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
Chaldea/Neo-Babylonia. Paul Halsell
Cyrus the Great. Karen Murdarasi
Greco-Persian Wars. Wikipedia
The Hebrews: Exile and After the Exile. Richard Hooker
The History of Herodotus. tr. George Rawlinson
Images of Ancient Iran. Iranian Cultural Information Center at Stanford University
Interactive Map Of Iran. Stanford Iran Server
Iranian Art in the Louvre
The Ishtar Gate. Wikipedia
Ishtar Gate Dedicatory Inscription. K. C. Hanson
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
Wars of Alexander the Great. Wikipedia
Zoroastrianism. Wikipedia
Zoroastrian Archives. Avesta.org
Zoroastrian Visual Essays. Vohuman.org

Image Links (click inside)

Dragon of Marduk Ishtar Gate	Sphinxes Darius I	Column Darius I	Bull Arabia, 6-5c	Gold Bowl Iran, 6-5c	Plaque Iran, 6-4c	Rhyton Iran, 5c
Rhyton Anatolia 5-4c	Sarcophagus Phoenicia, 470	Sarcophagus Sidon, 5c	Oxus treasure Tajikistan, 5-4c	Oxus treasure Tajikistan, 5-4c	Winged Ibex Iran, 4c

[last updated: August 19, 2010]

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