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Parthian Archaeology (Parthia.com)
Parthia in the News (Parthia.com)
Partho-Sassanian archaeology (Penn Museum)
Rare Parthian tombstone discovered in northcentral Iran (Tehran Times)
Parthian fortresses of Nisa (UNESCO)
Nisa (Encyclopedia Iranica)
Primary Sources
A political history of Parthia / Sources (WikiSources)
The Parthian Empire (Parthia.com)
The name Troy refers both to a place in legend and a real-life archaeological site in modern day Turkey, near Gallipoli. In legend, Troy is a city that was besieged for 10 years and eventually conquered by a Greek army led by King Agamemnon. The Trojan horse was a huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Troy during the Trojan War. Despite the warnings the horse was taken inside the city gates. That night Greek warriors emerged from it and opened the gates to let in the returned Greek army, who slaughtered the Trojans and burnt the city.
Lost Worlds and Mysterious Civilizations
Immortalized in Homer's epic works The Iliad and The Odyssey, the legendary city of Troy was the stage on which devastating battles were fought and heroic deeds were done during Troy's conflict with the Greeks.
British Museum: The search for the lost city of Troy
UNESCO: Archaeological site of Troy
Live Science: Troy - The City and the Legend
Live Science: Archaeologists plan new dig at Troy
History101: The greatest find of the 21st century solves 3,000-year-old mystery of the Trojan War
Ancient History Encyclopedia: Troy
The Conversation: The Fall of Troy - The Legend and the Facts
Primary Sources
Open Learning: Sources for the Trojan War
Approaching ancient Assyria through archaeology leads to new insights (Leiden University)
Archaeologists restoring ISIS damage in Iraq discover Assyrian reliefs unseen for millennia (CNN)
The Powerful Assyrians, Rulers of Empires (Ancient Origins)
Early excavations in Assyria (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Primary Sources
Assyria (c. 1350-612 BCD ((Fordham University Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)
Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria (Fordham University Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)
Archaeology breakthrough: ‘Significant’ Genghis Khan discovery ends decades-old debate (Express)
Prehistoric Monglian archaeology in the Early 21st Century: Developments in the Steppe and Beyond
Architects have mapped the ancient capital of the Mongolian Empire (The Art Newspaper)
Archaeologists Debunk Myth: Mongols Had Cities, but Not for Themselves (Haaretz Archaelogy)
Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in Mongolia (Ayan Travel)
Mongolia’s best archeological discoveries of 2020 named (Montsame)
Archaeologists discover Genghis Khan’s winter home (Medievalists.net)
Primary Sources
Description of the Tatars (Mongols) (Fordham University Internet History Sourcebook)
Angkor and the mighty Khmer Empire (Victorian Government)
Remapping the Khmer Empire (Archaeology Magazine)
New research shows how many people lived in the Angkor Empire (University of Oregon)
Revealed: Cambodia's vast medieval cities hidden beneath the jungle (The Guardian)
Lost City of Khmer Empire Finally Found in Cambodia! (Ancient Origins)
What happened to the Maya? (Ancient Origins)
The lost city of Cambodia (Smithsonian Magazine)
Primary Sources
The way of life in the Khmer Empire (National Library of Australia)
The Mali Empire: The Rise of the Richest Civilization in West Africa (Ancient Origins)
Mali Empire and Djenne figures (Smithsonian Museum)
Timbuktu manuscripts: Mali's ancient documents captured online (BBC News)
Mali Manuscripts Rescued and Digitized to Celebrate the Malian Renaissance (Ancient Origins)
Primary Sources
Kingdom of Mali - Primary source documents (Boston University)
Mali Empire and Works of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Minoan civilisation (World History Encyclopedia)
The Minoan civilisation (ThoughtCo)
Social Archeology and The Minoan Civilization (Vasser University)
DNA analysis unearths origins of Minoans, the first major European civilization (University of Washington)
Sir Arthur Evans and the Minoan Myth: The creation of Ancient Cretan culture (University of Mississippi)
The destruction of the Minoan civilisation (Explore Crete)
What is the evidence for existence of Minoan gardens? (Brown University)
Primary Sources
Reports of Minos and Knossos (Ancient History Sourcebook)
From the foundations to the legacy of Minoan archaeology
The Kingdom of Kush: An African Centre on the Periphery of the Bronze Age World System (Norwegian Archaeological Review)
Nubia and the Powerful Kingdom of Kush (Ancient Origins)
Scholars race to recover a lost kingdom on the Nile (New York Times)
Pyramids of the Kingdom of Kush (Heritage Daily)
The lost kingdom of Kush (JSTOR database)
The gold of Kush (History Reference Centre database)
The elusive kingdom of Kush (Biblical Archaeology)
Primary Sources
The Kingdom of Kush (NK Schools)
Relics from the Kingdom of Kush and Ancient Nubia (World History Encyclopedia)
Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush (Resources for History Teachers)
Megalithic temples of Malta (UNESCO)
Cover Up: Very Early Human Presence in Malta Has Been Intentionally Hidden (Ancient Origins)
Exploration into why a rich Temple-building civilization died out on Malta (Ancient Origins)
Scientists explore how seascapes of the ancient world shaped genetic structure of European populations (University of Cambrdge)
Primary Sources
Decoding the megaliths (Archaeology Magazine)
Past, present and future: an overview of Roman Malta (de Gruyter Open Access)
Hittites (Crystal Links)
Early Antiquity: Ch 13 - The Hittite Kingdom
The Hittites and the Aegean World (Penn Museum)
Nature Magazine: Early Hittite civilisation in Cilicia
Making, preserving and breaking peace with the Hittite State
Five key historical sites of the Hittites (World History Encyclopedia)
Primary Sources
The Battle of Kadesh and the Poem of Pentaur (World History Encyclopedia)
Miles of Clay: Information Management in the Ancient Near Eastern Hittite Empire (University of Chicago)
The Hittites and Their World (Ebook)
Lost to history for millennia, the Hittites have regained their position among the great civilizations of the Late Bronze Age Near East, thanks to a century of archaeological discovery and philological investigation. The Hittites and Their World provides a concise, current, and engaging introduction to the history, society, and religion of this Anatolian empire, taking the reader from its beginnings in the period of the Assyrian Colonies in the 19th century B.C.E. to the eclipse of the Neo-Hittite cities at the end of the eighth century B.C.E.
World Famous Unsolved Mysteries: Scythians
Chapter from ebook. By Dubey, Abhay Kumar. From 'World Famous Unsolved Mysteries'. 2011. V&S Publishers. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bbc/detail.action?docID=1667264.
Frozen Siberian Mummies Reveal a Lost Civilization - Discover Magazine
British Museum Blog: Introducing the Scythians
The Scythians - Lost Civilizations
Scythia and the Scythians - Gale in Context: World History database
Saving the frozen Scythian tombs of the Altai Mountains
The real Amazons (National Geographic)
Primary Sources
Introducing the Scythians (British Museum)
Scythia: The men, the mummies (Nicholson Museum)
The Scythians 700-300 BC (Ebook)
Though the 'Scythian period' in the history of Eastern Europe lasted little more than 400 years, the impression these horsemen made upon the history of their times was such that a thousand years after they had ceased to exist as a sovereign people, their heartland and the territories which they dominated far beyond it continued to be known as 'greater Scythia'. From the very beginnings of their emergence on the world scene the Scythians took part in the greatest campaigns of their times, defeating such mighty contemporaries as Assyria, Urartu, Babylonia, Media and Persia.
The Scythians : Nomad Warriors of the Steppe (Ebook)
The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from burials and texts written, mainly, by Greeks, this book reconstructs the lives of the Scythians, exploring their beliefs, their burial practices, their love of fighting and their flexible attitude to gender.
Interesting Engineering: Mayans
Lost civilisations: Mayan history
World History Encyclopedia: Maya Religion - the light that came from beside the sea
BBC History: The fall of the Mayan civilisation
The Incomplete Mayas - printout from ebook by Dubey, A. K. (2011). World famous unsolved mysteries.
History Today: Lost world of the Mayans
Ancient pages: Daily life of the ancient Maya
Archeology.org: From head to toe in the Ancient Maya world
Primary Sources
Primary sources of Maya History (Mex Connect)
Primary sources - Maya (History Skills)
Maya heritage: 150 years of preservtion (British Museum)
The Maya (Ebook)
From series: 'Lost Worlds and Mysterious Civilisations'
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Fordham University: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Perseus: An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander
MIT: Internet Classics Archive
