History

General

The Biographical Dictionary

Provides concise facts about thousands of notable figures from ancient times to the present day

Europe

Discovery of a Palaeolithic painted cave

Descriptions and pictures of 20,000 year old cave art recently found in the South of France

The History of Sardinia

A brief history of the Italian island of Sardinia

Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture

A Library of Congress exhibit on Rome in the Renaissance period

The Middle East

Scrolls from the Dead Sea

A Library of Congress exhibit on the Dead Sea scrolls

United States

1492: An Ongoing Voyage

A Library of Congress exhibit on the discovery of America

American Memory

Multimedia material relating to American culture and history, from special collections of the Library of Congress, including Civil War Photographs

From Revolution to Reconstruction

American history from the colonial period until the First World War

South America

Maya Adventure

Activities and information related to ancient and modern Maya culture

Links to more information

ArchNet

A library of archaeological information on the Internet