The following Web sites/CDs are candidates for review. If any of the following looks interesting to you or you have another site/CD of interest that you would like to review, please contact the editor, Nick Eiteljorg, at nicke@csanet.org. Please note that some of these sites and CDs may have been reviewed or may be in the review process. In addition, some sites are in need of independent review but may also be referred to in a review of a site that includes them as links.

An asterisk has been placed next to the sites and CDs that have been reviewed or are in the review process; completed reviews are also annotated with the reviewer's name and a link. Note, however, that we are eager to have multiple reviews on resources so that readers may benefit from different perspectives.

• achemenet.com (College de France) - http://www.achemenet.com
  A site devoted to Achaemenid studies, including the end of the Neo-Babylonian period and the beginnings of the Hellenistic period. In French.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions (Oriental Institute) - http://asmar.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/ARI/ARI.html
  The Oriental Institute's Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions Project
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology, Research Aid.
• APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/index.html
  A website that contains sources of information about texts written on papyrus and the society that produced them..
         Subjects: Papyrology.
• The Amarna Tablets (Shlomo Izre'el) - http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/dep/semitic/amarna.html
  Amarna letters from Canaan and vicinity and Amarna scholarly tablets.
         Subjects: Egyptian Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology.
• The Amuq Valley Regional Projects (Oriental Institute) - http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/AMU/Amuq.html
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Ancient Cyprus WebProject (Council for British Research in the Levant) - http://www.ancientcyprus.ac.uk
  A website that will provide information such as extensive bibliographies, sources of funding, centres of study, lists of collections and access arrangements, scholar and project contact details, bulletins on excavations and projects, and excavation reports.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology, Aegean Archaeology, Research Aid.
• Ancient Economies I (Morris Silver) - http://sondmor.tripod.com/index-html
  A web page devoted to consideration of unsettled or disputed aspects of ancient economies, including the entire Mediterranean world.
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Aegean Archaeology.
• The Anthropological Index Online (Royal Anthropological Institute, U.K.)- http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/AIO.html
  Based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind).
         Subjects: Research Aid .
• Aphrodisias (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) - http://www.nyu.edu/projects/aphrodisias/
  The web site for the Aphrodisias excavations.
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology.
• Apuleius, Apology (J.J. O'Donnell ) - http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/apuleius/
  A presentation of the text, including translation and illustrative essays
         Subjects: Classical Philology.
• The Archaeological Settlements of Turkey Project (TAY) - http://tayproject.org
  The TAY Project "has been designed to build a chronological inventory of findings about the cultural heritage of Turkey." In Turkish and English.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Archaeology (Michael Strutt) - http://www.mtsu.edu/~then/Archeology/index.html
  Teaching guide for introducing archaeology in the classroom (k-12)
         Subjects: Teaching Aid.
• Archaeology on the Net (Web Ring) - http://www.serve.com/archaeology/
  Indexing archaeology resources on the internet. Currently over 1200 sites are indexed under 33 categories provided with annotated links.
         Subjects: Research Aid.
• Archbase - The Site For Archaeological Databases (Hans Barnard)- http://www.archbase.com/
  In Dutch and English.
         Subjects: General Archaeology, Research Aid.
• Archeobase (F. Faure) - http://www.archeobase.com/divers/liens
  Search for online archaeological resource. In French.
         Subjects: Research Aid.
• Archeologia Italiana (Ivan Boni) - http://www.archeologia.com/
  A web site for Italian archaeology. In Italian.
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology.
• ArchNet (Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University) - http://archnet.asu.edu/archnet/archnet.html
  WWW Virtual Library of Archaeology.
         Subjects: General Archaeology, Research Aid.
• ArchSearch (Archaeological Data Service) - http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
  A search system for the ADS (Archaeological Data Service) Catalogue containing primarily data from the British Isles and also Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Senegal, Spain and USA.
         Subjects: Research Aid.
• ARGE - The Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe (ArchTERA) - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~arge/
  The Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe
         Subjects: European Archaeology, Research Aid.
• Babylonian Texts of the First Millennium B.C. (Janos Everling) - http://www.nexus.hu/enkidu/enkidu.html
  " The aim of this Archive is to raise from the dead the ancient Babylonians of the First Millennium and recreate their acts in the Cyberspace."
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• The Barrington Atlas (Classical Atlas Project) - http://www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas
  An atlas showing the world of ancient Greeks and Romans, the lands they penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they encountered in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia.
         Subjects: Research Aid, Teaching Aid.
• The Bible and Interpretation (Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY) - http://www.bibleinterp.com/
  "This site, the Bible and Interpretation, is designed to appeal to a significant public and scholarly audience who are interested in the most current news, information and interpretations on the Bible. It is our endeavor to bring the latest news in the field of biblical studies to a wide readership and to contact scholars for comment and analysis."
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Bulletin of Nabataean Studies (Istituto Universitario Orientale Di Napoli) - http://www.iuo.it/dipsa-new/bns/bns_01homepage/bns_homepage
  "Its goals are: Updating all scholars interested in Nabataean culture and history; and promoting contacts and scientific exchanges among experts from different areas." Accessible only through MicroSoft Internet Explorer.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology, Research Aid.
• CBA guide to UK archaeology online. - (Council for European Archaeology) http://www.britarch.ac.uk/info/uklinks.html
  WWW Virtual Library
         Subjects: European Archaeology, Research Aid .
• CDLI - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and UCLA) - http://cdli.ucla.edu/digitlib.html
  A presentation of the 4th and 3rd millennium B.C. tablets in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VAM). In English and German.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology, Research Aid.
• Classical Myth, 2nd or 3rd ed. (B.B. Powell) - http://www.prenhall.com/powell/
  Teaching aids for the book.
         Subjects: Teaching Aid.
• CSA Propylaea Project (CSA - Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology) - http://propylaea.org
  A digital resource of information about the Propylaea, the building at the entrance to the Athenian Acropolis.
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology.
• Dictionaries for Archaeologists, Egyptologists, Art Historians, and All Who Study Antiquity (Archaeological Resource) - http://www.archaeologicalresource.com
  May have subscription fee.
         Subjects: Research Aid.
• Digging for Vikings (National Museums & Galleries of Wales) - http://www.nmgw.ac.uk/archaeology/anglesey/
  An online site for the excavations at Llanbedrgoch. The 1999 & 2000 seasons, nothing seems to be mounted for 2001 season. In English and Welsh.
         Subjects: European Archaeology.
• Digital Map of the Ancient Near East (Casco Bay Assyriological Institute) - http://www.cba-inst.org/Pages/DigiMap.html
  Toponyms in a database are linked to both physical locations on the map and to a bibliography.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology, Teaching Aid, Research Aid.
• Digitalisierung der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung (Dieter Hagedorn and Thomas Kruse) - http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Papyri/P.Heid.Dem._Uebersicht.html
  Images of the "Demotische Papyri der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung." In German.
         Subjects: Papyrology, Research Aid
• Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World and On-line survery of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics (Janice Siegel) - http://www.drjclassics.com/
  Dr. J's Illustrated Guide "is designed to open up the world of ancient Greece to students of all levels."
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Teaching Aid.
• Egypt and the Ancient Near East Web Resources for Young People and Teachers (Alexandra A. O'Brien) - http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/YOUTH_RESOURCES.HTML
  A subset of the resources from ABZU.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology, Teaching Aid.
• Egyptology Resources (Nigel Strudwick) - http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology, Research Aid.
• Etruscans on the Web (The Open University) - http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/etrweb/etrmain.htm
  "These pages contain links to Web sites containing (useful) information relating to the Etruscans."
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Research Aid.
• Excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum) - http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tut.html
  The complete records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun and a database of finds
         Subjects: Egyptian Archaeology.
• ForensicsArchaeology.com (Benjamin James Neil) - http://www.forensicarchaeology.com
  Forensic archaeology resources
         Subjects: General Archaeology, Research Aid.
• Hellenic History on the Internet (Foundation of the Hellenic World) - http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/
  The Stone Age through comtemporary times.
         Subjects: Greek Archaeology.
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names (The Getty Research Institute) - http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
         Subjects: Research Aid.
• Giza excavations (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) - http://www.mfa.org/giza
  Integrated, online access to the MFA’s excavations.
         Subjects: Egyptian Archaeology.
• Grands Sites Archéologiques (French Ministry of Culture) - http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/
  Web sites for French archaeological sites. In French and English.
         Subjects: European Archaeology.
• Guide to Good Practices - Excavation and Fieldwork (Julian Richards and Damian Robinson) - http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/excavation/
  Digital Archives from Excavation and Fieldwork: Guide to Good Practice produced by the Archaeology Data Service in England
         Subjects: General Archaeology.
• Guide to Good Practices - GIS (Mark Gillings and Alicia Wise) - http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/gis/
  GIS Guide to Good Practice produced by the Archaeology Data Service in England
         Subjects: General Archaeology.
• IRERP - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8635
  Izmir Region Excavations And Research Project homepage.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology, Classical Archaeology.
• The Jewish Roman World of Jesus (James D. Tabor) - http://www.uncc.edu/jdtabor/index.html
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Knossos (British School at Athens) - http://www.bsa.gla.ac.uk/knossos/
  Excavations at Knossos, including a VR tour.
         Subjects: Aegean Archaeology.
• Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity (CSA - Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology) - http://www.csanet.org/lanterns/
  Lantern slides of classical antiquity from the Bryn Mawr College slide collection.
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Aegean Archaeology.
• Lascaux Caves (French Ministry of Culture) - http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/fr/index.html
  Lascaux Caves web site. In French, English, German and Spanish.
         Subjects: European Archaeology.
• Linear A Texts in phonetic transcription (John Younger) - http://www.duke.edu/web/jyounger/LinearA
  A site discussing Linear A.
         Subjects: Aegean Archaeology.
• Managing Archeological Collections (U.S. National Park Service) - http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/collections/index.htm
  A comprehensive source of technical assistance and distance learning on the long-term management and care of archeological collections
         Subjects: General Archaeology, CRM.
• Mesopotamia in the Era of State Formation. (School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM) - http://www.science.widener.edu/ssci/mesopotamia/
  Papers from a School of American Research Advanced Seminar.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Metis: A QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites (Bruce Hartzler) - http://www.stoa.org/metis/
  QuickTime videos of Ancient Greek sites.
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Aegean Archaeology
• Mnemotrix ArchaeoSearch (Aren Maeir) - http://www.mnemotrix.com/arch/
  "A resource application database for archaeologists working in the field of Ancient Near East and Classical Studies."
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Research Aid.
• The National Museum of History, Sophia, Bulgaria - http://www.historymuseum.org/
  Resources for Bulgarian Archaeology and a virtual tour of the collection.
         Subjects: General Archaeology.
• Nautical Archaeology at Texas A & M University (Program for Nautical Archaeology) - http://nautarch.tamu.edu/
  Institute of Nautical Archaeology information about nautical archaeology and the Institue's projects.
         Subjects: General Archaeology.
• Nestor On-line (University of Cincinnati) - http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/classics/nestor/nestor.html
  Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
         Subjects: Aegean Archaeology, Research Aid.
• Odyssey Online (Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University) - http://www.emory.edu/CARLOS/ODYSSEY/
  Elementary and middle school resources to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Aegean Archaeology, Archaeology, Teaching Aid.
• Peabody Museum on-line features (Peabody Museum, Harvard University) - http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/exhibitions.html
         Subjects: Research Aid, Teaching Aid.
• Persepolis and Ancient Iran - Catalog of Exhibition Photographs (Oriental Institute) - http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/IRAN/PAAI/PAAI.html
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Perseus Digital Library (Perseus Project)- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
  The "evolving digital library" of ancient Greece. This site is too large for a single review. Potential reviewers are encouraged to suggest areas of interest.
         Subjects: Classical Philology, Classical Archaeology, Teaching Aid.
• Petra: the Great Temple Excavation (Brown University) - http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/Petra/
  The archaeological excavations of the Great Temple at Petra, Jordan.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Progetto Fori Imperiali (Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma) - http://www.traiano.com
  The Forum of Trajan, Julian Forum and The Temple of Peace. In Italian and English.
         Subjects: Classical Philology.
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Of Sciences And Humanities) - http://www.bbaw.de/vh/pir/index.html
  Names of individuals in the Roman Empire. In German.
         Subjects: Classical Philology.
• The Roman Pantheon: The Triumph of Concrete (David Moore) - http://www.romanconcrete.com/
  Roman Concrete technology
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology.
• The Spanish Arcaeological Expedition in Tell Halula, Middle Euphrates Valley site (Syria) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) - http://hipatia.uab.es/halula/halula.html
  A site in the Eufrates Valley threatened by the construction of the Tchrine dam. In Spanish, English, French and Arabic.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• The Sphakia Survey - http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/
  A website that will provide information such as extensive bibliographies, sources of funding, centres of study, lists of collections and access arrangements, scholar and project contact details, bulletins on excavations and projects, and excavation reports.
         Subjects: Classical Archaeology.
• The Tell en-Nasbeh Research Project (Jeffrey R. Zorn) - http://www.arts.cornell.edu/jrz3/nasbeh.htm
  Tel en-Nasbeh excavation
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (Janet H. Johnson) -http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/SAOC/45/SAOC45.html
  "An experimental foray into the electronic dissemination of Oriental Institute titles."
         Subjects: Eqyptian Archaeology.
• The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP) - http://history.utah.edu/utarp/
  A multi-year archaeological Salvage, excavation and survey project.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• The Umm el-Jimal Project (Bert de Vries) - http://www.calvin.edu/academic/archaeology/uj/uj.htm
  Nearly three decades excavations at Umm el-Jimal.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Virtual Cuneiform Tablet (Gerfrid G.W. M üller) - http://people.freenet.de/ggwm3d/
  The replica of an Old Akkadian so called 'mu-iti' text from the Sumerian town Umma (Iraq) The replica of an Old Akkadian so called 'mu-iti' text from the Sumerian town Umma (Iraq) in a digital 3-d format.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.
• Zippori (Sepphoris) (The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/archaeology/zippori/
  Online reports of the current seasonal excavations.
         Subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology.

CDs:

Note that descriptions are necesarily from the publisher or some other external source. Review copies are not normally obtained until a reviewer has volunteered; so the CDs have not been previewed by the editor.

• Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean Author uncertain or not stated. Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
    "This CD-ROM takes viewers on an interactive voyage through the fascinating history of six major Mediterranean civilizations -- Etruscan, Phoenician, Carthaginian, Egyptian, ancient Greek, and Roman . . . . Also included are a detailed time line, videos on the landscape of the various Mediterranean areas discussed and their archaeological sites, and text about each civilization . . . ." Windows or MAC.
• Classical Texts Patrick Rogers.
     "Fathers at your Fingertips; Classical Authors; Vatican Documents"
• Egyptian Treasures in Europe, Vol.1 - 1000 Highlights Author uncertain or not stated. Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research (CCER)
    "A multi-lingual CD-ROM features the highlights of the Egyptian collections of ten European museums and forms the introduction to the series 'Egyptian Treasures in Europe.'"
• Etruria and the Etruscan Woman. Author uncertain or not stated. Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
    "This CD-ROM presents a detailed overview of the Etrurian civilization. . . to examine Etruria's culture, religion, and language through its Villanovan, Oriental, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. A select bibliography is also included." Windows or MAC.
• Learn Latin Now! Author uncertain or not stated. Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
    Windows or MAC.
• Multimedia companion to The Middle Palaeolithic site of Combe-Capelle Bas Harold L. Dibble and Shannon P. McPherron. University of Pennsylvania Museum.
• Rome, the Eternal City J-Progs.
     Photographs, guided tours of major sites, historical timeline and brief biographies of important historical figures.