• AICT: Art Images for College Teaching (licence-free images!)
• Bible History Online (images, texts, and lots more)
• Latest Ancient History News (links to recent articles about finds, issues, etc.)
• Explore & Learn: Educational Resources at the Met
• Ancient Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
• Perseus Project (Tufts)
• Archaeology Index
• James Harvey Robinson, "Why Study Primary Sources?" (Medieval Sourcebook)
• Syllabus with links for Paul Halsall's Introduction to Medieval History class (Fordham)
• McGraw Hill site for Adams, Art Across Time

Paleolithic:

• Chauvet Cave online
• Chauvet Cave discovery (Newsweek)
• Lascaux online (fantastic!)

• Ain Ghazal Survey Report (UTexas)
• Ain Ghazal statues conservation (University College, London)
• Mysteries of Catal Hoyuk (Science Museum of Minnesota)
• Catal Huyuk (Archaeology)

• ABZU: Ancient Near East links (Oriental Institute)
• Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Met (with full descriptions and images of many objects)
• Annals of Assur-Nasir-Pal
• Enheduanna Research Pages (includes info on her writings)
• Stele of Hammurabi (translation and images)
• Lamassu from Kalhu (Met)
• Virtual Palace of Assurnasirpal (Penn)

• Panel from Processional Way (leading to Ishtar Gate), Babylon (Met)
• Dragon of Marduk, Ishtar Gate (DIA)
• Ishtar Gate Inscription
• Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar

• Persepolis Photo Archive (Oriental Institute)
• Plan of Persepolis with links to inscriptions at the site (at ABZU)
• Relief from Apadana stairs at Persepolis (DIA)

• Egyptian Collection, Archaeological Museum of Bologna
• includes a virtual tour of Tomb of Horemheb
• Egyptian Art at the Met (with full descriptions and images of many objects)
• Nubian Exhibition (Oriental Institute)
• Another Nubian Exhibition (Oriental Institute)
• Hieroglyphics and the Rosetta Stone (CMA)
• Jean Francois Champollion (KMT)
• Egyptian Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
• Egyptian Museum, Cairo (many important objects online)
• Virtual Mummy (University of Hamburg)
• Egyptian Art at the University of Memphis (includes a model of a granary)

• Hierakonpolis Online
• Reconstructed Mastaba (Met)
• Saqqara, with a clickable plan and detailed descriptions (Jacques Kinnaer)
• Saqqara, clickable plan with images (Penn)
• Bakeries at Giza (ABZU)
• Giza Plateau Mapping Project (ABZU)

• Senwosret III, fragment of face (Met)
• Pectoral of Senwosret III (Met)
• Seated Sesostris III (Senwosret III) from the Louvre (Cleveland Museum of Art)
• Faience Hippo (Met)
• Boat Model, Tomb of Meket-Ra (Met)

• Theban Mapping Project (incredible photos!)
• includes: Deir-el-Bahari
• Thebes Photographic Project (Oriental Institute)
• Seated Hatshepsut (Met)
• Tomb of Harwa (near Hatshepsut's Temple)
• includes photos from the excavation
• Tomb of Senneferi at Thebes, c. 1420 BCE, excavation reports, photos (Cambridge)
• Quicktime movies of above
• Weighing the Heart, from the Book of the Dead (DIA)
• Nany found Worthy, from the Book of the Dead (Met)
• Tomb of Nefertari, conservation articles (Getty)
• Egyptian Book of the Dead (indexed)
• Howard Carter's Diaries #1: 10/28-12/31/1922 (Ashmolean)
• Howard Carter's Diaries #2 1/1/-5/31/1923-(Ashmolean)
• Who was Tutankhamun's Father? (KMT Online)
• Selket, from Tut's tomb (QTVR movie)
• Temple of Dendur (Met)
• Graffiti at Luxor (ABZU, article)
• Fayyum Portrait (Met)
• Virtual Abu Simbel (CCER)

General

• Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean (Dartmouth)

Cycladic

• Harp Player (Met)
• Cycladic female figure (Met)

• Mycenae (British School at Athens)

General

• Greek myths based upon fossil remains? (Archaeology)

• Dipylon Vase (Met)
• Bronze Man and Centaur (Met)

Archaic

• New York Kouros (Met)

• Amasis Painter, Women weaving (Met)
• Euphronios, Death of Sarpedon (Met)

• Fallen Heroes: Pericles' soldiers (Archaeology)
• Elgin Marbles article (Foxnews online)
• Elgin Marbles (Archaeology)
• Grave stele, Girl with Doves (Met)

• Venus of Knidos copy (DIA)
• View of Knidos (Perseus)

• Veiled Dancer (Met)

• Waters of the City of Rome (UVA, deals with water, urban development)
• Jubilee Year digs (Archaeology)
• Roman ships found at Pisa (Archaeology)
• Rome 1-1000 (Archaeology)

• Etruscan Art at the Archaeological Museum, Bologna / ***check out the "for more information" section
• includes primary source documentation on Etruscans
• Etruscan funerary rites
• Villanovan Village reconstruction
• Etruscan Marzabotto (city)
• Etruscan Ceramics
• Etruscan Metalwork
• Etruscan Sculpture

• Pont du Gard conservation (Archaeology)

• Augustus: Images of Power (UVA, images and text)
• Portrait of Caracalla (Met)
• Old Market Woman (Met)
• Virtual Walkthrough of the Colosseum (and other sites)

• Bedroom, House of Synistor (Met)
• details from above
• Pompeii Forum Project (UVA, images, articles, teacher resources)
• Thermopolium (Perseus)
• First Style Painting (Perseus)
• Via dei Sepolcri (Perseus)
• Roman Corinth Excavations (UPenn)
• Roman Aquileia

• Jews and Christians in a Roman World (Archaeology)
• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for Late Antique/Early Christian society

• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for Byzantine history (to Justinian)
• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for Byzantine history (Iconoclasm to Crusades)
• Restoration at Hagia Sophia (Archaeology)
• Excavation of Katholikon at Synaxis

• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for Islam
• Jerusalem's Temple Mount Flap (Archaeology)

 

 
 












General / Prehistoric / Ancient Near East / Egyptian / Aegean / Greek / Roman / Late Antique & Early Christian
Byzantine / Early Medieval / Romanesque / Gothic

• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for early Germanic states
• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for early conversions/monasticism

Scandinavian/Viking

• Viking ship burial found in Norway (Archaeology)
• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for Vikings
• The Vikings in America (Pitt)
• Viking Ship Home Page (Pitt)

Early Medieval Spain

Carolingian

• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for the Carolingians
• De Villis, selections (Medieval Sourcebook)
• Einhard, Life of Charlemagne, excerpts (Medieval Sourcebook)

Ottonian

• Christ Enthroned, Ivory Plaque from Magdeburg (Met)
• Quedlinburg: exterior view ... interior view
• Quedlinburg Treasury (mainly the stolen pieces, with a couple of exceptions)
• Unesco information about Quedlinburg

• Ralph Glaber on the Year 1000 (Medieval Sourcebook)
• Apocalyptic Dossier, 967-1033 (Center for Millenial Studies)

• Tales of Relics (Medieval Sourcebook)
• Guibert of Nogent on relics (Medieval Sourcebook)
• Saints Lives (links, at Medieval Sourcebook)
• Saint-Foy, Conques online (FANTASTIC site with interesting translations from French)
• includes a great section on the Last Judgement Tympanum
• the church
• the treasury, including the St. Foy reliquary

• Paul Halsall's (Fordham) class notes for Cluny
• Foundation Charter of Cluny (Medieval Sourcebook)

• William of St. Thierry, Description of Clairvaux, c. 1143 (Medieval Sourcebook)
• Charta Caritatis

• Virgin and Child, Auvergne, wood (Met)

Early Gothic

• Abbot Suger, De Administratione, selections (Medieval Sourcebook)
• (Chapters XXV and XXXII are particularly useful.)

High Gothic

Rayonnant/Courtly Style
 

• Figure of a King from Saint-Denis (Met)
• Cloisters Cross, ivory, from Bury St. Edmunds (Met)
• Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux (Met)
• Whitby Abbey Headland Project
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