Timur Dekat Kuno

Timur Dekat Kuno merujuk kepada ketamadunan awal di dalam wilayah yang merangkumi kawasan Timur Tengah moden: Mesopotamia (Iraq dan timur laut Syria), Mesir Kuno, Greece Kuno, Iran Kuno (Elam, Media, Parthia dan Parsi), Armenia, Anatolia (Turki) dan Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestin, Jordan, Cyprus, dan Crete). Oleh itu, istilah ini digunakan secara meluas di dalam arkeologi Timur Dekat dan sejarah purba. Ia bermula dengan kebangkitan Sumer pada milenia ke-4 BCE, meskipun begitu tarikh mempunyai banyak tarikh akhir: sama ada merangkumi Zaman Gangsa dan Zaman Besi di wilayah ini, sehingga penaklukan oleh empayar Achaemenid pada kurun ke-6 BCE atau Alexander Agung pada kurun ke-4 BCE.

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut 
 Fletcher, Banister; Cruickshank, Dan, Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture, Architectural Press, 20th edition, 1996 (first published 1896). ISBN 0-7506-2267-9. Cf. Part One, Chapter 4.
 William W. Hallo & William Kelly Simpson, The Ancient Near East: A History, Holt Rinehart and Winston Publishers, 2nd edition, 1997. ISBN 0-15-503819-2.
 Jack Sasson, The Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, New York, 1995
 Marc Van de Mieroop, History of the Ancient Near East: Ca. 3000-323 B.C., Blackwell Publishers, 2nd edition, 2006 (first published 2003). ISBN 1-4051-4911-6.

Pautan luar 
 Vicino Oriente — Vicino Oriente is the journal of the Section Near East of the Department of Historical, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences of Antiquity of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ University. The Journal, which is published yearly, deals with Near Eastern History, Archaeology, Epigraphy, extending its view also on the whole Mediterranean with the study of Phoenician and Punic documents. It is accompanied by ‘Quaderni di Vicino Oriente’, a monograph series.
 Ancient Near East.net — an information and content portal for the archaeology, ancient history, and culture of the ancient Near East and Egypt
 Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution The Freer Gallery houses a famous collection of Ancient Near Eastern artefacts and records, notebooks and photographs of excavations in Samarra (Iraq), Persepolis and Pasargadae (Iran)
 The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives  The archives for The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery houses the papers of Ernst Herzfeld regarding his many excavations, along with records of other archeological excavations in the Ancient Near East. 
 Ancient Near East.org  — A database of the prehistoric Near East as well as its ancient history up to approximately the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans ...
 Archaeowiki.org—a wiki for the research and documentation of the ancient Near East and Egypt
 ETANA — website hosted by a consortium of universities in the interests of providing digitized resources and relevant web links
 Resources on Biblical Archaeology
 Ancient Near East Photographs This collection, created by Professor Scott Noegel, documents artifacts and archaeological sites of the ancient Near East; from the University of Washington Libraries Digital Image Collection
 Near East Images A directory of archaeological images of the ancient Near East
 Bioarchaeology of the Near East An Open Access journal

 
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