Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web

Initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University to digitize scholarly materials related to the ancient world.

Ancient artifacts collected primarily by Dr. Alvin Valentine Lane. From Southern Methodist University Libraries Digital Collections.

Resource for maps and site specific research materials promotes cartography, historical geography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies through innovative and collaborative research, teaching, and community outreach activities.

Peer reviewed journal edited by the Department of Archaeology at Durham University. Partially open access.

Object Database of the German Archaeological Institute and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne.

Produced by "Archaeology" Magazine. Follow ongoing and past digs worldwide.

Guidelines for maintaining digital data.

Blog about the ancient world which includes a list of open access journals in Ancient Studies.

Collection of plaster casts of sculpture and architecture from Cornell Library.

Comprises ca. 1500 gold, silver and bronze coins from ancient Greece and Rome, and ca. 300 coins from the Byzantine empire, with some additions from Lydia, Persia, the Sassanid Empire, China and modern Europe. From Cornell Library.

"Gem" collections made of plaster and colored paste. From Cornell Library.

A spreadsheet compiled by educators for sharing with colleagues. Covers all areas of archaeology.

Documentation on classical mythology in the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae and the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum. Images from the print books are not all available on the site.

Past and current exhibitions at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Company offering virtual tours of cultural heritage sites, including reconstructions.

"Ajoint project of the Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library." Contains maps, literature, documents, books and more.

19th and early 20th century archaeological photographs from Cornell Library.

This online catalog presents a selection from the more than 7,500 archaeological objects in the collection created by the ancient cultures of Greece, Rome, Egypt, the Near East, and the Americas. Available through JSTOR.

Non-profit website about the ancient western world.

Make your field documentation and data discoverable and searchable on the Web. / Find artifact images for comparison, data for analysis. Learn how others describe their research.

Electronic Publications Initiative: all books are freely downloadable on the site.

"Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form. At present, Pleiades has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early Medieval geography."

Website to encourage the recording of archaeological finds in England and Wales by the general public. Includes images of objects.

Museum collections from Wake Forest University.

"Çatalhöyük Research Project has recruited an international group of specialists to pioneer new archaeological, conservation and curatorial methods on and off site."

Fabulous, interactive views of the cave interior. Site is in French.

Virtual visit to the prehistoric cave. Site is in French.

Non-scholarly site for fans of ancient megaliths.

3D models produced by the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. Images may be used freely for educational purposes.

Includes over 70,000 images and maps, principal focus is Jordan.

Archived site from the American University of Beirut. Includes links to sites about art and architecture.

"Free and accessible inscriptions and their English translations of Israel / Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE-640 CE)."

Old site of digitized books from the University of Chicago Library.

Slides taken by Northwestern professor of material culture of the ancient Near East and its Eastern Mediterranean neighbors.

Rock art from Saudi Arabian sites.

Photographs of the ancient Turkish site on the website of "Archaeology" magazine.

Search interface in Peabody Museum catalog.

Joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Oxford, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

The collection consists of photographs of various sites produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. From the American Academy in Rome via JSTOR.

Archaeological site also known as the Biblical Mizpah of Benjamin. From Cornell Library.

Links to collections and finding aids for the scholar of Near Eastern Culture. From the Smithsonian Collections Blog.

ETANA is a multi-institutional collaborative project initiated in August 2000, as an electronic publishing project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. Has 3 databases for searching texts and translations.

Research portal for the study of Hittite culture.

"Rethinking Judaism's Encounter with the Roman Empire."

The International Keilschriftbibliographie is an essential tool for the study, research, and teaching of Ancient Near Eastern Studies.

Site dedicated to looking at how artefacts from Nimrud made their way to museums around the world. Project from UPenn.

Compiled by Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni with the assistance of Rachel Williams at the University of Central Florida.

"Oracc is a collaborative effort to develop a complete corpus of cuneiform whose rich annotation and open licensing support the next generation of scholarly research." UPenn site.

Non-circulating collection of publications relating to the ancient Near East located at the University of Chicago.

The museum houses ancient Egyptian as well as ancient Near Eastern art.

Online exhibition from the Library of Congress.

"The immediate goal of the Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project (WPAIP) is to re-collate the corpus of Palmyrene Aramaic inscriptions as we are able, providing detailed photographic records and new editions of each epigraph."

"One of the main aims of the ETCSL project has been to meet the need for a coherently and systematically published, universally available textual corpus. More than 350 poetic compositions, equipped with translations and bibliographies, have been published. As our work on each composition is finished it is published on the website."

Dumbarton Oaks online exhibition relating to the amateur archaeologist and founder of the Byzantine Institute. Includes his work on ancient Egypt and Byzantium.

An international collaboration based at Harvard University, aims to assemble and provide access to all archeological records about the most famous site in the world: the Pyramids, surrounding cemeteries and settlements of Giza, Egypt.

Archived site from the University of California, Los Angeles

Very old site from Duke University with images and translations.

Information about museums in Egypt, including selections from their collections.

Consists of 70 papyrus fragments collected from Oxyrhynchus and Fayum. Available via JSTOR.

The Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) holds the largest available collection of references in Egyptological literature and is updated nearly every day. overage is from 1822 to the present.

Site devoted to the tombs and mastabas of ancient Egypt.

Search and browse over 50,000 ancient Greek and Latin documents preserved on papyrus and other materials

Thirty-six pieces of Greek papyri excavated at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. From Muhlenberg College via JSTOR.

The museum houses ancient Egyptian as well as ancient Near Eastern art.

Project to map the archaeological resources in Thebes, with emphasis on the Valley of the Kings.

Trismegistos is a platform aiming to surmount barriers of language and discipline in the study of texts from the ancient world, particularly late period Egypt and the Nile valley (roughly BC 800 - 800 AD).

Blog entry from Vox.

Interactive cartographic history of the water systems of Rome.

Dartmouth College site.

Makes available free of charge images and digital objects to which the Academy holds the rights to scholars, educators, and the general public. Images may be downloaded and freely used for personal, educational and scholarly, non-commercial purposes. High resolution images are made selectively available on request.

"A digital resource for studying the graffiti of Herculaneum and Pompeii."

"An immersive journey that provides new perspectives about the ancient city." Includes interactive maps, live streaming and videos.

Online open access catalogue with images from the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Dr. Ann-Marie Koblauch's research slides of the Ancient Greek work. The collection comprises sites that are not frequently published. From Virginia Tech, available through JSTOR. Permission required to publish.

Photographic archive of archaeological sites. Images and videos for sale.

Old website about the Roman Imperial fora.

The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance is an interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity, a focus of Renaissance studies. Registered are the antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents.

Includes databases to classical research in pottery, gems, terracotta, and more. Includes the Beazley Archive.

Extensive photographic documentation of monuments and works of art made in Sparta during the archaic period. From Emory University through JSTOR.

Computer animation shows the destruction of Pompeii throughout the day of its occurrence in 79 CE.

The collection consists of photographs of various sites produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. From the American Academy in Rome via JSTOR.

Information about the dig at the Greek site carried out by the University of Chicago. Includes computer reconstructions.

High quality digital images of the plates (180) from Furtwangler, Adolf und Reichhold, Karl, Griechische Vasenmalerei, Serie I-III (1904-1932), from the collection of the Williams College Archives, presented for open access. Via JSTOR.

Public lecture series from York St. John University, freely available on Youtube.

"Promotes awareness of the need for preservation, restoration, and documentation of the catacombs of Rome (with a special focus on the Jewish catacombs). Members may access additional resources including an online image archives and bibliographical database."

"Rethinking Judaism's Encounter with the Roman Empire."

Collection of rare coins. Available through JSTOR.

Reconstructions of ancient Rome. Site is in French.

Images of ancient inscriptions on stone from Eleusis. From Cornell Library.

Photographs taken in Istanbul and of five archaeological sites in Turkey from 1935 to 1945. Dumbarton Oaks Exhibition.

Images of and contextual information on Greek stelai from the Hellenistic period in the Athanasakeion Archaeological Museum of Volos. From Hollins University via JSTOR.

"We make animations from real ancient Greek vases." Fun site!

From 1867 to 1870, John Henry Parker photographed the principal monuments of Rome dating from the classical age to 1600. From the American Academy in Rome via JSTOR.

Thirty-six pieces of Greek papyri excavated at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. From Muhlenberg College via JSTOR.

Information about and images of the mosaics in the collection.

Archeological study collection consisting of approximately 135 objects from Ancient Greece and Italy, including vases, bronzes, terracottas, marbles, glass ware, household utensils, polished pieces of stone and inscriptions. Available via JSTOR.

Digitized illuminated manuscript of Virgil's "Aeneid" (Vat.lat.3225) from ca.400 CE. From the Vatican Library.

Dumbarton Oaks online exhibition relating to the amateur archaeologist and founder of the Byzantine Institute. Includes his work on ancient Egypt and Byzantium.

Interactive tour of the restored catacomb, on Google Maps.

Archaeological research project of the North/South metro line in Amsterdam.

Photographs taken in Istanbul and of five archaeological sites in Turkey from 1935 to 1945. Dumbarton Oaks Exhibition.

Compiled by librarians at Yale University.

3-D digital recreation of the remnants of the 200-year-old Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Includes pages on history, architecture, and weaponry of the fort, a glossary, videos, and digitized photos and prints.

3-d images of historic Jamestown, created by the Smithsonian. Note conditions of CC license.

A project of the Archaeology Department of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Materials recovered from two archaeological sites consecutively occupied by members of the Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca) Nation of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois) Confederacy. From Cornell Library.

"Series of 29 archaeological reports published on micro-opaque (sic microcards) in the 1960s."

Fully digitized issues covering 1953 to 2001.

"The photographs in this collection are of an early Buddhist site, Nimogram, in the Swat District of Pakistan."