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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.
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.
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.
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