Ancient Civilizations

In the News . . .

• Khmer, Like Mayans, Fell Under the Weather -- Discovery News (05 January 2012)
  
  
• No Family Plots, Just Communal Burials In Ancient Settlement -- LiveScience (29 June 2011)
  • In Photos: The Life and Death of Ancient 'Urbanites' -- LiveScience (28 June 2011)-
    
    
• How Cities Stress Us Out -- Discovery News (22 June 2011)
  
  
• Gazelles Caught in Ancient Syrian 'Killing Zones' -- BBCNews (19 April 2011)
  
  
• Mathematical Model Explains How Complex Societies Emerge, Collapse -- ScienceDaily (19 January 2011)
  
  
• Cretan Tools Point to 130,000-Year-Old Sea Travel -- MSNBC (03 January 2011)

(Anthropology World News, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M)

• Guides to the Ancient World -- Guardian (11 November 2010)
  • China: Enduring Empire
  • Mesopotamia: Birthplace of Civilisation
  • The Americas: The Old New World
  • Rome: Emperors and Poets
  • Greece: Birthplace of the Modern World?
  • Egypt: A Life Before the Afterlife
  • The Story of Mother India

Greece: Birthplace of the Modern World? -- Guardian (07 November 2010)

Early Date for Chinese Human Fossils -- BBC News (26 October 2010)

City Living Helped Humans Evolve Immunity to Tuberculosis and Leprosy, New Research Suggests -- ScienceDaily (24 2010)

Scientists Find Evidence Discrediting Theory Amazon Was Virtually Unlivable -- Washington Post (05 September 2010)

Sting in the Tail of Farming Revolution [an interview with Dr Spencer Wells, re Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (NY: Random House, 2010) -- BBC News (07 June 2010)

Seeds of destruction? -- Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ interview

Etruscan House Reveals Ancient Domestic Life -- Discovery News (04 June 2010)

• Open House: Etruscan Site Reveals Domestic Treasures
• Ancient Etruscan House Discovered

Dawn of Urban Life Uncovered in Syria -- Discovery News (23 April 2010)

Did Climate Influence Angkor's Collapse? Evidence Suggests Changing Environment Can Bring Down a Civilization -- Science Daily (30 March 2010)

For information on ancient civilizations, and on the development of early civilizations in various parts of the world, see the following WebSites:

• Ancient Greece -- British Museum
  
  
• Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History -- The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
  
  
• Ancient Middle American civilizations
  
  
• Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon (archeoastronomy)
  
  
• Ancient World Mapping Center -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
  
• Conformists May Kill Civilizations -- Nature (24 June 2009)
  
  
• Dig is only the second in 50 years-Team using modern equipment on mounds at Hopewell Culture -- LOREN GENSON, Chillicothe Gazette (25 June 2009)
  
  
• Dimensions > Ancient Worlds -- BBC
  
  
• Dimensions > Cities in History -- BBC
  
  
• Angkor Wat, Cambodia (Scout Report report)
  
  
  • Angkor Wat - -Wikipedia
    
    
    • Tourist jungle grows over Angkor Wat
      http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0918/p06s01-woap.html
    • Tourism official proposes elephant ban at Angkor
      http://english.people.com.cn/200609/20/eng20060920_304606.html
    • APSARA
      http://www.autoriteapsara.org/
    • Is Angkor Wat too touristy?
      http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18409-2363554,00.html
    • Great Buildings Online: Angkor Wat
      http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Angkor_Wat.html
    • Interactive Map of World Heritage Properties [Macromedia Flash Player]
      http://whc.unesco.org/en/map
    • Cambodia Post
      http://www.cambodiajournal.com/
      
      

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• Archaeological Sites by Region
• The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
• Ancient China -- The British Museum
• Ancient Egypt -- The British Museum
• Ancient India -- The British Museum
• Ancient Near East .net
• Art of the First Cities: The Third Millenium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus --The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Aztec
• The Beazley Archive -- Classical Art Research Centre, The University of Oxford
• Civilisations -- BBC
• Classics Unveiled
• Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World -- Ross Scaife of the University of Kentucky and Suzanne Bonefas
• Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World -- NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.com
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures -- U. of Evansville
• The First Villages -- D. I. Loizos
• THE 42 COMMANDMENTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT -- Wladyslaw Jan Kowalski
• Gift of the Indus: The Arts and Culture of Pakistan -- ARTSEDGE
• Greece, Ancient

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• Hatsheput: From Queen to Pharaoh -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War
• Inca
• Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Byzantine icons from the remote Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai
• Interactive Dig: Hierakonpolis -- ancient Egypt
• Kansas City Hopewell -- Museum of Anthropology
• Lisa's European Prehistory Hotlist
• Logging 'caused Nazca collapse' -- BBC News (02 November 2009)
• Mohenjo-Daro
• Musée Achéménide
• Mut Precinct, Egypt -- Brooklyn Museum
• Mysteries of Çatalhöyük -- The Science Museum of Minnesota
• Mystery of Great Civilization's Destruction Revealed -- Live Science (30 March 2010)
• Neolithic Greece -- D. I. Loizos

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• Perseus Digital Library -- Tufts University
• Prehistoric Cultures WebPage -- Nicole Noonan, Washington State University
• Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known -- PATRICK McGROARTY, Associated Press\Yahoo News (24 June 2009)
• Sea Gives Up Secrets to Experts -- BBC News (16 November 2009)
• Stonehenge
• Stone Man Joins Carved Animals in Neolithic Farmyard -- Guardian (10 September 2009)
• The Taj-Mahal Virtual Tour -- Armchair Travel Company
• Theban Mapping Project
• Wells, Spencer. Pandora's Seed. NY: Random House, 2010.
  
  • Seeds of destruction? -- Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ interview
    
• World Cultures to 1500 -- Washington State University