Two new eBooks published by MAG explore the arts of the ancient world. Ancient Egypt: Exploring Ancient Artifacts with Alex the Archaeologist andAncient Greece: Exploring Ancient Artifacts with Alex the Archaeologist are designed
for classroom use by grades 6–12. The books, which meet Common Core
standards, are available free from the iTunes Store.
Ancient Egypt was published in March 2014.Using the
Gallery’s collection of artifacts, this thematic object-centered
exploration uses works of art, timelines, video clips, photographs, and
interactive media to take students into the world of earlier
civilizations. Download it here
Ancient Greece, published in February 2015, adds even more
interactive games, maps, charts and timelines. A section titled
“Classical Connections” explores the enduring fascinating of Greek
culture through works in the MAG collection, nearby place names,
Rochester architecture and other examples. Download it here
Both books feature
Mediterranean archaeologist Alexander Smith. A Rochester native who
returns monthly to visit area schools, Smith is a graduate student at
Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient
World.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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