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CyberMuseum

Um "Museu Cibernético" com incríveis fotografias de antigas civilizações, como  a mesopotâmica, a egípcia, a grega ou a romana. Feito por um professor secundarista da Pensilvânia, Jay D'Ambrosio.

Jay D'Ambrosio teaches an Ancient Civilizations course in a western Pennsylvania middle school. He has created several pieces of historical fiction in a Choose Your Own Adventure format. These Choose Your Own Adventure stories are tales that are based on actual people, places, and events of the ancient past. These stories are designed to be read by the teacher to the entire classroom. They allow students to make choices and use their imaginations in an interactive way in order to experience life in ancient times.

O Museu Britânico possui a maior coleção de artefatos egípcios fora do Cairo, cobrindo um período de 5000 anos de história.

The British Museum has the largest and most comprehensive collection of ancient Egyptian material outside Cairo.

Coleções do Museu Britânico que incluem a Mesopotâmia, o Irã, a Península Arábica, o Cáucaso, partes da Ásia Central, Síria, Palestina e Fenícia, da pré-história até o advento do Islã no século sétimo d.C. Estas estão entre as maiores coleções do Antigo Oriente Médio existentes no mundo.

The collections represent the civilizations of the ancient Near East and its adjacent areas. These include Mesopotamia, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, the Caucasus, parts of Central Asia, Syria, Palestine and Phoenician settlements in the western Mediterranean from the prehistoric period until the coming of Islam in the 7th century AD. The British Museum's collection is one of the most comprehensive in the world.

O "Serviço de Antiguidades do Egito" foi criado em 1835 para conter o roubo de peças arqueológicas e para organizar a exibição dos artefatos adquiridos pelo governo. O atual Museu Egípcio foi construído em 1900 e expõe mais de 120 mil objetos. Entre eles, as múmias de vários faraós importantes, como Tuthmosis III, Seti I, Ramsés II, Merneptah; mais de 3500 artefatos da tumba de Tutankhamon, entre eles a máscara de ouro do faraó; artefatos do período de Amarna, pertencentes ao faraó Amenófis IV e sua família...

The Egyptian government established the 'Service des Antiques de l'Egypte' in 1835 mainly to halt the plundering of archaeological sites and to arrange the exhibition of the collected artifacts owned by the government. The present museum was built in 1900, and exhibits over 120 000 objects. Some of the important groups of these objects are:the mummies of some Pharaohs, how Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, Tuthmosis I, Tuthmosis II, Tuthmosis III,  Seti I, Ramses II, Ramses III; artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamon, consisting of more than 3500 pieces;artifacts from the Amarna Period made for Akhenaten and members of his family and some high officials.

The Israel Museum - Jerusalem

O Museu de Israel, fundado em 1965, tornou-se um importante centro de arte e arqueologia do Oriente Médio.

The Israel Museum was founded in 1965 and has, in a remarkably short period of time, become the encylopedic museum of art and archeology for these part of the world.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Ancient Near Eastern Art 

Grande coleção de arte do Antigo Oriente Médio, do famoso Museu  Metropolitan de Arte de New York.

The collection of more than seven thousand works of art ranges in date from 8000 B.C. (the Neolithic period) to the Arab conquest and rise of Islam beginning in A.D. 651. The works come from ancient Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Anatolia, and other lands in the region that extends from the Black and Caspian Seas in the north to the southwestern Arabian peninsula, and from western Turkey on the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus River Valley in modern-day Pakistan and India.

The Semitic Museum at Harvard University

O Museu Semítico da Universidade de Harvard, USA, foi fundado em 1889. Compreende o Departamento de Línguas e Civilizações do Oriente Médio e as coleções de artefatos  arqueológicos - mais de 40 mil - do Oriente Médio da Universidade de Harvard. Muitos desses artefatos são provenientes das escavações patrocinadas pelo Museu em Israel, Jordânia, Iraque, Egito, Chipre e Tunísia.

The Semitic Museum was founded in 1889. The Semitic Museum is the home to the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and to the University's collections of Near Eastern archaeological artifacts. These artifacts comprise over 40,000 items, including pottery, cylinder seals, sculpture, coins and cuneiform tablets. Many are from museum-sponsored excavations in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Cyprus, and Tunisia. The Museum is dedicated to the use of these collections for the teaching, research, and publication of Near Eastern archaeology, history, and culture.

The Shrine of the Book

Santuário do Livro, em Jerusalém, onde estão os Manuscritos do Mar Morto.

The Shrine of the Book is the home of the exceptional archaeological finds: the Dead Sea Scrolls and other rare ancient manuscripts.

Vatican Museums

Os fantásticos Museus do Vaticano podem, desde final de junho de 2003, ser visitados online. Além de célebres galerias e da Capela Sistina, o estudioso do Antigo Oriente Médio pode visitar o Museu Egípcio, que, além de monumentos e artefatos egípcios, possui muitos objetos da antiga Mesopotâmia e da Síria-Palestina. As descrições estão em italiano, francês, inglês, espanhol e alemão.

The Vatican put its enormous art collection on the Web. The high-tech site allows visitors to take a virtual tour of some of the dozen museums and galleries that make up the Vatican collection. The Gregorian Egyptian Museum houses monuments and artefacts of ancient Egypt, and finds from ancient Mesopotamia and from Syria-Palestine. The Sistine Chapel is now online. Descriptions of the works accompany the images, translated into Italian, French, English, Spanish and German.