InfoGuides: Ancient-Classical Art and Archaeology: Find Articles

Recommended Ancient-Classical Art Databases

What's in these databases?

These databases index (i.e. organize and provide information) on articles, essays, and other writings published in art history and archaeology journals, including citations or full-text links to articles, books, and primary sources.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Tutorial for the JSTOR database.
L'Année Philologique This link opens in a new window
Primary database for classical studies and information on ancient classical languages, literature, history, archaeology, art, religion, law, philosophy, and science. Provides access to citations from all known scholarly work published in any language. View a tutorial on this database here.
eHRAF Archaeology This link opens in a new window
Organized information on archaeological traditions numerically subject-indexed according to the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) modified Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). Yale University.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly literature on Western art and succeeds the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
Art and Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Contains articles on a broad range of art and art historical topics, as well as images and art reproduction records.

Selected Journals in Ancient and Classical Art & Archaeology

Egypt and Ancient Near East
Classical Period

Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Publishes research on the ancient and medieval civilizations of the Near East, including their archaeology, art, history, literature, linguistics, religion, law, and science.
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
Peer-reviewed academic journal covering research and reviews of recent books of importance to Egyptology.
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE)
The first American journal devoted solely to the study of Egypt, JARCE was established in 1962 to foster scholarly research into the art, archaeology, languages, history and social systems of the Egyptian people.
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections (JAEI)
JAEI is a scholarly publication integrating Egyptology with Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and African studies, providing a dedicated venue for this growing field of interdisciplinary and inter-area research.
Journal of Egyptian History (JEH)
JEH covers all aspects of Ancient Egyptian history and of modern historiography about Ancient Egypt. It aims to encourage and stimulate a focused debate on writing and interpreting Egyptian history.
BIFAO (Le bulletin de l'institute français d'archéologie orientale)
Journal content in French with some limited English content. Abstracts provided in English.

Journal of Roman Archaeology (JRE)
Key journal for the study of Italy and all parts of the Roman world, including the broader Mediterranean from ~ 700 BCE - 700 CE.
Antike Kunst
Peer reviewed journal of Classical art and archaeology. JSTOR has online, full-text articles through 2012; most recent issues available in print at Fenwick Library. (Hint: you can use Avery Index to search citations for articles). Article language can vary between English, German, Italian, and French.