Ancient Artifact Sources

Athens School at Ligne France

https://cefael.efa.gr/site.php?site_id=1
This site has the original archeological publications done by this school around the Mediterranean. Pictures of the finds are found at the end of each publication. These include the Linear A tablets found on Crete.

British Museum Collections

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
A wonderful revamped online source for their many artifacts including archaeological texts. Just don't trust their translations because most are old.

Don's Maps

https://donsmaps.com/index.html
Super site having images for the study of Palaeolithic / Paleolithic European, Russian and Australian Archaeology. This has the web's most comprehensive collection of photos of Venus figurines.

Indus Valley Civilization

https://www.harappa.com/
Great site about the ancient Indus Valley Civilization with lots of pictures of archaeological finds in its slides section.

Louvre Collections

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/
One of the greatest museums in the world has put its collections online. The range is just incredible.

Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago

https://oi.uchicago.edu/collections
Good collection covering the Near East and Egypt

Theoi Greek Mythology

https://www.theoi.com/
This site explores Greek mythology and gods in classical literature and art. It provides a great reference guide to their gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes.

Megalithic Portal

https://www.megalithic.co.uk/index.php
A growing repository of all megalithic monuments and related structures.

https://library.artstor.org/#/home
The Artstor Digital Library provides straightforward access to curated images from reliable sources that have been rights-cleared for use in education and research — you are free to use them in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.
And unlike results from Google or other search engines, our images come with high-quality metadata from the collection catalogers, curators, institutions, and artists themselves.

https://www.penn.museum/sites/
Since the 1990s, the Penn Museum has had an active presence on the Internet, creating websites for Museum-related research projects, special exhibitions, and fun interactives. These legacy websites have been consciously migrated to keep their content as alive as possible. We hope you enjoy browsing these 45 websites and discovering some web gems from the past 20 years.

https://www.flyoverzone.com/virtual-museum/
An up and coming future technology being developed by a company here in the Midwest. View historical objects in 3D in your browser.
Flyover Zone, an employee-owned company based in Bloomington, Indiana, is an acknowledged pioneer in the emerging field of virtual tourism. We create tours of cultural heritage sites that empower our virtual travelers to explore a destination as their curiosity leads them. Flyover Zone’s virtual tours do more than take you to see the monuments as they look today. When they have been damaged or destroyed, we also show you stunningly beautiful virtual reconstructions of how they originally looked. This means you can go back in time and experience the world’s great heritage sites the way the ancients did. Visit historic places such as Rome, Athens, and Baalbek just by turning on your phone, tablet, computer or VR headset – Flyover will teleport you there in an instant!

https://www.yorescape.com/
An up and coming future technology being developed by a company here in the Midwest. Tour historical environments in 3-D from your browser.
This is the most recent release by Flyover Zone.

https://www.relivehistoryin3d.com
Incredible and ongoing recreation of Rome, its buildings, and its art.

https://www.levantineceramics.org/
The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP) is an open-access resource for the study of Levantine pottery – and its societies, cultures, and economies – from the Neolithic era (c. 5500 B.C.E.) until today.