Topics:
Timelines
Paleolithic Era
Iceman
Neolithic Era
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Israel
India
China
Greece
Rome
Web Sites:
Could You Survive as a Hunter Gatherer
South Tyrol Museum: Oetzi the Ice Man
Mesopotamia
Neolithic Era World Heritage Site
Virtual Mesopotamia: British Museum
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Assyrian Irrigation Techniques
Virtual Mesopotamia: British Museum
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Assyrian Irrigation Techniques
Egypt
The British Museum: Ancient Egypt
Pyramids: The Inside Story(Nova)
Archaeologists Enter King Tut's Tomb
King Tut's Medical Examination
King Tut's Tomb; A Last Minute Effort
Scan of King Tut's Tomb Reveal New Evidence of Hidden Rooms
Israel/Canaan
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
India
Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion
Buddhist Studies for Primary and Secondary Sources
China
The Golden Age of Chinese Archeology
East Asian History Source Book
Greece
Voyage Back in Time: Ancient Greece and Rome
Life in Two City States: Athens and Sparta
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Rome
Front Line: From Jesus to Christ
Literature:
Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin F. Denzel (New York: Putnam, 1996)
The Cave Painter of Lascaux by Roberta Angeletti (Berkeley, CA: Crystal Publications, 2004)
Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave by Jean-Marie Chauvet (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996)
Ice Mummy: The Discovery of a 5000-Year-Old Man by Mark Dubowski (Random House Publishers, 1998)
Anooka’s Answer by Marjorie Cowley (Boston: Clarion Books, 1996)
The Stone Age by Patricia D. Netzley (San Diego: Lucent Books, 1998)
Stone Age Farmers Beside the Sea: Scotland’s Prehistoric Village of Skara Brae by Caroline Arnold (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
Sumer: Cities of Eden by the editors of Time-Life Books (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1993)
The Sumerians (History Opens Windows) by Jane Shuter (Chicago, IL: Heinemann Library, 2008)
Ancient Agriculture: From Foraging to Farming by Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods (Minneapolis, MN:
Runestone Press, 2000)
Babylonians: Cradle of Civilization by Eleaine Landau (Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1997)
Empires of Mesopotamia by Don Nardo (San Diego, CA: Gale Group, 2001)
Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings edited by Dale E. Brown (Alexandria, VA: Time Life, 1995)
Ancient Egypt by John Malam (New York: Enchanted Lion Books, 2004)
Egypt, Kush, Aksum: Northeast Africa by Kenny Mann (Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press, 1997)
Farming & Food (The Ancient Egyptians) by Jane Shuter (Des Plaines, IL: Heinemann Library, 1999)
Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself by Catherine M. Andronik (New York: Atheneum, 2001)
Pyramid (Eyewitness Books) by James Putnam (London; New York: Dorling Kindersley Children, 2004)
The Tomb of King Tutankhamen (Unearthing Ancient Worlds) by Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods
(Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2008)
Growing Up in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David (Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1997)
The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs by Carol Donoughue (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Secrets of the Mummies: Uncovering the Bodies of Ancient Egyptians by Shelley Tanaka (New York: Scholastic, 2000)
Ancient African Kingdom of Kush by Pamela F. Service (New York: Benchmark Books, 1998)
The Ancient Kushites (People of the Ancient World) by Liz Sonneborn (New York: Franklin Watts/Scholastic, 2005)
Lost Cities of the Ancient World by Joel Levy (London: New Holland Publishers Ltd., 2008)
Bible Lands (Eyewitness Books) by Jonathon Tubb (New York: Dorling Kindersley Children, 2000)
David by Barbara Cohen (New York: Clarion Books, 1995)
Exodus by Brian Wildsmith (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 1998)
The Ganges by Rob Bowden (Chicago, IL: Raintree, 2004)
India: The Land by Bobbie Kalman (New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2001)
Welcome to India by Fiona Conboy and Sunandini Arora Lal (Milwaukee, WI: G. Stevens Publishing, 2000)
Science in Ancient India by Melissa Stewart (New York: Franklin Watts, 1999)
The Token Gift by Hugh William McKibbon (Willowdale, ON; Buffalo, New York; distributed in the U.S.A. by Firefly Books Inc.: Annick Press Ltd., 1996)
Traditions from India by Shelby Mamdani (London: Hodder Wayland, 2000)
Hindu by Anita Ganeri (Mankato, MN: Sea-to-Sea Publications, 2005)
Traditions from India by Shelby Mamdani (Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1999)
Hinduism by Madhu Bazaz Wangu (New York: Facts on File, 2001)
The Buddha by Paul Mantell (New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2007)
Buddhism by Anita Ganeri (New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 2001)
Wisdom of the Crows and Other Buddhist Tales by Sherab Chodzin and Alexandra Kohn (Berkeley, CA: Tricycle Press, 2004)
Asoka and Indian Civilization by H. A. Kanitkar and Hemant Kanitkar (St. Paul, MN: Greenhaven Press, 1980)
Buddhist Temple by Angela Wood (Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens, 2000)
Shower of Gold: Girls and Women in the Stories of India by Maniam Selvan (North Haven, CT: Linnet Books, 1999)
Ancient India by Virginia Shomp (New York: Franklin Watts, 2005)
India’s Gupta Dynasty by Kathryn Hinds (New York: Benchmark Books, 1996)
India: The Culture by Bobbie Kalman, Margaret Hoogeveen, and Christine Arthurs (Toronto: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2009)
Ancient China by Arthur Cotterell (New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2005)
China by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (New York: Dorling Kindersley Children, 2007)
China: People Place Culture History by Alison Bailey, et al (New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2007)
The Ancient Chinese by Virginia Schlomp (New York: Franklin Watts, 2004)
The Jade Stone adapted by Caryn Yacowitz (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006)
Ten Suns: A Chinese Legend by Eric Kimmel (New York: Holiday House, 1998)
Confucianism by Thomas Hoobler and Dorothy Hoobler (New York: Facts on File, 2004)
Confucius: The Golden Door by Russell Freedman (New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2002)
Taoism by Paula Nartz (New York: Facts on File, 2004)
Emperor Qin’s Terra Cotta Army by Michael Capek (Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2008)
The Great Wall of China by Lesley A. DuTemple (Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 2003)
Treasures from China by David Armentrout and Patricia Armentrout (Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Book, 2001)
Ancient Chinese by Tristan Boyar Binns (Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2007)
Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China by Suzanne Williams (Berkeley, CA: Pacific View Press, 1997)
Oracle Bones, Stars, and Wheelbarrows: Ancient Chinese Science and Technology by Frank R. Ross Jr.
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989)
Legacies from Ancient China by Anita Ganeri (Mankato, MN: Thameside Press, 2000)
The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History by John S. Major (New York: HarperCollins, 1996)
Stranger on the Silk Road: A Story of Ancient China by Jessica Gunderson (Minneapolis, MN: Picture Window Books, 2009)
Ancient Greece by Andrew Solway (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
The Ancient Greek World by Jennifer T. Roberts and Tracy Bennett (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece by Michael and Mary B. Woods (Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century
Books, 2008)
The Greeks: Life in Ancient Greece by Michelle Levine (Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Press, 2009)
The Pocket Timeline of Ancient Greece by Emma McAllister (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Tools of the Ancient Greeks: A Kid’s Guide to the History and Science of Life in Ancient Greece by Kris Bordessa (White River Junction, VT: Nomad Press, 2006)
Inside Ancient Athens by Fiona McDonald (New York: Enchanted Lion Books, 2005)
Pericles: Great Leader of Ancient Athens by Don Nardo (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2006)
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece by Fiona McDonald, author, and Mike Berginn, illustrator (Danbury, CT: Children’s Press, 2000)
The Ancient Greece of Odysseus by Peter Connolly (New York: Oxford Press, 1999)
Going to War in Ancient Greece by Adrian Gilbert, author, and Mark Bergin, illustrator (Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, 2001)
The Story of the Persian War from Herodotus by Alfred P. Church (Chapel Hill, NC: Yesterday’s Classics, 2009)
Dramatizing Greek Mythology by Louise Thistle (Lyme, NH: Smith and Kraus, 2002)
Life in Ancient Athens (Picture the Past) by Jane Shuter (Mankato, MN: Heinemann-Raintree, 2005)
Socrates: The Public Conscience of Golden Age Athens by Jun Lim (New York: Rosen Central, 2006)
Alexander the Great by John Gunther (New York: Sterling, 2007)
Alexander the Great Rocks the World by Vicky Alrear Shecter (Plain City, OH: Darby Creek Publishing, 2006)
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in Alexander the Great’s Army!: Miles You’d Rather Not March by Jacqueline Morley, author, and David Antram, illustrator (New York: Franklin Watts, 2005)
The Ancient Greeks (People of the Ancient World) by Allison Lassieur (Danbury, CT: Children’s Press, 2005)
Hippocrates: Father of Medicine by Herbert S. Goldberg (Lincoln, NE: Authors Choice Press, 2006)
Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots: Book 1 by Elizabeth Osborne (Clayton, DE: Prestwick House, 2003)
Brave Cloelia: Retold from the Account in The History of Early Rome by the Roman Historian Titus Livius by
Jane Louise Curry (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004)
The Etruscans by Don Nardo (Farmington Hills, MI: Lucent Books, 2004)
Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Rome by Leon Ashworth (Mankato, MN: Smart Apple Media, 2002)
The Ancient Romans by Allison Lassier (Danbury, CT: Children’s Press, 2005)
Famous Men of Rome by John Haaren (Blacksburg, VA: Wilder Publications, 2009)
The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber (Chapel Hill, NC: Yesterday’s Classics, 2006)
Everyday Life in the Roman Empire by Kathryn Hinds (Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books, 2009)
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire by Nigel Rogers (London: Lorenz Books, 2008)
Julius Caesar: Ruler of the Roman World by Zachary Kent (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2006)
Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008)
Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Alberto Angela (New York: Europa Editions, 2009)
Tools of the Ancient Romans by Rachel Dickinson (White River Junction, VT: Nomad Press, 2006)
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction by David Macaulay (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)
The Greek and Latin Roots of English by Tamara M. Green (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007)
Legacies from Ancient Rome by Anita Ganeri (Amarillo, TX: Chrysalis Education, 2000)