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China and Egypt

Many information sources for China and Egypt are now available on line. This is a sampler of some of the most useful web sites sponsored by universities, research centers, non-profits, governments, and news organizations. Useful commercial sites are accessible through some of the gateways in this list.  Inclusion of a link on this page does not imply endorsement of the views or information presented.  The links are active as of January 2000.  This researcher did not check links off the main sites.

Egypt

History of Ancient Egypt

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ahm/history.htm

http://www.geocities.com/~amenhotep/

Africa: Art of a Continent--Egypt

http://artnetweb.com/artnetweb/guggenheim/africa/egypt.html

Akhenaton

http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc1/lectures/03akhenaton.html

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/

Seven Wonders Virtual tour

http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9705/seven.wonders/

The Nile

http://www.williston.k12.nd.us/larsen/Unit3%20Egypt/nile.htm

http://www.seaworld.org/Egypt/secrets.html

Howard Carter and King Tut

http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/information/biography/abcde/carter_howard.html

http://mag-nify.educ.monash.edu.au/FrontPageSchools/tour14.html

http://www.guardians.net/egypt/tut1.htm

http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/mummy.htm

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/

Egyptian Mummification

http://www.westnet.com/~rickd/Mummy/Mummy1.html

The British Museum Ancient Egypt

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

The Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/newegypt/htm/t_aneg_3.htm

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/new_pyramid/PYRAMIDS/HTML/el_pyramid_2nd.htm

Guardian's Egypt

http://guardians.net/egypt/

The Rosetta Stone

http://www.cimmerii.demon.co.uk/therosettastone/index.html

Mummy Mask Making (Rose Hill Primary School)

http://www.stockportmbc.gov.uk/primary/rosehill/rhllfr.htm

Images of Egypt

http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~nicholson/egypt.html

Mysteries of Egypt Canadian Museum of Civilization

http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/civiliz/egypt/egypte.html#menu

Mysteries of the Nile PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/explore/oldkingdom.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/geometry/

Pyramids:  Construction and Design

http://touregypt.net/construction/

Mystery of the Great Pyramid

http://www.primenet.com/~kjohnson/index.html

Sphinx

http://guardians.net/egypt/sphinx/

Tour Ancient Egypt

http://touregypt.net/Antiq.htm

The Ancient Egypt Site--History of Egypt

http://www.geocities.com/~amenhotep/index.html

Theban Mapping Project

http://www.kv5.com/intro.html

 

China

The Chinese Zodiac (Lunar Calendar)

http://www.wlu.edu/~hhill/zodiac.html

Beijing Museum of Chinese Architectures

http://china-window.com/beijing/tour/museum/xiannong/bmaa.html

Coins of Ancient China

http://hanwei.com/culture/coin.htm

World Art Treasures:  Art of China

http://sgwww.epfl.ch/berger/First/english/start_china.html

Chinese Culture

http://hanwei.com/culture/oldindex.html

Chinese Timeline and Maps from Ancient to the Present 

http://www.chinapage.com/timemap.html

The Art of China

http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/china.html

Chinese Dynasties

http://library.thinkquest.org/12255/library/dynasty/dynasty.htm

Ancient China Homepage

http://www1.enloe.wake.k12.nc.us/enloe/johnson/China5/chinamain.htm

History of Ancient China

http://devlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/olympic/history/China.html

Chinese Art

HTTP://www.chinapage.com/china.html

Daily Life in Ancient China

http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Chinalife.html

Stories of Ancient China

http://www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/resource-china.htm#a

http://darsie.ucdavis.edu/tales/4drag.html

Chinese History

http://www.mrdowling.com/613chinesehistory.html

Handouts on Ancient China

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/deall/jin.3/c231/handouts/default.htm

The Silk Road

http://www.ess.uci.edu/~oliver/silk.html

Dynastic Chronology

http://www.inna.net/imc/cronolog/chicron.html

 

 

 

 
This page was updated on:  04/10/02