Internet Resources
CLASSICS and ANCIENT HISTORY

Major collections of ancient texts

• Lacus Curtius
  A selection of ancient texts and modern reference works in the public domain.
• Perseus Digital Library
  Primary and secondary texts for the study of the Greek and Roman world, and papyrology.

Other collections

• The Beazley Archive
  Photographs, notes, drawings, books and impressions from engraved gems from this most important archive of classical art. Includes databases of pottery, gems, sculpture, antiquaria, and inscriptions.
• CDLI Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
  CDLI represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 B.C., until the end of the pre-Christian era. We estimate the number of these documents currently kept in public and private collections to exceed 500,000 exemplars, of which now more than 125,000 have been catalogued in electronic form by the CDLI.
• Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
  CSL is a collaborative project among scholars from a variety of disciplines with the main purpose of creating a digital library of Latin literature, spanning from the earliest epigraphic remains to the Neo-Latinists of the eighteenth century.
• Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS)
  The aim of the project has been the creation of an open database able to manage more than 88,000 administrative cuneiform tablets written in the Sumerian language (c. 74,000 published, and 14,000 unpublished). These tablets belong to the Neo-Sumerian period (c. 2100-2000 BC), coming basically from five southern cities of Ancient Mesopotamia -Ur, Nippur, Drehem, Girsu and Umma-, and to a minor extent from some other urban settlements of the Neo-Sumerian period.
• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
  More than 350 literary works composed in the Sumerian language during the late third and early second millennia BCE. The corpus comprises Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations and bibliographical information for each composition.
• ETANA Core Texts
  Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives.
• Inscriptions from the Land of Israel
  All of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) from the Land of Israel from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). There are about 15,000 of these inscriptions, written primarily in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, by Jews, Christians, and pagans.
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
  Has an emphasis on access to primary source texts, the site includes links to visual and aural material. Sections on Egypt, and Greek / Roman civilizations.
• The Internet Classics Archive
  Award-winning, searchable collection of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors are available in fulltext from this site, including some user-driven commentaries. Mainly Greco-Roman works, all in English translation.
• LATO Library of Ancient Texts Online
  A catalogue of online copies of ancient Greek texts, both in Greek and in translation.
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
  OMACL is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
• The Roman Law Library
• TLG® Canon of Authors and Works
  A database and a bibliographic guide to the authors and works included in the TLG Digital Library.
• Vindolanda Tablets Online
  Online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England.
• Virgil.org
  Texts, translations, and secondary works.

• Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies
  Journals cited in AWOL The Ancient World Online.
• Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
  Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions, by Charlotte Roueché. This is the electronic second edition, expanded and revised from the version published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies in 1989.
• Archaeological Literature of the 16th through the early 20th Century
  Digital full-text versions of selected works from Heidelberg University Library.
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  For recent reviews of current work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR's publication, from 1990 to the present.
• Didaskalia Ancient Theatre Today
  An electronic resource and journal dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman drama in performance.
• DigiZeitschriften
  This collection of German journals includes an Open Access collection.
• Diotima
  A collection of online scholarship (including essays, lectures, and journal articles) on topics relating to women and gender in the ancient world.
• Gallica
  An archive of monographs and periodicals from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
• The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago
  Catalogue of the publications of the Institute, including many that are available as free downloads.
• The Persée Program
  Open Access collection of French humanities journals.
• University of California Press: Electronic Editions
  Provides electronic editions of approximately 60 titles in the fields of Classics, Literature and European History. The texts and table of contents are available for online browsing but cannot be downloaded.
• Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)
  Includes indices and full-text articles from the ZPE (from 1991-2000), and links to other papyrology and epigraphy sites.

• Bibliographical Information Database in Patristics
  Indexes articles about patristic Christianity.
• Gnomon Online - Bibliographic Database
• Nestor Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
  Bibliography of the journal Nestor from 1957-2003.
• Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
  TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals.

• ABZU
  A guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web, including ETANA Core Texts.
• Ancient World Mapping Center
  AWMC promotes cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies.
• APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System
  APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains physical descriptions and bibliographic information about the papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts.
• ArchAtlas
  The ArchAtlas project uses the emerging technologies of satellite imaging and electronic mapping to understand how and why early farming and urban communities developed where they did and how they spread across the world.
• ArchNet: WWW Virtual Library of Archeology
  Links to thousands of web presentations devoted to archaeology, ancient sites, and artifact studies.
• British Museum Collection Database
  A catalogue of objects and inscriptions from Greece, Rome, and the Middle East.
• BUBL LINK
  Catalogue of Internet Resources. Select the links for: Ancient History, Greek History, Roman History, Egyptian History.
• Classical Language Instruction Project (CLIP)
  This site contains samples of Greek and Latin prose and poetry texts, read by various scholars and in different styles including Erasmian, reconstructed, and modern Greek. It is designed to help students of the classical languages to acquaint themselves with the sound of Greek and Latin and to practice with their own reading skills.
• Classical Myth
  A companion for Barry P. Powell, Classical Myth (2nd and 3rd eds.) Includes a chapter by chapter analysis, with references to Internet materials relating to ancient sources for classical myths, texts of classical authors, and ancient art & archaeology.
• Classical Myth: the Ancient Sources
  From the University of Victoria, Canada, this site provides links to images and texts dealing with the 15 major deities of the Olympian pantheon. A Helpful Information section includes a time line of Greek history and literature, attributes in iconography for each deity, and a page of links.
• Classics Resources Links
  From the Victoria University of Wellington website. Includes links to Associations and Individuals; Classics Resources; Egypt and the Near East; Essential Links; Etruscans; Hellas; Miscellaneous; Periodicals; Texts and Bibliographies; and The Roman World.
• Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL)
  The database "Archivum Corporis Electronicum" allows access to the collection of squeezes, photographs and bibliographical references maintained by the CIL research centre, sorted by inscription-number.
• De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
  A peer-reviewed and award-winning online encyclopedia including: Index of all rulers of Roman Empire from 27 BC to 1453 AD; Biographies of major figures; History of imperial dynasties; Index of significant battles; Maps of the changing Empire.
• Digital Roman Forum
  A digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late antiquity, created by the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory (CVR Lab).
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
  A meta-site with a vast collection of links to other internet resources.
• Encyclopedia Mythica
  Myths, legends and folklore information. Contains over 5700 articles divided into several areas (mythology, folklore, bestiary, heroes, image gallery and genealogy tables).
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures: an introduction to ancient world cultures on the World-Wide Web
  EAWC has introductory essays and primary source texts on Greece, Rome, the Near East, India, China, Islam, and Medieval Europe. 
• Greek Grammar on the Web
  The electronic gateway to the study of Ancient Greek.
• Greek Mythology Link
  Biographies, articles, definitions, maps and images relating to Greek mythology.
• The House of Ptolemy
  An aid in the study of the Ptolemaic (Macedonian-based Greek), Roman Imperial (Greco-Roman), and Byzantine rulers of Egypt based in Alexandria, this annotated information portal concentrates on the Ptolemies and their world, from 331 - 30 BCE.
• Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
  IAM is an on-line atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world designed to serve the needs and interests of students and teachers in high school, community college and university courses in classics, ancient history, geography, archaeology and related fields.
• Leuven Database of Ancient Books
  Basic information on all ancient literary texts, as opposed to documents. It includes items dating from the fourth century B.C. to A.D. 800. Text editions by classical philologists and patristic scholars are usually based upon medieval manuscripts, dating many centuries after the work in question was first written down and transmitted by copies from copies from copies. Here the user will find the oldest preserved copies of each text.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Includes collections of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern art.
• Okeanos: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
  Links to resources for the study of the Ancient, Biblical, Classical, and Late Antique Near East.
• Packard Humanities Institute
  Searchable Greek Inscriptions.
• Papyrology Websites
  Oxyrhynchus Papyri; Reception of Greek Literature 300 BC-AD 800; Herculaneum site.
• PARTHIA.COM
  Provides information about the Parthians, who ruled in ancient Persia from 247 B.C. to A.D 228. Includes sections on their History, Geography, Coins, Art and Culture, as well as Resources (ancient authors, annotated Parthia bibliography, catalogues and collections of Parthian coins, Internet mail lists and newsgroups, on-line texts, web links and search engines).
• Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature (SORGLL)
  Greek and Latin literature was created with the intention of being orally performed and aurally experienced by a group of listeners, large or small, and was not intended to be read silently with the eyes alone. SORGLL encourages students and teachers to listen to and to reproduce the sounds of Greek and Latin literature as a means for achieving maximum authenticity and esthetic pleasure in the reading of Greek and Latin literary works.
• The Stoa
  A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities, which aims to disseminate and archive electronic material with a special focus on the ancient world and the classical tradition. Visit the 'Projects' link - includes Trajan's Column, Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy, Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars, and Diotima (materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world, with links to images and a bibliography).
• Virtual Religion Index
  A guide to websites covering many religious topics. Includes Greco-Roman Studies and the Ancient Near East.

• Aigyptos
  A database for Egyptological literature. A project of the Institute of Egyptology , University of Munich, in cooperation with the Department of Egyptology, University of Heidelberg.
• Center for Computer-aided Egyptological Research (CCER)
  The CCER specialises in matters related to the application of computers in Egyptology. This site includes Egyptological lists and databases, and links to other Egyptological websites.
• Database of Early Egyptian Inscriptions
  All available Early Dynastic inscriptions, covering the first attestations of writing discovered in tomb U-j (Naqada IIIA1, ca. 3250 BC) until the earliest known continuous written text in the reign of Netjerikhet–more commonly known as Djoser (ca. 2700 BC).
• Digital Egypt for Universities
  A teaching resource based on the collections of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
• Egyptology Resources
  Set up with assistance from the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, this site includes links to essential resources, institutions, museums, digs, publishers & booksellers, journals & magazines, organisations & societies, and other sites relating to Egypt and Egyptology, as well as the email addresses of Egyptologists.
• The Giza Archives Project
  An online repository for all archaeological activity at the Giza Necropolis, beginning with the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavations.
• Papyrology Home Page
  Institutions with papyrology collections, Images, Coptic, Scholarly literature, Other papyrological resources, Related web resources.
• Theban Mapping Project
  Since its inception in 1978, the Theban Mapping Project (TMP, now based at the American University in Cairo) has been working to prepare a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes.
• Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings
  From the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, this is an as yet incomplete database of Objects of Provenance Not Known: Statues (volume 8 of the printed Topographical Bibliography.