History of Prehistoric and Ancient Europe

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Going well beyond just Stonehenge...
Commentary and images on ancient sites in Britain and Ireland.
Try the searchable map or database to locate specific localities and sites.
(Facsimiles & commentary)
Gods & Graves: A virtual exhibit of the Danish Bronze Age based on texts and images from the Danish National Museum.
(Facsimiles and commentary)
The manuscript of the Englishman Charles Bertram, with written descriptions and colored illustrations of stone monuments from Danish antiquity.
Digitized by the Danish Royal Library.
(Illustrated in 1758; facsimiles)
Including virtual visits to the Cave of Lascaux, other caves, and the ancient town of Vienne.
(prehistoric to antiquity; facsimiles and reproductions)
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)
Georeferencing and imaging of monuments of the Franks
(Includes parts of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland)
(Antiquity to Middle Ages; interactive maps, images)
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)
Documenting Norwegian stone-age implements chronologically.
A virtual exhibit of the Saltdal Museum.
(10,000 BCE - 4,000 BCE; Facsimile images and commentary)
Norwegian historical objects from the Bronze Age through the Viking Era.
Assembled by the Archaeological Museum in Stavanger.
(1800 BCE - 1050 CE; images)
Runological projects at the Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities
(Facsimiles and transliterations)
Entire run of the society's proceedings, monographs, and Archaeologia Scotica.
(1792 to the present; facsimiles)
From inside the Swedish Historical Museum.
Reproductions of objects testifying to early life in Sweden.
(10,000 BCE - 1500; photo facsimiles)
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)
Sponsored by the Stockholm Regional Museum.
Clickable map of prehistoric sites in the Stockholm region. English interface.
(Stone Age through Iron Age; Maps, photographic facsimiles, commentary)
Over 500 photographs of bronze-age carvings with a Swedish-language search interface.
(Bronze age; searchable database of photographs)
Inscriptions and maps of rune inscriptions in Uppland.
(Transcriptions, maps and indexes)
Images and transcriptions of inscriptions;
Limited to the area of Mälaröarna - cluster of islands near Stockholm.
(Images and transcriptions)
Photographs from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
(Mostly antiquity; photo facsimiles)
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)
"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 BCE - 2nd century CE; database with architectural plans, photographic images, videos, commentary).
A virtual and navigable reconstruction of Rome in the year 320 CE.
(320; Facsimile 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.
Includes auxiliary links leading to regional and local sources.
(Interactive online maps)
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 C.E.; maps and facsimile images)
Virtual, thematic, geographic and historical reconstructions of Rome and its various edifices.
A project of the University of Caen in France.
(4th century CE; facsimile images of a plaster model)
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)
Found on the The Perseus Digital Library
Including translated text, secondary sources and museum photography.
(Greek and Latin transcriptions and English translations)
Ancient, Greek and Roman history in translation.
(English-language transcriptions)
Of particular interest for primary documentation are the sections for Anthology and Images.
(Images, facsimiles & transcriptions)
Database of over 500 images in detail on the Column of Trajan.
(1st-2nd centuries; photographic facsimiles and commentary)
Wooden tablets recording life in Roman Britain at an outpost in Northern England.
(1st - 2nd Centuries; facsimiles with transcriptions and commentary)
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.
Description and pictures of the Roman mosaic discovered in Luxembourg.
(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 English or Czech.
(Facsimiles)
(transcriptions & translations)
(transcriptions & translations)
(Ante-Nicene, Nicene, Post-Nicene)
from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
(transcriptions & translations)
From the Internet Christian Library.
(transcriptions & translations)


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