Welcome to my Research Sources page for The Age of Bronze: Early Mesopotamian Art & Architecture ! Chao Chen, Your class research librarian |
I. JumboSearch for Books
These titles are good starting points:
- The art and architecture of Mesopotamia
- Mesopotamia: ancient art and architecture
- Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age (2016)
- A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000 – 323 B.C. (2007)
- Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum (1995)
- Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East (1996)
- Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: a Cultural Biography (2010)
- Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary (1992)
Note: WorldWide Libraries (also known as WorldCat is still a better place to get a fuller picture of books on a topic.)
II. Journal Articles (subject databases)
A. All Subjects
A few notable journals in the field:
- Journal of Near Eastern Studies
- IRAQ
- Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History
- Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
- American Journal of Archaeology
B. Period Studies
- L'année philologique
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
- International Medieval Bibliography (400-1500).
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance (400 - 1700)
C. Cross Search Art History and Related Subject Databases
- In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
- Academic Search Premier
- Art & Architecture Source
- Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- LGBTQ+ Source
- Women's Studies International
**Not in the EBSco collection is the Index Islamicus (islamic and Middle Eastern Studies database)
III. Bibliographies
- Art History (Annotated Bibliographies), e.g.,