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Open Access Journals in Ancient History and Afroasiatic Studies
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This is an alphabetical list of 365 open access journals in the fields of ancient studies and Afro-Asiatic cultures and languages of the Near East, North and East Africa, and related Eastern, Mediterranean, and African cultures. It includes print and digital journals, most of which are open access journals, some of which offer abstracts and require subscription.
AABNER: Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research
Abgadiyat: Journal of Ancient, Modern and Digital Scripts and Inscriptions .
ACME: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano.
Acta Classica: Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa.
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.
Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologic.
The Acquisitions List of the Research Archives [Oriental Institute].
ACRL – Asian African and Middle East Section (AAMES) Newsletter.
ADIAS Newsletter: Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey
Aegean Archaeology: Studies and Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology and Civilization (limited access)
Ägypten und Levante ‒ Egypt and the Levant
Aegyptiaca. Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt
AEGYPTUS: Rivista italiana di Egittologia e di Papirologia
AERA Annual Reports (Ancient Egypt Research Associates)
Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Africa: fouilles, monuments et collections archéologiques en Tunisie
Africa: Revue des Études et Recherches préhistoriques, antiques, islamiques et ethnographiques
L’Afrique explorée et civilisée
After Constantine: Stories from the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Era
AGORA: The Undergraduate Journal of UBC Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
Ακάμας, Όμιλος Ανάδειξης Μνημείων Σαλαμίνος, Ενημερωτικό Δελτίο – Akamas, Society for the Promotion of Salaminian Monuments, Newsletter
Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi – Mediterranean Journal of Humanities
Akropolis: Journal of Hellenic Studie
Albahri, entre Oriente y Occidente: Revista independiente de estudios históricos
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists
The American Institute of Iranian Studies Annual Newsletter
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures
American Research Center in Egypt E-Newsletter
American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter (ASOR)
Amphora: An Ancient World Journal
Anabasis: studia classica et orientalia
Anabases: Traditions et Réceptions de l’Antiquité
ανάσκαμμα | ανασκαφικό περιοδικό – anaskamma | excavational journal
Anatolia antiqua. Eski Anadolu
Anatolian Archaeological Studies
Ancient Asia: Journal of the Society of South Asian Archaeology
The Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund Newsletter
Ancient Greek & Roman History eJournal
Ancient Greek & Roman Linguistics eJournal
Ancient Greek & Roman Literature eJournal
Ancient India: A bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India
Ancient World Mapping Center Annual Reports
Les Annales Archeologiques Arabes Syriennes (AAAS)
Annales du Service des antiquités de l’Egypte [ASAE] [vols 1-22 at Internet Archive]
Annales du Service des antiquités de l’Egypte [ASAE] [vols 1-19 at Gallica]
Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan
Annual Review of the The British Institute of Persian Studies
Annuaire de la Société archéologique de la province de Constantine
Annuaire du Musée Gréco-Romain d’Alexandrie
The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research (AASOR)
Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities (Cyprus)
Annual Report of The Iran Heritage Foundation
Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia
Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente
ANMED: News of Archaeology from Anatolia’s Mediterranean Areas
Anthropology of the Middle East
Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. (MittSAG)
Arabian Epigraphic Notes: An Open Access Online Journal on Arabian Epigraphy
ARANE: Archaeomusicological Review of the Ancient Near East
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies
Archaeological discoveries and excavations | Археологически открития и разкопки
Archäologie in Ägypten. Magazin des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo
ARCHAI: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental
Archaeology & History in Lebanon: AHL
Archaeology in Egypt: Magazine of the German Archaeological Institute Cairo
Asia Anteriore Antice: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures (AsiAna)
BABELAO: Electronic Journal for Ancient and Oriental Studies
Al-Bardiyyat – البرديات -Newsletter of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology
Bibliographie analytique de l’Afrique antique (BAAA)
Bioarchaeology of the Near East (BNE)
Boletín Informativo de Amigos de la Egiptología (BIAE)
British Institute for the Study of Iraq Newsletter
Bulletin de la Société archéologique de Sousse
Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie et d’ Histoire de la Moselle
Bulletin de la Société de géographie et d’archéologie de la province d’Oran
Bulletin de la Société de géographie d’Alger et de l’Afrique du Nord
Bulletin de la Société d’Égyptologie, Genève (BSÉG)
Bulletin de la Société d’études historiques et géographiques de l’isthme de Suez (BSEHGIS)
Bulletin de la Société Française d’Egyptologie (BSFE)
Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
Bulletin de l’Association pour la Promotion des Recherches sur l’Age du Bronze
Bulletin de liaison du groupe international d’étude de la céramique égyptienne
Bulletin de l’institut d’Égypte
Bulletin de l’Institut Egyptien
Le Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale (BIFAO)
Le Bulletin d’études orientales
Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem
Bulletin du Cercle lyonnais d’égyptologie Victor Loret
Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri
Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)
Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia
Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies
Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant
The Bulletin of the Munich Open-Access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative
Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [Egypt and Nubia articles only]
The Bulletin of Nabataean Studies (BNS)
Bulletin trimestriel des antiquités africaines
Bullettino archeologico italiano
Bullettino del Museo dell’impero romano
The Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History (BAIH)
Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (at Peeters online journals )
Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia
Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society
Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (BSEAA)
The Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology
Cahiers de Byrsa (المعهد الوطني للتراث)
Cahiers Intégrés de Médecine Égyptienne
Carnet de laboratoire en archéologie égyptienne
Chronika: The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Graduate Student Journal
CIPEG Journal: Ancient Egyptian & Sudanese Collections and Museums
Clara Rhodos: Studi e materiali pubblicati a cura dell’ Istituto Storico-Archeologico di Rodi
Classical Papers Magazine (مجلة أوراق کلاسیکیة)
Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe
Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) Newsletter
The Conference Book of the General Union of Arab Archeologists (حولية اتحاد الآثاريين العرب)
Cuneiform Commentaries Project Newsletter
Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin (CDLB)
Cuneiform Digital Library Journal (CDLJ)
Cuneiform Digital Library Notes (CDLN)
Cuneiform Digital Library Preprints (CDLP)
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Rundbrief
Dilmun: Journal of the Bahrain Historical and Archaeological Society
Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies
Egypt Exploration Society Annual Report and Accounts
Egyptian Antiquities Information System Newsletter
Egyptian journal of archaeological & restoration studies (EJARS)
L’égyptologie: journal mensuel
FORTVNATAE: Revista Canaria de Filología, Cultura y Humanidades clásicas
Forum Archaeologiae – Zeitschrift für klassische Archäologie (FARCH)
Haḳedem: Vierteljahrschrift für die Kunde des alten Orients und der Wissenschaft des Judentums
Ḥawlīyaẗ āṯār al-Šāriqaẗ : al-masaḥ al-aṯarī fī Imāraẗ al-Šāriqaẗ
HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History
i-Medjat (papyrus électronique)
Indologica Taurinensia: The Journal of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies
International Association for Coptic Studies, NEWSLETTER / BULLETIN D’INFORMATION
International Journal of Archaeology
The International Journal of Student Research in Archaeology (IJSRA)
International Journal of the Society of Iranian Archaeologists
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies
Iraq: Journal of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial)
Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals
The Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology
JANES – Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology
Jordan Journal for History and Archaeology (JJHA) – المجلة الأردنية للتاريخ والآثار
Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes
Journal of Ancient Civilizations
The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology
Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
The Journal of Egyptological Studies (JES)
Journal of Epigraphy and Rock Drawings
The Journal of Iran National Museum
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Journal of Near & Middle Eastern Studies
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies
Journal of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology
Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting: from the first to the seventh century (JJMJS)
Journal of the Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society (JMEOS)
Karnak
Kentro: The Newsletter of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete
Kervan: International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Lingua Aegyptia – Journal of Egyptian Language Studies
Mare Nostrum. Estudos sobre o Mediterrâneo Antigo
Mār Šiprim: Newsletter of the International Association for Assyriology (IAA)
Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry (MAA)
Medżat Studia Egiptologiczne = Medjat Egyptological Studies
MELA Notes: The Journal of the Middle East Librarians Association
The Meroitic Newsletter – A Digital Compilation
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo (MDAIK)
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts / Römische Abteilung (early volumes)
Le Musée Egyptien (المتحف المصري)
The Museum Journal
Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt
Newsletter of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities
Newsletter of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology (معهد الآثار والأنثروبولوجيا، جامعة اليرموك)
Nigeria and the Classics: Ibadan Journal of the Classics and Multidisciplinary Studies
Nouvelles de Jérusalem, École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem (EBAF)
Nyame Akuma: Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists
OCCIDENT & ORIENT: Newsletter of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman
Olba: Mersin üniversitesi Kilikia arkeolojisini araştırma merkezi yayınları
Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia
Open Access Journal: Hieroglyphs
Ophiusa: Revista do Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa
Oriento: Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan
L’Orient proche: lettre d’information électronique de l’Institut français du Proche-Orient
The Ostracon: The Journal of the Egyptian Study Society
PalArch Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology
Paléo: Revue d’Archéologie Préhistorique
Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement
Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Papyrologica Lupiensia
Papyrology eJournal
Papyrus (Dansk Ægyptologisk Selskab)
Papyrus Magazin: Die Zeitschrift für Deutschesprachige in Ägypten
Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Past: The Newsletter of The Prehistoric Society
PCMA Newsletter (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw)
Peuce – Studii şi cercetari de istorie şi arheologie
Phasis: Greek and Roman studies
PHILIA. International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies
PHOENIX: Bulletin uitgegeven door het vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap EX ORIENTE LUX
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. Reports
Prague Egypytological Studies
PUNICA FIDES: Revista de Filología Clásica y de Filosofía Antigua
Quaderni di Archeologia Fenicio-Punica
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
Rasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan Studies
Raydān: journal of ancient Yemeni antiquities and epigraphy
Recherches Archéologiques Nouvelle Serie
Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE)
Report of the School of Archaeology (Oxford)
Res Antiquitatis – Journal of Ancient History
Research in Egyptian Archaeology & Cultural Heritage (REACH)
Res Militares: The Official Newsletter of the Society of Ancient Military Historians
Res Militares: The Official Newsletter of the Society of Ancient Military Historians
Revelations From Megiddo: The Newsletter of the Megiddo Expedition
Revelations From Megiddo: The Newsletter of the Megiddo Expedition
Revista ArqueoMurcia: La revista electrónica de Arqueología en la Región de Murcia
Revista Atlántica-Mediterránea de Prehistoria y Arqueología Social
Revista de Estudios de Egiptologia (REE)
Revista de Estudios Ibéricos (REIb)
Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental “Dr. Abraham Rosenvasser”
Revista Mundo Antigo: História Antiga, Idade Média e Arqueologia
Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia
Revue Africaine des Sciences de l’Antiquité SUNU XALAAT
Revue belge de Philologie et d’Histoire
Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale
Revue de pédagogie des langues anciennes
Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Ricerche Italiane e Scavi in Egitto
Rosapat – Rome “La Sapienza” Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan
Routes de l’Orient: Revue d’Archéologie de l’Orient Ancien
Rundle Foundation for Egyptology e-Newsletter
Rundle Foundation for Egyptology Newsletter
Scribe: The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt
Shedet: Annual journal issued by the Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University
State Archives of Assyria Bulletin
Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica
Studia Historica: Historia Antigua
Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico (SEL)
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization
Studies in Mediterranean antiquity and classics
Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici
Subseciva Groningana: Studies in Roman and Byzantine Law
Sudan & Nubia: The Sudan Archaeological Research Society Bulletin
The Sudan Archaeological Research Society Newsletter
Sudan Studies Association Newsletter
Swiatowit: annual of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw
Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire
Syria. Archaeology, art and history (Issues from 1920 to 2005)
Syrian Studies Association Newsletter
TAARII Newsletter: The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq
TARE: Türk Arkeoloji ve Kültürel Miras Enstitüsü Dergisi – Journal of the Turkish Institute of Archaeology and Heritage
Tārikh o Farhang-e Irān-e Bāstān – The Journal of Ancient Iranian History and Culture
Les Travaux de Karnak – Karnak Activity Reports – حفريات الكرنك
Vestiges. The monthly Newsletter of URARA, the Utah Rock Art Research Association
ВЕСТНИК АРХЕОЛОГИИ, АНТРОПОЛОГИИ И ЭТНОГРАФИИ
vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology
Wepwawet: Research Papers in Egyptology
Yemen Update On-line: The AIYS Electronic Bulletin of Yemeni Studies
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (1863-1924)
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete
Zeitschrift für Indologie und Iranistik
Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete
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