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Ancient Civilizations - Egyptian and Roman history
Good free resources are always welcome when teaching these two important areas of ancient history. Alan Haskvitz frequently uses those below, but let him know if you have a good one to share by emailing reacheverychild@yahoo.com.

Beginnings

The Alphabet is Historic

Ancient Civilizations for Kids

Ancient & Classical Cultures
Find the Aztecs, Incas, etc.

Ancient Civilizations Theme Page

Ancient Egypt
Link site with integrated and critical thinking ideas; also Greek links

Ancient History

Exploring Ancient World Cultures

Mr. Donn's Ancient History Page
Always a good place to start with a lot of variety and depth

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Egypt

Hieroglyphs
A fun site that offers great printouts and much more

How to Make a Mummy

Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt
Excellent overview

NOVA Online/Pyramids
Virtual tour of pyramid needs fast server, but offers three options for different connections

The Egypt Game

Virtual-Egypt
More complete site, but with more distractions

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General link sites
Always preview link sites for appropriateness before having students use them.

Ancient/Biblical Egypt

Ancient Egypt Teacher Resource File
Large link site with Ask an Egyptologist, Nubia & Kush, and ways to integrate Egyptian history

Ancient Rome
Some broken links, but plenty of active ones, too

Innovative Teaching -- Egypt

Send an Ancient Egyptian eCard

The Labyrinth:  Resources for Medieval Studies
Extensive history of the Crusades from Georgetown University

Theban Mapping Project
Discover each tomb in the Valley in this interactive Atlas with some 3D, narration and aerial views.

Medieval Crusades

Medieval Technology

Mediterranean Archeology Resources
This Greek web site links to major archeology journals.

Myths and Legends
1001 Mythology Links 

The Perseus Digital Library
Greek and Roman Cultures

The Roman Empire in the First Century

 

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Lesson plan sites

Ancient Egypt -- The British Museum

DIA: Ancient Egypt
Lessons created and integrated by teachers

Egypt Theme
By grade level

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Roman links

The Alphabet is Historic: The Roman Alphabet is our Alphabet

Ancient/Biblical Rome
General link site

Ancient Civilizations
Major and significant link site on all ancient civilizations, it contains some broken links, but still has much to offer.

Awesome Library Ancient Romans

BBC for Schools: The Romans

BBC History – Romans

Castles on the Web

History for Kids: Ancient Rome

The Crusades

The Crusades and the Rise of Islam         

Crusades – The Columbia Encyclopedia

Mythology in the Classroom

Mythology Links

ProTeacher! Ancient Rome
General link site

The Roman Empire

Roman Numeral Math

Roman Numerals
A short lesson

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Test Sites

The Ancient Civilizations IQ test

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