Institute of Field Archaeologists (IFA) - Organisation for professional archaeologists in the United Kingdom, including information on membership, services for members, conference news, special interest groups, standards for archaeological practice and publications.
Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) - A listing of archaeologists who have agreed to abide by an explicit code of conduct and standards of research performance, who hold a graduate degree in archaeology, anthropology, art history, classics, history, or another germane discipline and who have substantial practical experience. Registration is a voluntary act that recognizes an individual's personal responsibility to be held accountable for their professional behavior.
Sammlungen der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - The national museums in Berlin represent the result of centuries of collecting. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the holdings increased enormously through generous donations, through archaeological fieldwork and through ethnological expeditions undertaken. The national museums in Berlin consist of 16 museums, each with its own special area of competence.
Society for American Archaeology (SAAweb) - International organization dedicated to the research, interpretation, and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas.
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.
UCL Institute of Archaeology - The largest and one of the most highly regarded centres for archaeology, cultural heritage and museum studies in Britain.
Anthropology Resources
Abzu - A guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world.
Archaeology Data Service (ADS) - Collects, describes, catalogues, preserves, and provides user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research.
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.
Archaelogical Resource Guide for Europe (ARGE) - This database contains links to evaluated Internet resources (mainly web pages, but also other resources such as discussion lists) concerning European archaeology.
Athena Review - Journal of archaeology, history, and exploration.
Artefacts Canada: Archaeological Sites - A database containing information on more than 70,000 archaeological sites administered by Canadian provincial, territorial, and federal government departments or agencies.
Cave of Lascaux - Virtual history and tour of the cave at Lascaux whose Painted Gallery is justifiably considered the pinnacle of Palaeolithic cave art.
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) - Represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium.
Dig Ashkelon - The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast. A summary of our results from 1985-2004 in the form of two final report volumes: Ashkelon 1 and Ashkelon 2. These two volumes provide over 900 pages of information on the ancient city of Ashkelon and can be downloaded free.
Also see Dig Ashkelon Blog.
Digital Karnak -
The Digital Karnak Project aims to make the site of Karnak more accessible to students and instructors in the English-speaking world. The features of this website have been designed to provide college classrooms (and the interested public) with easily accessible, up-to-date, expert material relating to the temple precinct. As part of this goal, a 3-D virtual reality model of the temple was constructed, offering students a completely new way to view the temple: reign-by-reign, following the complex patterns of royal construction, modification and destruction that are now obscured by tShe latest building phases at the site. Footage of this model, as well as original videos and maps, are accompanied by thematic essays written and reviewed by Egyptologists to supply students and instructors with reliable information in a digital and visually dynamic platform. A simplified version of the virtual reality model of the temple is also made available in Google Earth, for a completely interactive experience.
Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection - Cairo, Egypt. The impressive collection of the Egyptian Museum includes masterworks belonging to different epochs of ancient Egypt: statues reliefs as well as monumental pieces of Egyptian architecture document the different time periods of ancient Egypt from 4000 BC up to the Roman Period. In addition to the bust of Queen Nefertiti, whose original colour is preserved without restoration since the Amarna period, other pieces such as the sculptured portraits of the royal family and members of the royal court are also unique. The most significant work of the late period is the so called Berlin "Green Head" named after its greenish stone (ca. 500 BC).
English Heritage - From visits to historic properties and battle re-enactments to conservation grants, from archaeological digs to children's books, English Heritage offers insights into England's past. Publishes the State of the Historic Environment Report annually.
Field Museum, The - An international leader in evolutionary biology and paleontology, and archaeology and ethnography.
Great Archaeological Sites - Presented by Ministry of Culture and Education in Paris, France. From prehistory to the Middle Ages, history and the lives of men in times past are presented here by the most accomplished of specialists, in a presentation accessible to everyone, including: excavations, archaeological research, homo erectus, decorated caves, Lascaux, Chauvet-Bridge-in Arc, homo sapiens, prehistoric art, paleolithic, neolitic, Chalain, Clairvaux, Romania, Entremont, Gallic, Egypt, Saqqarah, Thèbes, France, Vienna, Saint-Germain of Auxerre, Charavines, Colletières, Saint-Denis, Slats, Lattara.
Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science -
Part of the Weizmann Institute of Science. It is among the first to have a graduate research center devoted to microarchaeology (using instruments to reveal the microscopic archaeological record) with the aim of educating a new generation of students trained in both archaeology and the natural sciences.
National Park Service: National Archeological Database (NADB) Permits - Provides access to information about significant archeological and paleontological projects carried out during the history of U.S. federal archeology. The records in the database are for permits issued by the Department of the Interior under the Antiquities Act of 1906 and the Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) of 1979. A few records are for permits issued after the granting authority was delegated to individual federal agencies in 1984.
National Archeological Database (NADB) Reports Query Form - An expanded bibliographic inventory of approximately 240,000 reports on U.S. archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This "gray literature" represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S. NADB-Reports can be searched by state, county, worktype, cultural affiliation, keyword, material, year of publication, title, and author.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - Harvard University's Peabody Museum houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere.
Public Archaeology - International, peer-reviewed journal providing an arena for the growing debate surrounding archaeological and heritage issues as they relate to the wider world of politics, ethics, government, social questions, education, management, economics and philosophy. The journal includes ground-breaking research and insightful analysis on topics ranging from ethnicity, indigenous archaeology and cultural tourism to archaeological policies, public involvement and the antiquities trade. From the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Public Archaeology Laboratory (PAL) -
Provide a full array of cultural resource management (CRM) services.
PAL’s approach relies on integration, blending the skills of historic, prehistoric, industrial, and marine archaeologists, architectural and industrial historians, historians, preservation planners, conservators, and technical support staff. Clients rely on PAL for its ability to rapidly mobilize staff and resources to conduct cultural resource surveys, preservation planning studies, eligibility determinations, environmental impact assessments, regulatory compliance, and consultation.
Rosetta Stone - Information and resources from the British Museum. The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests, one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation.
Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation - The complete records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun based on Carter's own numbering of the objects as presented in Handlist to Howard Carter's Catalogue of Objects in Tut'ankhamun's Tomb, by Helen Murray and Mary Nuttall. Numbers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Journal d'Entré as well as exhibition numbers) are given for each item.
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