Ancient Civilizations

In the News . . .

• New mathematical method shows how climate change led to fall of ancient civilization -- PHYS (03 September 2020)
  
  
• video: Secrets of the Stone Age, (2/2 85 min., 2017, Top Documentary Films)
  
  
• What 'Space Archaeology' Can Teach Us About Megacities, Past and Present -- Citylab (27 June 2016)
  
  
• These Ancient Headless Corpses Were Defleshed By Griffon Vultures [Çatalhöyük] -- Forbes (09 June 2016)
  
  
• How Human Sacrifice Propped Up the Social Order -- Nature (04 April 2016)
  
  
• New discoveries redefine Angkor Wat's history -- ScienceDaily (09 December 2015)
  
  
• China's Great Wall Is Slowly Disappearing -- Discovery News (29 June 2015)
  
  
• Should We Thank God for Civilisation? -- New Scientist (26 March 2015)
  
  
• Mystery of Ancient Chinese Civilization's Disappearance Explained -- LiveScience (24 December 2014)
  
  
• How Farming Almost Destroyed Ancient Human Civilization -- Discovery News (18 November 2014)
  
  
• Population Boom, Droughts Contributed to Collapse of Ancient Assyrian Empire -- Phys.org (05 November 2014)
  
  
• Civilization Is Defined by 'the Others' -- ScienceDaily (03 October 2013)
  
  
• Rare Obsidian Mirrors Found in the Ancient Settlement of Çatalhöyük -- Hürriyet Daily News (13 October 2012)
  
  
• Building Angkor Wat -- Science (12 October 2012)
  
  
• Angkor Wat: History of Ancient Temple-- LiveScience (09 October 2012)
  
  
• Neolithic Discovery: Why Orkney Is the Centre of Ancient Britain -- Guardian (06 October 2012)
  
  
  • The big dig: How a great archaeological discovery has drawn the people of Orkney -- Guardian (07 October 2012)
    
    
• Is this western Europe’s first city? -- Past Horizons (29 September 2012)
  
  
• Mohenjo Daro: Could This Ancient City Be Lost Forever? -- BBC News (26 June 2012)
  
  
• Hailstorms, Wacky Weather Chilled Ancient Baghdad -- LiveScience (26 fEbruary 2012)
  
  
• 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 China -- The British Museum
  
  
• Ancient Egypt -- The British Museum
  
  
• Ancient Greece -- British Museum
  
  
• Ancient Greek Theatre and Drama -- TheatreSeat
  
  
• Ancient India -- The British Museum
  
  
• Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History -- The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
  
  
• Ancient Middle American civilizations
  
  
• Ancient Near East .net
  
  
• Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon (archeoastronomy)
  
  
• Ancient World Mapping Center -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
  
• Angkor Wat, Cambodia (Scout Report report)
  
  
• Angkor Wat - -Wikipedia
  
  
  • APSARA [Authority for Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap]
    
    
  • Cambodia Post
    
    
  • Great Buildings Online: Angkor Wat
    
    
  • Is Angkor Wat too touristy?
    
    
  • Interactive Map of World Heritage Properties [Macromedia Flash Player]
    
    
  • Tourist jungle grows over Angkor Wat
    
    
  • Tourism official proposes elephant ban at Angkor

• Archaeological Sites by Region
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Conformists May Kill Civilizations -- Nature (24 June 2009)
  
  CyArk [heritage sites]
  
  
• Dig is only the second in 50 years-Team using modern equipment on mounds at Hopewell Culture -- LOREN GENSON, Chillicothe Gazette (25 June 2009)
  
  
• Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations -- Michael McCormick, Guoping Huang, Kelly Gibson, et al., Harvard
  
  
• Dimensions > Ancient Worlds -- BBC
  
  
• Dimensions > Cities in History -- BBC
  
  
• Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World -- Ross Scaife of the University of Kentucky and Suzanne Bonefas

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• Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World -- NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.com
  
  
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures -- U. of Evansville
  
  
• Fraser, Evan D.G., and Andrew Rimas. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. NY: Free Press, 2010.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Byzantine icons from the remote Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai
  
  
• Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War
  
  
• Inca
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Montgomery, David R. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
  
  

• 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
  
  
• The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
  
  
• 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: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization. NY: Random House, 2010.
  
  
  • Seeds of destruction? -- Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ interview
    
    
• World Cultures to 1500 -- Washington State University