Tools
AfO Abkürzungsverzeichnis (List of abbreviations)
List 1: http://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/documents/Abk%C3%BCrzungen_gesamt_ONLINE_Liste_1x.pdf
List 2: http://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/documents/Abk%C3%BCrzungen_gesamt_ONLINE_Liste_2x.pdf
Two lists of abbreviations for literature on the ancient Near East as used by the journal Archiv für Orientforschung
Babylonian Calendar Converter
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/babylon/babycal.htm
For conversions of Babylonian dates into Julian dates and vice versa
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli)
A database of cuneiform texts
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (ETANA)
Hethitologie Portal Mainz
http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HPM/index.html
Information on Hittitology and downloadable unicode fonts, also cuneiform fonts
KeiBi Online
http://vergil.uni-tuebingen.de/keibi/
An online bibliography of publications on the ancient Near East
Neo-Babylonian Cuneiform Corpus (NaBuCCo)
http://nabucco.arts.kuleuven.be/nabucco/
A database of Neo-Babylonian archival texts (ca. 650 BC – 100 BC)
Organizations
Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archeology (ACASA)
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft e.V.
http://www.orient-gesellschaft.de/
Ex Oriente Lux – Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap
International Organization of Assyriology (IAA)
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Oriental Institute Chicago, Persepolis Fortification Archive Project
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/persepolis-fortification-archive
Offers more information on the collection of clay tablets from Persepolis that is one of the most important sources of information on Achaemenid administration
Oriental Institute Chicago, Photographic Archives: Persepolis
http://oi.uchicago.edu/collections/photographic-archives/persepolis-and-ancient-iran
Collection of photos from Persepolis
The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
VU-Homepage: http://www.vu.nl/en/index.asp
Faculty of Humanities: http://www.fgw.vu.nl/nl/index.asp
Other useful sites
Achemenet
French site that provides articles, videos and links to editions of texts and secondary literature about the Achaemenid Empire.
Encyclopaedia Iranica
Livius
Articles for a general public
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