History of Prehistoric and Ancient Europe

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Gods & Graves: A virtual exhibit of the Danish Bronze Age based on texts and images from the Danish National Museum.
(Facsimiles and commentary)
(English interface)
Including virtual visits to the Cave of Lascaux, other caves, and the ancient town of Vienne.
(prehistoric to antiquity; facsimiles and reproductions)
From inside the Swedish Historical Museum.
Reproductions of objects testifying to early life in Sweden.
(10,000 BC - 1500; photo facsimiles)
Images of a French cave, only discovered in 1994, containing art wonders from prehistory.
(Facsimile images)
Digital panorama of prehistoric art images in caves near the Ariège River in France.
Placed on the web by National Geographic.
(Interactive access to panoramic facsimiles)
Prehistoric anthropomorphic traces in the Piedmont valleys of Italy.
(Illustrations and photo facsimiles)
Primary materials documenting tool use by prehistoric man.
(Photo facsimiles at various European sites; Italian-language interface)
Digital full-text searchable edition of Sweden's foremost archaeological journal.
Includes photo images and drawings of antiquities.
(Ancient to medieval; facsimiles and commentary in Swedish and other languages)
Over 6,000 images of Swedish rock art.
(Bronze age; searchable database of photographs)
Inscriptions and maps of rune inscriptions in Uppland.
(Transcriptions, maps and indexes)
Major collections through Fordham University.
(Transcriptions)
Proceeding from the premise that cost rather than distance was the principal determinant of connectivity,
these interactive maps simulate movements along routes of the Roman Empire
to reconstruct duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity.
(Antiquity; interactive maps)
Georeferencing and imaging of monuments of the Franks
(Includes parts of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland)
(Antiquity to Middle Ages; interactive maps, images)
Geographic Information System (GIS) approach to spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.
Can be slow to load, but well worth the wait.
(Interactive online maps)
Search menu here
(facsimiles; Italian interface)
Maps and images of transformations as seen through cultural artifacts.
(Includes data on former Roman provinces now found in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia)
Geographic and thematic approaches available in nine languages.
(Antiquity through 212 AD; maps and facsimile images)
An overview of Greek life in ancient Athens and Sparta.
An online project of the British Museum.
(Antiquity; facsimiles of artifacts along with commentaries and teaching tools)
"A computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman colony of Corinth..."
A project of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum.
(1st century BC - 2nd century AD; database with architectural plans, photographic images, videos, commentary).
With searchable access to 60,050 entries
Database of over 500 images in detail on the Column of Trajan.
(1st-2nd centuries; photographic facsimiles and commentary)
38 volume collection of Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
From the Tertullian Project
(English translations)
Wooden tablets recording life in Roman Britain at an outpost in Northern England.
(1st - 2nd Centuries; facsimiles with transcriptions and commentary)
Virtual, thematic, geographic and historical reconstructions of Rome and its various edifices.
A project of the University of Caen in France.
(4th century AD; facsimile images of a plaster model)
Found on the The Perseus Digital Library
Including translated text, secondary sources and museum photography.
(Greek and Latin transcriptions and English translations)
Manuscript containing the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.
The manuscript can be browsed by Bible book, and the Greek original. It has also been translated into German and Russian.
(4th century; facsimiles with transcriptions)
Photographs and virtual reconstructions of Paris during the Roman Empire.
Also available in English interface.
(Photo facsimiles and reproductions)
Preserved Latin text presented in 1842, along with hand-drawn copies of monument stones and engravings.
(Antiquity; English translations)
Reputed to be the biggest surviving European manuscript, also known as the Devil's Bible.
Contains versions of the Old and New Testaments, Latin translations of Josephus’ (Josephus Flavius) two works on the history of the Jews (Antiquitates Iudaicae and De bello Iudaico), Isidore of Sevilla’s encyclopaedic Etymologiae, and eight medical writings.
Also available in Swedish.
(Facsimiles)
Includes: Manuscripts, Archives, and Letters as well as texts, online exhibitions and images.
(Facsimiles in various languages)
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(transcriptions & translations)
(Ante-Nicene, Nicene, Post-Nicene)
from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
(transcriptions & translations)
From the Internet Christian Library.
(transcriptions & translations)
Entire run of the society's proceedings, monographs, and Archaeologia Scotica.
(1792 to the present; facsimiles)



EuroDocs > History of Prehistoric and Ancient Europe



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