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Unesco: Historic Areas of Istanbul
This World Heritage website looks at historic Istanbul, located in Turkey. Found here are a description, maps, documentation, photos, videos, any indicators of threats to its integrity, and information about funding assistance for its...
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Unesco: Bursa and Cumal?k?z?k: Birth of Ottoman Empire
This World Heritage website looks at ancient Bursa and Cumalikizik, located in Turkey. It was in this place that the Ottoman Empire established roots in the 14th century. Found here are a description, maps, documentation, and photos.
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Unesco: Archaeological Site of Carthage
This World Heritage website looks at ancient Carthage, located in Tunisia. Found here are a description, maps, documentation, photos, videos, any indicators of threats to its integrity, and information about funding assistance for its...
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Unesco: Ancient City of Aleppo
The city of Aleppo in Syria goes back to the second millennium BC. Situated at the intersection of important trade routes, it was at various times under the rule of Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes, and Ottomans. This World...
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Unesco: Ancient City of Bosra
The ancient city of Bosra, a World Heritage site, is located in Syria. It was the capital of Arabia under the Romans, and sits along the route to Mecca taken by ancient travelers. It has monuments from the Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine and...
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Unesco: Ancient City of Damascus
Damascus in Syria was founded in the third millennium BC. Its long history reveals the influences of many ancient civilizations, most particularly the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations. This World Heritage website...
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Italy Guides: Virtual Travel to Pompeii, Italy
Explore the city of Pompeii in this virtual tour. Houses, temples, baths, arches, and other structures are all on display. The history of Pompeii is explained, and each interactive structure is accompanied by a description. The different...
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Unesco: Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro
This World Heritage website looks at the ancient city of Moenjodaro in the Indus Valley. Found here are a description, maps, documentation, photos, videos, and information about funding assistance for its preservation.
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Hagia Sophia Museum: Hagia Sophia: History
The history of the Hagia Sophia, a famous Byzantine landmark that has existed for 1500 years, and is now a museum. Very extensive information about the architectural features of the exterior and the interior can be found in a pulldown...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks
This site takes viewers on a virtual tour through five of the U.S. National Parks: Alaska's Kenai Fjords, Hawaiian Volcanoes, New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, Utah's Bryce Canyon, and Florida's Dry Tortugas.
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Google Maps: Interactive Tour: Pompei
An interactive tour of the excavated remains of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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Google Cultural Institute: Acropolis Museum
Take a virtual tour of the Acropolis Museum in Greece, which documents the history of Athens back to prehistoric times. The first and third floors can be explored, as well as a collection of high-quality photographs of sculptures and...
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Get to Know: Virtual Hikes
Choose from eight beautiful locations around North America, and discover amazing facts about the plants and animals there. Each virtual hike is a perfect way to get to know a little about wildlife, biodiversity, and nature.
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Roman Open Air Museum Hechingen Stein: The Guided Tour
A virtual tour of a Roman ruins in Germany. Elsewhere on the site (click on Introduction and Villa), there is information about the history of the Romans in Germany, and the excavation of this site.
Harvard University
Harvard University: Digital Giza: Giza Project
Explore a 3D, historically accurate virtual world set in ancient Egypt. Giza 3D is the product of a decades-long collaboration between many institutions and companies, under the leadership of Professor Peter Manuelian. The Giza Project...
Columbia University
Columbia University: Ancient Architecture
Learn about ancient architecture and explore 360 degrees panoramas of buildings in Egypt, Greece, Portugal, Italy, and Sicily. Includes an interactive plan of a 3D reconstruction of the Parthenon, and features the project page for this...
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Columbia University: Early Christian & Byzantine Architecture
Learn about architecture from the early Christian and Byzantine era, and explore 360 degrees panoramas of buildings in Turkey, Greece, and Italy. A church in Istanbul, the Kariye Camii, can also be explored through its architectural...
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Columbia University: Islamic Architecture
Islamic architecture has no distinct model on which it is based, but rather must adhere to the Islamic code of conduct. Learn about Islamic architecture and explore 360 degrees panoramas of buildings in Iran, Spain, Turkey, Mali, and...
Columbia University
Columbia University: Medieval Architecture
Learn about medieval architecture and explore 360 degrees panoramas of buildings in France, Italy, England, and Portugal. A few can also be explored through their architectural plans. Features a number of interactive projects that...
Columbia University
Columbia University: Renaissance Architecture
Learn about Renaissance architecture and explore 360 degrees panoramas of buildings in France, Italy, and Portugal. A few can also be explored through their architectural plans. Features one project that maps Venice's Renaissance art and...
Columbia University
Columbia University: Restoring Byzantium
An exhibition on the restoraion of the Kariye Camii, a Byzantine church in Istanbul, Turkey, that is also known as the church of the Chora Monastery. This church was likely built in the sixth century, rebuilt around 1100 AD, then...
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Musei Capitolini: Museum History
This museum is one of many under the umbrella of Rome City Council. It is also the oldest public museum in the world, having been established in 1471. Throughout the site, there is extensive information about its history and collections,...
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Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking: Virtual Tour
Take a virtual tour of the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, and learn about the history of writing in ancient civilizations, the invention of paper, the spread to Europe, the impact it had, how paper is made, the evolution of...
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Unesco: Archaeological Site of Olympia
This World Heritage website features Olympia, the site of the ancient Greek Olympics. Found here are a description, links, a map, documentation, and photos of its many archaeological treasures.