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"The palaces of Nimrud restored", as imagined by the city's first excavator, A.H. Layard (A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh, London 1853, pl. 1 detail, after a sketch by James Fergusson)

This website is the online complement to Eleanor Robson's open-access book, Ancient Knowledge Networks: a Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia [https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/archaeology/products/125022], published by UCL Press in November 2019.

It contains links to open-access, online editions and translations of all the cuneiform texts featured in the book, a glossary of technical terms, and an ever-growing list of all known scholars of Assyria and Babylonia in the first millennium BC.