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Ancient Web: The Napoleonic Guide Turned One Obsession Into 4,000 Pages

Richard Moore's Napoleonic Guide grew into an independent reference of more than 4,000 pages covering Napoleon, battles, armies, marshals, weapons, medicine, uniforms, naval war, maps, books and the French Revolution.

Ancient Web: One Philosophy Page Became an Entire Library

The Friesian School's History of Philosophy page sprawls across hundreds of linked essays, quotations, timelines and side topics in the dense hand-built style of the independent scholarly Web.

Ancient Web: Ancient Egypt: the Mythology Is an Old-School Reference Site That Still Works

Ancient Egypt: the Mythology organizes Egyptian gods, myths, symbols, cult centers and daily life into a straightforward independent reference site.

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: Cowboys of Brazil and a 1902 Book Still Sitting in Plain HTML

An old university page preserves an English excerpt from Euclides da Cunha's 1902 Os Sertões, complete with period analysis, historical framing, and uncomfortable nineteenth-century racial theories left visible rather than scrubbed away.