This database is freely available to the general public via the Internet.

ABZU is a guide to materials relevant to the study of the Ancient Near East found on the Internet. In addition, it provides a search interface for the ETANA Project (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives), a growing collection of both front- and back-end stages of scholarly knowledge such as archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain.

Contains leads to citations and full-text of books, journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, essays, site reports, and language dictionaries.

18th century to the present. Updated monthly.