Internet Links
Comparative History

We here collect web pages of interest for the comparative study of ancient Eurasian history, largely exclusive of China. The first grouping below is on general (including archaeological) methodology; other topics are in alphabetical order. What used to be called "Classics" topics will be found below under "Mediterranean Classics." Here are some shortcuts to major sections:

• Methodology
• Ancient Near East
• Greece
• Inner Asia (including Rome)
• Iran
• Japan
• Mediterranean
• Rome

Methodology and General Resources

• Ancient Economies 1 (Morris Silver)
• Ancient Economies 2 (Morris Silver)
• Archaeology Theory (Kevin Greene)
• Argos (Limited search of reputable Ancient and mediaeval sites)
• Cargo Cult Science (R Feynman, courtesy Maurizio Loreti at Padua)
• Coins and Asian History (Thomas Mallon-McCorgay)
• Dendrochronology Primer
• Dendrochronology: Aegean (Cornell)
• Dendrochronology Lab (Arizona)
• Ethnologue (world language relations; Barbara and Joseph Grimes)
• Housman on Text Criticism (everyone should read this once)
• Paleoclimatology
• Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Rhetorical Terms Illustrated (at Kentucky)
• Science in History (Stanford, May 1999) 

Ancient Near East
See also Iran

• Hittite Laws
  • Munich Archive
• Mesopotamia (John Heise)
• Mitanni
• Nineveh Collection (British Museum; Jeannette Fincke)
• Sumerian E-Text Corpus (at Oxford)

China
See our basic China list. A few selected topics:

• History of Chinese Medicine (programs and persons)
• Five Element Theories
• Yangdz River Civilization (Yasuda Yoshinori)

Curricula and Courses

• Comparative History of Ideas (U of Washington)
• Seminar in Comparative World History (Curtin)

Egypt

• Peter Piccione Home Page (College of Charleston)

Greece
See also Mediterranean

• Aesop (Laura Gibbs, chapter 1)
• Ancient Greek World (Penn Museum)
• Copenhagen Polis Center
• Four Element Theories
• Gary Reger Home Page (at Trinity)
• Homer (Chicago Homer: Interlinear Texts)
• Journals
  • Bryn Mawr Classical Review (On-Line)
• Landscape Archaeology Group (at Athens)
• Orality in Herodotus (William Johnson)
• Perseus Project (at Tufts)
• Thales and Reasoning (Dmitri Panchenko)

Inner Asia

• Alexandrian Motifs in Chinese Texts (at this site)
• Bactria
• Central Asian Studies Worldwide (at Harvard)
• Central Asian Maps (Markus Hauser, at Zürich)
• Parthian Horses
• Syungnu (Sergei Miniaev) 
• Western Regions According to HHS 88 (John Hill, at the Silk Road Seattle site)

Iran/Persia

• Avestan Archive (Zoroastrian texts)
• Encyclopedia Iranica (at Columbia)
  • Economy article 
• Persia Sourcebook (Paul Halsall)
• Sasanian Coins (from 0226)

Japan

• Ainu Archaeological News (from the Niigata Museum site)
• Ainu History (Gary Crawford, Nova/PBS transcript)
• Ainu Museum (Hokkaido)
• Archaeological Fraud at Kamitakamori (ABC News)
• Archaeological Fraud at Kamitakamori (BBC News)
• Archaeological News Summaries (Niigata Museum; Mark Hall)
• Japanese Archaeology (Charles Keally, Sophia)
• Niigata Prefectural Museum (many current reports in English)
• Origins of Japanese Peoples and Cultures (Omoto Keiichi)
• Yamatai Problem (Honshu Theory / Mirrors)
• Yamatai Problem (Honshu Theory / Washizaki)
• Yamatai Problem (Kyushu Theory / Saga)
• Yayoi Archaeological News (from the Niigata Museum site)
• Yayoi Bell Distribution Maps (Yokota Yukio)
• Yayoi Culture (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Yayoi Period (Schauwecker's Guide)
• Yayoi Pottery (Schauwecker's Guide)
• Yayoi Summary (Charles Keally)

Journals

• Bulletin of the Asia Institute (Silk Route connections between Central Asia and China)
• Journal of Ancient Civilizations (Northeast Normal University, China)
• Radiocarbon Journal (at Arizona)

Korea

• Korea Bibliography (Ken Robinson, Ctr for Korean Studies, Hawaii)

Mediterranean Classics
Formerly "Classics." See also Greece and Rome

• Aegean Scripts Project (at Texas)
• American Philological Association
  • Classics in Peril
• Amphoras Project (at Toronto)
• Ancient Document Center (at Oxford)
• Classical Atlas Project
• Classical Journals
• Classical Philology Contents Pages
• Classics in Russia (Dmitri Panchenko)
• Epigraphy Project (at Rutgers)
• Perseus Project (at Tufts)
• TOCS-IN ("Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists")
• Warfare Bibliography (Hugh Elton)

Rome
See also Mediterranean

• Horace: Carmina 1:22
• Orbis Romanus Atlas Project
• Roman Corinth Project (at Penn)
• Romulus Project (at Penn)
• Twelve Tables (Warmington tr)

Routes

• Levant to India (Parthian Stations, by Isidore of Charax, 01c)
  • Parallel Passages from Hirth, China and the Roman Orient

Suggestions for links to be included here are always welcome.

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