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Byzantium and Islam: A Special/Web Exhibit at the Met
Museums large and small are not only digitizing their inventories; many now also create permanent websites for special exhibitions. An excellent example of the latter is “Byzantium and Islam: Age of...
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The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art
1977 was not only the year of Star Wars, it also heralded the Age of Spirituality! As a follow up to the recent post on Byzantium and Islam, a special exhibit from 2012 with a permanent web presence,...
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Anastasios of Sinai: Digital Editions in Patristics
This is a high-quality author site for Anastasios of Sinai, the seventh-century monk of St. Catherine’s, who has enjoyed a recent surge in scholarly attention, including both critical editions and...
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Antioch in Late Antiquity: Photo Archive of the Princeton Excavations
As museums digitize their collections, institutional stewards of excavation records are also slowly moving them online, as part of a much broader effort within archaeology to effectively manage and...
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T-Pen and tranScriptorium: Digital Tools for Manuscript Transcription
Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation, or “T-Pen,” developed at the Center for Digital Theology of Saint Louis University, is a tool for the transcription and annotation of...
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International Qur’anic Studies Association: A Blog
The International Qur’anic Studies Association was founded in 2012 as a three-year consultation within the Society of Biblical Literature, after which it will become an independent, international...
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Visualizing Statues in Late Antiquity
Image from http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu/ This fascinating and innovative project seeks to give users the experience of how statues (and their inscribed bases) constituted a collective memory among...
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Ancient Iran: Courses and Grammars by Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Prods Oktor Skjærvø, the Agha Khan Professor of Iranian Studies at Harvard University, has published online an impressive series of courses and grammars on ancient Iran (and Central Asia), from the...
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Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller and Corpus Scriptorum...
Significant portions of two magisterial series of critical editions for Christian texts from Late Antiquity can be easily downloaded from enumerated lists linked to archive.org and Google Books: Die...
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The Virtual Magic Bowl Archive (VMBA) and Prosopography
The Virtual Magic Bowl Archive is a collaborative environment for the publication of magic bowls in the Moussaieff, Dehays, and Barakat collections. It is housed at the University of Southampton,...
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Manichaean Texts at the Digitales Turfan-Archiv and TITUS
The Iranian texts discovered at the beginning of the 20th-century during the German excavations of the Turfan oasis constitute a major source for modern scholarship on Manichaeism; like the Nag...
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The Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database
This database of magical gems, named after Campbell-Bonner’s famous collection of 1954, is in fact far more extensive, containing over 1,000 items. These are drawn from over 30 collections, including...
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Online Resources for the Mandaeans
The Mandaeans are a contemporary religion with communities in Iraq and Iran, as well as an expanding Diaspora in Europe, North America, and Australia; their heritage reaches back to Late-Antique...
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The Life of Martin on Dickinson College Commentaries
Dickinson College Commentaries, created by Professor Chris Francese with a grant from the Roberts Fund for Classical Studies, currently consists of electronic editions of Julius Caesar’s Gallic War,...
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The Talmud Blog
The Talmud blog, edited by Shai Secunda and Yitz Landes, with regular contributors Amit Gvaryahu, Ophir Münz-Manor, and Ron Naiweld, has a wide variety of posts on Talmudic culture. The topics range...
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Bumberazi by Stephen Rapp: Explorations in Medieval Georgia and Caucasia
This site presents the research of Stephen Rapp, who has done much over the past several decades to present Late Antique and Medieval Georgia to an Anglophone audience. It contains an important list...
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Roman Catacombs Online: From the International Catacomb Society to Google Earth
The International Catacomb Society is a non-profit organization “dedicated to the preservation and documentation of the Roman catacombs & those rare vestiges of history that illustrate the common...
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The Ammianus Marcellinus Online Project
The Ammianus Marcellinus Online Project, led by Jan Willem Drijvers at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, is a developing resource on this central historian of Late Antiquity, whose virtues are extolled...
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Visualizing Late Antiquity: Everyday Life AD 300-650
The goal of this project and website is “to bring academic work on late antiquity to wider attention, to compete with ‘Roman’ and ‘Medieval’ images of the European past.” The directors are Dr Luke...
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The Roman Cult of Mithras by Roger Pearse
This site, part of Roger Pearse’s Tertullian.org, serves as both an introduction to the history and iconography of Mithraism suitable for undergraduate instruction and an extensive collection of...
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