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Scholars of ancient history and IT experts at Stanford University have collaborated to create a novel way to study Ancient Rome. ORBIS, a geospatial network model, allows visitors to experience the strategy behind travel in antiquity. (Find a handy tutorial for using the system on the Web and YouTube). The ORBIS map includes about 750 mostly urban settlements of the Roman period

I tried using this 3d virtual model of ancient Rome in Google Earth but couldn't get it running. It looks supercool (and useful) so if anyone can get it working Id love to know how you did it.

3D models of Ancient Rome

A powerpoint about houses in ancient Rome with only images, so you can tell your own story with this powerpoint presentation.

Like google maps for ancient Rome

Sections on Egypt, Greece, British prehistory, Rome, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Ancient India, from the BBC. Includes essays, images, etc.

The British School at Rome Archive (BSR) thanks to the Getty Foundation, made freely available digital copies of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. A website of the "BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts". But "the majority of the digital images displayed on the website are represented by the photographic prints and negatives from unique historic collections, including calotypes, glass and film negatives, slides and lantern slides."

Seems to focus more on the history of the British School at Rome rather than Roman history. Should revise the tags at this point but this summer heat here in Queensland is making me lazy...

An excellent list of sites related to Ancient History, focussing mainly on the Classical West and the Near East. I wonder why the Chinese and Indians and others still don't count as 'Ancient History' to most people? A great collection, though.

Another of the excellent sourcebooks run by those Jesuits at Fordham Uni. This is the best online primary source research for the ancient world I've found.

A collection of primary texts on Rome.

This site isn't very user-friendly (it looks like a page from MS-DOS) but has primary texts relating to ancient Greece, Rome, Persia and Assyria.

Perhaps a useful resource for the study of ancient Rome. Has Latin place names and their modern translations.

Seems to give thorough and accurate definitions of terms related to Classical history. Seems to be neglecting the reality that Asia had Ancient History too, but that's a minor oversight. Only a couple of billion people lived there anyway... Would be great for preliminary student research and definitions.

I'm being lazy. I've been going through and saving these sites individually but I'm sick of looking at them. I'll come back later and finish the job. There are heaps of sites there on ancient history.

I usually don't add secondary sources (I've found books are much more comprehensive - secondary websites seem usually quite simplistic in their treatments) but thought this might be useful for people working with younger classes doing preliminary research or activities on ancient civilisations.

Usually I avoid adding secondary sources (a good school library can fulfil that function) but the information here looks pretty good and covers topics students usually find interesting.