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Author/Host of Website Mr. Donn & Phillip Martin/pppst.com
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Visit the website: Ancient Africa at pppst.com
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Free
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)
This site provides links to numerous Powerpoint presentations on Ancient Africa.  Many of the presentations include links to other activities.  Some of the subjects include kingdoms, trade routes, weaving, slave trade, and the civilizations of Ghana, Kush, Mali. 
 
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Author/Host of Website Myra Wysinger
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Visit the website: Ancient Africa's Black Kingdoms
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Grade Level Middle and High (6-12)

Ancient Africa's Black Kingdoms provides timelines, descriptions and pictures of the Nubian and Sudanese cultures, music, hairstyles, languages, masks, and influences in the Western world.

 
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Author/Host of Website Children's University of Manchester
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Ancient Egypt
Free
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)

Ancient Egypt has several interactive games to help kids learn about this ancient civilization.  There is an interactive map, timeline, pyramid panorama, and activities on Egyptian gods, number system, hieroglyphs, and the making of a mummy.

 
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Author/Host of Website Museum of Science, Boston
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Visit the website: Ancient Egypt Virtual Exhibit
Free
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site:  Expand your understanding of ancient Egyptian history and culture by visiting this online exhibit.

Get to know our 2500-year-old mummy by reviewing extensive CAT-scan images and manipulating a highly detailed 3-D model. Learn about excavation and try your hand at it, virtually speaking, by sending a buried message to a friend. Plan your journey to the afterlife with Eternity Travel, or play the ancient game of Senet.

 
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Author/Host of Website Google Earth
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Visit the website: Ancient Rome in 3D
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Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site: In the Ancient Rome 3D layer, you can:

  • Fly into Rome as it looked in 320 A.D.
  • Tour the interior of famous buildings.
  • Visit the sites in 3D such as the Roman Forum, Colosseum and the Forum of Julius Caesar.
  • Learn about how the Romans lived.

LearningReviews.com note:  This is a layer you add to the free Google Earth software, which you must first download to your computer.

 
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Author/Host of Website Lawrence Lo
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Ancient Scripts
Free
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site:  The aim of Ancient Scripts is not to replace texts books or instructional web sites. Instead, it is designed to give an introduction to writing systems, which hopefully will tantalize the reader into searching for more information on the web or in books and publications.

 
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Author/Host of Website Thomas Sakoulas
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Visit the website: Ancient-Greece.org
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Free
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site:  This is a collection of images, thoughts, and resources about Ancient Greece...


While the entire site can be utilized as an educational resource, I thought some parts of it can be particularly usefull to professors and teachers.

Pictures of Ancient Greece  Here you will find pictures of major archaeological sites and museums of Greece. They are arranged in slide shows and thumbnail pages.

Timeline of Greek History and Culture  A chronology of Greece through ancient times which includes major periods of development, as well as major events in history.

 
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Author/Host of Website University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Visit the website: Black Sea Trade Project
Free
Grade Level Middle and High (6-12)

From site:  The Black Sea Trade Project is an interdisciplinary study of trade systems in the Black Sea over the past 5,000 years and their effects on local cultures and economies. 

The project focuses on the hinterland and port of Sinop (ancient Sinope), an important Greek and Roman colony at the midpoint of the Turkish Black Sea coast.

For thousands of years the site of Sinop has been a strategic point in the cultural and trade systems of the Black Sea. The port has been host to many civilizations, including Bronze Age, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman. Sinope was the first Black Sea colony founded by the great Greek city of Miletus on the west coast of Turkey. Archaeological evidence for Greek settlement here goes back to the seventh century B.C., although the Bronze Age remains show people lived at the "best port on the South coast of the Black Sea"  thousands of years earlier. 

 
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Author/Host of Website The Field Museum
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Visit the website: Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
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Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)

From site:  How do you view Cleopatra?
During her own lifetime, Cleopatra portrayed herself in a variety of ways. In the 2000 years since her death, her image has been shaped even further by countless poems, paintings, sculptures, songs, plays, books, and movies.

What do you know about Cleopatra?
Over time, people have seen Cleopatra as a ravishing beauty...a greedy power-monger...a goddess...a queen...a courageous leader...a seducer and destroyer of great men. Which of these portrayals is true?

 
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Author/Host of Website Federation of American Scientists
Type of Educational Content Software
Visit the website: Discover Babylon
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Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)

From site: Mesopotamia’s diverse contributions in writing, mathematics, literature, and law will come alive again in Discover Babylon TM , a joint project of the Federation of American Scientists Learning Technologies Project, UCLA’s Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, Escape Hatch Entertainment, and the Walters Art Museum.

Located in what is now modern Iraq—Mesopotamia was the birthplace of written language, the first cities, the concept of the 360° circle and the 24-hour day, not to mention the earliest known laws and literature—yet its contributions are not well known to many Americans. Targeted at ages 8 – 14, Discover Babylon TM uses sophisticated video gaming strategies and realistic digital environments to engage the learner in challenges and mysteries that can only be solved through developing an understanding of Mesopotamian society, business practices, and trade.

 
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Author/Host of Website BBC Wales
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Iron Age Celts
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Grade Level Elementary (K-5)

From site:  This site is about the Iron Age Celts who lived in Western Europe from about the 5th century BC to the first century AD - the early Celts.

The site is for use both at school and at home and is aimed primarily at KS2 children (aged 7 - 11), their teachers and their parents. The emphasis is on facilitating experiential learning to help children enter the world of the Iron Age Celts at their level of understanding, in line with the National Curriculum. We would urge you to visit an Iron Age location, to encourage role-play and to order a box of objects from the Museum for classes to handle and discuss.

A general point which cannot be over-emphasised is how little evidence of the Iron Age survives today. Most of the surviving documentary evidence was written by the Romans - from a Roman perspective. Material evidence is also thin on the ground, consisting mainly of metal objects. Children need to understand that the history of this era was created using supposition, imagination and reconstruction.

 
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Author/Host of Website Dr. Karen Carr/Portland State U.
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Visit the website: Kidipede: Ancient China
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Parent/Guardian Information
Free
Grade Level Middle (6-8)

From site:  Ancient China and Medieval China for Kids - history, food, clothing, religion, philosophy, and more.

LearningReviews.com note: There is also a Teachers' Guide with suggestions for how to present info on Ancient China.

 
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Author/Host of Website Oriental Institute/University of Chicago
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Visit the website: Mummy
Free
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

Help Anubis, the god of embalming for ancient Egyptians, prepare a body for burial.  Mummification helps to preserve the body, according to their beliefs, so the soul can be recognized after death.  In this interactive you will follow each of the steps Egyptians took to mummify the body and prepare it for burial.

 
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Author/Host of Website BBC
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit the website: Pyramid Builder
Free
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)

From site:  The king faces you surrounded by an entourage of the queen, fan bearers, body guards and scribes.  His instructions to you are short.  You must build a pyramid so when he dies, his soul can rise up to the heavens and take his divinely ordained place among the gods.

 
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Author/Host of Website Department of Education/British Museum
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Visit the website: The British Museum: Ancient Egypt
Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
Free
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)

The British Museum's free interactive website is composed of ten "chapters" on ancient Egypt topics.  These include: Egyptian life, geography, gods and goddesses, mummification, pharaohs, pyramids,  temples, times, trades and writing.  There is also a "staff room" with extensive resources for teachers.

 
 
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