top of page

Online Resources Database for Ancient Studies

Monthly Favorites

​

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.

Mouliana Project

Category

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Type

Research Materials

Language

English

A website about current and past excavations at Mouliana, a Bronze Age site in western Crete. The website contains information on the history and geography of the site, a bibliography related to the site, and list of current collaborators.

Ancient Corinth

Category

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Type

Archaeological Site

Language

English

The website of the Corinth Excavation by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens provides information about the history of excavations, research, current projects, publications, archaeological collections, and an archive of digital resources (including 3D models and GIS data).

Australian Museum

Category

General Archaeology

Type

Museum Tours

Language

English

The Australian Museums' African Collection includes works from all over the continent and from all throughout human history. Open-source access to images and essays detailing the history behind collection pieces. Of particular note are its collections on ancient objects from Egypt, Zulu, Bali, and China, and First Nations of Australia and Oceania.

Open Culture: Free Clasics Courses

Category

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Type

Research Materials

Language

English

A collection of free Classics courses online from the world’s leading universities. Courses are mainly avaliable as podcasts or videos with some links to texts.

First1KGreek

Category

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Type

Ancient Texts

Language

English

This is a digitized collection of ancient Greek texts from Homer to c. 250 CE with a focus on texts that do not already exist in the Perseus Digital Library. The texts are available in Scaife reader format.

Quart.us from Professor Carr

Category

General History

Type

Study Aids

Language

English

Quart.us is an online collection of articles by Professor Karen Carr (Portland State University) on various topics in ancient and medieval history covering the entire globe, including food, climate, medicine, literature, religion, and architecture. Articles contain links to further reading and video resources.

The Mappola Project

Category

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Type

Research Materials

Language

English

This website has digitized over 4,000 Latin verse inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE to Late Antiquity. There are some translated inscriptions (English and German), video presentations, an "Epigram of the Month" blog series, list of publications resulting from the project, and detailed explanations of the project and current research. The database is currently in development and is password protected.

Archäologische Sammlung

Category

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Type

Research Materials

Language

German

This website presents the collection of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna for public study. The focus of the collection is on casts of buildings (mostly temples) of ancient Greece from the 6th to the 1st century BCE, Greek grave and consecration reliefs, Greek statues, and Greek and Roman portraits. The website is only in German. For direct access to their archival database, use this website: https://coll-ika.univie.ac.at/ (registration required).

Digital Karnak

Category

Ancient African and Egyptian Studies

Type

Archaeological Site

Language

English

This website provides information on the Egyptian temple complex at Karnak. It includes a digital timeline of the site, introductory materials on life at the site, Google Earth images, and an archive of materials related to the site.

Lace: Visualizing, Editing and Searching Polylingual OCR Results

Category

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Type

Ancient Texts

Language

English

An open-access visualization of various OCR scans of various multilingual editions of ancient Greek texts (English, German, French, Latin). Crowdsource editing contributes to the accuracy of the project.

  • 62
    Página 57

​COLABORADORES

WHE Logo 7937x1922px.png
5-scs_logo_motto_founded_whitesquare.jpg
SBLlogo.jpg
Safe-Space-Alliance-logo-website-badge-transparent-background.png

El programa educativo de Archaeogaming de SASA está
subvencionado por el NJCH y la Universidad de Carolina del Norte.

Más información aqui .

NEH-Preferred-Seal820.jpeg
NJCH_wordmark-B.jpeg
hpg_circle logo.png
UNC Logo.png

Los puntos de vista, resultados, conclusiones o recomendaciones expresados en este recurso web no representan necesariamente los de la Fundación Nacional para las Humanidades.

¡SÍGUENOS!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
  • YouTube
pngwing.com.png
icons8-discord-50.png
61109.png
tiktok_logo_bw-removebg-preview (1).png

SASA es una organización sin ánimo de lucro exenta de impuestos en virtud 
del artículo 501(c)3.

Suscríbase a nuestra lista de correo,

            SASA Oracle

Gracias por unirse a nuestra lista de correo electrónico!

​¿Tienes preguntas? Escríbenos

logo.jpg

Política de Privacidad   Términos de Uso

bottom of page
let selectedValue; $w.onReady(() => { // Query the "Listings" collection to retrieve all listings wixData.query("Services") .find() .then(results => { // Set the data for the repeater $w("#repeater1").data = results.items.slice(0, 4); // Set an interval to shuffle the data every 6 seconds setInterval(() => { const shuffledListings = shuffleArray(results.items); $w("#repeater1").data = shuffledListings.slice(0, 4); }, 5000); }); }); // Shuffle the items in an array randomly function shuffleArray(array) { for (let i = array.length - 1; i > 0; i--) { const j = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1)); [array[i], array[j]] = [array[j], array[i]]; } return array; }