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Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum has an Excellent Egyptian Collection, and a generous use policy. You can download in any of several sizes. Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

__**Flickr Groups**__
Flickr Groups are themed image collections created by members of the Flickr photograph-sharing community. There are thousands of Flickr Groups, and more are created daily. The size and quality of images within the groups varies, but overall I am impressed with the images I find there. Copyright protection varies by photographer. A very popular protection on the site is the Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to use, distribute, and change the photograph as long as attribution is given to the creator. To the right of each photograph the copyright information is displayed. Selected groups: - [|Ancient Near East] - [|Hittites] - [|Mesopotamia] - [|Pasargad (Pasargadea)]

[|Historic Illustrations]
The Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture Project contains 351 scans of late 19th to early 20th century illustrations of mostly architecture and some art. The collection can be [|searched], browsed, or you can [|view the entire collection] at once. All the image are open to use by the public. Selected galleries: - [|Ancient Near East] - Neo-Assyrian - Babylonian

**[|Metropolitan Museum]**
The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts 6,500 images of works from their permanent collection on their website. The images are divided into collections by theme, time period, and geography, and there is also a search feature that can be used to locate a specific work. The images may be used in unaltered form for non-commercial educational purposes, as long as the artist and museum website address are cited. Selected galleries: - [|Ancient Near Eastern Art]

**[|Museum of Fine Arts]**
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has digital images of over 300,000 pieces from their collection available on their website. The collection can be [|browsed], [|searched], or viewed through [|interactive tours]. A feature called [|MyMFA] allows you to bookmark images to a free account for future use. Images from the website are free to use for educational purposes. [|See image use policy]. Selected galleries: - Akkadian - Anatolian - Ancient Near Eastern Art - Assyrian - Babylonian - Hittite - Levantine - Mesopotamian - Persian - Phoenician - Sumerian - Urartian

Wikimedia Commons is a huge media repository maintained by volunteers. The website has hundreds of thousands of files of images, sounds, and videos for many disciplines. The [|Art] section allows you to browse images from various access points, such as country, culture, genre, period, artist, collectors, etc. Navigation through the various links of the site can be time-consuming, so if you are searching for a specific artwork or artist it would be best to use the search feature (since images are hidden until you get to the most specific category). All of the media files on the site are supposed to be available for educational use-- the specific license conditions of each file can be found on their description pages. Related galleries: - Art of the Ancient Near East - [|Art of Persia] - Near Eastern Antiquities in the Louvre - [|Near Eastern Antiquities in the Pergamonmuseum] - [|Sculptures of the Ancient Near East]
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**[|World Architecture]**
The World Architectural History Survey is a collection of architecture photographs from prehistory to contemporary times. The project was created at Bryn Mawr College and the images are to be used for non-profit educational purposes. The site is easy to navigate and most of the images are accessible just one click away from the front page. Selected galleries: - [|Ancient Near East]

**[|World Images Kiosk]**
The World Images Kiosk is a collection of over 50,000 images hosted by California State University. The collection is very multi-cultural and it's a great resource for non-western art, which can often be difficult to find online in English. All images may be used freely for educational purposes. Selected galleries: - Ancient Iranian Art - Levantines and Phoenicians - Assyrians - Anatolia: Hittites, Hatti, Phrygians & Urartians - Sumerians & Akkadians - Babylonians & Kassites