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Read about Ancient History and access primary texts. Resources are divided into General, Primary and Secondary Sources. Some sites include provide a mix of resources.

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General
General history links are sites that collect links to history sites.

about.com: ancient/classical history
The about.com Web site is composed of guides created by subject specialists. This site is organized into Ancient: Celts, Egypt, Far East, Greece, India, MesoAmerica, Near East, Rome, Rome Empire, and Rome Punic Wars as well as links to other related guides.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceThe Ancient World Web
This nearly comprehensive site on ancient history covers ancient art, cities, documents, economy, law, religion, theater, and much more.

looksmart: History: Ancient to c.500 AD
From looksmart. Access links to ancient history and culture by topic and region. 

Yahoo! Ancient History
Many links to ancient history sites, including Ancient Art, Classics, Coins and Currency, Egypt, Etruscans, Greece, Mesopotamia, Roman Empire, Timelines and more.

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Primary Sources
Primary sources are records from the past, recorded by people who were present at the time such as letters, diaries, government documents, photographs, oral histories, artifacts. 

Diotima
A resource for patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean. Diotima includes course materials, the beginnings of a searchable bibliography, and links to on-line articles, book reviews, databases, and images. Special interest: Translated Primary Sources, Women's life in Greece and Rome.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceExploring Ancient World Cultures
Based at the University of Evansville, Indiana this multi-award winning site covers the Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe. It includes maps, links to related web sites, primary texts archived at the site, such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Genesis, The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead) and more. 

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceInternet Ancient History Sourcebook
The emphasis here is access to primary source texts for educational purposes. The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook also includes links to visual and aural material, since art and archeology are far more important for the periods in question than for later history. It is organized into: Online Text Collections, Using Primary Sources, Pre-History, Ancient Near East, Greece and Hellenism, and Rome: Republic and Empire.

Internet Classics Archive
From MIT, a full text collection of Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)
Browse this resource from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE by Title, Author, Genre or Language. Access Medieval and Classic literature and historical documents such as The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Troilus and Criseyde, or The Fall of Troy.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourcePerseus Project: Starting Points in Perseus
Hosted by Tufts University, this site is also sponsored by Harvard University, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Grant program and many others. Perseus has received many awards for its outstanding coverage of Greek, and more recently Roman, literature, history, art, and archaeology. This link points specifically to the Starting Points page, which has links to Overview of Archaic & Classical Greek History, and many of the primary texts archived at Perseus, such as Euclid's Elements, and Homer's Iliad. 

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceTexts for Ancient History Courses
Access select primary texts from Ancient, Greek, Roman Republican, Roman Imperial, and Late Antiquity. Documents include Jordanes' The Origins and Deeds of the Goths, Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, and Plutarch's Alcibiades.

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Secondary Sources
Secondary sources are accounts of the past written after events have taken place and generally give overviews or interpret history

Ancient Northwest Europe
From Professor Geoffrey Russom at Brown University. This site summarizes who the Anglo-Saxons, Celts and Norse were, and includes information on their world, texts, artifacts and archeology, battles and more.

Forum Romanum
Forum Romanum is a collaborative project among scholars, teachers, and students with the broad purpose of bringing classical scholarship out of college libraries and into a more accessible, online medium.

ORB: Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean
Part of the larger ORB Online Encyclopedia site. This portion provides an overview of history from the Classical era to the seventh century.

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