The Ancient Near East is generally understood as encompassing Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria), Persia (Iran), Egypt, the Levant (Israel, Syria, Palestinian Authority), and Anatolia (Turkey). Some users of the term would extend its application into the Caucasus region, into Afghanistan, Minoan and Mycenaean Greece and other peripheral areas. Still others would exclude Egypt from the Ancient Near East as a geographically and culturally distinct area - this exclusion is rare however, on the grounds of Egypt's intimate involvement with the region from the 2nd millennium BC.
Ancient Near East .net (http://www.ancientneareast.net/) - an information and content portal for the archaeology, ancient history and culture of the Ancient Near East and Egypt
ETANA (http://www.etana.org) - website hosted by a consortium of universities in the interests of providing digitized resources and relevant web links
The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium (http://www.ancientneareast.tripod.com/index.html)
Resources on Biblical Archaeology (http://www.BiblicalArcheology.Net)
East (NINO) NINO initiates, supports, and conducts scholarly research in the civilizations of the ancient, classical, and medieval Near East.
AncientMiddleEastMesopotamia was the setting for many ancient civilizations, including Sumeria, Babylon, and Israel.
The oldest remaining documentation of military campaigns come from the MiddleEast where the Egyptians, Assyrians, Hittites, and Persians were the main combatants.
As such, it is a term widely employed in the fields of Near Eastern archaeology, Ancient History and Egyptology.
The Ancient Near East is generally understood as encompassing Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria), Persia (Iran), Egypt, the Levant (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestinian Authority), and Anatolia (Turkey).
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