Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East
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Ancient Near East:Egypt, Mesopotamia, Middle East(Levant), Anatolia, Caucasus, Cana'an, Cyprus, Crete – Ugarit, Sumer, Elam, Akkad, Hattusa, Hittites, Arzawa, Mittani, Assur-- Mediterranean, Black Sea, Red Sea, Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf.
This is a project to better organize information in articles related to the ancient Near East. This page and its subpages contain suggestions. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
Scope/Goals
- Standardize chronology to the short chronology, making note of that using [[short chronology|short]] where needed. Approximate dates should be noted e.g. "ca. 1900 BC"
- Fix up articles tagged for cleanup
- Consolidate and properly apply categories
- Standardize spellings of script-based language words
- Re-organize and consolidate the various articles on religion and mythology
Key articles
| Ancient Near East articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | ||
| FL
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1 | 1 | |||||
 GA
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5 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 58 | |
| B | 21 | 24 | 88 | 75 | 1 | 84 | 293 |
| C | 17 | 37 | 143 | 184 | 1 | 134 | 516 |
| Start | 12 | 45 | 120 | 401 | 4 | 416 | 998 |
| Stub | 2 | 38 | 396 | 3 | 529 | 968 | |
| List | 7 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 19 | 54 | |
| Category | 787 | 787 | |||||
| Disambig | 7 | 7 | |||||
| File | 14 | 14 | |||||
| Project | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Template | 1 | 50 | 51 | ||||
| NA | 2 | 1 | 75 | 78 | |||
| Assessed | 63 | 124 | 418 | 1,093 | 946 | 1,192 | 3,836 |
| Unassessed | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Total | 63 | 124 | 418 | 1,093 | 946 | 1,199 | 3,843 |
NOTABLE SITES
- Cities of the ancient Near East
- Hattusa, Troy, Çatalhöyük, Sam'al, Kanesh
- Susa, Persepolis, Anshan, Godin Tepe
- Alalah, Ebla, Ugarit, Hazor, Megiddo
- Jemdet Nasr, Kish, Babylon, Nippur, Isin
- Lagash, Uruk, Larsa, Ur, Akkad
- Eridu, Urkesh, Nagar, Nineveh, Ashur, Mari,
HISTORY
- Sumer, Babylonia, History of Sumer
- Assyria, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Babylonia and Assyria
- Hittites, History of the Hittites, Syro-Hittite states
- Hattians, Elam, Hurrians, Mitanni
- History of Cyprus, History of Crete, Pre-Islamic Arabia
- History of the Levant, Canaan, Arzawa, Urartu
- Minoan civilization, Mycenaean civilization, Lydia
NOTABLE PEOPLE
- Sumerian king list, Short chronology timeline
- List of Assyrian kings, List of Kings of Babylon
- List of Hittite kings, List of rulers of Elam
- Lugal-zage-si, Sargon of Akkad, Naram-Sin of Akkad
- Gudea, Ur-Nammu, Shulgi, Hammurabi, Shutruk-Nakhunte
- Mursili I, Tushratta, Shalmaneser I, Hattusili III
- Nabonassar, Shalmaneser III, Sargon II
CHRONOLOGY
- Chronology of the ancient Near East, Short chronology
- Middle chronology, Short chronology timeline, Mursili's eclipse
- Assyrian eclipse, Babylonian Chronicles, Canon of Kings
- Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, Minoan eruption, Amarna letters
LANGUAGE and WRITING
- Cuneiform script, Transliterating cuneiform languages
- Proto-Elamite, Akkadian language, Sumerian language
- Luwian language, Hittite language, Hittite cuneiform
- Lydian language, Ugaritic alphabet, Ugaritic language
- Elamite language, Linear Elamite, Elamite cuneiform
- Cuneiform Unicode block, List of cuneiform signs
RELIGION
- Religions of the Ancient Near East, Mesopotamian mythology
- Sumerian religion, Babylonian religion, Assyro-Babylonian religion
- Hittite mythology, Ancient Semitic religion
MISC
- Ancient Near East, Fertile Crescent, Assyriology
- Bronze Age collapse, Mesopotamia, Sea Peoples, Amorite, Semitic peoples
Ancient Egypt (go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt)
Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject History
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Middle Eastern military history task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Assyria
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Writing_systems: collaborate for questions of cuneiform /hieroglyphic transliteration
Participants
- dab 18:05, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Alwaysf (talk) 03:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- Wetman 18:29, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- G Rutter 20:56, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Ben 16:58, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- SV|t 14:34, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
- Americist 22:31, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
- Yid613 23:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
- Enlil Ninlil 00:56, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
- Wootking"Tom 22:22, 21 May 2006 (UTC)"
- NicosT 7 June 2006
- Mhaesen 21:23, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
- Rob117 23:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanatosimii 15:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- Jagged 85 00:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Arsenous Commodore 17:51, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- Godsfire 17:15, July 18, 2007
- NJMauthor 18:28, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
- Armenian Highland 17:00, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
- Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 01:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
- Doug Weller (talk) 20:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
- Tyciol (talk) 12:46, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
- On Thermonuclear War (talk) 00:41, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- LightSpectra 01:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
- Laurinavicius (talk) 01:16, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
- Setnakhamwas 22:26, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
- VoodooShamrock7 20:14, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
- Yorkshirian (talk) 00:01, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
- Maziargh
- ANE.Scholar
- The Dark Peria
- Paul Bedson
- Yazan (talk) 19:07, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
- AinaEng (talk) 09:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sar Kissatim (talk) 07:30, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- Avismother 02:31, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- Carlstak
- Katolophyromai
- VeritasVox
- Izzat Kutebar (talk) 05:17, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
- JeBonSer (talk) 10:30, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
- Sardouri
(talk) 14:38, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Maps
- Image:Ancient Orient.png
- Image:14 century BC Eastern.png
- Image:Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Nomes of Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Mesopotamia.jpg (ugly)
- Image:Elam Map.jpg
- Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png (unlabelled satellite image)
- Image:Hitt Egypt Perseus.png (unfinished)
- Image:CanaanMap.jpg (ugly)
- Image:Map Land of Israel.jpg
- Image:Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Troas.png
Categories
- Category:Ancient Egypt --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
- Category:Mesopotamia
- Category:Levant
- Category:Anatolia
- Category:Crete
- Category:Cyprus
Templates
- {{WikiProject Ancient Near East}}: The project banner, to be placed on the talk pages of all relevant articles.
- {{User WikiProject Ancient Near East}}: For use on userpages
- {{Ancient Mesopotamia}}
- {{Ancient Near East}} (timeline)
- {{History of Anatolia}} (timeline)
- {{Hittite tree}} (New Kingdom royal family tree)
- {{Near East Neolithic}} (timeline)
"Near East"/"Middle East"/"Orient"
It seems that "Near East" is the preferred name now (googlehits "Ancient NE/ME/Orient": ca. 25:5:1).
The standard should be to use "Near East" in article titles and to create redirects for "Middle East" and "Orient".
Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
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