Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East

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Contents 1 Title 2 Scope/Goals 3 Parentage 4 Descendant WikiProjects 5 Participants 6 Structure 6.1 Key articles 6.2 Maps 6.3 Categories 7 Templates 8 Guidelines/Standards 8.1 "Near East"/"Middle East"/"Orient" 8.2 Orthography 8.3 Chronology 8.4 Templates/Categories 9 Related pages needing attention

[edit] Title

WikiProject Ancient Near East

[edit] Scope/Goals

in Ancient Near East related articles,

• standardize chronology (short chronology?)
• standardize spellings (Transliterating cuneiform languages))
• unify scattered articles (many {{1911}} articles remain that should be updated and wikified.)
• assign Categories consistently

[edit] Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject History

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

A (logical, not chronological) descendant of this WikiProject is:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Middle Eastern military history task force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Assyria

see also:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Writing_systems: collaborate for questions of cuneiform /hieroglyphic transliteration

[edit] Participants

• dab 18:05, 21 Nov 2004 (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)

[edit] Structure

[edit] Key articles

• Assyriology
  • Chronology of the Ancient Near East
  • Cuneiform (script)
  • Transliterating cuneiform languages
  • see also Wikipedia:WikiProject_Writing_systems, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics

• Ancient Near East
  • Near Eastern archaeology
• Fertile Crescent
• History of the Middle East
  • Ancient Egypt (go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt)
  • Levant, Canaan, Southern Levant
    • Ugarit, Kanesh, Aleppo, Gaza, Kingdom of Israel, Philistines
  • Ancient Mesopotamia
    • Sumer, Akkadian Empire, Babylonia, Assyrian Empire
    • Elam, Amorite, Mitanni
    • Chaldean mythology
  • Ancient Anatolia
    • Hattians
    • Hittites
    • Hurrian
    • Arzawa
    • Troy, Luwian, Lydian, Urartu, Mysia, Phrygia
  • Minoan civilization, Mycenaean civilization, History of Crete, History of Cyprus, Sea Peoples
• Pre-Islamic Arabia

• Religions of the Ancient Near East
  • Ancient Semitic religion

• Ancient Civilizations (A list of Civilization Worldwide)

v • d • e Timeline of the Ancient Near East

[edit] Maps

• Image:Ancient Orient.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:Minoan Crete.png
• Image:Homeric greece.png
• Image:Troas.png

[edit] Categories

Category:Ancient Near East

• Category:Ancient Egypt --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
  • Category:Dynasties of Ancient Egypt
  • Category:Egyptian mythology
  • Category:Ancient Egyptians
• Category:Mesopotamia
  • Category:Sumer
  • Category:Sumerian mythology
  • Category:Babylonia
  • Category:Assyria
• Category:Levant
• Category:Anatolia
  • Category:Hittite Empire
  • Category:Hittite kings
• Category:Crete
• Category:Cyprus
• Category:Ancient peoples
• Category:Ancient history

[edit] Templates

• {{WikiProject Ancient Near East}}: The project banner, to be placed on the talk pages of all relevant articles.
• {{Ancient Mesopotamia}}
• {{Ancient Near East}} (timeline)
• {{History of Anatolia}} (timeline)

[edit] Guidelines/Standards

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

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".

[edit] Orthography

Further information: Hittite cuneiform, Unicode cuneiform, and List of cuneiform signs

• Spelling of royal names in king lists (and on articles on individual kings)?
  • Sumerian king list
  • Kings of Assyria
  • Kings of Babylonia
  • Hittite kings: use the stem form, not the nominative singular, i.e. Hattusili, not Hattusilis.

other articles that include king lists (excluding Egypt): Lagash, Mitanni, Kingdom of Israel

[edit] Chronology

Note: the most important thing is that you don't simply copy dates from some book or off the web. pre-1000 BC dating is very complicated, and you should at the very least be aware whether your dates are middle chronology or short chronology. Even then dates should be attributed (where were they taken from), and possibly given together with a justification what evidence they are based on.

• the traditional standard is middle chronology, and most sources except for the most recent ones will likely have this.
• you are encouraged to convert middle chronology to short chronology dates (today considered more likely correct). The most important thing, however, is to make clear which standard you are using.

[edit] Templates/Categories

• categories/template "King of ... preceded by / succeeded by" (see e.g. Hattusili II, Sennacherib)

[edit] Related pages needing attention

• See Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Ancient history