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• Archaeological Sites in the Near East - List of links maintained by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
• Archaeology in the Levant - The University of California San Diego reports on its projects in Israel and Jordan.
• The development of economy and environment from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in Northern Syria and the Levant. A case-study from the Upper Khabur region - The project aims to take up previously recognised indications of Bronze and Early Iron Age environmental and economic change in northern Syria and southern Turkey and specify these developments through new carpological, anthracological and geoarchaeological studies. Antiquity Vol 78 No 302 December 2004
• History of the Ancient Near East - Mark McDonald provides information and links on the archaeological sites of the region from Turkey to Southwestern Iran.
• Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamia - A description including: emergence, excavation, discovery and decipherment, reconstructing history, and a table of Mesopotamian chronology.
• The Jazira Project - Report of the Oriental Institute's geomorphological projects within the Jazira of Syria, Turkey and Iraq.
• The Joint Prehistoric Project - The Joint Prehistoric Project comprises several archaeological expeditions in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey dating from 1947. All of these separate excavations, however, sought the solution to a general problem: "How are we to understand those great changes in mankind's way of life which attended the first appearance of the settled village-farming community?"
• Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Undergraduate Student Association Website - Devoted to the study of the ancient (from c. 3100 BCE) and contemporary cultures found within modern day Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Rhodes, Cyprus, Iraq, (to some extent Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Georgia) and western Iran.
• Oriental Institute Museum: Mesopotamia - Images and descriptions of objects in the University of Chicago center's collection.
• Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project - A multi-year excavation and survey project aimed at defining archaeological correlates of ancient imperialism, colonialism and culture contact in the Mesopotamian frontier zone.
  
  
• Archaeologists Excavate Monastery to Reveal Gaza Strip's Ancient Lineage - From Ekathimerini, away from the ongoing violence, researchers uncover the vestiges of Palestine's Byzantine past. (August 8, 2002)

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