| Ancient
Civilizations – Europe, Asia, Africa
Buildings, artwork, tools, pottery, weapons, clothing, jewelry, coins,
written language...these are some of the artifacts that
are studied to learn about cultures of long ago. What can the study of
ancient civilizations tell us about our lives today? Come explore the
ancient civilizations of Europe, Asia, and Africa. 
Places To Go | People
To See | Things To Do | Teacher
Resources
Places To Go
Nova
Online: Treasures of the Sunken City
Travel to Alexandria in Egypt and explore
the Pharos Lighthouse.
Petra: The Great Temple Excavation
Petra: Myth and Reality
Visit the ancient city
of Petra. Its remains lie south of the Dead Sea in what is now the country
of Jordan. Petra is the city of tall, imposing stone buildings that Indiana
Jones and his friends rode into in the movie Indian Jones and the LastCrusade.
This city, with its buildings carved into the face of cliffs, can only
be accessed through a narrow canyon called the Suq. From about 400 BC to
200 AD, it was a prominent and rich city because it was near busy trade
routes.
Virtual Antiquity
Museum
Explore the Egyptian dynasties.
Ancient
Tombs
Visit tombs from
ancient China and see what we learn from the archaeological evidence gathered
there.
The
British Museum: Ancient Egypt
Visit the British Museum. They
have one of the premier collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts in
the world.
National
Gallery of Art: The Quest for Immortality: Treasure of Ancient Egypt
Via the National
Gallery of Art, examine the religious beliefs about the afterlife of
ancient Egyptians.
Ziggurats
Visit ancient Mesopotamian
ziggurats. Most ziggurats were built with sloping sides, level tops,
and looked a little like flattened pyramids. They had long stairways
reaching to the summit. At the top of each ziggurat was a temple or shrine
dedicated to the gods of Mesopotamia.
Stone Pages
Visit Stonehenge and over 500 more archaeological
sites of megalithic Europe.
Roman
Forum
Take a virtual tour of the Roman
Forum.
Pyramids:
The Inside Story
Explore the pyramids of Khufu, Giza, Menkaure, and Khafue. Find out who
built them, how old they are, and what stories the hieroglyphics inside
them tell.
The
Silk Road
Travel along the route
of the ancient Silk Road. It was an ancient trade route between China
and the Mediterranean that was about 4,000 miles long.
The Ancient
Indus Valley
Learn about ancient India and Pakistan
by traveling to the ancient Indus River Valley and exploring the civilizations
that flourished there.
At
the Tomb of Tutankhamen
Explore the tomb of the boy king.
Mysteries
of the Nile
Sail down the Nile, the longest river
in the world. It was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt and is still crucial
for survival of northern Africa today.
The
Colosseum
Visit the ancient Roman colosseum.
Its construction was started in about 72 AD, and it took 8 years to complete
it. When it was dedicated in 80 AD, Roman citizens got to participate in
magnificent games that lasted 100 days.
Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World
Can you really visit the Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World? The wonders are the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the
Temple of Artemis, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus,
the Colossus of Rhodes, the Pharos of Alexandria, and the Pyramids of
Egypt. Are any of these still standing?
People To See
Hammurabi
History
for Kids: Hammurabi of Babylon
Meet
Hammurabi. He was the sixth ruler of ancient Babylonia and came to power
in 1792 B.C. He introduced a code of laws that is still studied today.
There were 282 laws in all, and they covered many aspects of daily life.
They were significant
Heinrich
Schliemann
Heinrich
Schliemann: Heros & Mythos
Meet
Heinrich Schliemann. He was an amateur archaeologist from Germany. He spent
his life researching the possible site of the ancient Greek city of Troy.
It was thought that Troy did not really exist as it was just part of Homer’s
story of the Illiad. Find out about
Schliemann’s excavations in the mid 1800s and the controversies
surrounding his discoveries.
Muhammad:
Ancient Messenger of God
Discover Muhammad and learn about
the ancient origins of Islam.
Egyptian Kings
Meet the Egyptian pharaohs and kings from
the Early Dynastic period in 3050 B.C. to the Ottoman Empire in the 1700s.
Gladiators:
Heroes of the Roman Amphitheatre
Spend some
time with Roman gladiators and find out if all those rumors about lions
are true.
Things To Do
Exploring Ancient
World Cultures
Explore information on the ancient cultures
of the Near East, India, China, Europe, and more.
Ancient Scripts
Explore the writing systems of ancient civilizations.
Learn all about cuneiform and dozens of other writing systems.
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
Browse through this online
repositories of hundreds of links about ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia,
Greece, Rome, Israel, and more.
Odyssey
Online
Locate resources for ancient
Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Africa.
Epigraphy
in the Ancient World
Epigraphy is the study
of ancient inscriptions. Learn how epigraphers study ancient cultures.
Daily
Roman Life
Locate information
about Roman culture in the areas of athletics, art, holidays, food, houses,
laws, writing, and more.
The
Ancient Greek World
Locate information about
many topics concerning life in ancient Greece such as home furnishings,
home schooling, women’s life, dress,
religion, politics, and much more.
Rosetta
Stone
Learn how the
discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 help decipher Egyptian hieroglypics.
Akhet Egyptology
Find out about the Egyptian afterlife. Use the Clickable
Mummy to learn more about the mummification process.
Islamic
World to 1600
Explore the first millennium
of Islamic history.
BBC:
Ancient Greece
Find a timeline
of ancient Greece and learn about life in ancient Athens, Olympia, and
Corinth.
Ancient
Britain
Experience prehistoric
Britain and learn about the hill forts dating back to the Iron Age of 700
B.C. There are thousands of ancient barrow mounds in the U.K. today; learn
what they are/were.
Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History: African Voices
Click on History at the bottom of the
page to learn about some of the ancient inhabitants of this huge continent.
Ancient
Olympics
Compare ancient and modern Olympic
sports.
BBC:
The Romans
Learn all about every day life in ancient
Rome. One of the things they ate was calves brains with roses.
Etruscan
World Gallery
Learn
about the early life, commerce, religion, architecture, etc. of the Etruscan
peoples. This website also features a Greek World and a Roman World section.
The
Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
There’s a
tutorial to help you speak like an ancient Greek.
Nova:
Secrets of Lost Empires
Watch as archaeological crews “attempt
to ferret out long-forgotten secrets of early architects and engineers.
How did they design and erect the medieval war machines known as trebuchets?
Egyptian obelisks? The Easter Island stone monoliths called moais? Roman
baths? The rainbow bridges of ancient China ?”
Cleveland
Museum of Art: Egyptomania
Learn about mummies, pyramids,
Egyptian animals, Egyptian daily life, and more. Find instructions to make
a paper model of an Egyptian death mask.
Brief
History of Assyrians
Explore ancient Assyria which covered
parts of present-day Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
History
for Kids: Ancient Greece
Discover the philosophy,
religion, clothing, history, economy, language, food, art, and government
of the ancient Greeks.
How
to Make a Mummy
Learn the steps in turning humans
and other animals into mummies.
Encyclopedia
Phoenicia
Discover the contributions that the ancient
Phoenicians made to our modern day world.
Count
and Capture Games
Play games that have
their origins in ancient Egypt and Africa.
World
of the Ancient Britons
Check out the Celts.
Civilization
and the Jews
Explore the history of the Jewish
people from 3800 B.C. to the present.
Hieroglyphics
Enter your name in the field
provided, and this site will spin it out in hieroglyphics.
Ancient
Greek Civilization
Experience
the everyday life of the ancient Greeks.
Carnegie
Museum of Natural History: Life in Ancient Egypt
Explore daily
life along the Nile.
The Parthian Empire
Explore the ancient Parthian empire. It was centered
in Persia which is modern-day Iran.
Pyramid
Design and Construction
Learn the construction techniques
for making pyramids.
Roma:
History and Civilization of the Eternal City
Explore the history, legends,
monuments, and civilization of ancient Rome.
Teacher Resources
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