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Ancient History (General)

The Ancient World Web: An Internet resource guide to the ancient world.
Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations: Daily life in ancient Egypt, Greece, China, India, Rome, and U.S. Pacific Coast Indians.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Eight ancient world cultures are explored at this college-level site: Ancient Near East ; Ancient India ; Ancient Egypt ; Ancient China ; Ancient Greece ; Ancient Rome ; Early Islamic World ; and Medieval Europe.
Odyssey Online: Odyssey Online explores Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and sub-Saharan African cultures through museum artifacts, puzzles, games, and artifacts.
Isidore-of-Seville.com.: A collection of links to websites about Ancient and Medieval Civilizations.
NOVA Online | Secrets of Lost Empires: How did ancient architects and engineers design and erect the medieval war machines known as trebuchets? construct Egyptian obelisks? The Easter Island stone monoliths called moais? Roman baths? The rainbow bridges of ancient China?
Near East: Explore the cradle of civilization.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Time Traveller Tours, in association with the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, invites you to embark on the ultimate luxury vacation through space and time, and take a virtual tour of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Explore the most famous temples and monuments of the ancient world.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Take a virtual tour with CNN Destinations.
Walk Through Time: Learn about British history with games, an interactive timeline, and prinable worksheets. From the BBC.

Prehistoric Peoples

Avebury and Stonehenge Stone Circles: Reliable and useful information on Stonehenge and Avebury, the world's most famous stone circles.
The Cave of Lascaux: Take a virtual tour of the cave and its prehistoric paintings, learn about how it was discovered, and read all about the ancient people who created it.
Megalithic Mysteries: Visit Stonehenge and other Stone Age sites in the British Isles in this photographic guide.
North American Prehistory: Use the map to explore prehistoric archeological sites, or find out about early big game hunters and petroglyphs.
NOVA Online/Cracking the Ice Age: What caused the Ice Age?

Ancient Egypt: All about life in ancient Egypt, from the British Museum.
Ancient Egypt: Official Site of the Ministry of Tourism, Egypt: A wealth of information and pictures on who's who, history, daily life, sports, clothes, food, writing, and much more.
Ancient Egypt Discovery Case: Travel the interactive timeline, make your own mummy, write like an Egyptian, and view Egyptian treasures. From the Royal Ontario Museum.
Ancient Egyptian Sports: Did you know that the Egyptians played hockey?
Ancient Egyptian Virtual Temple: Move through a computer generated reconstruction of an Egyptian temple.
CyberMummy: Unlock its the secrets of an Egyptian mummy with the help of modern medical imagery, a supercomputer, and an archeologist.
Egypt Fun Guide: Learn hieroglyphics, make your own cartouche, do the mummy maze, and more fun, from Sea World and Busch Gardens.
Egypt Odyssey: Designed with students and teachers in mind, Odyssey Online has useful information about ancient Egyptian culture, games, puzzles, and a multitude of museum objects.
Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World: Based on a National Geographic PBS special, this site includes news stories, interactive exploration of the pyramids, pages for children, and lesson plans for grades K-12.
Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Translate English into Egyptian hieroglyphs!
Egyptian History
Egyptian Mummy Masks: Art lesson plan for making your own mummy mask from your own face (with help).
Guardian's Egypt: A comprehensive (that means it's got everything!) site on ancient Egypt. Take the CyberJourney to Egypt to see lots of pictures of pyramids, sphinx, temples.
The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology: Click on Artifacts to see a mummy case and a 4000 year old loaf of bread, or tour Cairo and other famous Egyptian sites through photos. From the Univeristy of Memphis.
Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt: Read about the kings and queens of Egypt, view the pyramids and temples, write your name in hieroglyphs, do math problems in Egyptian, or send a glyph e-card to a friend.
Mummy Quiz: Test your knowledge of mummies at the National Geographic site.
Neferchichi's Tomb: Learn about ancient Egypt and satisfy your scribal needs with Egyptian clip art at Neferchichi's tomb.
Pharoah's Obelisk: How did Egyptian engineers erect the giant monuments known as obelisks? This NOVA site recreates the task, and includes information on how levers helped with the job.
Pyramids -- The Inside Story: Explore the pyramids with NOVA Online.
Rosetta Stone's Site: Rosetta Stone is your guide to information on ancient Egypt. Includes a quiz, a cut-out Pharaoh, and coloring pages. From the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Scale Model of the Great Pyramid: Directions for building scale models, with comparisons to other famous structures.

Ancient Greece and Rome

Civilizations: Greece and Rome: This web site was designed to introduce third grade students to the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. Information on government, music, art, sports, and more.
Greek Mythology: The Mythweb is devoted to learning about the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology.
Daily Life Ancient Greece: The ancient Greeks were very proud of their city-state! They were also proud of being Greek. The ancient Greeks were thinkers.They honored their gods and respected honor. They loved beauty, music, literature, drama, philosophy, politics and art
Electronic Passport to Ancient Greece: Information and links about ancient Greece; including, Homer, city-states, Greek Philosophers, and mythology.
Gods and Goddesses of the World Religions: Basic information on gods of Greece, Rome, and other ancient cultures. No pictures.
Greek Mythology: An encyclopedia of gods and humans in Greek myth.
Mythography: Explore mythology and art with information about the classic stories of heroes and gods...from the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, to the legends of the Celts
Odyssey Online: Greece: Ancient Greek daily life, people, mythology, death and burial, and more.
Roman Gods: The Roman gods and goddesses, their attriblues, symbols, and so forth.
Ships of the Ancient Greeks: The Greeks were great sailors! See their ships here.

Ancient Mesopotamia

Hammurabi's Code: You be the judge! Test your judgement against the ancient Mesopotamian lawgiver.
Mesopotamia: Learn about ancient Mesopotamian culture, daily life, geography, government, and much more from a great sixth grade project at William Penn Charter School.
Mesopotamia in the Electronic Passport: The Fertile Crescent and the civilizations that developed there.

Aztec, Maya, and Inca

The Aztec Calendar: To learn about Aztec gods and symbols, click on the different images on the Aztec calendar disk and get an explanation of what they represent.
Celebrating the Day of the Dead in Janitzio: Learn about the customs that are part of the Mexican Dia de los Muertos.
The Ancient Aztecs: Includes a timeline; Aztec rulers; daily life; technology; culture; religion; and the Spanish conquest. A student-built ThinkQuest site.
Inca Civilizations at appukids.com: Visit the ruins at Machu Picchu and Sacsahuaman and learn about the Inca of Peru.
Ice Treasures of the Inca @ nationalgeographic.com: Join an interactive expedition up Mt. Ampato in Peru to discover what the Incas did there.
Rabbit In The Moon: Mayan Glyphs And Architecture: Learn about the Mayan writing sytem (and write your name!), the calendar, and the buildings.
Maya Adventure!: The Science Museum of Minnesota presents Maya Adventure, a World-Wide Web site that highlights
Mystery of the Maya: Full of interesting information about the Mayas: Maya calenders, astronomy, crops, food, costumes, sacrifices, and the gods they believed in.
The Sport of Life and Death: The MesoAmerican Ballgame: Explore the Mesoamerican world and the history of this ancient ball game in nine cultures including the Olmec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec.

Ancient Asia

Ancient China Daily Life
Daily Life Ancient India: This site shares daily life in three major time periods of ancient India history; the mysterious and so cool Indus Valley Civilization, the Vedic & Epics Periods, and the Age of Empires.
Diwali Festival: Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is one of the most important and joyful holidays in India. Learn how to celebrate Diwali with legends, foods, and decorations.
Gods and Goddesses of the Hindus: Agni, Devi, Ganesh, Rama, Shiva, and many more Hindu deities. Basic information, no pictures.
Hinduism: A basic guide to Hindu beliefs, gods and goddesses, and practices. From the BBC.
Welcome to India: Click on Indian Culture for information about food, clothing, holidays, festivals, religion, and art.

Ancient History

Ancient History (General)

Prehistoric Peoples

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Greece and Rome

Ancient Mesopotamia

Aztec, Maya, and Inca

Ancient Asia