ADIAS - Web Links

• Archaeologica. - visits its news section for up to date links to press stories relating to archaeology.
• Archaeology.about.com
• Archaeology Abroad
• Archaeology Conferences Worldwide
• Archaeology Data Service (ADS)
• Archaeology On the Net
• Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe (ARGE)
• BBC Archaeology home page - lots of informative stories and links.
• British Archaeological Jobs Resource (BAJR)
• Current Archaeology magazine
• Thesaurus - National Monuments (UK)
• Training Online Resource Centre for Archaeology (TORC)
• Yahoo DIrectory - Anthropology and Archaeology
• Young Archaeologists Club (UK)
  
  

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE UAE

• Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey
• Al Ain Museum - the website of the Department of Antiquities and Tourism. It has information about the archaeological sites located in and around Al Ain, including Hili, Wadi Hamam, Bida Bint Saud and Rumailah.
• Al-Buhais 18 - Late Stone Age burial grounds and settlement in Sharjah emirate (University of Tübingen, Germany).
• Architecture projects in the United Arab Emirates - from the ArchNet site.
  
• ArScAn-Du village à l'Etat au Proche et Moyen-Orient - Arabie et Mer Erythrée: Recherches archéologiques aux Émirats Arabes Unis - about the work carried out by the French Archaeological Mission in the United Arab Emirates.
• Bithnah, Fujairah - about the work financed by the Swiss-Liechtenchtein Foundation for Archaeological Research Abroad (FSLA) in Fujairah emirate.
• Dalma - abstract of article published by Mark Beech and Elizabeth Shepherd on the early evidence for date consumption on Dalma island, in Antiquity 75 (2001): 83-9.
• Digging in the Land of Magan - article by M. Redha Bhacker and Bernadette Bhacker.
• Digging up Julfar - article in Al Shindagah magazine.
• Fujairah - Petroglyphs - information on the petroglyphs discovered during the Archaeological Survey of Fujairah by the Prehistoric Archaeology Research Group from the Department of Anthropology, University of Geneva.
• Hili, une oasis de l'âge du Bronze à Abou Dhabi - website about the work carried out by the French Archaeological Mission from CNRS at Hili, Al Ain.
• Hili - Des inhumations collectives - about the work of the French Archaeological Mission from CNRS.
• In Search of Ancient Seafarers in the Arabian Gulf (Berkeley Archaeology, The Archaeological Research Facility Newsletter, Spring 1995  Volume 2, Number 2) - brief article about Chris Kostman's 1994-5 underwater archaeology survey of the coast of Fujairah and Sharjah.
  
• Kush - A Parthian, Sasanian and early-Islamic tell in the Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, UAE. 
• Liwa - website of the German archaeological team's work in the Liwa Oasis, directed by Dr. Heiko Kallweit, Orientalisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.
• Mark Beech 's website at the University of York.
• Mleiha: la période pré-islamique récente - about the work carried out by the French Archaeological Mission at Mleiha in Sharjah emirate.
• Muweilah excavations 1995-2001 - website about the excavations carried out at the Iron Age II settlement (1100-600BC) located in Sharjah emirate.
• Tell Abraq - Lead isotope analyses from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates: new data regarding the 'tin problem' in Western Asia - abstract of article published by by Lloyd Weeks in the journal Antiquity 73 (1999): 49-64.
• UAE Interact.com  - is one of  the largest research information sources available on the internet regarding the UAE, and includes a wealth of information concerning the history and archaeology of the UAE.
• UAE: A New Perspective (published by Trident Press ) - you may download pdf files of the archaeological chapters written by Prof. Dan Potts and Dr. Geoffrey King, from uaeinteract.com , the UAE Ministry of Information and Culture website. Please respect that copyright remains with Trident Press Ltd. and the Author:
  • Before the Emirates: an Archaeological and Historical Account of Developments in the Region ca 5000 BC to 676 AD - Daniel T. Potts (Acrobat pdf file - download size = 676 KB)
  • The Coming of Islam and the Islamic Period in the UAE  - Geoffrey R. King (Acrobat pdf file - download size = 142 KB)
    
• UNar 2 - Excavation of an Umm an-Nar tomb in Ras al-Khaimah - about the excavations carried out by the Department of Antiquities and Museums of Ras al-Khaimah during the winter of 1997/98. 
• UNar2 - the skeletal remains from UNar 2 (Ras al-Khaimah) by Soren Blau - a report on the human skeletal remains from the tomb.
• Virtual Museum - part of the uaeinteract.com website.
• A Walk Through Time - a brief outline of the archaeological chronology of the UAE (part of the uaeinteract.com website).

ARCHAEOLOGY IN ARABIA

General

• ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East - a large index of resources.
• ArchAtlas - The ArchAtlas project aims to provide a visual summary of spatial processes in prehistoric and early historic times, such as the spread of farming, the formation of trade contacts, and the growth of urban systems, and to illustrate the locations of key archaeological sites. It uses GIS techniques to integrate georeferenced information on archaeological sites, cultural entities and contact routes with environmental data and satellite imagery. It includes a section on The Fertile Crescent with downloadable maps of archaeological sites by time period.
• Archaeology of the Middle East
• ArchNet: Near Eastern Archaeology
• Livius - articles on Ancient History, see especially Ancient Arabia - Achaemenids - Mesopotamia - Persia - Sassanid kings
• Mercator's World - The Road to Ubar
• Mesopotamian Image Gallery - Oriental Institute Virtual Gallery, Chicago
• Mesopotamia Virtual Classroom - Contains teaching aids and references for secondary school teachers and students.
• Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia
• Seminar for Arabian Studies
• The Boatbuilding Sequence in the Gilgamesh Epic and the Sewn Boat Relation - by Ralph K. Pedersen
• The History of the Ancient Near East: Electronic Compendium - excellent website compiling a lot of information on Near Eastern archaeology, managed by Mark Alan McDonald, Utah, USA.
  

Bahrain

• Architecture of the Bahrain National Museum - entry on the ArchNet site.
• Architecture projects in Bahrain - from the ArchNet site.
• Bahrain National Museum
• 'Detectives' unearth secrets of the past - Investigations by archaeologists in Bahrain are unearthing new evidence of ancient trading links. Rebecca Torr reports - Gulf Daily News Vol XXVIII NO. 78 Monday 6th June 2005.
• Digging up history by Abdulrahman Fakhri - Gulf Daily News, Vol XXVII NO. 186, Wednesday 22 September 2004
• Dilmun played crucial role in ancient world, King to lead Dilmun discovery celebrations and Bahrain celebrates glorious civilisation by Abdulrahman Fakhri - Gulf Daily News, Vol XXVII NO. 185, Tuesday 21 September 2004
• Dilmun - Ancient Bahrain
• Geoffrey Bibby - obituary , Archaeologist, born 14 October 1917, died on 6 February 2001, aged 83 - shortened version of that which appeared in The Times of 13th February 2001.
• Hawar Islands Protected Area Management Plan by N. Pilcher et al. - First Draft - January 2003 (pdf file 1.42 MB)
• Historical sites on Bahrain - a holiday guide.
• Pierre Lombard home page
• Survey in Bahrain and A GPS-Guided Survey in Bahrain in 1993 - by Ralph K. Pedersen (Institute of Nautical Archaeology)
• Traces of Paradise: The Archaeology of Bahrain 2500 BC - 300 AD - about the exhibition which took place at the Brunei Gallery at SOAS in London between the 12 July - 16 September 2000.
• UNESCO Report on Human Activity on the Hawar Archipelago by Fran (Clare) Gillespie (Co-ordinator Qatar Archaeology Project 2000).
• Voyage to the Past by Thor Heyerdahl - article in Saudi Aramco magazine, November/December 1980, Volume 31, Number 6.

Jordan

• Abila of the Decapolis
• Archaeobotanical Reports from the Levant - (Naomi Miller, University of Pennsylvania Museum)
• Beidha project
• The ‘Ain Ghazal Statue Project - A group of Pre-Pottery Neolithic lime plaster statues are currently undergoing conservation at the Institute of Archaeology.
• Madaba - a city of mosaics (Franciscan Archaeological Institute)
• Madaba Plains Project
• Neolithic Statues from `Ain Ghazal: Construction and Form by Carol A. Grissom. American Journal of Archaeology Volume 104 No. 1
  January 2000.
• Petra - the Great Temple Excavation (Brown University)
• Petra National Trust
• Tell es Sa'idiyeh (British Museum)
  
• Virtual Nimrin - guide to the archaeological site in Jordan being investigated by Case Western Reserve University.
• Wadi Ziqlab project, N Jordan (Ted Banning, Univ. of Toronto)
  
  

Kuwait

• Architecture projects in Kuwait - from the ArchNet site.
• British Archaeological Expedition to Kuwait  (BAEK) - about recent excavations at the Ubaid site at H3, Sabiyah, Kuwait.
• KuwaitPast.com - has information on the history of the rulers of Kuwait plus some nice photographs of old Kuwait on the arabic pages.
• L'île de Failaka - Archéologie du Koweit - Exposition-dossier du musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Du 16 juin au 3 octobre 2005, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 20 place des Terreaux, 69001 Lyon, France.
• Maps of Kuwait - part of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
• National Museum of Kuwait (pdf file, 528 Kb) - two page article about the architectural design of the museum by the architect Michel Ecochard. Taken from the reference: Ecochard, Michel. 1980. The National Museum of Kuwait. In Places of Public Gathering in Islam. Linda Safran (ed). Philadelphia: Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
• National Museum of Kuwait - ArchNet entry which includes some photographs taken of the museum in 1985, before the destruction and looting which took place in the 1st Gulf War.
• Safir Heritage Village, Failaka, Kuwait - a palace restored and converted into a museum. The village also exhibits traditional architecture, factories and a mosque. Archaelogists have uncovered settlements and artefacts there dating back to 3,200 B.C. Forty-four heritage houses and seven heritage rooms have now been restored to their former glory. Come to the island with your own private boat or the ferry, which runs daily excepting Saturday and Monday; leaving Kuwait at 8:15 a.m. and returning from Failaka at 12:30 pm, the crossing takes 1 and a 1/2 hours.
• Tareq Rajeb Museum - The Museum is the private collection of the Rajab family. The collection was started in the early 50's and was opened to the general public in 1980.
• The Retrieval of Kuwait National Museum's Collections from Iraq: An Assessment of the Operation and Lessons Learned by Kirsty Norman - Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC) 2000, Volume 39, Number 1, Article 11 (pp. 135 to 146).
  
  

Oman

• Archaeology Fund - Southern Arabia: The Land Of Incense, An Archaeological Investigation - website by Juris Zarins, Ronald Blom and George R. Hedges.
• Atlantis of the Sands - short article by Juris Zarins about the supposed identification of Ubar.
• Architecture projects in Oman - from the ArchNet site.
  
• Beehive Tombs at Halban - web page by J. Schreurs, April 2003.
• Beit Muzna Restoration - entry on the ArchNet site.
• Directory of Archaeologists interested in Oman
• Italian Mission to Oman - information about the archaeological work done in Khor Rori, Oman.
• Jabrin Castle Restoration - entry on the ArchNet site.
• Links to websites on the archaeology of Oman (Oman Studies Centre)
• Lost City of Arabia - Ubar
• Maps of Oman - part of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
  
• Nizwa.net
• Oman 1957-1976 - about recent Omani history.
  
• Oman Archaeology Network
• Oman Home Page
• Oman Research in progress
• Oman Studies Centre
• Paul Yule
  • 'Amla/al Fueda - a Cemetery of the Late Pre-Islamic Age in al Zahirah (Sultanate of Oman)
  • A Survey of Archaeological Monuments Threatened by Building Activity in the Sultanate of Oman
  • German Archaeological Expedition to the Sultanate of Oman - chronology of fieldwork.
  • German Archaeological Oman-Expedition - includes pictures of the Umm an Nar tower tombs at Shir/Jaylah.
• Qalhat - web page by J. Schreurs, April 2003.
• Restoration of Omani Forts - entry on the ArchNet site.
  
• The People of ‘Ad and Ubar, the Atlantis of the Sands - part of the Islamicity.com website
• The Search for Ubar (NASA website) and Ubar optical radar
• The Story of Qalhat
• Traveling around - Reisavonturen- Oman - information and maps concerning various places in Oman. Web page by J. Schreurs.
  
• Ubar (Iram) - The story of its discovery and importance - web page by J. Schreurs, April 2003.

Qatar

• Architecture of Qatar National Museum - entry on the ArchNet site.
• Architecture projects in Qatar - from the ArchNet site.
• History of Qatar - part of the Qatar-Info Interactive Internet magazine website.
• Maps of Qatar - part of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
  
• The Al Khor Excavation Confirms Intermittent Settlements over the last 4000 Years (Qatargas press release about the Qatar Archaeology Project)

Saudi Arabia

• Adumatu - an academic refereed journal on the archaeology of the Arab World.
• Architecture projects in Saudi Arabia - from the ArchNet site.
• Art Rocks in Saudi Arabia - Saudi Aramaco World magazine, March/April 2002, Volume 53, Number 2.
• Desert Caves Project - reports and pictures of caves in the Saudi Arabian desert.
• Early Mankind in Arabia by Norman M. Whalen and David W. Pease - Saudi Aramaco World magazine, July/August 1992 Volume 43, Number 4.
• From the Lakes of Arabia by Jon Mandaville - Saudi Aramaco World magazine, March/April 1980, Volume 31, Number 2.
• History of Saudi Arabia
• Maps of Saudi Arabia - part of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Monuments from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• National Museum of Saudi Arabia
• Riyadh Architecture in one hundred years - a report on the website of the Jordanian based Centre for the Study of the Built Environment.
• Saudi Arabia - Lonely Planet Guide
• The New Historians by Jon Mandaville - Saudi Aramaco World magazine, March/April 1980, Volume 31, Number 2.
• Written in Stone - Inscriptions from the National Museum of Saudi Arabia

Yemen

• Archaeology Fund - Southern Arabia: The Land Of Incense, An Archaeological Investigation - website by Juris Zarins, Ronald Blom and George R. Hedges.
• Architecture projects in Yemen - from the ArchNet site.
• British-Yemeni Society
  
• German Archaeological Institute - Near East Section - Sanaa branch, Yemen
  • Bar'an-Tempel
  • Jabal al-'Awd
  • Marib
  • Marib, Friedhof des Awâm-Tempel
• Holocene Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape, Wadi Shumylya, Yemen
• Maps of Yemen - part of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Neolithic and Bronze age settlements in the Wadi Dahr, Yemen (Neolithische und Bronzezeitliche Besiedlung im Wadi Dhahr, Republik Jemen) - read an abstract or download a complete version (15.4 MB) of Dr. Heiko Kallweit's interesting Phd thesis (in German) concerning the archaeology of the Wadi Dhahr, a fertile valley 15km north of Sanaa in the central Highlands of Yemen.
• Paul Yule
  • Grabungsangebot Jemen
• Yemen Expedition of the University of Heidelberg since 1998 - about the project directed by Paul Yule.
  
• Yemeni Megaliths - news article in Archaeology magazine in 1997.
  
  

• Al Mutannabi bookshop - online bookshop based in Dubai.
• Arabia Books - books about the UAE and Oman (part of Motivate website).
• Jarir Bookstore - a Saudi company which has branches in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE.
• Magrudy's bookshop - based in Dubai.
• Motivate Publishing - publishers of many books on Arabia.
• Trident Press - official publishers of the UAE Yearbook and many other useful titles.
• Zodiac Publishing - John Nowell's company based in Dubai.

• Abebooks - Book exchange service designed for the out-of-print, used or antiquarian book buyer or seller. The inventories of over 4000 booksellers, from 30 countries are listed and searchable, comprising some 10 million titles. Includes a facility to register desired titles with the service, and be informed by e-mail when the title becomes available. The service is free to buyers and searchers.
• Alibris - Bookseller specialising in out of print material including books, maps, prints, manuscripts and photographs.
• Amazon - probably the best known online bookstore. Large Internet bookshop with facilities to conduct title, author, and subject searches, receive email updates on release of similar titles, and submit book reviews.
• Archaeologia - seller of Antiquarian, Rare and Out-of-Print Scholarly Books on the Archaeology (Archeology) of Ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome, and the Americas.
• Bibliofind - Source for tracking old, used, and rare books. Publication details may be obtained by entering title, author, or price. Titles are offered by hundreds of booksellers around the world.
  
• Bibliopoly - Database of stock held by antiquarian booksellers around the world. Holdings are searchable by author, title, imprint, publication date, language, or category. Prices are quoted in US Dollars, Sterling, or Euros, as stipulated. English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language options are available.
  
• Bookfinder - another comprehensive website for new and secondhand books. Provides a unified interface to the collections of a number of dealers in new, used, rare, antiquarian and out-of-print books
• Books Online - UK based Online bookstore featuring a database of over 1.5 million titles, browsable by subject area, and searchable by title, author, ISBN or keyword
• Heffers - based in Cambridge, England, since 1876 offers quality books and products for all age groups, providing a modern service based upon traditional service values. Includes recommendations, a book search facility, antiquarian and secondhand books and an online enquiry service.
• NHBS - the Natural History Bookstore. One of the best online bookstores for books on natural history, environment and science.
• Oxbowbooks - and David Brown Book Company website is an online bookstore for everything on Archaeology, Prehistory, the Classical World, the Middle Ages, Egyptology, Near Eastern studies, and related Environmental and Heritage topics.
  
• UKBookWorld.com - A database of old, rare, and out-of-print scholarly and collected books offered for sale by British booksellers.
• UsedBookSearch - Cross-searching service providing access to stock held by second hand booksellers worldwide. Searching is by country, author, title, or subject keyword, and can be restricted to chosen vendors.
• Waterstones (working with Amazon.co.uk) - Includes a fully searchable catalog and secure order facility, a search facility for Waterstone's branches, a list of Waterstone's best selling books and Book of the month.
• Zvab (Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher) - German company recently merged with ChooseBooks.com - a worldwide marketplace for used, rare, antiquarian and out-of-print books, Autographs and Ephemera items.
  
  
  
  

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANISATIONS

• Abdul and Izhar Hafeez - Taxidermy specialists
• Abu Dhabi branch of the Emirates Natural History Group
• Al Ain branch of the Emirates Natural History Group
• AlSafi Friends of the Environment Club
• CITES (for details of UAE management and scientific committee click here)
• Commission of Environmental Research (CER)
• Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment
• Dubai Natural History Group
• Emirates Environmental Group (EEG)
  
• Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD)
• Federal Environment Agency (FEA) (try also contact information)
• UNESCO Regional Office in the Arab States of the Gulf
  
• Zayed International Prize for the Environment

GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES

• Abu Dhabi Chamber Of Commerce & Industry
• Abu Dhabi Municipality
• Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA)
• Federal Environment Agency (FEA)
• Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
• Ministry of Economy & Commerce
• Ministry of Finance & Industry
• Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
• UAE government site

• Adumatu
• AIYS Electronic Bulletin of Yemeni Studies
• American Antiquity
• Antiquity
  
• Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (AAE)
• Archaeology
• Archaeometry
• Archiv für Orientforschung (AfO): Internationale Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom Vorderen Orient
  
• Aridlands Newsletter
  
• British School of Archaeology in Iraq (BSAI) Newsletter
  
• Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (BASOR)
• Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies (ISSN 1361-9144) -  The Society for Arabian Studies publishes an annual bulletin. For more details contact: The Society for Arabian Studies, c/o The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH, UK.
  
• Bulletin of Nabataean Studies
• International Journal of Middle East Studies
  
• Internet Archaeology
• Iran (Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies)
• Iraq (Journal of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq)
  
• Journal of the American Oriental Society
• Journal of Archaeological Science
  
• Journal of Field Archaeology
  
• Journal of Near Eastern Studies
• Journal of Semitic Studies
• Levant
  
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Paleorient
  
• Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
• Radiocarbon
  
• Tribulus (Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History Group) ISSN 1019-6919 - Tribulus is published twice a year in April and October. For more details contact: The Editor (email: hellyer@emirates.net.ae), Tribulus, Emirates Natural History Group, P.O. Box 45553, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie - Journal for Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.
  

LINGUISTICS AND EPIGRAPHY

• Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project
• Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project
• Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD)

MAPS AND G.I.S. IN THE UAE

Co-ordinate convertors

• Calculate Distance and Bearing between 2 GPS points - part of the Malaysia GIS website.
• Column on Grids and Datum of United Arab Emirates - written by Prof.Clifford J. Mugnier, Louisiana State University, USA for the February 2001 PE&RS (pdf file)
  
• Convert Decimal Degrees to Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds OR Convert Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds to Decimal Degrees (North Carolina Geological Survey - NCGS)
• Convert Decimal Degrees to Degrees/Minutes/Seconds. And Back! (someone called K. Weymeis)
• Convert Degrees Minutes Seconds to Decimal Degrees - part of the Malaysia GIS website.
• Convert Degrees Minutes Seconds to Decimal Degrees OR Convert Decimal Degrees to Degrees Minutes Seconds (The North American Sundial Society)
• Converting point locations between Geographic and UTM coordinates (Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre - AGCRC)
• Convert UTM to Geodetic coordinates (part of the US National Geodetic Survey NGS website.)
• Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and Decimal Degrees Latitude/Longitude Conversions (Federal Communications Commission)
  
• GSRUG (online conversion of Geographic to UTM co-ordinates, and vice versa.)
• JeEep.com - incredibly useful website with co-ordinate translation.
  

Co-ordinate services

• EarthSearch.net - co-ordinates for localities in the United Arab Emirates.
• Geonames Query Home Page - GeoNet Names Server, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGIA) - use this excellent resource to track down the geographic co-ordinates for any placename in any country in the world.
• Latitude and Longitude - co-ordinates for places in the United Arab Emirates.
• MapPlanet - United Arab Emirates.
• Wayhoo.com - GPS Waypoints and Utilities.

Maps

• Abu Dhabi Locator
• Carl "Calle" Rosenberg's Global Gazeteer - which includes the United Arab Emirates - search for a place name in the UAE and get an instant location map, as well as the co-ordinates, elevation, and even the local weather forecast!
• Dubai Locator
• Explore Dubai
• GIS in the United Arab Emirates - part of the GISdevelopment.net website.
• Global Mapper
• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• Map24 - interactive maps of the Middle East.
• Maporama
• Maps of the Middle East (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection).
• Maps of the United Arab Emirates (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection).
• MAPS geosystems
• Maps showing geology, oil and gas fields and geological provinces of the Arabian Peninsula
• NGA Raster Roam - National Geospatial Intelligency Agency - plot a map of geographic co-ordinates wherever you are in the world.
• UAE Locator
  
• UTM grid zones of the world
• UTMS v.1.1

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

• Arab.net
• Middle East Network Information Center

MUSEUMS

Arabia

• American University of Beirut Museum (Lebanon)
• Animal Mummy Project in the Cairo Museum (Egypt)
• Bahrain National Museum
• British Museum (UK) - visit the Near East section of the BM website.
• Cairo Museum - an unofficial guide (UK).
• Dar Al Athar Al Islamiyyah - Guide to the Happenings of Dar Al Athaar Al Islamiyyah from Weekly Lectures to Exhibitions (Kuwait)
  
• Egypt Archive (UK)
• Egyptian Museum - another unofficial guide (Australia)
• Egyptian Museum - The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University (USA)
• Global Egyptian Museum (Netherlands)
  
• Iraq Museum International
• Jeddah Museums (Saudi Arabia)
• Jordan Museums and Jordan Tourism Guide Museums
• Lebanon Museums
• Lost Treasures from Iraq
• Metropolitan Museum - Timeline of Arabian Peninsula 8000-2000 BC (USA)
• Museum of Islamic Art (Qatar)
• National Museum of Beirut (Lebanon)
• National Museum of Kuwait - read also about the architectural design of the museum buildings, and about the patient restoration program to restore the museum.
• National Museum of Saudi Arabia - read also about the architects who designed it.
• Oman Museums
• Oriental Institute Museum (Univ. of Chicago, USA)
• Pella Museum - Paleontology and Geology of Jordan
• Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology (UK)
• Pitt Rivers Museum - Sir Wilfred Thesiger Catalogue Project (Univ. of Oxford, UK)
• Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium (USA)
• Qatar National Museum (Qatar)
• Sadu House (Kuwait)
• Scientific Center (Kuwait)
• Syria Museum
• Syrian Museums (Ministry of Tourism website, Syria)
• Tareq Rajeb Museum (Kuwait)
  
• The Bead Museum - A Woman’s Treasure: Bedouin Jewelry of the Arabian Peninsula (USA)
• Virtual Egyptian Museum (USA)
• Yemen National Museum (Sana'a, Yemen)

United Arab Emirates

• Ajman Museum (UAE)
• Al Ain Museum (Department of Antiquities and Tourism) (UAE)
  
• Dubai Museum (UAE)
• Fujairah Museum (UAE)
• National Bank of Dubai Pearl Museum (UAE)
  
• National Museum of Ras al-Khaimah (UAE)
• Sharjah Art Museums and Expo Centre (UAE)
  
• Sharjah Museums (general intro page) (UAE)
  • Sharjah Archaeology Museum
  • Sharjah Heritage Museum
  • Sharjah Islamic Museum
  • Sharjah Natural History Museum & Desert Park
  • Sharjah Science Museum
    

PRESS

For the latest international archaeology news visit:

Archaeologica

BBC News - "archaeology"

Google News - "archaeology"

Todays Headlines (part of the Archaeological Institute of America's Archaeology magazine website).

For the latest news about the United Arab Emirates visit:

WAM - the Emirates News Agency

UAEinteract.com - official website of the Ministry of Information and Culture.

UAE Arabic Press

• Al Bayan
• Al Ittihad
• Al Jareeda
• Al Khaleej
• Arab.net
• Arriyadah Wa'shabab
• Hetta Magazine
• Sahafa Online
• Young Times
  

UAE English Press

• Emirates Today
  
• Gulf Business
• Gulf News
• Gulf Today
• Khaleej Times
• PC Magazine Middle East
• 7Days
• Young Times
  
  

PUBLISHERS

• Arabian Wildlife
• Trident Press
• Zodiac Publishing

RELATED ORGANISATIONS (UAE)

• Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO)
• Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO)
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)
• British Business Group Abu Dhabi
• British Council (UAE)
• British Embassy (UAE)  
• Center for Documentation and Research (CDR) - Presidential Court
• Cultural Foundation
• Date Palm Research and Development Programme
• Department of History and Archaeology - College of Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain.
• Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR)
• Emirates Heritage Club
• Twitchers Guide (part of the uaeinteract.com website).
• Union National Bank
• ZADCO
• Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up (ZCCF)
• Zayed Center for Heritage and History.
• Zayed University
  
  

RELATED ORGANISATIONS (INTERNATIONAL)

• American Institute for Yemeni Studies
• British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
• British Institute of Persian Studies
• British School of Archaeology in Iraq
• British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
• British-Yemeni Society
• Center for Archaeology of Middle East Landscape (CAMEL)
• Le Centre Français d'Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa
• Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies - University of Bergen
• Council for British Research in the Levant
• Egypt Exploration Society
• Friends of Hadhramut
• Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies
• Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies - at the University of Exeter, U.K.
• London Centre for the Ancient Near East
• London Diary for the Ancient Near East
• Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman.
• Oman Studies Centre
• Prehistoric Society
• Seminar for Arabian Studies
• Society of Antiquaries
• Society for Libyan Studies
• Society for South Asian Studies
  

SATELLITE IMAGES

• Gulf Centre for Remote Sensing LLC
• Hormuz satellite images
• Real Time Satellite Images of Iraq
• Satellite images of Iran and the Persian Gulf
• Search all Astronaut photography of Earth for Arabian Gulf region
• Visible Earth - Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

TOUR COMPANIES

• Alpha Tours
• Arabian Adventures
• Martin Randall Travel Ltd - organises archaeology tours in the Ancient World, including to the Gulf region
• Net Tours
• Offroad Emirates
• Orient Tours
• Scuba International
• Seven Seas Divers
• Sharaf Travel
  
• Tribes Travel - organises trips to Jordan
• Worlds Apart - Expeditions in Arabia and Persia

TOURIST INFORMATION

• ArabNet - UAE Guide
• Chirri2000 - wonderful website by Roy Richards and Liz Sowinska, who are based in Abu Dhabi in the UAE. Chirri is the name of their dog! The website contains an excellent guide to walking in the mountains of the UAE and Oman (Musandam). This includes route maps and GPS waypoints. Also provides useful information for people planning trips to Salalah in southern Oman.
• Dubai City Guide
• Hotels in Abu Dhabi (Yahoo)
• Lonely Planet Guide to UAE
• Time Out - Abu Dhabi
• Time Out - Dubai
• UAE Interact.com - official website for the Ministry of Information and Culture in the UAE. Lots of usedul information.
• UAE Locator - includes useful searchable maps of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

TRAVEL

Airlines:

• British Airways
  
• Czech Airlines
• Etihad Airways
• Emirates
• Expedia
• Gulf Air
• KLM
• Kuwait Airways
• Lufthansa
• Middle East Airlines
• Qatar Airways
• Royal Jordanian Airlines
• Saudi Arabian Airlines
• Singapore Airlines
• UFLYonline

Airports:

• Abu Dhabi International Airport
• Dubai International Airport
  

Online booking:

• Expedia
• Lastminute
• UFLYonline

Travel companies:

• Bin Moosa Travel
• Salem Travel Agency

UAE WEBSITES

• Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing
• Emirates Internet Home Page
• Higher Colleges of Technology
• List of websites registered in Abu Dhabi (part of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry website)
  
• Tour of the Emirates (part of the uaeinteract.com website).
• UAE Forever
• UAE Interact.com
• UAE Internet Yellow Pages
• UAE Web Guide
• Zayed University
  

WEB SEARCH

• Araboo * NEW * - The mission of Araboo.com is to organize a wealth of information about the Arab world, making it universally accessible and useful.
  
• Froogle - search the best price when you are doing your internet shopping.
• Google.com
• Google directory
• Google Image Search - has 425 million plus images!
• Keoz6.com - Science vertical portal.
• Yahoo

WEBSITE COMPANIES (UAE)

• Falconsearch
• Reliantnet
• Uploads2

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