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.
The UNESCO Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws
Category
General Archaeology
Type
Research Materials
Language
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
The website with information about the legal question of the origin of an object (which may have been stolen, pillaged, or illegally exported, imported, or acquired) from all UNESCO members accesses to the relevant national laws.
The Archaeological Film Database
Category
General Archaeology
Type
Study Aids
Language
English
The website is about films of all genres that are included and subjected to the same criteria of critical analysis of Media Literacy. The critical analyses are written by archaeologists that follow Media Literacy criteria, including analysis of authorship, funding, distribution, sub-texts, and the impact on changing audiences in terms of the construction of the past.
Literature database ArchbotLit
Category
General Archaeology
Type
Research Materials
Language
English, German
The website with information about the history of cultivated plants. The database has archaeobotanical literature on ancient crops accessible, which is otherwise scattered over a large number of international journals and excavation reports.
The Maritime Archaeology Databases
Category
General Archaeology
Type
Research Materials
Language
English
The Maritime Archaeology Databases has a collection of shipwreck information, shipwreck artifacts, numismatic (coin) materials, as well as the ANCODS (Agreement between Australia and the Netherlands Concerning Old Dutch Shipwrecks) collection.
Hornemann Institute
Category
Preservation and Conservation
Type
Research Materials
Language
German, English
The primary aim of the Institute is the world wide knowledge transfer of current scientific results within the scope of conservation and restoration, offers related information and services, such as publishing a journal and books and providing collected external links; also continuing education courses and organization of conferences; most of these resources are paid but some are accessible freely
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