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Museums, Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Greece An excellent comprehensive resource for the study of ancient Greek art and artifacts covering archaeological sites, monuments, and museum collections in all parts of Greece (including the Aegean Islands and Crete). Maintained by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
www.culture.gr/2/21/maps/hellas.html

The Perseus Project- An outstanding research tool for the study of the ancient world. The project provides searchable digital catalogs of art objects, sites, and buildings. The catalogs currently document 523 coins, 1548 vases, over 1400 sculptures, 179 sites and 381 buildings, with over 33,000 pictures. Various texts are also available. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Gregory Crane, Tufts University.
www.perseus.tufts.edu/

The Ancient City of Athens - An extensive photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens.
www.indiana.edu/~kglowack/athens/

The Ancient Greek World - A presentation by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of life in ancient Greece. Divided into four major themes - Land and Time, Daily Life, Economy, Religion and Death - a selection of artifacts and text offer insight into Greek art and material culture.
www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/Intro.html

Greek and Roman Art and Architecture The personal collection of slides of Kathryn Andrus-Walck at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
harpy.uccs.edu/collect.html

Mythology in Western Art Dr. Sonia Klinger's useful collection of art images relating to Classical mythology. It includes not only ancient art but also images from various periods of Western art which depict the gods and heroes mentioned in Homer.
www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/mythology_westart.html

Maecenas: Images of Greece and Rome Over 1000 excellent photographs of mostly ancient Roman architecture by Leo C. Curran. Italy is extensively covered, but sites and buildings in England and France are also included.
wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_contents.htm

The Forum Romanum -An exploration of the Roman Forum between 100 BCE and 100 CE by three students of De Grundel High School in Hengelo, the Netherlands.
library.thinkquest.org/11402/

Images of Rome- An extensive and comprehensive collection of images by Kalervo Koskimies of ancient Rome, supplemented with many 18th- and 19th-century prints, organized according to district.
www.siba.fi/~kkoskim/rooma/pages/MAIN.HTM

Celtic Art and Cultures -Dorothy Verkerk's project to provide a large and varied database of multimedia materials for the study of Celtic art and culture, including images, animations, reconstructions, and interactive exercises.
http://www.unc.edu/celtic/