The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly
popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print
and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study
of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a
branch of the humanities, including archaeology, art history, languages,
literature, philosophy, and related cultural disciplines which consider
the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean world, and adjacent Egypt and
southwestern Asia. Chronologically the ancient world would extend from
the beginning of the Bronze Age of ancient Greece (ca. 1000 BCE) to the
fall of the Western Roman Empire (ca. 500 CE). This book will close the
traditional subject gap between the humanities (Classical World;
Egyptology) and the social sciences (anthropological archaeology; Near
East) in the study of the ancient world. This book is uniquely the only
bibliographic resource available for such holistic coverage. The volume
consists of 17 chapters and seven appendixes, arranged according to the
traditional types of library research materials (bibliographies,
dictionaries, atlases, etc.). The appendixes are mostly subject
specific, including graduate programs in ancient studies, reports from
significant archaeological sites, numismatics, and paleography and
writing systems. These extensive author and subject indexes help
facilitate ease of use.
