Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• Civilizations of the Ancient Near East: 
  Ref DS57.C547 2000a
• Gale Virtual Reference Library:  An online collection of reference books.  You can search a single eBook, or across an eBook collection.

Books

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “mythology”, “near east”, “rock music history”. For example, look at:

• The Treasures of Darkness : a History of Mesopotamian Religion / Thorkild Jacobsen.
  BL2350.I7 J3
• Mesopotamia : Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods / Jean Bottéro ; translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop.
  DS69.5 .B6813 1992
  
• Women of Babylon / Zainab Bahrani.  [Electronic book ; click title to view]

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

• JSTOR: full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including history, archaeology, and more.
• MLA International Bibliography:   Covers language, literature, poetry, and includes some Assyriology.
• Arts and  Humanities:  Covers a wide range of humanities and religious studies topics.
• SpringerLink:  The section “humanities, social sciences and law” includes the full-text of many articles on ancient cultures.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• AncientNearEast.net:
  A blog for scholars and others interested in the ancient Near East.
• Archaeowiki.org: 
  A wiki created and maintained by Paul James Cowie, an archaeologist and Egyptologist.
• The International Database of the Melammu Project: 
  An electronic database collecting the relevant textual, art-historical, archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic evidence and making it easily accessible on the Internet.