Ancient Near East: 625 - 330 BC

Source for dates: Metropolitan Museum of Art

(See also: Ancient Near East Resource Page)

Web Resources
Achaemenid Art in the British Museum
Alexander the Great. Richard Hooker
Alexander the Great: The End of Persia. Jona Lendering
Ancient History of Yemen. Wikipedia
The Ancient Spice Trade. Chris Mundigler
Chaldea/Neo-Babylonia. Paul Halsell
Cyrus the Great. Wikipedia
Greco-Persian Wars. Wikipedia
The Hebrews: Exile and After the Exile. Richard Hooker
The History of Herodotus. tr. George Rawlinson
Interactive Map Of Iran. Stanford Iran Server
The Ishtar Gate. Wikipedia
Ishtar Gate Dedicatory Inscription. K. C. Hanson
Life of Cyrus the Great. Xenophon
Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon. Bible History Online
The Oxus Treasure. British Museum
Persepolis site visit. Murray L. Eiland III
Persepolis and Ancient Iran Catalog of Expedition Photographs. U. of Chicago Oriental Art Institute
The South Arabian Spice Trade. British Museum
Zoroastrianism. Wikipedia
Zoroastrian Archives. Avesta.org
Zoroastrian Visual Essays. Various contributors

Image Links (click inside)

Grimacing Mask Carthage 7-6c	Dragon of Marduk Ishtar Gate	Sphinxes Darius I	Column Darius I	Bull, mid-late 1m Arabia	Gold Bowl Iran, 6-5c	Plaque Iran, 6-4c
Rhyton Iran, 5c	Rhyton Anatolia 5-4c	Sarcophagus Lebanon, 470	Egypt, recycled Lebanon, 5c	Oxus treasure Tajikistan, 5-4c	Oxus treasure Tajikistan, 5-4c	Winged Ibex Iran, 4c

[last updated: August 13, 2013]

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