If you find a link for a topic we're studying in class send it to me by email
and I'll add it to our list of links!
Look for Flash cards and study help for the topics we're working
on in World History class. (Study Stack is good for other
classes too!)
Study Stack's World History Section
Want to "see" someplace you've never been?
http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/
A great website with pictures and descriptions of the many gods
and goddesses of the Ancient Egyptians.
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/listpics.html
If you would like to create a "cartouche" (a royal
signature in hieroglyphics) of your name, click on the link below
and enter your name in the box. Then click "engrave" [Remember:
it's not exactly the way it would have appeared in Ancient Egypt,
but it's a fun way to see this picture form of writing.] You can
even print it out!
http://www.virtual-egypt.com/newhtml/glyph/glyph.html
Odyssey Online is a way to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt,
Greece, and Rome using museum objects from the Michael C. Carlos
Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, the Memorial Art
Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York,
and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/MidElem_Home.html
The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition hosts this site that
examines how stories and oral tradition carried our memories of
our past forward until written records were available (and
sometimes even after that for sacred texts.)
http://journal.oraltradition.org
National Geographic, one of the best sources anywhere for
historical information, maps, and geographic information.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
An excellent source of up-to-date information on the latest
discoveries in History and Archaeology.
http://www.livescience.com/history-information/
Exploring Ancient World Cultures (A College Course Online that
has excellent images and links)
http://eawc.evansville.edu/
An automatic converter for Calendar Dates into many different
calendar formats. (Western Calendars to Mayan, for example.)
http://www.calendarhome.com/converter/
The Hermitage Museum in Russia. Home to a vast collection of art
treasures from pre-historic times to the present.
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/
Ancient History Primary Source File: many ancient speeches and
texts in one place.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
NASA for students, hard science on astronomy and biology. Both
of which are relevant to archaeology.
NASA Webpage for Students