Ancient Civilizations Resources

Egypt:

Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt - excellent graphics and text

http://www.discoveringegypt.com/

University of Chicago http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/EGYPT/egypthome.html

Ancient Egypt from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt

Ancient Egypt ThinkQuest - Facts, activities, resources, crafts, and recipes

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/ancient_egypt/egypt.htm

Odyssey Online from Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University - graphics and info

http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/EGYPT/homepg.html

Ancient Egypt from the British Museum in the UK

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Color Tour of Egypt from University of Memphis

http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/egypt.html

Exploring Ancient Cultures- Egypt from Indiana site

http://eawc.evansville.edu/egpage.htm

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt from Mr. Donn's site

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/index.html

Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Ancient Egypt

http://www.mrdowling.com/604egypt.html

Ancient Egypt

http://www1.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/DarleneBishop/egypt/egypt.html

History for Kids - ancient Egypt

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/

Egyptian Mythology

http://www.touregypt.net/gods1.htm

http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/egyptian.htm

http://www.akhet.co.uk/mythhome.htm

http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/Egyptian+Mythology

Egyptian Mummies -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/#mummification

More Mummies Information from Neferchichi.com

http://www.neferchichi.com/mummies.html

New York Times Daily Lesson Plan 'Mummy Dearest'

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/1999/08/24/mummy-dearest/

ONLY FOR THE BRAVE - Make a chicken (or Cornish game hen) mummy

http://www.mummytombs.com/main.mummymaking.htm

Egyptian Mummies from the Smithsonian

http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/mummies.htm

Mummification Simulation - mummification with fruit

http://www.neferchichi.com/fruity.html

Mummy-Maker Game (thanks to Nancy Keane)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_mummy_maker.shtml

Photographs of Egyptian Art

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/artoverview.htm

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/E/egyptian.html

Egyptian Art Lessons - http://www.artyfactory.com/egyptian_art/egyptian_art_lessons.htm

Egypt: A Learning Module

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/EGYPT.HTM

Egypt: Daily Life

http://www2.sptimes.com/Egypt/EgyptCredit.4.2.html

Life in Ancient Egypt from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

http://www.carnegiemnh.org/online/egypt/index.html

NOVA Online : The Pyramids

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

Ancient Egypt Webquests and Activities

http://southlands.vsb.bc.ca/egypt.htm

http://education.iupui.edu/webquests/egypt/aegypt.htm

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/egypt/activities.htm

http://www.fcps.edu/KingsParkES/technology/webquests/Egypt/index.htm

The World History of Egypt - links

http://eawc.evansville.edu/egpage.htm

http://history.evansville.net/egypt.html

Egypt from the University of Pennsylvania

http://www.penn.museum/online-exhibits/513-egypt-new-look-at-an-ancient-culture.html

Egyptian Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?ft=egyptian&noqs=true

Egyptian Art from the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC

http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/egyptian.asp

Mysteries of Egypt

http://www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egypt_e.html

King Tutankhamun - Was It Murder? Webquest

http://questgarden.com/00/85/9/051004163536/process.htm

Egyptian Math pages - lots of activities and history, too

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/math.html

http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/num-sys.html#egypt

http://www.storyofmathematics.com/egyptian.html

http://www.eyelid.co.uk/numbers.htm

Tracie Kubica-Hilder's Egyptian math

http://www.flushing.k12.mi.us/fjh/brust/egyptmath.html

Guardian's Ancient Egypt Kid Connection - activities, masks, games

http://www.guardians.net/egypt/kids/index.htm

Kush Civilization:

Civilizations in Africa: Kush

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush

Nubia - Its Glory and Its People - mostly text

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NUB/NUBX/NUBX_brochure.html

Ancient Sudan: Nubia by Ibrahim Ober

http://www.ancientsudan.org/

Nubia from Tour Egypt.net

http://touregypt.net/historicalessays/nubia.htm

Nubia from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia

Nubia from University of California

http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/stsmith/research/nubia_history.html

Nubia from Crytalinks

http://www.crystalinks.com/nubia.html

Kush, Meroe, and Nubia

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Sudan.html

The Nubiandotnet

http://www.thenubian.net/

Ancient Nubia - http://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/nubia.htm

Nubia from Encyclopedia of the Orient

http://i-cias.com/e.o/nubia.htm

The Meroitic Mystery from Saudi Aramco World

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198304/the.meroitic.mystery-from.nubia.the.land.of.kush.a.language.lost.in.history.htm

Black Kingdoms of the Nile

http://www.pbs.org/wonders/Episodes/Epi1/1_wondr2.htm

Nubia - http://www.angelfire.com/oh/AncientKnowledge/NUBIA.html

The Story of Africa - Nubia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/3chapter4.shtml

Nubia Webquest

http://imet.csus.edu/imet1/desler/nubia/intro2.htm

Phoenicia:

Phoenician Studies

http://phoenicia.org/

Phoenicia - http://i-cias.com/e.o/phoenicia.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/unkemptgoose/Phonecian.html

http://www.worldhistoryonline.org/ancient-history/phoenicia.html

Phoenicia from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia

History for Kids - Phoenicians

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/phoenicians.htm

Phoenicia

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/P/Phoenici.asp

Ancient Worlds.net - http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/Place/324896

Pompeii:

Pompeii: Unraveling Ancient Mysteries

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/index.html

Pompeii from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

Pompeii Forum Project

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pompeii/

Pompeii - The City That Time Has Not Forgotten

http://web.archive.org/web/20041012060955/http://www.umkc.edu/imc/pompeii.htm

Pompeii: Death of A City

http://www.click2disasters.com/pompeii/pompeii_ch1.htm

Pictures of Pompeii

http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/pompeii/thumbnails_contents.html

Hebrews:

Ancient Hebrews

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/ancient_hebrews/

Canaan and Ancient Israel from University of Pennsylvania

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Canaan/index.html

The Hebrews from the University of Washington

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/HEBREWS/HEBREWS.HTM

PBS Heritage Civilization and the Jews

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heritage/index.html

The Maccabees

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/maccabees/

The Ancient Hebrews (scroll to middle of page)

http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture4b.html

The Hebrews from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrews

Greece:

World History - Ancient Greece

http://web.archive.org/web/20040618050453/www.lksd.org/kongiganak/kongiganak/ContinuousEdCarnagie/Carnagie/WorldHistory/WldHistoryCh3/WldHistoryCh3AncientGreeceMain.htm

Exploring Ancient World Cultures from Evansville

http://eawc.evansville.edu/grpage.htm

Daily Life in Ancient Greece from Mr. Donn

http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Greeklife.html

Ancient Greece ThinkQuest - facts, activities, projects to make, recipes, and resources

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/ancient_greece/greece.htm

Odyssey Online - graphics, info, games from Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University

http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/homepg.html

History for Kids - Ancient Greece

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/index.htm

The Greeks : Crucible of Civilization from PBS

http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/

Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Ancient Greece

http://www.mrdowling.com/701greece.html

Ancient Greece

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/index.shtml

World History Ancient Greece - links to numerous sites and topics

http://history.evansville.net/greece.html

Ancient Greece from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece

The Ancient Greek World

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/Index.html

Ancient Greece - Mythology, Activities, and Lesson Plans from Susan Seagraves

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/5924/greekunit.htm

Ancient and Modern Olympic Sports

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/

Greek Architecture

http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/grkarch.html

Greek Reliefs

http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/relief-slides.html

Greek Art

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/greekart.htm

Alexander the Great - maps, text, links

http://1stmuse.com/alex3/alex-synopsys.html

The Ancient Greeks

http://www.arwhead.com/Greeks/

Sparta

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/SPARTA.HTM

Athens

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/ATHENS.HTM

Greek Mythology Quiz from S. Seagraves

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/5924/greekmythologyquiz1.htm

Gods and Goddesses Quiz from S. Seagraves

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/5924/godsandgoddessesquiz.html

Math Olympics - from Springfield, IL - a way to make a connection to the ancient Olympics

http://web1.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/iles/olympics/index.html