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Ancient Web: Roman Aqueducts Is a Private Engineering Library for 2,000-Year-Old Water Systems

RomanAqueducts.info documents more than 100 selected ancient aqueducts, literature on hundreds more, engineering details, siphons, control systems, statistics, photographs, maps, and the infrastructure behind Roman water.

Ancient Web: The Greek Age of Bronze Reconstructs Mycenaean Warfare Detail by Detail

The Greek Age of Bronze is a specialist reconstruction site covering Late Helladic weapons, armour, shields, chariots, archery, archaeological finds, iconography, Linear B evidence, and warfare from roughly 1600 to 1100 BC.

Ancient Web: Don's Maps Is an Archaeology Site Built by Obsession

Don Hitchcock's Don's Maps has grown into a huge independent archaeology reference covering Paleolithic sites, cave art, tools, figurines, human evolution, ancient cultures, maps, translations, and photographs assembled through years of patient personal research.

Ancient Web: FlintSource Mapped the Rocks Behind Prehistoric Tools

FlintSource.NET has spent 25 years documenting flint, chert, radiolarite, quartzite and obsidian sources with photographs, coordinates, geology and field notes.

Ancient Web: Old Bricks Turned Stamped Clay Into an Industrial History Database

David Kitching's Brocross site hosts Old Bricks: History at Your Feet, a community-built reference with more than 10,000 named brick images tied to makers, works and industrial history.

Ancient Web: StonePages Put Europe’s Megaliths on the Web in 1995

StonePages began in 1995 as an online guide to European megalithic sites and grew into a photographic and archaeological reference built from years of field visits.

Ancient Web: David Ulansey Put the Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras on One Long Web Page

David Ulansey adapted his academic work on Mithraism into a diagram-heavy web essay explaining the tauroctony, ancient astronomy, and his interpretation of the cult's cosmic symbolism.

Ancient Web: Prehistory.it Is a Time Capsule of Early Online Archaeology

Prehistory.it preserves a distinctly early-Web attempt to organize prehistoric archaeology, ancient symbols, museum material, and multilingual research links into one handmade portal.

Ancient Web: Guardian's Egypt Built a Great Pyramid Primer Before Everything Became Video

Guardian's Egypt is an old-school Great Pyramid reference page packed with measurements, chamber descriptions, diagrams, bibliography, and the kind of patient structure modern search results usually flatten into snippets.

Ancient Web: Art and Archaeology Turned Travel Photography Into a Reference Library

Art and Archaeology combined original photographs, timelines, essays, and site-by-site historical notes into a durable reference for ancient art and architecture.

Ancient Web: Reeder's Egypt Page Went Deep on the Weird Corners of Egyptology

Greg Reeder's Egyptology site focuses on unusually specific subjects including the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, the tekenu, the muu dancers, ancient Egyptian art and archaeological reference material.

Ancient Web: The Corinth Computer Project Mapped a Roman City on the Early Web

The Corinth Computer Project used computer mapping, electronic surveying and an early website to reconstruct the city plan of Roman Corinth decades before digital archaeology became ordinary.

Ancient Web: Howard Wiseman Mapped Post-Roman Britain and Admitted the Maps Were Wrong

Howard Wiseman's long-running Ruin and Conquest of Britain project maps the fifth and sixth centuries while being unusually explicit about where the evidence turns speculative.

Ancient Web: Expedition Atlantis Put the Lost City in Libya

An old Atlantis research site argues that Plato's lost island was really the Cyrenaica region of Libya, using satellite imagery, measurements and a 2006 expedition to make a case far outside mainstream archaeology.