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World History Encyclopedia
Category
General History
Type
Study Aids
Language
English
The World History Encyclopedia (formerly the Ancient History Encyclopedia) provides a multitude of resources to engage the public in world history and cultural heritage. There are numerous encyclopedia-style articles on a range of historical and archaeological topics including, art and architecture, daily life, biographies of famous individuals, places, states, time periods, religions, and warfare. The coverage of the site is primarily ancient and medieval, but it is expanding into the Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern periods. There is also a repository of materials for educators such as timelines, quizzes, a media library, and translations of ancient documents. There is also a growing collection of YouTube videos and podcasts on world history subjects. Many of the articles have been translated into a variety of languages.
The China Biographical Database
Category
East Asian Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
English, Chinese
The China Biographical Database Project is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information on over 500,000 historical individuals primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. The database datasets are downloadable. There is also additional information on their blog, published papers, and events pages.
Achemenet
Category
Ancient Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Type
Research Materials
Language
French; English
This website contains various tools and resources for the study of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, including texts, translations, bibliography, information on archaeological sites, images, maps, museum information, and online publications. Texts are arranged by language (Aramaic, Babylonian, Egyptian, Elamite, Greek, Lycian, and multilingual), region (Anatolia, Babylon, Egypt, Fars, and Greece), and publication.
Iklaina Archaeological Project
Category
Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
English
A website about current and past excavations of Bronze Age Iklaina. The website collects all the history of excavations, information on the archaeological field school, links to excavation reports and a 3D model of the site, a photo gallery, and information on the restoration and conservation of the site.
The Pleiades Project
Category
General History
Type
Research Materials
Language
English
This continuously publishing online gazetteer that maps all known places in the Greek and Roman world. The project is also expanding to include Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early Medieval geography. There are nearly 40,000 entries that contain references to ancient texts, GPS locations, and links to other resources, and essential bibliography.
UC Berkley Archaeological Research Faculty
Category
General Archaeology
Type
Study Aids
Language
English
Videos by UC Berkley faculty about archaeology that cover a wide range of locations and time periods. The videos includes long (an hour or more) recorded lectures in addition to the shorter (30-40 minute) "Ask an Archaeologist" series which focuses on introductory topics.
Inscriptions of Aphrodisias
Category
Ancient Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Type
Research Materials
Language
English
The aim of this online corpus – made possible by the generosity of the AHRC – is to present all the inscriptions found, on the site of Aphrodisias in Caria, or in its civic territory, up to the end of 1994.
Online Medieval Sources Bibliography
Category
Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Type
Ancient Texts
Language
English
This database provides a searchable bibliography of historical texts from Medieval Period (private letters, wills, literary works, philosophical treatises, chronicles, court proceedings, church records, etc.), primarily from Europe.
Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament
Category
Ancient Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Type
Ancient Texts
Language
English
This website is project that has created a digitized critical edition of the Coptic version of the Bible. It provide complete documentation of manuscripts, digital editions of all Old Testament manuscripts, critical editions of all Old Testament books, corpus-linguistic analyses, and translations into English, German, and Arabic.
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