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Ancient History

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General Ancient History Sites

• Ancient History Sourcebook
  Collection of primary and some secondary sources dealing with all aspects of Western (including the Middle East) ancient history. Part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
• Electronic Resources for Classicists
  Comprehensive list of sites based at the University of California at Irvine. Also see Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell'Antichita Classica.
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
  An online course supplement with extensive historical narrative, excerpts of primary documents, and links to relevant web sites. Cultures represented are the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe. For another narrative see the sites accompanying the PBS series, Empires.

Regional Sites

Egypt

• Annual Egyptological Bibliography
  Annual bibliography available for 1992-1998, plus provisional entries for 1999-2002, produced by the International Association of Egyptologists.
• Duke Papyrus Archive
  The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of papyri from ancient Egypt. Also see the University of Michigan Papyrus Collection, Papyrology Home Page and the Papyrus Database of the Beinecke library.
• Egyptology Resources
  Listing of a number of links dealing with Egyptology including various field reports and images. Maintained through the Newton Institute in the University of Cambridge.
• Theban Mapping Project
  The project's goal is to "prepare a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes." Included are maps, texts and over 2000 images.

Greece

• The Ancient city of Athens
  A "photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece). It is intended primarily as a resource for students of classical art & archaeology, civilization, languages, and history." For additional images see Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome and the Ancient Greek World.
• Perseus Digital Library
  The Perseus project at Tufts University is a multimedia digital library on Ancient Greece which includes primary and secondary texts and images.
• Prehistoric Archaeology of the Agean
  "This site contains information about the prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean. Through a series of lessons and illustrations, it traces the cultural evolution of humanity in the Aegean basin from the era of hunting and gathering (Palaeolithic-Mesolithic) through the early village farming stage (Neolithic) and the formative period of Aegean civilization into the age of the great palatial cultures of Minoan Crete and and Mycenaean Greece."

Rome

• De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
  Though a work in progress, extensive biographical entries are available for some 25 emperors.
• The "Palace" of Diocletian at Split
  An impressive, fully-illustrated tutorial on the Palace of Diocletian by Michael Greenhalgh, art historian at Australian National University. Also see the Corinth Computer Project and the Pompeii Forum Project
• Roman Law
  Provides texts and information about Roman Law. All texts are in Latin.
• LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World
  Annotations and links to more than 2000 web sites dealing with Roman antiquity. Also see Roman Sites and Rome Resources.

Near East

ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East
"ABZU is intended to provide comprehensive coverage of the material available for the study of the ancient Near East on the Internet." Maintained by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
• Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions
  Project at the University of Chicago to "create an electronic study edition of the inscriptions of the Achaemenid Persian kings in all of their versions--Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian, and, where appropriate, Aramaic and Egyptian."
• Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World
  Digitized collection of scholarly resources dealing with ancient history published between 1850 and 1950 held by the University of Chicago Library.
• Cuneiform Digital Library (CDLI)
  The CDLI is a project to provide digital images of cuneiform tablets held by various institutions. Currently the collections of Institut Catholique de Paris and the Vorderasiatisches Museum are available.
• Hittite Home Page
  Site based at Emory University which includes the Catalogue des textes hittites, translations of Hittite texts and other links.
• Scrolls from the Dead Sea
  Exhibition at the Library of Congress includes images of 12 scroll fragments and 29 other objects.

Image: The columns of the Parthenon.