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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Search the Timeline and the Maps for West Asia (for Mesopotamia), Africa (Ancient Egypt), Europe (Ancient Greece and the Italian Penninsula), and East Asia (China).
Search the Thematic Essays for Greek and Roman Art.
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HUMAN ORIGINS
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Discovery Channel: Discovering Ardi
Information and videos from the documentary about Ardipithecus and Human Evolution.
"Ardi" is now the oldest skeleton from our (hominid) branch of the primate family tree. These Ethiopian discoveries reveal an early grade of human evolution in Africa that predated the famous Australopithecus nicknamed "Lucy."
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NOVA: Becoming Human
Short video clips from the 3 part Nova program.
Who's Who in Human Evolution is an interactive illustration of important fossil evidence of the development of our human family tree.
Our Family Tree: See (and hear) where you stand among the great apes in this audiovisual interactive.
Compare the Skeletons This interactive illustrations compares the bones of chimps, early human ancestors, and modern people to reveal what it takes for us to walk upright.
Meet Your Ancestors From the NOVA SCIENCE NOW website, this interactive leads you back through the known fossil records.
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Human Origins Initiative
This new Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins exhibit hall is scheduled to open March 27, 2010.What does it mean to be human?
Human Origins Family Tree
Evidence of Human Evolution
Fossil Forensics Interactive
What's Hot in Human Origins? (the latest news)
Did Lucy's species use stone tools?
A Skeleton Named Ardi
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National Geographic Genographic Project
National Geographic's Genographic Project collects DNA to research DNA archeology to trace the migrations of our human family from its beginnings in Africa to all over our planet.
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National Geographic Daily News: Oldest Known Mattress Found
National Geographic reports that archeologists have announced the world's oldest known mattress has been unearthed in the Sibudu Cave site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The mattress--which consists of layers of reeds and rushes had accumulated over a period of 39,000 years, with the oldest mats dating to 77,000 years ago,
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MESOPOTAMIA
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AHAA Foundation
Applied History of Art and Architecture Educational Foundation: Introduction to Early Civilizations, including Mesopotamia and the Sumerians.
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Epic Hero
An online article from the Smithsonian Magazine, May 2007: "How a self-taught British genius rediscovered the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh after 2,500 years."
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Gilgamesh from Factmonster.com |
Gilgamesh from the Encyclopedia Britannica: images of the Gilgabesh cuneiform clay tablets |
Mesopotamian mosaics and other artifacts from the Encylopedia Britannica.
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Twenty Squares: the Royal Game of Ur
An online guide to the oldest game board ever found, discovered inside the Royal tombs at the ancient Sumerian city of Ur from tombs built more than 5000 years ago.
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ANCIENT EGYPT
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National Geographic for Kids: Egypt |
Ancient Egypt: History for Kids |
Life in Ancient Egypt
From Channel 4 (U.K.)
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Virtual Egypt
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Pyramind challenge game |
What was a scribe? |
Rags to Riches: Egypt Vocabulary game |
For film clips, search Curriculum Video on Demand (from the MFS Library webpage of M/US Databases: films) for terms such as Imhotep, Stepped Pyramid, Djoser, Egyptian Pharaohs, etc.
Search BrainPop for "Egypt". |
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ANCIENT GREECE & ROME
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Time for Kids: Greece |
Odyssey Online: Greece |
NatGeo Kids - In the Spotlight: Greece |
The Legend of Rome: Romulus and Remus
Take the Legend of Rome quiz.
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Roman Artifacts from the David M. Robinson Collection |
BBC Ancient Romans
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| Search BrainPop for "Greece," "Greek," "Rome" and "Romans." |
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CONFUCIUS
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Confucius
History for Kids
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Confucianism
United Religions Initiative Kids: World Religions
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ARCHEOLOGY
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Dig:The Archeology Magazine for Kids
Test your archeology IQ and take a quiz. Explore the links to great sites.
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AMNH Archeology
American Museum of Natural History's Ology: clues from the past.
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NPS Archeology for Kids
Explore the different archeology programs in our National Park Service.
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Artifact Bingo
Play the Artifact Bingo gam eor click on other links to fun and games from Dr. Dirt of the University of Texas
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PALEONTOLOGY |
Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton: Hadrosaurus Foulkii
Found in Haddonfield, NJ!!
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SDNHM Finding Fossils
San Diego Natural History Museum exhibit about dinosaur finds.Play the "Name That Reptile" game.
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The Learning Zone: Fossils
Interactive pages and games about fossils.
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Geo Mysteries
From the Children's Museum of Indianapolis:
Rex the Dino Detective will help you solve mysteries about rocks, fossils and minerals. Scroll through the geologic timeline. The farther you scroll down the page, the farther you'll go back in time.
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ALF Museum: Are You a Paleontologist?
Join this expedition on a search for dinosaurs fossils in the cretaceous rocks in Utah with interactive activities and videos. Additional activities include a "Dino Flipbook" and unearthing your own fossil by dragging your brush over a rock.
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When Crocs Ruled
Explore the world of When Crocodiles Ruled, long after dinosaurs disappeared. Go back in time 60 million years to a subtropical forest.
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Dinosaur Primer
Interactive lessons about the characteristics of dinosaurs and changing climate. Play a game to figure out which prehistoric animals were dinosaurs. Look at fossil leaves, the connection between volcanoes and extinction and the dino-bird relationship.
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