Research Guides: ARCH 240 Archaeology and History of Ancient Mesopotamia (BMC): Images

Finding Images

JSTOR Images (formerly Artstor)
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A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.

Oriental Institute Research Archives Catalog
Indexes articles, book reviews, monographs, and single volumes from sets. The catalog of the Oriental Institute Research Archives at the University of Chicago contains entries for ancient Near East materials cataloged since 1987 with complete analytics (essays, articles and book reviews) for materials cataloged since 1990. The catalog also includes earlier materials, but not comprehensively.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology Collection
Search online for artifacts from anicent cultures in the collection at the Penn Museum. Many entries have images and descriptions of objects.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Search the online collection of artifacts and art in the collection at the MET. Entries may include images and descriptions of the objects.
British Museum Collections
The British Museum collection is a searchable database of over 3 500 000 objects with descriptions and images (not all have images). Narrow your search geographically, chronologically or based on object type.