Introduction to Archaeological Studies II
Instructor: Constanze
Witt
University of Texas at Austin
Classics Department
- General
- Archaeological News
- ArchNet
- Prentice-Hall companion web site to Stokstad
Prehistoric
- Cave Discoveries, Paleolithic
- Lascaux, Cosquer and Chauvet caves (French Ministry of Culture)
- Neolithic
- Catal Huyuk - a
neolithic tell in Anatolia
Ain Ghazal -- a neolithic town, published here at UT - Preserving
Ancient Statues from Jordan - the Ain Ghazal
figures
The Iceman -- additional links - Stonehenge and other megalithic sites in England
- Watch Skara Brae QTVR movie
- Newgrange at Knowth.com
- Mesopotamia
- Warfare in early Mesopotamia: Hamoukar
- Met Museum Art of the First Cities
- Sumerian Mythology FAQs
- Chicago Oriental Institute's Lost Treasure of Iraq
- Start Writing video
- Cuneiform Writing System
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
- Enheduanna's home page
- Play the "Game of Twenty Squares" and read about the Royal Tombs of Ur
- U.Penn's Royal Tombs of Ur exhibit,
- Aegean
- Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean - online textbook on Aegean prehistory (you don't have to use the whole site, just for reference)
- More Minoan images
- Knossos site from the Greek Ministry of Culture
- Knosos from BSA - nice 360 views
- About the Thera eruption and the end of the Bronze Age
- Mycenae site from Greek Ministry of Culture
- "Beaurocrats & Barbarians" site
- More Aegean images from AICT
- Thera Ashes Project
- Egypt
- Egypt Ministry of Culture -- a rich site on Egypt ancient and modern
- Egypt links (including mummy sites)
- The Hierakonpolis Expedition
- Archaeology's Interactive Dig: Hierakonpolis
- The Pyramid Builders (National Geographic) and Volunteers?
- Virtual Kahun - 12th dynasty pyramid builders' town
- Play the Pyramid Challenge game - can you build a pyramid?
- Pyramids, the Inside Story -- from Nova on PBS
- Life in Ancient Egypt - includes making beer and Palette of Narmer
- Tomb of Senneferi ongoing excavation
- Theban Mapping Project, incl. tomb of Ramesses II's sons
- Read The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani)
- Conservation of the Tomb of Nefertari
- Amarna
- Near East
- Hittite Mythology
- Troy VR
- Trojan War -- who's who to help you read the Iliad
- Images of Trojan War Myth -- the war in art
- Troy VII and The Historicity of the Trojan War
- Interactive Uluburun Shipwreck
- "Sea Peoples" at U Penn
- Watch movie on Ashurnasirpal II's palace
- Walk through the Louvre's room of sculptures from Khorsabad (Sargon II)
- Read the inscription on the Ishtar Gate
- Neo-Babylonian Mathematics
- Neo-Babylonian History
- Article on Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Niniveh (and Nimrud)
- More Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Persian images from AICT
- Splendor of Persia
- The Levant
- Tel Hazor Excavation site
- Megiddo Expedition site
- Ugarit: listen to the oldest (?) preserved music notation
- Ugarit: Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project & museum
- Phoenician alphabet site
- Biblical Jerusalem, from the Israeli Ministry of Culture
- First Temple Jerusalem
- A Day at Qumran
- Dead Sea Scrolls FAQs
- Scrolls from the Dead Sea Exhibit
- Mediterranean
- Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology
- Diotima -- Women and Gender Studies
- Greek and Roman Collection, Metropolitan Museum (view "highlights")
- Greece
- Our Sarah's COMPREHENSIVE web site -- needs EID & password
- Metis: Greek Archaeological sites in QTVR
- Herodotus Web Site -- lots of reading help, essays, information, bibliography ...
- The Ancient Greek World (daily life) at U. Penn Museum
- Delphi, from Perseus; from Greek Ministry of Culture
- Olympia from Greek Ministry of Culture
- The Olympic Games, from Perseus
- Classical Myth -- guide to the sources, attributes and images
- The Parthenon
- Greeks: Crucible of Civilization -- from PBS
- Alexander the Great on the Web -- lots of links and images
- In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great -- from PBS, with useful material
- Battles of Alexander -- map and descriptions
- Rome
- Ancient Rome Timeline -- includes archaeological evidence
- Augustus: Images of Power
- Ostia: Harbor of Ancient Rome
- Pompeii Forum Project -- the public building at Pompeii
- Roman Ships of Pisa excavation site
- De Imperatoribus Romanis -- everything on emperors
- Fori Imperiali -- Imperial Rome
- VRoma illustrated history pages
- Leptis Magna site in Libya
- Ancient Carthage
- Aeneas in the Underworld and Vergil's Dido
- Trajan's Forum site, with VR movies, reconstructions
- Poems of Catullus