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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.
The Camelot Project
Category
Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Type
Study Aids
Language
English
This database hosts texts and images related to the Legend of King Arthur. There are primary sources in English translation from the 11th century onward, as well as an encyclopedia-style list of images, characters, literary motifs, etc.
National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage - Japan
Category
East Asian Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean
This website is an online museum with collections of textile, sculpture, metalwork etc. databases. Each database provides information about artifacts, along with high-quality images of them.
Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive
Category
Art History
Type
Research Materials
Language
English
The Digital Image Archive (DIA) presents more than 65,000 images of biblical illustrations, portraits of religious leaders, printers' devices, engravings of church buildings, and other theological topics related to the Protestant Reformation to the year 1570.
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.
Open Greek and Latin
Category
Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
Type
Ancient Texts
Language
English
An international collaboration committed to creating an open educational resource featuring a corpus of digital texts, deep-reading tools, and open-source software. We strive to support and enhance teaching and research. All materials can be downloaded, modified, and redistributed in accordance with all applicable licenses.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Category
General History
Type
Ancient Texts
Language
English
This online, open-source database has collected translations of ancient, medieval, and modern historical sources in translation. The database is organized by geographic region with additional thematic sections with a focus on politics, gender, religion, and social life.
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