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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Eagle
Eagle, as a military standard, was adopted by the Romans, and even by nations preceding them in history. The Persians, in the time of Cyrus the Younger, bore an eagle on a spear as a standard. The Romans for some time used the eagle, the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancient Censer
In makin Aeneas burn incense, Virgil follows the custom of his own time rather than historical verity. - Anthon, 1891
PBS
Pbs: Chronology of Early Christianity
A detailed timeline on the early history of the religion from the time of Julius Caesar (44 B.C.E.) to 327 C.E. and the death of Constantine.
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Israel Mfa: Temples of Jerusalem in Islam
This site from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides an article which discusses the role of the Temples of Jerusalem in the religion Islam and whether or not they existed. This argument has been used in the negotiations between...
Other
The Dalton School: Map of Trade Routes
This site is simply a map illustrating the trade routes in the First Century AD. Different colors depict the great empires of the time, making it easy to interpret.
PublicBookshelf Corporation
The Catiline Conspiracy as Recorded by Sallust
From "Outline of Great Books," comes a nice synopsis of the historian Sallust's "Bellum Catilinae." The site gives an impartial look at this trying time of Roman history.
Other
Mayan Math
A basic, illustrated description of the math system developed by the Mayans. Includes a paragraph comparing the Mayan system favorably with the Roman numeral system of the same time.
Other
Theatron: The Theater of Dionysus
Information and recreated models of the Theater of Dionysus, showing its architectural evolution and transformation over time, from the fifth century B.C. through the Roman imperial period.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Roccoco to Realism
From the early 18th to the mid-19th century, dynamic transformations in European art mirrored turbulent political and social changes, including revolutions, imperial conquests, and the emergence of the modern industrial age....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Franks Casket
Franks Casket features scenes from Roman, Jewish, Christian and Germanic tradition. When it came to light in the nineteenth century, this magnificent rectangular casket was being used as a family workbox at Auzon, France. Some time...
Other
Livius: The Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 c.e.
A discussion of the revolt of the Jewish people in 70 C.E. which led to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Middle Ages for Kids: Byzantine Empire
Explore the Byzantine Empire during the Middle Ages and Medieval times on this site. Learn about how the Eastern Roman Empire ruled for over 1000 years.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Accubatio
The act of reclining at meals. The Greeks and Romans were accustomed, in later times, to recline at their meals; but this practice could not have been od great antiquity in Greece, since Homer always describes persons as sitting at their...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: An Ertuscan Arch
The Italian city of Volterra still preserves in the Porta dell' Arco an interesting relic of Ertuscan times. The archway, one of the original gates of the ancient town, is about twenty feet in height and twelve feet in width. On the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lucerna
An oil lamp. The Greeks and Romans originally used candles; but in later times candles were chiefly confined to the houses of the lower classes. A great number of ancient lamps has come down to us; the greater part of which are made of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lucerna
An oil lamp. The Greeks and Romans originally used candles; but in later times candles were chiefly confined to the houses of the lower classes. A great number of ancient lamps has come down to us; the greater part of which are made of...
Princeton University
Princeton University: The Art Museum
The Art Museum at Princeton University has a permanent collection ranging over time from ancient to contemporary and from the Mediterranean to Western Europe, China, Latin America and the U.S. Greek and Roman antiquities and Roman...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Portrait of Vespasian
This naturalistic portrait of the emperor Vespasian (reigned 69-79 C.E.) clearly shows the lined complexion of this battle-hardened emperor, and also the curious 'strained expression' which the Roman writer Suetonius said he had at all...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Karnak Temple
The site of the Karnak Temples is an open natural museum of Ancient Egyptian history. It contains a mixture of the different architectural styles built by the kings who ruled the country from the Twelfth Dynasty until the Greco-Roman times.