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Manley, B., The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Penguin Reference: s.l.: Penguin Books, 1997).
Parpola, S. – M. Porter (eds.), The Helsinki Atlas of the Near East in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Helsinki: The Casco Bay Assyriological Institute / The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001).
Roaf, M., Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East (Oxford / New York: Facts on File, 1990); = Atlas de la Mésopotamie et du Proche-Orient ancien (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991); Atlante della Mesopotamia e dell'antico Vicino Oriente (Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1992); Mesopotâmia e o Antigo Médio Oriente I-II (Coleção Grandes Impérios e Civilizações; Madrid: Ediciones del Prado, 1996).
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Sasson, J. M. (gen. ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. 4 vols. (New York: Scribner's, 1995).
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Baldacci, M., La scoperta di Ugarit. La città-stato ai primordi della Bibbia (Casale Monferrato: Piemme, 1996).
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Pettinato, Giovanni, La città sepolta: i misteri di Ebla (Le Scie; Milano: Mondadori, 1999).
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1: Rechts- und Wirtschaftsurkunden. Historisch-chronologische Texte. Band
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(Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, 1981-1997). [The work appeared in
fascicles. Band 1 was completed in 1985; Band 2 in 1991; Band 3 in 1997;
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format.] A Supplement was published in 2001: O. Kaiser (Hrsg.), Texte aus
der Umwelt des Alten Testaments: Ergänzungslieferung (Gütersloh:
Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, 2001).
A Second Series (Neue Folge) of the TUAT is in course of publication at present. Three volumes are already available: B. Janowski – G. Wilhelm (eds.), Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge. Band 1: Texte zum Rechts- und Wirtschaftsleben (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, 2004); B. Janowski – G. Wilhelm (eds.), Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge. Band 2: Staatsverträge, Herrscherinschriften und andere Dokumente zur politischen Geschichte (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, 2005); B. Janowski – G. Wilhelm (eds.), Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge. Band 3: Briefe (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, 2006).
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Pritchard, J. B. (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 31969); tr. spagn. parziale: La Sabiduría del Antiguo Oriente: antología de textos e ilustraciones (Barcelona: Garriga, 1966).
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AA.VV., L'Antico Testamento e le culture del tempo. Testi scelti. Presentazione di G. Ravasi. Traduzione di C. Valentini (Roma: Borla, 1990). [traduzione dal francese: Cahiers Evangile suppléments nn. 27, 34, 38, 40, 46, 56]
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ABZU (Guide to resources for the study of the Ancient Near East on the Internet, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago) [vastissima collezione di links, anche testi delle varie culture] [E cosa vuol dire "Abzu"? Vedere qui].
The History of the Ancient Near East: Electronic Compendium
Egitto: Antiquities Information (Ministry of Tourism, Egypt)
Egitto: lezioni per imparare la scrittura dei geroglifici
Egitto: many resources (University College of London)
Ittiti: Hatti – Association des Amis de la Civilisation hittite [alcune pagine in francese, altre in inglese]
Ittiti: Hittite Language Links
Mesopotamia: diverse popolazioni
Persia: Ancient History Sourcebook