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Ancient Indus Valley     Various illustrated essays. The Indus Valley civilization flourished around 2, 500 B.C. in the western part of South Asia, in what today is Pakistan and western India. It is often referred to as Harappan Civilization after its first discovered city, Harappa. From ERROR: TIMEOUT http://www.harappa.com/har/har0.html

ClockWorks     Illustrated mechanisms of many historical clocks. Includes: Sundial, Clepsydra, Astrolabe, Candle clock, Sandglass, Weight-driven clock, Spring-driven clock, Pendulum clock, Quartz watch, Cesium atomic clock. From Britannica.com: Clockworks: From Sundials to the Atomic Second http://www.britannica.com/clockworks/main.html

Collapse: why do civilizations fall?     Explore the collapse of four ancient civilizations in order to understand what awaits our own. Learn what happens when a society collapses and how archaeologists find and interpret evidence. From Exhibits Collection -- Collapse http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/

Tale of Three Cities     Examine details of a painting by René Milot that compares ancient Egypt, medieval Spain, and modern New York to see how life has changed - and hasn't. From Tale of Three Cities @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/3cities/

Andes Expedition: Searching for Inca Secrets     Virtual autopsy of the ice maiden that was killed five hundred years ago as a sacrifice to the gods in the Inca empire. The maiden's body preserved remarkably well. There is also a description of the expedition to the Andes led by Johan Reinhard, aimed to discover more Inca religious sites. Attractive graphics, but limited content. From Andes @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/andes/index.html

Lords of Copan     Monuments and tombs erected by the rulers of one of the great Maya cities. Come face-to-face with the Red Lady, and esteemed Maya noble. From Lords of Copan @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/copan/index.html

At the Tomb of Tutankhamen     Opening of the royal Egyptian sepulcher of Tutankhamen which contained the most remarkable funeral treasures. The account is given in the form of diary of the witnesses, which actually has appeared in the National Geographic earlier. Site also contains a list of resources about Egypt history. Limited content. From At the Tomb of Tutankhamen @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/index.html

Ice Treasures of the Inca     Climb Peru's Mount Ampato following the path of the ancient Inca in a re-creation of an actual expedition that took place in 1995. The site is done mostly in a narrative text format. From Ice Treasures of the Inca @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mummy/index.html

Secrets of Easter Island     Story of a team of archaeologists and a 75-person crew who sought to unravel a central mystery of Easter Island: how hundreds of giant stone statues that dominate the island's coast were moved and erected. For one month, the team struggled to raise a 10-ton moai, using only the tools and materials available to the ancient Easter Islanders. From NOVA Online | Secrets of Easter Island http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/

Secrets of Lost Empires     Massive building projects of ancient civilizations. Learn how to build complex stone structures by reading about experiments that rebuilt those structures in modern day using only tools available to the ancient men. From NOVA Online | Secrets of Lost Empires http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/

Pyramids: the Inside Story     Have you ever dreamed of exploring the pyramids of Egypt? If so, enter here, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built. You can also follow the 1997 field season of a team of archaeologists as they excavated the bakery that fed the pyramid builders. Difficult to use. From NOVA Online/Pyramids -- The Inside Story http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

Lost City of Arabia     The use of remote sensing and GPS in archeology in a search for Ubar, the lost city of Arabia. From NOVA Online/Lost City of Arabia http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/

Nature's preservative     Organic Flypaper: Amber Gives a Green Light to Study of Ancient Life. People have made jewelry from amber - hardened tree resin - since the Egyptian era. From Organic Flypaper http://whyfiles.org/008amber/

Theban Mapping Project     Explore the History of Thebes, one of the riches archaeological sites on Earth located in Egypt. Tour the principal monuments in Theban Sites. Get ready to fly across the Theban landscape and see the Theban Necroposis in Virtual Reality through QTVR. From Theban Mapping Project http://www.kv5.com/intro.html

Land of Genghis Khan     Great legend of Genghis Khan. View the map of his ancient empire. Learn about Mongolia today. From Genghis Khan @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/genghis/index.html

Mysterious Mummies of China     Preserved in peat bogs, frozen in ice, embalmed on the banks of the Nile - find out how mummies across the ages came to be preserved. From NOVA Online | Mysterious Mummies of China http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/

Search for the Lost Cave People     In 1997, an international group of archaeologists ventured into the Chiapas region of Mexico to search for the remains of a little-known civilization that preceded the Maya. In caves hundreds of feet above the Rio la Venta, and in an ancient complex swallowed by the jungle, the team found astonishing archaeological treasures. From NOVA Online | Search for the Lost Cave People http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/laventa/

Mysteries of Catalhoyuk     Mysteries of the Catalhoyuk, the site of an ancient city in Turkey. Look at the pictures of burials, and discuss your findings in the bone lab. Explore why the dead were buried in the floor of the house where people used to leave, and find out what people were eating for dinner 10,000 years ago. From Mysteries of Çatalhöyük http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/catal/top.html

Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games     The real story of the ancient Olympic Games. Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal? From Ancient Olympics @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html

Origins and Ancient History of Wine     How Museum excavators uncovered the world's oldest wine jar and Museum scientists determined its contents. Find out why the grape remains ever popular - cloned over and over again from its ancient beginnings. Fermented beverages have been preferred over water throughout the ages: they are safer, provide psychotropic effects, and are more nutritious. Some have even said alcohol was the primary agent for the development of Western civilization, since more healthy individuals (even if inebriated much of the time) lived longer and had greater reproductive success. From “The Origins and Ancient History of Wine”@ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Wine/wineintro.html

Ice mummies     Process of mummification and about how scientists study mummies that they find. Learn about the Peruvian expedition of 1996. From NOVA Online | Ice Mummies http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/icemummies/

Body Modification Ancient and Modern     Whatever their reasons, people around the world have been piercing, tattooing, and painting their bodies for ages. There's excellent evidence of this in the galleries of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, some of it dating as far back as the 9th century B.C.E. Site may be slow. From Body Modification Ancient and Modern @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Exhibits/bodmodintro.html