Ancient History,
Archaeology and
Biblical Studies

The primary purpose of this site is to provide on-line text documents from archaeologists and ancient writers, and some tools for Bible study. Everything is provided in an HTML format which has internal reference markers. These internal markers are not visible when simply reading the text, but they allow HTML search tools to index information available here. A simple search program is provided here.

Ancient Historians and Generals:

• Julius Caesar - Wars against France and Germany. Roman civil war.
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus - History of Rome
• Titus Livius (Livy) - History of Rome
• Herodotus - History of Persian Wars
• Plutarch - A few of Plutarch's biographies

Assyrian and Babylonian texts

• Inscription of Tiglath Pileser I
• Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II
• Annals of Assur-Nasir-Pal
• Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar
• The Epic of Ishtar and Izdubar
• Law code of Hammurabi

Information about Persia

• Articals about the Behistun Inscription (Darius I)
• Behistun Inscription (text) (Darius I)
• Susa
• Partial summary of history of Media and Persia (notes from Herodotus)

Archaeology

• Sir Austen Henry Layard - Discoveries at Nineveh

Bible Study Resources

• American Standard Version - (ASV)
• Sections of the Jewish Talmud
• Basic Bible study methods
• The Persian Period - Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Haggai, Zechariah:   Study Guide, Resources, Partial history of Persian Empire

Text Search Tool

• It helps you build a list of related words to locate information on a topic
• It uses the list of words to search one or more files in a directory for any sentences which use any of the words
• It generates an HTML document which prints out the sentences found, with the words highlighted in bold, and it makes a hypertext link back to the source text so that you can click and read the context of the sentence

There is a Windows Shareware text editor (EmEditor) which will do a similiar text search process, and it works very well with any ASCII files, which my tool does not.

Another problem with my tool is that I do not have access to a current Microsoft compiler to correct errors or enhance the features. What I would like to do in a few months is to convert the program to work under Linux and release both the Linux and Windows source code to the open source community. If the features prove to be useful, the open source community might be willing to upgrade it or incorporate the search capability to existing text editor programs.