Syllabus

Policies and Expectations

Study Questions for exams

(available one week before exams)

Margaret's pet peeves

Stone Age

Mesopotamia

Egypt

Ancient Near East

Greece

Rome

A source of maps

Historical Maps

Ancient World Mapping Center

Cross cultural time line

The British Museum has a good integrated website on Mesopotamia

The Royal tombs of Ur

The Ancient Near East Chronology from 3450 BC to AD 66.

Images from Mesopotamia (from the Third Millenium BC till the Fourth century AD)

Women's Lives in Mesopotamia

Assyro-Babylonian Mythology

Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology

Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia

View some ziggurats from the British Museum website
Cuneiform Writing

Gilgamesh:

Sumerian Mythology

Gilgamesh: Summary of the Epic with some study questions

"Story-telling, the Meaning of Life, and the Epic of Gilgamesh"

Some background, a map, and some images related to the Epic of Gilgamesh

 

Hammurabi's Code

Full Text of the Code 

"Hammurabi's Managed Health Care" An analysis (in the terminology of modern Health Care Management) of the parts of Hammurabi's code concerning medical treatment, fees, and punishment for malpractice.

Medical Laws and Ethics as seen in the Code of Hammurabi
Women under the Code of Hammurabi

Other Texts relevant to study of the Near East (The Code of Hammurabi, some Zoroastrian scriptures, Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Apocrypha, as well as the text of the Bible.)