FOR
INFO ON THE
ANCIENT RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS
Tigris/Euphrates Rivers -
The Fertile Crescent - Ancient Middle East
The Nile River - Egypt
Indus River Valley - India
Yellow River - China
Updated 6/8/11
Prehistoric cave painting at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the Ardèche region of France. 
The Chauvet Cave
ARCHAEOLOGY
& ANTHROPOLOGY SITES
Anthro.Net
Research Engine: Anthropology and Archaeology
BBC - History:
Archaeology in-depth
Archeology and Ethnography Program Home,
NPS
Outline of
Prehistory and History, Southeast Archaeological Center
VL - Archaeological Resource
Guide for Europe
Voice of the Shuttle:
Anthropology Page
National Anthropological
Archives Home Page
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian: Anthropology and Archaeology
Anthropology
on the Internet For K-12
Voice of the Shuttle:
Archaeology Page
Art and Archaeology
Magazine
Athena
Review Main Index
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology
Archaeology Magazine
The
Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
Southwestern Archaeology (SWA)
Ancient American: Archaeology of the
Americas before Columbus
Anthropology
Exhibits - Anthropological
Theories
Archaeology
- Virtual
Archaeology
Forensics
in Anthropology
Dating
Techniques - Artifacts
Archaeology
Section
The
Museum of Antiquities
Roman Archaeology -
more on my Ancient Rome page.
Exploring
Gender Through Archaeology - Table of Contents
Gender
in Archaeology
Genetics and Human
Migration Patterns
American Museum of Natural History
Penn Museum -
Online Exhibits
PREHISTORY
Classroomtools.com
Warm-up Activity - Is That A Fact? - Human - Dinosaur Co-existence?
Geologic
Time Chart
Prehistory
| Thematic Essays | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
TIMELINE:
Ancient History
TIMELINE: World
Map, 20,000-8000 B.C.
TIMELINE:
Hominid Species
Hominid
Evolution: 5,000,000 to 25,000 BC
Human
Prehistory - Hominid Evolution
Prehistory
to 3200 BC
Timeline, 45,000 BCE
to 4 CE
CyberMuseum:
Early Humans
Prehistory
Section
SECRETS
OF THE DEAD . Search for the First Human | PBS
A Science
Odyssey: You Try It: Human Evolution
Evolution:
Humans: Humankind
A
Science Odyssey: You Try It: Human Evolution: Lucy
Lucy's Story
Handprint:
Ancestral Lines - Human Evolution
The
Long Foreground: Human Prehistory
Human Origins and Evolution in
Africa
INTERACTIVE
DIAGRAM: Prehistoric Medicine
Ancient
Big Game Hunting
Human Prehistory
Kennewick
Man - NOVA Online | Mystery
of the First Americans
Flints and Stones: Real Life
in Prehistory
Flints
and Stones - Explore the Lives of the Peoples of the Mesolithic
Stone
Age Habitats
From
the Stone Age to the Metal Age
Class
Notes: Foraging Peoples - Foraging
Societies
Could
you survive as a Hunter/Gatherer?
Paleolithic Diet Page (Paleo
Diet, Caveman Diet, Hunter/Gatherer Diet)
UCMP Web Time Machine
Geology and
Geologic Time
UCMP
Glossary: virtual glossary of biological terms
The
Precambrian
Introduction to
the Hadean
The Archaean
Era
The
Proterozoic Era - Life
of the Proterozoic Era
The
Paleozoic Era - Life
of the Paleozoic Era
Introduction to
the Mesozoic Era - Life
of the Mesozoic Era
DISPELLING
DINOSAUR MYTHS
Introduction to
the Cenozoic - Life
of the Cenozoic
The Pleistocene
Ice
Ages
More on Prehistoric Art is available on my Art
Periods page.
Did you know? Ancient drinkers clinked their cups to ward off evil
spirits.
NEOLITHIC
REVOLUTION
Poppa's
Ancient World
Settled
Agriculture: 8000-6500 BC
NEW
PERSPECTIVES ON AGRICULTURAL ORIGINS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Origins of
Agriculture
Agricultural
Revolution
The Agricultural
Revolution
Agricultural
Revolution - Technology
History of Farming
- Index
Food Preparation
North
American Prehistory
Easter
Island Virtual Tour
BBC
- History: British Prehistory - Prehistoric
Britain: Available Resources - Stonehenge
Skara Brae - The
Discovery and Excavation of Orkney's finest Neolithic Settlement - The
Neolithic Village at Skara Brae
The
Great Bronze Age of China
Observing
Prehistoric Women - Prehistoric
Construction of Mothering - Matriarchy:
history or reality?
Italian
iceman goes on show
NOVA Online | Ice Mummies
- The Iceman's
Last Meal - Mummies of
the World
CNN.com
- Ancient skull challenges human origins - July 10, 2002
A new
hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa
ROOTS
OF HUMAN FOSSIL TREE DEEPEN
TIMELINES
- MAPS - COMPREHENSIVE SITES
(Includes links to many cultures)
TIMELINES
GALORE: WebChron
TIMELINE:
Ancient History
TIMELINE &
INFO: Some Ancient Civilizations
TIMELINE:
Ancient Civilizations
TIMELINE:
Ancient Art History
TIMELINE:
Classical Education & the Arts - 5000 BC-450 AD
TIMELINE:
Monetary History 9,000 - 1 BC
A timeline of
the Ancient Middle-East
Timeline at The Ancient
Mediterranean
Classical
Empires Chronology
MAPS: Index of Places in
Ancient Times
MAPS: places from antiquity
to 2000 CE
MAPS:
ancient warfare index (Atlas
Table of Contents)
Ancient
Maps Cover Page - Ancient
Map Web List
Classical Atlas Project
- Ancient World Mapping Center
The
Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography
Historical
Geography of the Ancient World
***** The Amazing Ancient World
- Premier Ancient Civilization Internet Book - a FABULOUS site! If you
don't find here, you won't find it anywhere!
EyeWitness To The
Ancient World
BBC - History: Ancient
History in-depth
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook: Main Page
Warfare
in the Ancient World (Until the end of the Roman Empire)
The Ancient World
The Amazing
Ancient World - BRIDGES BETWEEN ANCIENT CULTURES
Ancient Classical
History - Comprehensive Ancient Greek and Roman History Site
CyberMuseum:
Ancient Mysteries
Mysterious Places: Explore sacred
sites and ancient civilizations
What
Is Culture? and What
is Civilization?
Crystalinks: Ancient
and Lost Civilizations
Lectures
on Ancient and Early Medieval History
Introduction to
Ancient History
**** All Empires - CHART:
Empires in History - Classical
Mediterranean and Europe - All Empires
WOMEN IN THE
ANCIENT WORLD
Ancient Worlds
***** The Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World - Quia Quiz -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The
Seven Wonders of the World bought to you by the Cleveleys Website
Penn Museum -
Online Exhibits
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Primary
Urban Society: 3500 BC-AD 700
Classical
Empires Chronology
Timeline at The Ancient
Mediterranean
Ancient
History Links
River
Valley Civilizations: 3200 BC- AD 200
Ancient
Mesopotamia: 7000 to 550 BC
Classical
Empires 3200-550 BC
Fall
and Rise of Empires: 1100-465
Era
of the Smaller Civilizations
Empires Past
Odyssey Online
The Americas,
Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania
LIVIUS
Ancient Civilizations
**** World
Cultures: GLOSSARY - fabulous site for finding out definitions
relating to ancient history.
Welcome to
"FOCUS" Online Magazine of the Mediterranean World
Diotima: Women & Gender in
the Ancient World - Women
- Ancient/Classical History Net Links - For much more, check specific time
periods on my Table of Contents
page.
Death
on Display in the Ancient World
Ancient/Classical
History - Definitive Collection of Net Links
DR. J'S ILLUSTRATED
GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL WORLD
History
of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient History in the Movies
Mare Nostrum: Other
Civilizations
NOVA Online |
Treasures of the Sunken City
Pictish Nation
China - The
Empire of Ancient China and Japan.
More available on my Non-Western
Cultures page.
NOVA Online | Ice
Mummies of the Inca | Mummies of the World
NOVA Online | Mystery of
the First Americans
ANCIENT
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS - MAYA, MIXTEC, ZAPOTEC, & AZTEC - for more,
visit my Meso and Latin
America page.
For much more, check out my Ancient
Egypt, Ancient Greece,
and Ancient Rome pages.
ANCIENT ART, MUSIC, & THEATER
TIMELINE:
Art History - The World (BC/BCE) - TIMELINE:
Art History - The World (AD/CE)
TIMELINE:
Ancient Art History
Timelines,
8000 BC - Present | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
TIMELINE:
Classical Education & the Arts - 5000 BC-450 AD
The cave of Lascaux
The Cave
of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
Ice
Age Art - ICE
AGE ART GAME
Music of the Ancient Near East
Early (and other)
Instruments - Ancient
Egypt: Music and Dance
Origins
of Theatre
Greek Drama
Didaskalia
- Introduction to Ancient Theater
FOR MUCH MORE, CHECK OUT MY Art
by Period, Music Periods
and Composers, Literature
and Drama (Drama section) PAGES.
ALSO, CHECK OUT SPECIFIC TIME PERIODS & CULTURES ON MY TABLE
OF CONTENTS PAGE.
THE
CLASSICS
*****
The Amazing Ancient World -
Premier Ancient Civilization Internet Book has tons of sites on ancient
philosophy, literature, and drama!
The Online Medieval and
Classical Library (DL SunSITE)
Voice of the Shuttle:
Classical Studies Page
Labyrinth
Latin Library
The Forest of Rhetoric
The Internet Classics Archive: 441
searchable works of classical literature - Browse
The Classics Pages
General - Writings,
Writers and Classics of History
Classical
Love Poetry
Perseus Digital Library
PHILOSOPHY
Overcoming
fear of ancient philosophy
Ancient
Philosophy -- Philosophy Resources for everyone
Greek
Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Philosophy
Philosophers
Greek
Philosophy
Pre-Socratic
Philosophy - Pre-Socratic
Philosophers
Sophism
Greek
Philosophy: Socrates - Socratic
Method & Scientific Method
The
biography, philosophy, trial, apology, and execution of Socrates - The
Last Days of Socrates
Greek Philosophy:
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave, The Divided Line
Greek
Philosophy: Plato - Protagoras
by Plato
Plato:
Democracy - Plato’s
Criticism of Democracy
Hellenistic
Philosophy
Aristotle - The
Internet Classics Archive | The Works of Aristotle - Aristotle's
Metaphysics
Stoic
Philosophy
The
Philosophy of Epicurus
Philosophers
on the Role of Women
Many more specific philosophers found at The
Internet Classics Archive | Browse.
THE
HISTORIANS
Historians
The Internet Classics
Archive | The History of Herodotus by Herodotus
Thucydides
and Herodotus
Thucydides
The Internet
Classics Archive | The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Thucydides: Pericles'
Funeral Oration
Julius Caesar's War
Commentaries
ANCIENT
LITERATURE
Greek
Literature
Homer
and more on Homer
The Internet Classics
Archive | The Iliad by Homer
The Internet Classics
Archive | The Odyssey by Homer
The
Internet Classics Archive | The Aeneid by Virgil
Poetry of Sappho
The Works of
Aeschylus
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
The Works of
Aristophanes
The Works of Cicero
The Works of
Euripides
Euripides
and His Tragedies
Metamorphoses by Ovid
For many more (including the works of Non-Western authors, check out The
Internet Classics Archive | Browse
For
info on Sumerian literature (i.e. "Gilgamesh") and other cultures'
literature, please visit the sections above or check for specific cultures/time
periods on my Table of Contents
page.
ANCIENT
LAW
Ancient
Law
Law -
Ancient/Classical History - Net Links
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient Legal Texts
Bernard Hibbitts -
Readings - Ancient Law Seminar
The Timetable of
World Legal History
TRADE
- SILK ROAD - MONEY - SHIPS - TRANSPORTATION
Ancient
Trade Routes
Trade
Routes between Europe and Asia during Antiquity
SILK ROAD CHRONOLOGY
- The silkroad foundation
- Lost Cities
of the Silk Road - The
Silk Road - Ancient Pathway to the Modern World
Trade between
the Romans and the Empires of Asia
History
of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day
Chronology
of Monetary History 9,000 - 1 BC
Ancient Coins - Edward J. Waddell, Ltd.
Ancient
Ships: The Ships of Antiquity
Phoenicia, Phoenician Ships,
Navigation and Commerce - Ancient
Phoenician Ships, Boats and Sea Trade - The
Phoenician Ship Expedition - Ancient
Phoenician Ships (Bible History Online) - Much more on Phoenicia below.
NativeTech:
NativeTech: Birchbark Canoe Detail
Shipwreck:
An Ancient Sea Trade Game | Explore & Learn
International Museum of the Horse - The
Legacy of the Horse in History
WARS
& WARFARE
MAPS:
ancient warfare index (Atlas
Table of Contents)
Wars &
Conflicts: Ancient Military History & Warfare - Links
Warfare
in the Ancient World (Until the end of the Roman Empire)
Ancient
Composite Bows
For much more, check out specific time periods on my Table
of Contents page.
MATH
- SCIENCE - TECHNOLOGY
HISTORY
OF TECHNOLOGY
Antiqua
Medicina: From Homer to Vesalius | www.hsl.virginia.edu
Medicine Through
Time - Medicine
through Time online lesson
History of Plumbing
Index - History
of Public Toilets plumbing world
History
of Mathematics Home Page
Ancient
Technologies
Smith
College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Museum Directory
THE
EVOLUTION OF WRITING AND THE ALPHABET
Ancient Scripts of the World
AncientScripts.com:
Timeline
Ryan-Ancient Languages and
Scripts
History of Writing
Omniglot - a guide to abjads,
alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems
Evolution of
Alphabets
Evolution
of Cuneiform Characters - more on cuneiform in the section on Mesopotamia
below.
Sinaitic to
Phoenician
Evolution of
Phoenician Characters - more info below in the section on "The
Phoenicians."
Phoenician to Arabic
Characters
Evolution of Greek
Characters
Evolution Alphabet from
the Phoenician to Latin Characters
Evolution of Hebrew
Characters from Phoenician via Aramaic
Greek to
Cyrillic
A
Short Introduction to Hieroglyphs - Much more on my Ancient
Egypt page.
Write Like a
Babylonian
THE ARTICULATORY
BASIS OF THE ALPHABET
AncientScripts.com:
Old Persian
The
History of Printing
Phoenicia, Phoenicians:
Evolution of Picture Writing - Phoenician
alphabet
The Origin of the
Alphabet
Art of Arabic
Calligraphy
Ukindia Learning to read
Arabic
Hebrew alphabet
hebrew letters by sarahleah
- find your name in Hebrew (just follow the links).
Click
below to visit
THE
ANCIENT RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS
Tigris/Euphrates Rivers -
The Fertile Crescent - Ancient Middle East
The Nile River - Egypt
Indus River Valley - India
Yellow River - China
FOR MORE INFO, CHECK OUT:
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome - Also has info on the Byzantine Empire.
Myth, Legend, Folklore, Ghosts
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