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Journal of  Archaeology, History, and Exploration

Sources and Publishing Index

Languages and early writing: New World (Mesoamerica, North America, South America)

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• Aztec Manuscripts   Listing and sample images of major codices of PreColumbian and contact-period Mexico.
• Dicionário Tupi   A basic vocabulary of Tupi-Guarani, lingua franca of the Amazon trade routes; at the site  O Brazil Indigina.
• Ethnologue: Language Family Index   From the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL).This index provides detailed language family classifications for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific.
• Glyph Dwellers   A publication of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project, at the University of California, Davis.
• Indice des Codex Mexicains  List of codices in French, with sample images.
• Maya Calendar  Includes software to convert between Maya and European dates.
• another Mayan Calendar site
• Mayan comparative vocabulary database  From Odense University, Denmark, with 40,000 words presently online.
• Mayan Epigraphic Database Project    A database of glyphs along with their phonetic values and different semantic values in the various Mayan languages.
• Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop  An introduction to Maya glyphic writing, hosted by the University of Calgary in Canada.
• Mayan Language Bibliography  A detailed listing at a German site of early sources on Mayan languages.
• Nahuatl: Analytic Dictionary of Ameyaltepec  From a Yale University project to document and teach the language of Ameyaltepec, a Nahuatl-speaking village of central Guerrero, Mexico.
• Native American Language Center  (SSILA)   A group of resources from the University of California at Davis.
• Palenque Project  Summarizes finds from the 1997-1999 field seasons, plus discussion of glyphic texts (some, newly discovered).

Early writing: Old World (Near East, Egypt, and Mediterranean):

• ABZU- Oriental Insitute  -  University of Chicago - clickable list of ancient Egptian texts and links
• Avesta - Zoroastrian archives  - Texts in Avesti and Pahlavi (Middle Persian) languages
• cuneiform documents read with computer tomography -  Israeli project: modern technology unseals ancient letters
• cuneiform numbers -  the signs and translations
• Demotic Dictionary Project    Ongoing work at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, preparing a dictionary of the demotic script as a companion to Erichsen's Demotisches Glossar.
• Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies -  Czech Republic site
• Louvre Museum, Paris  Collections of Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities include numerous important texts
• Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project   -  University of Helsinki
• Nippur Expedition  - Writings and archaeological levels from the Early Dynastic Period (3500 BC) through the Middle Ages. Project sponsored by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
• Old Persian syllabary - from the Univ.of Calif. at Berkeley
• Old Persian Texts - dating from ca. 500 BC
• University of Cambridge - Egyptology resources, including the the "Beinlich Wordlist" of Ancient Egyptian words

Classical era (Greece, Rome, and Near East): 

       Graeco-Roman Papyrus Documents from Egypt : A wealth of papyrus documents from the Graeco-Roman era have come to light on the daily lives of ancient people in Egypt between 350 BC and AD 650, ranging from tax and bank accounts to love letters and marriage contracts, birth records, divorce cases, temple offerings, commodity lists, and most other conceivable types of memoranda ( personal, financial, or religious). A recent project, the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), has linked efforts at several major universities  to conserve, classify, and publish their collections, including Greek, Demotic, Hieratic, Arabic, and Latin texts.

• Carlsberg Papyrus Collection    Significant groups of 1-2nd c.AD texts from the Tebtunis Temple Library, excavated in 1930, plus material from Hawara and Edfu, at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Duke Papyrus Archive    Descriptions and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt. A tremendous research site hosted through the Special Collections Library at Duke University.
• Instituto Papyrologico G. Vitelli, Florence  Project to make digital images of carbonized and other damaged papyri, showing some of the results.
• Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page    From the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, with digital images of fragments from Homer, the New Testament, and ancient tax rolls, plus a descriptive inventory on sources, conservation methods, and contents of Princeton's papyri, some from Oxyrhynchus in the Egyptian Fayum.
• University of .California Tebtunis Papyri    Over 21,000 papyrus fragments from Tebtunis, recovered in 1899-1900 by British archaeologists Grenfell and Hunt, are at the University of California. This website from the Bancroft Library at Berkeley features related groups of correspondence and other documents.

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Greek and Latin texts:

• American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy   A number of well-organized links to images and texts of inscriptions.
• Bibliotheca Latina    A library of ancient, Medieval, and scholastic Latin literature from the Classics Teachers' Association at the University of Wisconsin.
• Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL)    The major epigraphic source originally compiled by Mommsen and his associates in the late19th century, provided by the Seminar for Ancient History at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
• Gnomon     Latin Inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database at Heidelberg University.
• Inscriptions from the Land of Israel    Writings from Israel from 330 BC - AD 614 in Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek; an ongoing project from the University of Virginia.
• Lacus Curtius   The full text of Pliny's Natural History, plus links to Roman inscriptions (and a wide range of archaeology links).
• Latin Library    Texts from dozens of ancient and Medieval writers from Apuleius to Vergil, hosted at Ad Fontes Academy.
• M.I.T. Classics    A searchable Internet Classics archive from the Mass. Institute of Technology.
• Perseus Project   Works by Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Plautus, Servius, and Vergil in Latin (with some English translations) at the Perseus site from Tufts University.
• Roman Inscriptions in Britain (RIB) - a main source of information on Roman Britain, as covered in Athena Review 

Numismatics: Coins from antiquity to the present day:

• Comparative Chronology of Money  Lists coin types and relative values from ancient to modern times.

Dark Ages, Viking, and Middle Ages:

• Árni Magnússon Institute  Árni Magnússon (1663-1730), an Icelander and professor at the University of Copenhagen, had a major collection of medieval Icelandic manuscripts, now in the Arnamagnæan Institute. Examples include the 12 c. AD  Íslendingabók (Book of the Icelanders), and early versions of the Kings saga.
• Electronic Beowulf    The Old English epic, from the British Library and the University of Kentucky.
• Gaelic home page   Celtic linguistics, with references to ancient sources.
• Gesta Normanorum  English translation of a Medieval manuscript on Viking Normandy by Dudo of St. Quentin.
• Labyrinth   Dark Age and Medieval source listings from Georgetown University. Also:
  •     Armarium Labyrinthi    The Labyrinth Latin Bookcase; Medieval and Roman sources from Georgetown University.
  •     Old English Pages    The literature of Anglo-Saxon England - with links.
• Medieval Sourcebook: Bede: The Conversion of England   from Fordham University.
• Old Norse Manuscripts in Copenhagen   History and sample images, from  the Arnamagnæan Institute. 
• Online Medieval and Classical Library   Sagas, chronicles, and heroic poems from the Berkeley  (U.Calif.) Digital Library.    
• Viking Sagas and Legends  
• West Iceland mythology and sagas   Notes on the immortal skald Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), plus sagas from 850-1100 AD, including Egil's Saga, the Edda, and Laxdela (a Viking tale with a woman in the hero's role).
• Old Norse Manuscripts in Copenhagen   History and sample images, from  the Arnamagnæan Institute.

Renaissance to Modern: Library collections

• Avalon Project   Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents, from antiquity to the 18th century. From the Yale University Law School.
• American and British History Resources on the Internet   from Rutgers University Library.
• The British Library   Search form for Reference and Document Collections.
• Electronic Text Center   at the University of Virginia.
• Literary Resources on the Net  Ancient to modern; maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University.
• On-line books page  From Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
• Project Gutenberg   Thousands of literary and historical texts on-line; a pioneering project in elecronic texts.
• Virginia Colonial Records Project   Hosted at the Library of Virginia, a search facility for huge amounts of historical data, from 17th century geneology and ship-lists, to Confederate pension lists, to Worlds Fair photographs.
• Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary   Selections, in a 1924 English translation by H.I. Woolf.

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