Mesopotamia

The land "between the rivers" (Greek)... sometimes called "the cradle of civilisation"... site of "Ur of the Chaldees" from which Abraham's family came... ancient civilisations of Assyria (Nineveh) and Babylon...

Sam Ruff's Photographs of Mesopotamia 1954-1956. Includes brief RealAudio comments.

Mesopotamian Art and Archaeology. Links to other sites.

Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu. Aerial photos, site plans, etc.

The Nippur Expedition. Descriptive of the city of Nippur and of the work of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Egypt

The land where Joseph was a slave, then the ruler ... where the Israelites lived for 430 years ... from which Moses led them out of slavery to freedom...

Guardian's Egypt. This is a great collection of links about Egypt.

Color Tour of Egypt Text and photos of Abu Simbel, Abydos, Aswan, Cairo, Dendera, Edfu, Giza, Kom Ombo, Luxor, Saqqara, The West Bank/Luxor

Life in Ancient Egypt. Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Egypt. Inscriptions from three centuries BC relating to synagogues in Egypt.

Israel

The ancient land of Canaan... the Promised Land where Abraham wandered as a nomad... possessed by the twelve tribes of Israel under the leadership of Joshua... where Saul, David and Solomon were kings... divided into two kingdoms, Israel in the north and Judah in the south... re-occupied by the returning exiles... where the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus took place... from which the Christian movement spread throughout the world

Holy Land Photos

Pictures of Holy Land Tour October 1997, Cedar Park Assembly of God, Washington

Bible Visual Tour: Judaea and Samaria (Jerusalem and the surrounding area), Galilee and the North Israel Coast (Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Chorazin, Mount of Beatitudes, Cana, Nazareth, Caesarea-Philippi...), Perea (Dead Sea and the Jordan valley)

Jerusalem, capital of Israel

The Sea of Galilee

Selected Sites in the Galilee Region and to the North

Greece

The land whose politics and ideas impacted the ancient world in the period immediately BC, providing the language in which the New Testament was written... from which Alexander the Great set up a great empire finally overthrown by Rome... the land visited by Paul, going on his second missionary journey to Philippi, Thessalonica, Beroea, Athens and Corinth...

Ancient Greece. A collection of valuable links.

The Ancient City of Athens.

A Virtual Tour of Thessaloniki.

Alternative Thessaloniki.

Ancient Corinth - Acrocorinth.

Rome

The empire that ruled the ancient world at the time of Christ... providing both the safety of Pax Romana, the Roman peace, and the network of Roman roads to facilitate the spread of the Christian gospel... the city where both Peter and Paul, according to tradition, met their death by execution...

A model of Ancient Rome at the time of Constantine.

The Forum Romanum. Reconstruction

Ancient Rome October 1997