History - HSTR 365: History of the Ancient Near East: Web Resources

Collection of resources.

6,500 images of works from the Museum's permanent collection. Images divided by theme, time period, and geography. Images may be used in unaltered form for educational purposes. Artist & Museum website address should be cited.

The Art of the Ancient World collection ranks among the premier encyclopedic collections in the world, with over 83,000 works of art from Egypt, Nubia, the Near East, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, and Anatolia. The objects in the collection range in date from about 6500 BC to AD 600 and cover a broad geographical expanse, from Britain to Afghanistan. There is something for everyone, including sculpture, jewelry, coffins, mummies, coins, weapons, architecture, vases, carved gems, musical instruments, and mosaics

Wikimedia Commons is a huge media repository maintained by volunteers. The website has hundreds of thousands of files of images, sounds, and videos for many disciplines

The World Architectural History Survey is a collection of architecture photographs from prehistory to contemporary times. The project was created at Bryn Mawr College and the images are to be used for non-profit educational purposes.

The letters, temple carvings and coffin inscriptions of ancient Egyptians offer us an insight into the private life of an extraordinary civilisation. The collection of readings performed here range across 3,000 years; they include a letter from a king, a princess's prayer and the dream of a temple dancer. These are the testimonies of real people, citizens of ancient Egypt; some important, others less so, but all very much alive in the words that survive them.

Available online via Google books

The faculty and students of the Hanover College History Department initiated the Hanover Historical Texts Project in 1995, at a time when few primary sources were available outside of published anthologies.

A collection of works from ancient Greek and Roman literature in translation. The theme of the library is classical mythology and so the selection presented consists primarily of ancient poetry (epic, lyric, bucolic, et. al.), drama and prose renditions of myth.

University of Oxford website that has images, bibliographies, and a dictionary of classical Greek art, architecture, history, and myth.

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for Middle Eastern history.

An annotated list of websites provided by the Library of Congress.

This website combines the history of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia. It focuses on Religion, Geography, Writing, and Time. It is filled with relevant and current information from the British Museum

Timelines organized by Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Pacific.

Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota. It is a searchable database delivering a variety of digital objects. Vivarium was created and is maintained by the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

Over 3000 files covering 3000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.