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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.
Art and Life in Africa
Category
Ancient African and Egyptian Studies
Type
Study Aids
Language
English

Website from the University of Iowa with various detailed webpages about African art categorized by region, with further information about the history and culture of these artistic contexts. Contains maps, images, articles, and sponsored by a university with links to the university museum. NB: the original website is no longer updated but is still accessible in an archived version linked at the bottom.
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Category
Ancient African and Egyptian Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
English

The website of the Smithsonian Museum of African Art with information on past, current, and upcoming exhibits, access to hundreds objects in their collections (including some 3D models) from the 15th century onward, and information on their research libraries and digitized photo archive.
Great Zimbabwe Ruins
Category
Ancient African and Egyptian Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
English

This website provides information about the Great Zimbabwe ruins, which contains descriptions of the history of the site, its contemporary function and modern status as archaeological heritage site in relation to imperialism, gallery, and visitor information.
NEMO-Online (Near-Eastern Musicology)
Category
Ancient Music
Type
Research Materials
Language
English

Periodical of Near and Middle-Eastern music research, in the widest sense of the term, under the name of NEMO-Online (Near-Eastern Musicology Online). The website has a very comprehansive Bibliograph and many articles. Musical Scales, Acoustics, Temperament and Tuning,
Visual Arts Cork Encyclopedia of Art
Category
General History
Type
Research Materials
Language
English

Encyclopedia-style website on art history, including many detailed entries on prehistoric, ancient and medieval/renaissance art. These are organised by region and time period, and also by art type where applicable. Each entry contains information about the general history of the context, as well as many images.
Yale University Art Gallery
Category
Ancient African and Egyptian Studies
Type
Research Materials
Language
English

Access to view the collections of the Yale Art Museum online, including African, Asia, European, Indo-Pacific, Roman, Greek, and Mesopotamian art, including coins collections. There is also information about the collections in their contemporary context, including links to related scholarly articles, essays by the department curators, video content, and search collection tool.
The Gnostic Society Library
Category
Ancient Philosophy
Type
Study Aids
Language
English

This site contains special collections of resources for the Nag Hammadi scriptures, the Gospel of Thomas, and The Secret Book (Apocryphon) of John. THere are also selections of secondary sources on the Gnostic tradition.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Category
Art History
Type
Research Materials
Language
English

This is an interactive timeline of art history which contains images of objects, essays on topics from global prehistory, antiquity and middle ages, and chronologies, telling the history of art through the diverse collection of the Met which has many objects of historic significance from all contients - useful for archaeology and ancient art history, also includes essays and videos as study aids
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