Hellenistic Greece - Corresponds to the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the classical Greek heartlands by Rome in 146 BC.
Ancient Greek World - University of Pennsylvania online world culture exhibit.
Archaeological Museum at Olympia - One of the most important archaeological museums in Greece, hosting artefacts from the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus, in Olympia, where the ancient Olympic Games were born and hosted.
Augustine of Hippo - Online books by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430 AD). Also see backgrounder here.
British Museum: Agent Egypt - Egyptian life, geography, gods and goddesses, mummification, pharoaoh, pyramids, temples, time, trades, writing.
Confessions of Augustine - On-line reprint of Augustine: Confessions, a text and commentary by James O'Donnell.
Dêmos: Classical Athenian Democracy - A collaborative, electronic encyclopedia of Classical Athenian Democracy and the sources for our knowledge of it.
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (ETANA) - 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.
Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE) - The UEE, published by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA, is a world-wide cooperation of Egyptologists, archaeologists, linguists, art historians, geologists and all other disciplines that are involved in research in Egypt.
Eternal Egypt - A record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions. Stories of Eternal Egypt are told using the latest interactive technologies, high-resolution imagery, animations, virtual environments, remote cameras, three-dimensional models and more.
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians - PBS Frontline series. An intellectual and visual guide to the new and controversial historical evidence which challenges familiar assumptions about the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus - HThe world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses and Darius I the Great, culminating in king Xerxes' expedition in 480 BCE against the Greeks, which met with disaster in the naval engagement at Salamis and the battles at Plataea and Mycale. Herodotus' remarkable book also contains excellent ethnographic descriptions of the peoples that the Persians have conquered, fairy tales, gossip, legends, and a very humanitarian morale.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - Focuses on online texts, which, for the most part, means public domain texts translated more than 75 years ago.
Mesoamerica - The term "Mesoamerica" refers to a geological area occupied by a variety of ancient cultures that shared religious beliefs, art, architecture, and technology that made them unique in the Americas for three thousand years - from about 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1519 - the time of European contact. Mesoamerica is one of our planet's six cradles of early civilization. Many aspects of the ancient cultures of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and México continue to the present and several of these cultural inventions and traits have spread throughout the world. Site maintained by Foundation for the Advancement of Mesocamerican Studies.
Minoan Civilization - The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 2700 to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greek culture became dominant at Minoan sites in Crete. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century, at first through the work of the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans.
Also see photos and further information on Minoan Crete archaeological sites.
Minoan Eruption -
The Minoan eruption of Thera, was a major catastrophic volcanic eruption occuring in the mid second millennium BCE. The eruption is one of the largest volcanic events in recorded history. It devastated the island of Thera (also called Santorini), including the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri - as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and on the coast of Crete. The eruption inspired Greek myths and may have caused turmoil in Egypt. Additionally, it the Minoan eruption and destruction of the city at Akrotiri may have inspired Plato's story of Atlantis.
Also see:
Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe (1917) - By Donald A. Mackenzie.
Informative, well researched and very readable, Myths of Crete is a unique book about a very opaque period of history.
Perseus Hopper - A non-profit enterprise, located in the Department of the Classics, Tufts University whose goal is to bring source materials to as large an audience as possible, including primary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome, early modern English literature, history of London, and more. See Perseus Classics Collection: An Overview.
Secrets of Lost Empires - PBS NOVA series: Medieval Siege, Pharaoh's Obelisk, Easter Island, Roman Bath, China Bridge.
Stoa - Electronic scholarship in the humanities, with a special focus on the ancient world and the classical tradition.
Suetonius: Electronic Texts and Resources - Links to Latin texts and English translations of Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars. Commentaries and additional lexical and geographical reference material.
Tacitus - A senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in 14 AD to the death of emperor Domitian in 96 AD. There are significant lacunae in the surviving texts. Also see works of Tacitus at Project Gutenberg.
Thera Foundation - Promotes the study of archaeology, geology, art history and other cultural events as they pertain to Greece and Santorini in the context of the Mediterranean.
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga - A major new millennium initiative from the Smithsonian - including an exhibit, catalog, website, television documentary, and educational programming. From the rise of the Scandinavian kingdoms during the Viking Age (A.D.750 to 1050) to the demise of the Greenland colonies around A.D. 1500, this exhibit examines the history of the western expansion of the Vikings.
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