Ancient Sites
Discover Rome, Athens and Babylon online -- of course the ancient towns and cultures. This site offers a great deal of text information, many images and games. Learn historical tidbits, visit a virtual classroom, share quizzes and guided tours for teachers and students. Or go site-seeing, for instance in Rome, wander the streets of the mighty Caesars under a hot Roman sun, map in hand. Practice your Latin, or make your way to the Colosseum, whose far off roar you can hear even to the city gate. A professionally done cultural site worth a visit!
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Roman Open-Air Museum (Hechingen-Stein)
A reconstructed roman villa from the 1st-3rd A.D. century can be visited here with a full description of the museum, a virtual tour as well as excavation and reconstruction reports. It is not Pompeji but indeed a big and outstandingly well preserved Roman estate which was discovered in a forest in 1973 - undiscoveredfor the forest ground for 1700 years. The virtual tour shows all stops and attractions with short explanations, pictures and a block diagram of the current site.
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Ancient City of Athens
The Ancient City of Athens is a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient metropololis. It is intended as a resource for students of classical languages, civilization, art, archaeology, and history. The site offers many texts and images, e.g. on "The Agora" (commercial and civic center of ancient Athens), the North Slope of the Akropolis, the Kerameikos Cemetery.
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The Ancient Ways
"The Ancient Ways" is a photo library, including an extensive range of pictures from ancient sites all around Britain. It includes places as Stonehenge, Avebury, Callanish, Silbury Hill, Uffington, the Orkneys. For each monument you'll find a detailed description and some photos.
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The Pyramids
Almost everything about the Egyptian pyramids is presented on this site -- in an aesthetically pleasing manner and with a great number of images. "Pyramids" presents a lot of text information too. Interviews with archaeologists answer many frequently asked questions: Who built the pyramids? How old are they? What do the hyroglyphs mean? Take part in an excavation or read about new archaeological theories. Have a virtual tour of all rooms in a pyramid or learn about culture and everyday life in Ancient Egypt. A great site, perhaps more informative for amateurs (and fans of mummies) than for historical pros.
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The seven wonders of the ancient world
The 7 architectural wonders of the ancient world (of which only the Pyramids of Gizeh have been preserved) are presented at this site. The Pyramids, the Colossus of Rhodos, the Mausoleum (named according to King Mausolos), the Hanging Gardens of Babylon or the Lighthouse of Alexandria. You will find a lot of historical, cultural and architectural information. Would you believe that the 2 million blocks of stone with which the pyramids were built would form a wall 3 meters high 30 centimeters thick around all of France? Further, you will find notes on more recent natural and and architectural wonders such as the Great Wall in China, the Tadj Mahal, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Grand Canyon or the Victoria and Niagara waterfalls as well as links to archaeological, historical and cultural pages.
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The Golden and the Great
"An escape from war, pestilence, hunger and fear. A visit to times and places around the world where civilization has really worked" is presented on this site "The Golden and the Great". "The Great" are historical personalities (like Charles The Great). "Golden eras" are discrete historical periods characterized by freedom and welfare, like Egypt during the construction of the pyramids or the Italian Renaissance. The Golden and the Great offers about 50 regions and periods (currently available are 12), e.g.: Jerusalem -- 950 BC, Athens -- 445 BC, Constantinople -- 1015, Paris -- 1250 or Florence -- 1490. You can read a lot of text information about politics, everyday life and culture in these periods. Unfortunately there are few images.
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An Ancient Egyptian Exhibit
This site of the Houston Museum of Fine Art includes more than 60 pages presenting statues, coffins, masks, tomb chambers, jewelry, mummies and many other exhibition objects. Special material for teachers and students is available, and a list with amazing and amuzing facts such as that the Egyptians were the first nation who fished only for pleasure. We only regret the lack of a short summary introduction and an overview telling us what the concept and theme of this exhibition, apart from the fact that it is an "Ancient Egyptian Exhibit", is supposed to be.
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Christian catacombs of Rome
In six languages this site takes you through the catacombs of Rome, those subterranean cemeteries of the Christian parishes, labyrinths stretching for miles with tomb chambers, sarcophags and crypts from the 2nd to 5th century. We learn that the Christians at that time met here for their funeral rites and to commemorate their martyrs. At the time of pursuits they only served as a place of refuge for celebrating the Eucharistic mass. They were not used as a hiding place by Christians - this is a pure legend of novels and films. You will get a feeling for a genuine subterranean visit from the many photographs and informative texts.
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Alexandria, Egypt
Many attractions are featured at this website: an introduction to the history of the the "golden" age of Alexandria and Egypt, the former Roman and then the Arabian city and its contemporary situation as the second-largest city in Egypt. You can also see a comprehensive photo gallery (with modern as well as 19th century photographs), city maps and postcards of the region, Arabian instruments and songs (300-400kb), tourist information and links to related subjects (Cairo, Egypt, archaeological pages).
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