Internet Resources by Subject: Ancient History

A collection on ancient documents provided as part of the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

The main collection was designed to cover "the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. " It includes both primary and secondary resources. Click on the Collections link to access these resources and resources for other topics including Arabic language documents; materials for the study of the Germanic Peoples; primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature; Issues of the Richmond Times Dispatch; Sources on the history of the 19th-century United States and Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri.

A collection on ancient documents provided as part of the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

"The Ancient World Mapping Center is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
"On this page you will find hosted a series of freely available maps that, just as before, are available for free educational use (under the CC BY-NC 3.0 license) and also can be licensed for publication at nominal cost. These maps are organized according to rough geographic regions"

This site created by James J. O'Donnell, a professor of Classical Studies, provides information on Saint Augustine of Hippo. Includes links to texts, some are in Latin and others that have been translated. Also provides other research resources.

Scholarly resources in Classics Studies, focusing on on the Ancient Mediterranean (particularly Greece and Rome) during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. The resources are primarily freely available and have undergone an evaluation process.

"The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt." A cataloging note provides descriptions in English.

A site from Oxford University that is created of more than eighty manuscripts from seven separate libraries. Images of the manuscripts are provided for personal use, please read the copyright information for further details.

"ETANA is a cooperative venture of a consortium of scholarly societies and universities to develop and maintain a comprehensive Internet site for the study of the ancient Near East (ANE)." Members include: The American Oriental Society, American Schools of Oriental Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Society of Biblical Literature, Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, Vanderbilt University, and Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
The site is made up of three areas:
(1) Abzu - a guide to information available on the internet. It can be searched or browsed. This section also provides searching of the information in section (2) Core Texts - ETANA has "digitized, and continues to digitize texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to Ancient Near Eastern studies. We have selected primarily editions that are outside of copyright, or with the permission of copyright holders. While the new electronic editions we have produced are under copyright, the ETANA project chooses to make these freely available for non-commercial teaching and research purposes." And section (3) Archaeological Projects - provides links to projects associated with the ETANA site.

The main collection was designed to cover "the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. " It includes both primary and secondary resources. Click on the Collections link to access these resources and resources for other topics including Arabic language documents; materials for the study of the Germanic Peoples; primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature; Issues of the Richmond Times Dispatch; Sources on the history of the 19th-century United States and Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri.

"The Petrie Museum houses an estimated 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. It illustrates life in the Nile Valley from prehistory through the time of the pharaohs, the Ptolemaic, Roman and Coptic periods to the Islamic period. "
A searchable catalog of the collection with images is provided as well as other resources such as Digital Egypt for Universities.

"...is first and foremost a community of scholars, both teachers and students, who create online resources for teaching about the Latin language and ancient Roman culture. The VRoma MOO requires logging on as a guest or through your personal character and password, but all the web resources are freely accessible on the internet. "