Selected Sites

Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan

offers links to known internet resources of interest to Classicists and Mediterranean Archaeologists.

Duke Papyrus Archive

contains introductory text about papyri and papyrology, descriptive catalog records, and scanned images of over 200 papyri. The archive is organized by subject and language, and is keyword-searchable.

Scrolls From The Dead Sea

The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship, an Exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Egyptology Archive

The Ancient Near East archive from Cambridge, UK, includes papers and HyperCard stacks related to the study of Egypt.

The University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

is dedicated to the study of the art and culture of ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition, and community education. As part of its teaching and research, the Institute conducts an epigraphic survey in the Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. The Institute's collection of antiquities resides in the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. Over 150 objects range in date from 3500 B.C.E. to 700 C.E. There are mummies, religious and funerary items, jewelry, and objects from everyday life.

National Archaeological Database

sponsored by the National Park Service, is a database containing more than 100,000 archeological citation references which users can access and query via modem or Internet.

National Museum of the American Indian

The Smithsonian opened the George Gustav Heye Center at the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in lower Manhattan. Inaugural exhibitions, books, and a recording celebrate the diversity of the Native peoples of the Americas and the strength and continuity of Native cultures from the earliest times to the present.

Pompeii Forum Project

Includes a visual tour of the city devastated by the A.D. 79 eruption of the volcano Vesuvius.