Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East

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[edit]

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"
- Chronology of the ancient Near East
- Short chronology timeline

Fix up articles tagged for cleanup
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East/Cleanup listing

Consolidate and properly apply categories
- Ancient Near East categories

Standardize spellings of script-based language words
- Transliterating cuneiform languages

Re-organize and consolidate the various articles on religion and mythology

Key articles[edit]

Ancient Near East articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3			1	6
FL		1					1
GA	3	9	12	4		1	29
B	15	14	64	34		33	160
C	13	24	61	75		70	243
Start	14	48	118	318	3	342	843
Stub		2	35	342	3	389	771
List	7		5	13		17	42
Category					513		513
Disambig					5		5
File					13		13
Portal					126		126
Project					4		4
Template		1			36		37
NA			1	1	71		73
Other				1			1
Assessed	52	101	299	788	774	853	2,867
Unassessed						260	260
Total	52	101	299	788	774	1,113	3,127
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7004105170000000000♠10,517			Ω = 5.04

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

NOTABLE PEOPLE

CHRONOLOGY

LANGUAGE and WRITING

RELIGION

MISC

Ancient Egypt (go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt)

Related WikiProjects[edit]

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[edit]

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)

Maps[edit]

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[edit]

Category:Ancient Near East

Templates[edit]

{{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"/"Middle East"/"Orient"[edit]

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".

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"Near East"/"Middle East"/"Orient"[edit]

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