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Aegean art and history

Aegeo-Balkan Prehistory
The Aegeo-Balkan Prehistory Project
An extensive collection of articles. Search the database or simply browse by topic, region and site. The site currently contains more then 800 entries covering the northern and central Aegean, the Balkans and western Anatolia during the 2nd millennium, but extending to late 3rd and early 1st millennia as well. Several links to related websites.
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Cyprus museums and galleries. A web directory.
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Epheseus. An Ephesus Guide
Historical information about Ephesus, along with 3D Virtual Reality Tours powered by 3D Live Pix.
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Mestni muzej Ljubljana
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Narodni muzej Slovenije
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Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age.

Babylon, Wikipedia entry.
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Bronze age

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Egypt  See also: Egyptian Art

BBC timeline of ancient Egyptian art.
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The Gregorian Egyptian Museum
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Theban Mapping Project. The Valley of the Kings
Discover each tomb in the Valley in this interactive Atlas. A database of information about each tomb, with a compilation of nearly 2,000 images. Interact with models of each tomb, and measure, pan, and zoom over 250 detailed maps, elevations, and sections.

Ephesus. An Ephesus Guide
Historical information about Ephesus, along with 3D Virtual Reality Tours powered by 3D Live Pix.

Galleries selling ancient art

The Getty Museum ancient art collection.
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Greek art  See also: Greek art

Ancient Greek Clothing
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Architecture in Ancient Greece
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Architecture in Ancient Greece. A catalogue of buildings, from The Perseus Project.
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Beazley Archive, University of Oxford
The Classical Art Research centre

Classical antiquities and fine art.
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Ancient authors and modern archaeologists.
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Discovery, reception and diffusion of classical art.


Styles and periods:

Painted pottery.
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Engraved gems.
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Sculpture.

Cycladic Art Museum, Greece.
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Greek antiquities in the Louvre, Paris.
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Ancient Greece)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Hellenistic sculpture.
Images from Wikimedia.
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Greek painters. Ancient Greek vase painters, from   Artcyclopedia.
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Minoan Crete
The Minoans created the first known civilization in Europe. The site provides photographs and some very basic information about all the major and some of the minor archaeological sites of Bronze Age civilisation in Crete
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Mycenaean culture.
Images of pottery and mask and Linear B tablets. Wikimedia.
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The Palace at Knossos, Crete.
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Pottery. Ancient Greek pottery, by shape.
Wikimedia commons.
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Temples. Ancient Greek temples in Greece.
Wikimedia
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Ancient Greek art, Wikipedia entry.

Journals

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Megalithic and Neolithic art

Mesopotania

The British Museum Mesopotania collection.
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The Gregorian Egyptian Museum
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Mesopotamia. Art History Resources.
A comprehensive link index.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
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Sumer, Wikipedia entry.
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Sumer art images. AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
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Sumerian Language Page
Compiled lexicon, detailed FAQ, extensive Mesopotanian links.
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ETCSL: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Translations of more than 400 Sumerian literary texts.
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Persian art

Persian art through the centuries.
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Persian history and Culture
Iransaga

Iran, Iraq
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Middle East

Near East

Neolithic art

North America . See also: South America

Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies
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The Hohokam
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The Paleoamericans:
Issues and Evidence Relating to the Peopling of the New World.

Persian art

Persian art through the centuries.
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Iran, Iraq
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Middle East

Pre-Columbian art, Mesoamerican art

Prehistoric Art, Rock Art, Cave Art
See also above

African Rock Art of the Central Zone
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Bradshaw Foundation
A non-profit making organisation dedicated to the study, recording and protection of rock art. Aims, directors, CD-rom, types and examples of rock art from across the world.
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Aegeo-Balkan Prehistory
The Aegeo-Balkan Prehistory Project
An extensive collection of articles. Search the database or simply browse by topic, region and site.
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California

Petroglyphs, pictographs and rock art.

This site contains captioned rock art pages of mostly lesser known petroglyph and pictograph sites in the California Deserts www.petroglyphs.us
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Painted Cave Art of the Chumash Indians

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Rock Art at California State Parks
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California Rock Art Sites

Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica
Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art, Pinerolo, Italia.
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The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights

Prehistoric Art
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Prehistoric Art & Ancient Art
The Art History Archive
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EuroPreArt
A database of European Prehistoric Art.
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Lepenski Vir
A series of Mesolithic villages located on a high sandy terrace of the Danube River, on the Serbian bank of the Iron Gates Gorge.
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Göbekli Tepe, in German.
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Prehistoric Art Expressions from India
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North American rock art

The Hohokam
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The Paleoamericans:
Issues and Evidence Relating to the Peopling of the New World.

Rock Art Net
A project to provide information about online Rock Art resources. By Footsteps of Man (Orme dell'Uomo).
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Rock Art Foundation
The Rock Art Foundation exists to promote the conservation and study of the Native American rock art in the Lower Pecos region of Southwest Texas.

ARABIAN, ARABIC

See also: Middle Eastern Art   Islamic Art   Iran, Iraq

Arab.net. Countries covered:
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine,  Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,Tunisia, UnitedArab emirates, Yemen.

Arabic Art. 4Arabs. An Arabic arts and literature search engine and directory.
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United Arab Emirates
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United Arab Emirates. History.
WWW Virtual Library web directory.