Here are some links to high-quality websites that I recommend to students in this course as useful for research and further study:
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Excellent for both primary and secondary source material on ancient civilizations. Lots of great links to other websites:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
For Sumerian sources:
http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/index.htm
A collection of sources from several cultures:
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/kchanson/ancdocs.html
A collection of classical Greek and Roman sources:
Ancient history resources:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/mbody.htm
Ancient history maps:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_maps_index.htm
OSSHE Historic Atlas Resource Library (ancient history maps)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/
Resources on Islam:
http://islam.about.com/mbody.htm
The Medieval Sourcebook: excellent for primary source material on the Middle Ages.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Excellent online reference for medieval
civilization:
http://orb.rhodes.edu/
Another good link site for medieval
studies:
http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm
Still more Medieval history resources:
http://historymedren.about.com/mbody.htm
Medieval Atlas:
http://historymedren.about.com/library/weekly/aa071000a.htm
A good website
for an Art History course on very early art.
http://www.coco.cc.az.us/~apeterse/_art201/stoneage.htm
An excellent website on ancient Egyptian civilization, particularly the Pyramids, temples, and other buildings:
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/index.htm
GREAT websites from the French government on cave paintings, monoliths, and other important historical sites (some with English language versions):
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/fr/index.html
An interesting website on ancient music:
http://hometown.aol.com/ricdum/mane.htm
A site on ancient mathematics, with links to other websites on the same topic:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_and_Egyptian.html
Two very interesting sites on medieval bestiaries (books about animals):
http://expositions.bnf.fr/bestiaire/expo/index.htm
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/bestiary.hti
Some other good medieval art and architecture sites:
http://www.paintedchurch.org/index.htm
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval.html
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm
http://architecture.relig.free.fr/accueil.htm
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/english/index.shtml
http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/index.html
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/index.html
http://www.cynscribe.com/museum.html
A link site from the
http://www.wmich.edu/casp/writing_center_links.htm
Links to sites on writing and citation:
http://www.smpcollege.com/hacker/resdoc/
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/