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Kamat's Potpourri: Timeline of Indian Art
A timeline tracing the development of Indian art from ancient times to the present. Includes beautiful clickable images with extensive descriptions.
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Eternal Egypt
Enjoy the sheer beauty of this site. Eternal Egypt will intrigue students with the interactivity offered on subjects such as artifacts, places, culture, and people of ancient Egypt. This site is like a well-done textbook come to life....
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A Perspective of the Ancient Romans
Explore this website created by a primary school. The site focuses on the Romans. There is a town tour, military news, important events and more.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Ancient Greek Theatre
An interactive & printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Ancient Greek Theatre.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Brief History of Western Culture
History is divided into time periods in order to better understand the culture and characteristics of that time. Read a brief description of the art and culture of historical time periods in this introductory article.
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....
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Search for Ancient Sharks: Prehistoric Shark Gallery
Users will take a step back in time when they visit this virtual prehistoric art gallery of sharks. Select a shark to view and obtain a brief informational description of each prehistoric predator.
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National Museum in Warsaw (Poland)
The National Museum in Warsaw is actually a collection of five museums: the modern National Museum, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at the Krolikarnia Palace, the Poster Museum at Wilanow, Radziwill Palace in Nieborow and Romantic...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: The End of Europe's Middle Ages
This useful tutorial includes information about the economy, feudalism, the Holy Roman Empire and other important topics pertaining to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a time of transition in European history. Easy to...
Curated OER
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
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Don Quijote: Spanish History
This is an overview of Spanish history from Romans to actual time, through the Inquisition, the Spanish Flag, and art. It offers links to more information about each topic.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Focus on Spread of Knowledge: Financial Institutions
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of financial institutions in the ancient world.
National Library of France
National Library of France: Homer and the Muses
Slideshow presents information on Homer and his famous works The Iliad and The Odyssey. Offers photos of texts, artifacts, and art from ancient through Medieval and modern times inspired by Homer's writing.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History: Terret (Rein Guide)
Captioned illustration of metal chariot ring produced in Britain at the time of the Roman invasion demonstrates the level of metalwork skill in the British isles at the time and the importance that native Britons placed on chariot warfare.
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The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Located in Kansas City, MO. A general art museum comprising objects from ancient times to the present, and all cultures, with special emphasis on Chinese art and English ceramics from the 17th century.
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aristotle's Logic
Thorough explanation of Aristotle's several original contributions to logic from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Includes a substantial bibliography as well as sections on syllogism, assertion, demonstration, the "Organon,"...
National Library of France
National Library of France: Utopia : The Quest for the Ideal Society
An online exhibit examining the history of utopia as revealed through story and art. Organized into four sections, "Utopia" takes viewers on a visual tour of utopian society has it has been interpreted by the ancients, in the bible,...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: In Old Pompeii
Use this lesson to take students on a virtual field trip to the ruins of Pompeii to explore everyday life, art and culture in ancient Roman times. Students will then use what they learned about the history and destruction of Pompeii to...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pyxis
A casket, a jewel-box. Quintilian produces this term as an example of catachresis, because it properly denoted that which was made of box, but was applied to things of similar form and use made of any other material. In fact, the caskets...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Song China
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school or college level world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the prosperity that occurred during the Song Dynasty.
New York Times
New York Times: Timeline of Art From the Late Stone Age
Find examples of Paleolithic art, including a recently discovered Venus figurine, drawings from the caves at Chauvet and Lascaux, and the Venus of Willendorf in this brief timeline. Examples span a 30,000-year range, approximately, from...
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University of Illinois: The Early Centuries of the Greek Roman East
Read about the history of the Romiosini, or Greek Middle Ages and the development of the Greek-Roman east. The article is divided into two different sections. The first section includes the foundation of Constantinople as a means to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Female Shinto Spirit
This figure represents a Shinto goddess; her name is not known. She is depicted as an aristocratic woman, dressed in a thick kimono-like garment. Shinto images like this one were not meant to be seen but were kept hidden in movable...
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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...