Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East

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.

Title

WikiProject on Ancient Near East

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. See Talk:Chronology of the Ancient Orient)
• assign Categories consistently

Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject History

Descendant WikiProjects

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

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt

Related WikiProjects

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

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)

Structure

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
    • Hittites
    • Hurrian
    • Arzawa
    • Troy, Luwian, Lydian, Urartu, Mysia, Phrygia
  • Minoan civilization, Mycenaean civilization, History of Crete, History of Cyprus, Sea Peoples

Maps

• Image:Ancient Orient.png
• Image:Ancient Egypt.png
• Image:Nomes of Ancient Egypt.png
• Image:Mesopotamia.jpg (ugly)
• Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png (unlabelled satellite image)
• Image:Hitt Egypt Perseus.png (unfinished)
• Image:CanaanMap.jpg (ugly)
• Image:Ancient Egypt.png
• Image:Minoan Crete.png
• Image:Homeric greece.png
• Image:Troas.png

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 (should maybe be renamed to Chaldean mythology, as it is pointless to have "Assyrian" or "Akkadian mythology" as different from 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

Templates

{{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}: Template:Ancient Mesopotamia

{{Hittite king|predecessor|successor}}: Template:Hittite king

{{Assyrian king|predecessor|successor}}: Template:Assyrian king

Guidelines/Standards

"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".

Orthography

(suggestions needed!)

• Spelling of royal names in king lists (and on articles on individual kings)?
  • Sumerian king list
  • Kings of Assyria
  • Kings of Babylonia
  • Hittite kings

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

Chronology

(suggestions needed!)

• format/chronology of reign date (short chronology)?

Templates/Categories

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