Looking to do further research? Try these options:
Online Museum Catalogs: Search the following world-class museum catalogs for objects and inscriptions relating to the Iron Age places, peoples, and sites on this website. The following links have been selected for the thoroughness of their searchable English catalogs and the scope of their ancient world collections.
- The British Museum, London
- The Louvre, Paris
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Finally, Google Arts & Culture allows you to search many museums’ collections at once.
Scholarly Article Databases: Search any of these databases for scholarly articles using the places, peoples, and site key words on this website. The following links have been selected for their free, open access content and the scope of their relevant collections.
- JSTOR’s Open Access database
- Google Books database
- Proquest Open for open access theses and dissertations
Other Resources:
- The West Semitic Research Project website offers resources on the ancient texts relating to Israel and Judah’s neighbors; for example, the InscriptiFact database of high-resolution photos of inscriptions.
- If you want an in-depth survey of the archaeology of Iron Age peoples, including Israel and Judah, you might want to start with Larry Herr’s “Archaeological Sources for the History of Palestine: The Iron Age II Period – Emerging Nations” (The Biblical Archaeologist, 1997).
- Explore “The Eastern Mediterranean and Syria, 1000 B.C. – 1 A.D.” chapter of the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, hosted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.