LibGuides: Archaeology: Image Resources & Blogs

Altun Ha

Altun Ha, Belize. Temple of the Sun. ca.500-650 CE. Photography by Karen Bouchard. Luna Collection.

Image Resources

For Image resources at Brown, RISD, and beyond, please see:

Images: Finding & Using
Subject guide created by Karen Bouchard with links to Brown Library and outside image resources.

Great Zimbabwe, aerial view, ca. 1000-1450. Photograph by Simonchihanga via Creative Commons license.

Other Useful Image Resources

Ancient World Image Bank
The Ancient World Image Bank is a collaborative effort to distribute and encourage the sharing of free digital imagery for the study of the ancient world. Beginning with the slide and digital photography collections of ISAW faculty, staff and affiliates, AWIB will expand to publish imagery donated by others as well.
Arachne
Arachne is the central Object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) Arachne is intended to provide archaeologists and Classicists with a free internet research tool for quickly searching hundreds of thousands of records on objects and their attributes.
ArchNet
An online community for architects and scholars with a special focus on the Islamic world, based at MIT, features a virtual library of digitized books, journals, reference tools, as well as thousands of images of architecture in the Islamic world.
Online Coins of the Roman Empire
The project will ultimately record every published type of Roman Imperial Coinage, and will provide links to examples in major collections published online. To date OCRE records all types from Augustus to Hadrian (27 BC – AD 138), and links to examples present in the ANS collection.
Perseus - Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser
Part of an open source site that offers mostly texts. This section has a searchable image database.
METIS - Movies of Greek Sites
Metis is a repository of Quicktime movies of archaeological sites in Greece. Metis was created for educational purposes only. The main page is a catalogue of sites for which movies are avalable
MayaVase
an archive of rollout and still photographs of vases, plates and bowls, from the various cultures of Mesoamerica.
Precolumbian Portfolio
A Precolumbian Portfolio is a collection of artifacts and sites from the Ancient Americas
Pre-Columbian Photograph and Fieldwork Archives
The Pre-Columbian Photograph and Fieldwork Archives comprise images of Pre-Columbian objects, archaeological sites, architecture, monuments, maps, major codices, and illustrations. The holdings document places and objects from Mesoamerica, the Intermediate Area, and the Andes, and cover around 2,000 years of history.