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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.
Avestan Digital Archive
Category
Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Type
Ancient Texts
Language
English
This website has digital archive containing all Avestan manuscripts housed in libraries around of world. It is searchable by manuscript passage, library, and manuscript type. There is also a link to the Corpus Avesticum Berolinese.
Digital Syriac Corpus
Category
Ancient Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Type
Ancient Texts
Language
English
The Digital Syriac Corpus is a freely available, open-access, online repository for digitized editions of Syriac texts. All of the texts in the Digital Syriac Corpus have been converted into TEI/XML formatting for display and robust searching.
Fourth-Century Christianity
Category
Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Type
Study Aids
Language
English
This website has various tools and texts for the study of the Christian Church and its environment in the fourth century CE with texts, translations, charts, bibliographies, references, and lists of related sites.
Corinthian Matters
Category
Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
English
This website seeks to popularize Corinthian studies by collecting materials related to Corinth, the Isthmus, and the broader Corinthia region. It publishes news about books, conferences, and presentations, resources for scholars, and essays/reviews about Corinthian history. There are maps, photos, and materials from the East Korinthia Archaeological Survey.
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.
Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library
Category
Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Type
Ancient Texts
Language
English
This is an online digitalized manuscript collection from the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt. So far manuscripts in Arabic and Syriac have been digitized, with other languages such as Greek, Coptic, Georgian, Latin, and others still forthcoming. Log-in required.
The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325-c.600)
Category
Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
English
A database on exiled clerics in late antiquity, exploring their legal circumstances, experiences, social connections, spatial worlds and memory. As of October 2023, the database contains 497 exile cases, 1177 persons/groups, and 422 locations. Browseable by name, title, location, and group. There are also tools to visualize clerical network graphs and maps.
Henan Museum
Category
East Asian Studies
Type
Museum Tours
Language
English, Chinese
The Henan museum is home to over 170,000 pieces of prehistoric artifacts, bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and various ceramics, jades, paintings, calligraphy, and stone carvings. A few select pieces contain brief write-ups and photos on the website.
Poinikastas: Epigraphic Sources for Early Greek Writing
Category
Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
English
This is a digitized version of Lillian Hamilton (Anne) Jeffrey's renowned book, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece (1961). It contains searchable and browseable database of Archaic Greek inscriptions, including a searchable map. Entries display the unique letter forms of a particular inscription, and these are linked to other others inscriptions that contain the same letter form. There is also an online biography of Prof. Jeffrey and personal photographs.
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