Architecture in the ancient Middle East: General resources

Meyers, Eric M. (editor), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Oxford University Press, DS56.O9 1996 (5 volume anthology)

American Schools of Oriental Research blog

Pollock, Susan & Reinhard Bernbeck, Archaeologies of the Middle East: critical perspectives, Blackwell Publishing, DS56 .A735 2005

Potts, Daniel T., A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Harmanşah, Ömür, Cities and the shaping of memory in the ancient Near East, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Lampl, Paul, Cities and Planning in the ancient Near East, Braziller, NA9245.N4 L3

Art and identity in the ancient Middle East (Exhibition tour, Metropolitan Museum, CUNY TV digital series via YouTube)

Art of the First Cities in the Third Millennium B.C. (Online exhibit by the Metropolitan Museum)

“Ornament and pattern; Ancient Near East and Egypt,” Oxford Art Online

Brier, Bob, “Egyptomania!” Archaeology, January/February 2004, p.16-22 (via Jstor)

Classic movie theaters in the Egyptian style (Cinema Treasures)

“Egyptian revival,” Oxford Art Online

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The American discovery of ancient Egypt, LACMA, DT58.9 .L67 1995

List of pyramid mausoleums in North America

“Assyrian,” Oxford Art Online

Masparo, G., Everyday life in ancient Egypt and Assyria, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Petit, L. P. & D. Morandi (editors), Nineveh, the great city: symbol of beauty and power, Sidestone Press, 2017 (via Ebook Central)

Russell, John Malcolm, The writing on the wall: studies in the architectural context of late Assyrian palace inscriptions, Eisenbrauns, PJ3835 .R87 1999

“Baalbek,” Oxford Art Online

“Canaanite,” Oxford Art Online

Fritz, Volkmar, “Conquest or Settlement? The Early Iron Age in Palestine,” The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol.50, #2, 1987, p.84–100 (PDF via JSTOR)

Ganor, Sa’ar, & Itamar Weissbein, “The Isolated Structure of Gal’on Fortress and the “Egyptian Governors’ Residencies” and ‘Fortresses’ in Southwestern Canaan,” Archaeological Excavations and Research Studies in Southern Israel : Collected Papers Volume 5: 18th Annual Southern Conference, edited by Amir Golani et al., Israel Antiquities Authority, 2022, p.117–38 (PDF via JSTOR)

World Heritage Sites: Lebanon

EGYPT (GENERAL)

Amiet, Pierre, et al, Art in the ancient world: a handbook of styles and forms, Rizzoli, N5345 .A88

Arnold, Dieter, The Encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian architecture, Princeton University Press, NA215 .A7513 2003

“Egypt, ancient,” Oxford Art Online

Hoberman, Max, “Two architects' sketches,” JSAH, December 1985, p.380-383 (On two Egyptian sketches on rocks known as ostracons)

Kemp, Barry J., Ancient Egypt: anatomy of a civilization, Routledge, DT61 .K44 2006

Manley, Bill, Egyptian art, Thames & Hudson, N5350 .M28 2017

Masparo, G., Everyday life in ancient Egypt and Assyria, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

McKenzie, Judith, The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, c. 300 B.C. to A.D. 700, Yale University Press, NA216.A5 M45 2007

Mysliwiec, Karol, The twilight of ancient Egypt: first millennium B.C.E., Cornell University Press, DT83 .M97 2000

Oppenheim, Adela, et al (editors), Ancient Egypt transformed: the Middle Kingdom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, DT85 .A625 2015

Riggs, Christina, Ancient Egyptian art and architecture: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, N5350 .R54 2014

Riggs, Christina, Egypt: lost civilizations, Reaktion Books, DT61 .R54 2017

Rossi, Corinna, Architecture and mathematics in ancient Egypt, Cambridge University Press, NA215 .R67 2004

EGYPT, CITIES & PLANNING

AlSayyad, Nezar, Cairo: histories of a city, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Bussmann, Richard, “Urbanism and temple religion in Egypt: a comment on Hierakonpolis,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol.100, 2014, p.311-337 (via Jstor)

Forster, E. M., Alexandria, a history and a guide, Oxford University Press, DT154.A4 F67 1986

La Riche, William, Alexandria: the Sunken City, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, DT73.A4 L37 1996

Polyzōidēs, Apostolos, Alexandria: city of gifts and sorrows, Sussex Academic Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central

EGYPT, PYRAMIDS, TEMPLES & TOMBS

Badawy, Alexander, “Zoomorphic shrines in Egypt and India,” JSAH, March 1959, p.27-29 (via Jstor)  

Giza Archives (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)

Kurth, Dieter, The temple of Edfu: a guide by an ancient Egyptian priest, American University in Cairo Press, DT73.I3 K8813 2004

Lehner, Mark, Giza and the pyramids, University of Chicago Press, DT73.G5 L425 2017

Lending, Mari, “Reciting the tomb of Tutankhamen,” Perspecta, Vol.49, 2016, p.78-88

Murray, Margaret Alice, Egyptian temples, Kegan Paul International, NA215 .M8 2003

Snape, Steven, Ancient Egyptian tombs: the culture of life and death, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Wilkinson, Richard H., The complete temples of ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson, DT68.8 .W55 2000

EGYPT, TECHNOLOGY

Barber, F. M., The mechanical triumphs of the ancient Egyptians, Routledge, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Deir el-Medina Database (Resources on town of craftsmen near Luxor)

Fichen, John, “Building Cheops’ Pyramid,” JSAH, March 1978, p.3-12 (via Jstor)

Isler, Martin, Sticks, stones, and shadows: building the Egyptian pyramids, University of Oklahoma Press, DT63 .I85 2001

Nicholson, Paul T. & Ian Shaw (editors), Ancient Egyptian materials and technology, Cambridge University Press, TA402.5.E3 A53 2000

Goldhill, Simon, The temple of Jerusalem, Harvard University Press, DS109.3 .G65 2005

Grabar, Oleg, Jerusalem, Ashgate/Variorum, NA5978.J4 G73 2005

Hachlili, Rachel, Ancient synagogues-archaeology and art, Brill, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Levine, Lee I., The ancient synagogue: the first thousand years, Yale University Press, BM653 .L38 2000

Mann, Vivian B., Jewish texts on the visual arts, Cambridge University Press, N7415 .J49 2000

Peleg-Barkat, Orit, “Fit for a king: architectural décor in Judea and Herod as trendsetter,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, May 2014, p.141-161 (via Jstor)

Rozenberg, Silvia, “Wall painters in Herodian Judea,” Near Eastern Archaeology, June 2014, p.120-128 (via Jstor)

Schwarzer, Mitchell, “The architecture of Talmud,” JSAH, December 2001

Solomon, Norman, Judaism: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, BM45 .S666 2000

“Akkadian,” Oxford Art Online

Ascalone, Enrico, Mesopotamia, University of California Press, DS69.5 .A7913 2007

Bowe, Patrick, “A deliberation on the hanging gardens of Mesopotamia,” Garden History, Winter 2015, p.151-167 (via Jstor)

British Museum: Mesopotamia (History, maps, artifacts)

Curatola, Giovanni, The art and architecture of Mesopotamia, Abbeville Press, N5370 .I7313 2007 

Matthews, Roger, The archaeology of Mesopotamia: theories and approaches, Routledge, DS69.5 .M37 2003

“Mesopotamia,” Oxford Art Online

Novotny, Jamie, “’I did not alter the site where that temple stood’: thought on Esarhaddon’s rebuilding of the Assur temple,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol.66, 2014, p.91-112 (via Jstor)

Alpass, Peter, “The baileion of Isis and the religious art of Nabataean Petra,” Syria, Vol.87, 2010, p.93-113 (via Jstor)

Borgia, E., Jordan, past & present: Petra, Jerash, Amman, VISION, DS153.3 .B6713 2001

McKenzie, Judith, The architecture of Petra, Oxbow Books, NA252.P48 M37 2005

“Nabataea,” Oxford Art Online

Petra National Trust

World Heritage Sites: Petra

Canepa, Matthew P., The Iranian expanse : transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE, University of California Press, NA225 .C36 2018

Curatola, Giovanni, The art and architecture of Persia, Abeville Press, N7283.C8713 2007

Curtis, John & Nigel Tallis (editors), Forgotten empire: the world of ancient Persia, British Museum Press, DS276.F67 2005

“Iran, ancient [Persia],” Oxford Art Online

Musée Achéménide (Database includes Achaemenid Empire archaeological sites, museum resources and online publications)

Persepolis: a virtual reconstruction (2005)

Persepolis and Ancient Iran, Expedition photographs (1933-5)

“Phoenician,” Oxford Art Online

The Phoenician Experience (Santorini Books)

Sader, Helene & Jens Kamlah, “Tell el-Burak: a new Middle Bronze Age site from Lebanon, Near Eastern Archaeology, June-September 2010, p.130-141 (via Jstor)

“Tyre,” Oxford Art Online

Woolmer, Mark, A short history of the Phoenicians, I. B. Tauris & Company, 2017 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Crawford, Harriet E. W., Sumer and the Sumerians, Cambridge University Press, DS72 .C73 1991

Electronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature (Oxford)

Rey, Sébastien, For the gods of Girsu : city-state formation in ancient Sumer, Archaeopress, 2016 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

“Sumerian,” Oxford Art Online

Akkermans, Peter M. M. G., The archaeology of Syria, Cambridge University Press, DS94.5 .A65 2003

Ball, Warwick, Syria a Historical and Architectural Guide, Interlink Books, DS94.B24 1997

Mierse, William, Temple and sanctuaries from the early Iron Age Levant: recovery after collapse, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

“Syria-Palestine,” Oxford Art Online