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Archaeological Digs Blog

A great blog written by Paul McLerran. Features photographs and narratives from dig sites.

Image Websites

Beazley Archive
"The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and its collection and reception since antiquity"
Capitolium
An official source of live information on the archaeological site of the Imperial Forums. Online visitors can follow daily the development of the work which is being carried out by top-level scholars of Roman antiquity.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Greek and Rome collections
Pompeii Forum Project
Scale Model of Rome
This site is in French, but, it still offers a great model of Rome.

Museums

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
The Kelsey Museum houses a collection of nearly 100,000 ancient and medieval objects from the civilizations of the Mediterranean and the Near East.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Classical Archaeology
The Museum of Classical Archaeology is one of the few surviving collections of plaster casts of Greek & Roman sculpture in the world.
The Louvre
Contains Egyptian, Roman, Etruscan, and Greek art.
Toledo Museum of Art
The ancient civilizations of Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome are represented in TMA’s collection by masterworks in stone, clay, wood, glass, bronze, and precious metals.
U. of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Institute of Nautical Archaeology
Site dedicated to the exploration of nautical archaeology. Run by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, it contains photographs and narratives of various underwater excavations.

Ancient Rome: Images

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