This WikiProject, WikiProject Ancient Near East, aims to organize an effort to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of the history of the ancient Near East and related topics. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and guidelines to help editors. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. New members are always welcome; you can join at the recruitment page.

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• 17 Nov 2024 – Marzēaḥ (talk ·  · hist) was nominated for DYK by TNM101 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 20 Dec 2024 – The True Story of the Novel (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Rwood128 (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
• 23 Dec 2024 – The Odyssey (2026 film) (talk ·  · hist) AfDed by KingArti (t · c) was closed as redirect by ReaderofthePack (t · c) on 24 Dec 2024; see discussion (10 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 27 Dec 2024 – Great Prayer to Šamaš (talk ·  · hist) was PRODed by 4.34.67.180 (t · c): Insufficient topic detail on page to merit keeping?

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• 13 Dec 2024 – Old Roman Empire (talk ·  · hist) →Roman Empire was RfDed by Veverve (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 18 Dec 2024 – Battle of Thermopylae (talk ·  · hist) nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Requests for comments

• 26 Dec 2024 – Jesus (talk ·  · hist) RfC by HumansRightsIsCool (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Requested moves

• 15 Dec 2024 – Template:Rulers of the Ancient Near East (talk ·  · hist) move request to Template:Rulers of the ancient Near East by Russian Rocky (t · c) was moved to Template:Rulers of the ancient Near East (talk ·  · hist) by Frost (t · c) on 22 Dec 2024; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 09 Dec 2024 – Proskynesis (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Adoration by Pincermitosis (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Jul 2024 – Lilin (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Lilu (mythology) by Ogress (t · c); see discussion

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Members of the project are welcome to add topics, articles or general areas relating to the ancient Near East to the list below if they consider them in need of more attention from the project at large. Please provide a motivation and the date in which you added a topic/article/area if you add to the list.

• The chronology used in articles needs to be standardized to the middle chronology where applicable (or use the most commonly cited dates). Conflicting dates in other chronologies should also be provided, preferrably in a note or something to that effect to avoid clutter. Ichthyovenator (talk) 12:59, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• A number of the early/prominent ANE articles were largely cribbed from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. We have been weeding that out over the years but there are still a few articles that are heavily infested. To my knowledge the main offenders are Babylon, Ur, Nippur, and Lagash, though there may be non-site articles equally problematic that I am unaware of. If someone felt inspired a good task would be to rewrite/reref the bad parts of one.Ploversegg (talk) 12:51, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• We are starting to see the overuse of Tertiary Sources like "World History Encyclopedia" and "Encyclopedia Iranica". Tertiary Sources should always be a last resort. They are third hand information. Always strive for primary or even secondary sources first.Ploversegg (talk) 12:51, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that when the Oriental Institute recently changed its name (I know) their web site changeover broke some OI paper links. Some are ok, some are not. Oriental Institute Publication series appears to be all bad while Oriental Institute Communications work. I actually powered up and emailed them. Consider this a heads up about possible broken links and maybe having to do a ugly link fixing thing, hopefully not. Bonus - if you go to the new doc location [1] the download there just wedges.Ploversegg (talk) 17:59, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It amused me to refresh all the notable "lost cities" articles I could remember so I did Akkad, Akshak, Kesh, Ekallatum, Irisaĝrig, Kazallu, Diniktum, Hamazi, Lagaba, Rapiqum, Dūr-Abī-ešuḫ, Tummal, Larak, Opis, Šimānum, Garšana, Tikunani, Urum, Awan, Karaḫar, Marhaši and Washukanni. And Simurrum which I'm not 100% sure was a site vs area but since it was destroyed at least 9 times seems notable. And I might as well mention Karkar and Enegi which I didn't work on. I feel like I've forgotten a couple though so if this comes to you let me known or feel free. Thanks.Ploversegg (talk) 19:45, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you you are interested in getting an article off the starting blocks, here you can find all our "stub" articles:

As with all other projects, articles within the scope of Wikiproject:Ancient Near East experience problems with vandalism of articles (see vandalism and clean up for further information). Here is a quick guide for vandal fighters of this project:

1. Revert edits.
2. Leave a message on the user's talk page. See template messages and warning category for which templates to use.
3. Report persistant vandals to administrator intervention against vandalism.

• {{WikiProject Ancient Near East}} – project banner, to be placed on the talk pages of all relevant articles
• {{User WikiProject Ancient Near East}}: – userbox for use on userpages

• {{Ancient Mesopotamia}} – navbox template on topics relating to ancient Mesopotamia
• {{Ancient Mesopotamian royal titles}} – navbox template for common Mesopotamian royal titles
• {{Ancient Near East}} – timeline of the ancient Near East
• {{Ancient Syria and Mesopotamia}} – chronology of empires and dynasties in ancient Syria and Mesopotamia
• {{Assyrian kings}} – navbox template for the kings of Assyria
• {{Babylonian kings}} – navbox template for the kings of Babylon
• {{History of Anatolia}} – timeline of Anatolian history
• {{Hittite kings}} – navbox template for the kings of the Hittites
• {{Hittite tree}} – family tree of the Hittites during the New Kingdom
• {{Near East Neolithic}} – timeline of the Neolithic in the ancient Near East
• {{Rulers of the Ancient Near East}} – chronology of empires and rulers in the ancient Near East
• {{Sumerian King List}} – navbox template version of the Sumerian King List

Category:Ancient Near East

• Category:Ancient Egypt --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
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  • Category:Egyptian mythology
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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology
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• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Writing_systems – collaborate for questions on cuneiform and hieroglyphic transliterations