Civilizations of the Fertile Cresent

In the Library
On the web

Books

Browse the 938 section of the shelves for books on early civilizations

Browse the 909 section for chronologies that will include information on Ancient Greece.

 

Magazines

See the library staff for back issues of Calliope magazine.

 

Lots of information from this British Museum site
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html

This teacher created site is a good place to start for all the fertile cresent civilization
http://www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html

This site created by a teacher in Florida links to all the fertile cresent civilizations and even includes some virtual tours
http://home.cfl.rr.com/crossland/AncientCivilizations/ancientcivilizations.htm

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html

This Mesopotamia site is as accurate as the teacher who created it unfortunately many of the links do not work.
http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/edpgs/su96/meso/mesopotamia.html#terms

This site on Mesopotamia was created for a course at Washington State University but most of it would be acessible to our students
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/MESO.HTM


 

 

 

 

When studying about Mesopotamia you need to remember that you might need to search under many other topics includingSumeria and Babylonia.