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Texts in translation

This is really cute! It's a series of puzzles of historical images, with jigsaw pieces that you move into place while a timer ticks. Might be fun with some junior classes - an engaging (there's the education buzzword!) tool for a rainy day. Also has a 'Dress Up A Historical Figure' section. Sounds interesting.

There's not a whole lot here, but seeings as there isn't much I've found on ancient Israel I thought I'd put it in. It has some images of sites and artefacts from the Israel Antiquities Authority, including mosques (surprising, no?) and churches.

Translations of poems from a variety of regions and time periods. Particularly good ancient collection.

An excellent site for maps of civilisations of all time periods and regions. Easily usable - great for student research or developing classroom resources. Just save the images and Bob's your uncle!

Just checked this site out for Medieval History maps. The site is only in Beta phase at the moment and only covers up to the end of Ancient History. i.e. 500AD

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.

Dan put me on to this. We never need create a PowerPoint again. Similar is www.flowofhistory.com by Chris Butler in Illinois. Some great PowerPoints there.

What an excellent find! Ancient Roman recipes. I couldn't find any containing the infamous garum (fermented fish oil) but there was still some weird stuff. Guess every country has its weird food (kimchi for Koreans, Vegemite for us). Anyway thank God the Europeans discovered the Americas or we'd still be eating this stuff. Yuck.

This is a flickr group devoted to images of ancient sites, artefacts and churches. They are making an effort to make sure that people correctly tag and date the images so might be useful for you. There are squillions of flickr sites for history images - I won't save them all to the group. If you're looking for images though for your classes, perhaps take a look...

Podcasts of lectures provided by academics at Yale. At the moment they only cover the ancient Greeks, the US Civil War and France after the mid-C19th, however it should grow over time. I think most of these can be subscribed to on iTunes.

A massive collection of links to primary source sites on the ancient world.

Another course which you can download the lectures from, this time from Yale. How cool!

Most of the information from this site is secondary, however it has some quotes from ancient authors in context and some beautiful images. The site maintains that the images are copyright and should be used only with permission and of course we'll do that. Of course.

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