of Egyptology book reviews.
- The Egyptiana Emporium By Gemma Ellen Wood – Regular news about archaeological discoveries in Egypt.
- The Eloquent Peasant By Margaret Maitland – An Egyptologist’s blog about everything ancient Egyptian.
Languages
Organizations
- Aegeus – Society for Aegean Prehistory
- American Oriental Society
- American Schools of Oriental Research
- ASOR Syrian Heritage Initiative
- Egypt Exploration Society
- Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program
- Project Mosul – Reconstructing the Mosul Museum
- The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq
- The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- University of Mosul College of Archaeology
Publications
Resources
- Achemenet Collection of Achaemenid-era texts (in French)
- Aegaron Architectural plans of ancient Egyptian buildings.
- Ancient History Encyclopedia An online encyclopedia of all things ancient.
- Ancient Locations Mapping archaeological sites in Google Earth.
- Ancient World Mapping Center A collection of maps, mostly of the classical world.
- Ancient World Online By Charles Jones – Your one-stop destination for all open access Internet resources about the ancient world.
- Archibab Babylonian archive texts (in French)
- Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports A large collection of open access or public domain excavation reports.
- Armenian Historical Sources Collection of ancient writings on the history of Armenia.
- Artefacts 3D rendering of Mesopotamian sites and buildings (in German).
- Attalus Collection of Greek and Roman sources available online.
- Bible Places Pictures of sites in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Greece, with an emphasis on Biblical sites.
- Biblical Studies Online Links to language resources and online lectures.
- Blue Letter Bible Online Hebrew and Greek text of the Bible, with concordance and parsing help.
- Classical Works Knowledge Base
- Coptic Scriptorium Online corpus and research tools for Coptic texts.
- Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum Online Digital Library of Latin Literature
- Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Digitized collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Israel Museum.
- Early Christian Writings Large collection of early Christian writings from AD 30-320, including Gnostic texts.
- Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts Church fathers not included in the Ante-Nicene Fathers series, with a special focus on eastern Christianity.
- Encyclopedia Iranica Online encyclopedia of Persia and Iran.
- Encyclopedia of Syriac Literature Online bibliography of Syriac literature from the 1st century AD to the present.
- Fourth Century Christianity Collection of creeds and other documents related to Christianity in the 4th century AD.
- Halakhah.com The entire Talmud, online, in English.
- Hittite Monuments An online encyclopedia of Hittite monuments, with maps.
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook Collection of texts in translation from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Israel and Greece.
- LacusCurtius Large collection of ancient Greek and Roman authors and other public domain books.
- Leuven Database of Ancient Books Database of ancient literary works.
- Livius Massive collection of texts and articles about the ancient world.
- Monuments of Mosul Online database of monuments and cultural sites which have been destroyed in Mosul.
- NAVIS I Database of ancient shipwrecks.
- NAVIS II Database of ancient shipwrecks.
- Online Egyptological Bibliography The largest collection of references in Egyptology.
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus Includes online editions of the State Archives of Assyria and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period.
- Parthian Sources Online
- Perseus Digital Library Very large searchable collection of Greek and Latin texts (with translation).
- Pleiades A community-built gazetteer and of ancient places.
- Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha, and other lost books of the Bible Collection of Old and New Testament pseudepigrapha and apocrypha.
- Sasanika Resources for Sasanian Studies
- Syrian Digital Library of Cuneiform Cuneiform tablets from Syria.
- The Bornblum Eretz Israel Synagogues Website A database of excavated and unexcavated synagogues in Israel.
- The Encyclopedia of El Amarna The Encyclopedia of El Amarna Research Tool
- The Fallacy Files A taxonomy and field guide to common mistakes in logical thinking.
- The Fathers of the Church Large collection of the writings of the early Church Fathers.
- The Levantine Ceramics Project Online database of pottery from the Levant.
- The Monuments of Nineveh Layard and Botta’s drawings of Assyrian reliefs and monuments.
- The Works of Flavius Josephus The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus (in translation).
- Virtual Museum of Iraq For those of us (most of us) who cannot visit the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, there is this digital version.
- Virtual Worlds Consortium 3D rendering of various buildings from the ancient world, most notably Hadrian’s Villa.
- Yale Babylonian Collection
Scholars
- Bart Ehrman Prof. of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina.
- Ben Witherington III Prof. of New Testament, Asbury Theological Seminary.
- Israel Finkelstein Prof. of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
- Jack M. Sasson Prof. of Judaic and Biblical Studies, Vanderbilt University.
- Mark Goodacre Prof. of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke University.
Websites
- Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses Online encyclopedia of Mesopotamian deities.
- Assyrian Empire Builders Encyclopedia of Assyrian imperial government.
- Bad Archaeology Website dedicated to debunking pseudoarchaeology.
- Classis Britannica The Roman Imperial Navy of Britain
- Josephus.org Texts and articles relating to the life of Josephus.
- Living Late Antiquity Project investigating life in the Late Antique city.
- Mari: ville des bords de l'Euphrate
- Parthia.com Online introduction and bibliography for the Parthian Empire.
- Phoenician Encyclopedia Dedicated to the study of Phoenicia.
- Reshafim.org An introduction to the history and culture of Pharaonic Egypt
- The Development of the Canon of the New Testament Website detailing the compiling of the New Testament canon.
- The Phoenician Ship Expedition From 2008-2010, they successfully sailed a replica Phoenician ship all the way around Africa.
- Theoi Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature & Art.
- TourEgypt.net Website dedicated to all things ancient Egypt.
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