National Geographic
National Geographic is a magazine and media website for reporting, photography, videos, maps, and explainers about animals, science, history, culture, travel, environment, and exploration.
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MoMA
MoMA is the public website for The Museum of Modern Art, combining museum visit planning, modern and contemporary art collection search, exhibitions, learning resources, magazine stories, films, and member services.
Smithsonian
Smithsonian is the public website for the Smithsonian Institution, connecting museum visits, online collections, open access images, learning resources, research, events, news, and digital exhibits.
Metmuseum.org
Metmuseum.org is The Metropolitan Museum of Art website for exploring the online collection, open access images and data, exhibitions, art history resources, and the Collection API.
Europeana
Europeana is a cultural heritage website that helps people search, explore, and reuse digital objects from museums, libraries, galleries, archives, and cultural institutions across Europe.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a collaborative digital library website that preserves millions of digitized books and publications from research libraries and provides lawful online access, search, accessibility services, and research uses.
Standard Ebooks
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven website that produces carefully formatted, free public domain ebooks with modern typography, covers, metadata, and open source production tools.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress website is the public online gateway to U.S. national library collections, digital archives, research services, catalog records, copyright resources, and primary sources.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster is a dictionary publisher and language-reference website known for definitions, pronunciations, thesaurus entries, word histories, usage notes, Word of the Day, games, and mobile dictionary apps.
Codex
A codex is a book form made from leaves bound along one edge, a format that gradually replaced many scrolls and shaped how readers navigate, store, and preserve texts.
Parchment
Parchment is a writing material made from prepared animal skin, central to medieval manuscripts, codices, legal documents, maps, bindings, and illuminated books.
Papyrus
Papyrus was both a Nile wetland plant and the ancient writing material made from its pith, used for scrolls, letters, accounts, literature, and sacred texts.
Demotic Script
Demotic script was a highly cursive Egyptian writing system used for documents, letters, literature, religious texts, and the middle inscription of the Rosetta Stone.
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system of ancient Egypt, combining signs for sounds, words, and ideas in inscriptions, ritual texts, and elite display.
Linear B
Linear B is the Bronze Age script used to write Mycenaean Greek on clay tablets and vessels, mostly for palace administration in Crete and mainland Greece.
Mycenaean Civilization
Mycenaean civilization was the Late Bronze Age culture of mainland Greece, known for fortified palace centers, Linear B writing, elite tombs, warrior display, and wide Aegean connections.
Minoan Civilization
Minoan civilization was the Bronze Age culture of Crete, known for palace complexes, seaborne exchange, frescoes, undeciphered Linear A writing, and deep influence across the Aegean world.
Olmec Civilization
The Olmec civilization was an early complex society of Mesoamerica, centered on Mexico's Gulf Coast and known for colossal heads, ceremonial centers, trade, art, and lasting cultural influence.
Tiwanaku
Tiwanaku is a major pre-Inca archaeological site and culture near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, known for monumental stone architecture, ritual spaces, agriculture, and wide Andean influence.
Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are large ancient geoglyphs in the desert of southern Peru, where lines, animals, plants, and geometric forms were made by exposing lighter soil beneath darker surface stones.
Catalhoyuk
Catalhoyuk is a large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in central Turkey, famous for dense mudbrick houses, roof access, wall art, burials, and long-term evidence of early settled life.
Cuneiform
Cuneiform is an ancient wedge-shaped writing system first developed in Mesopotamia, used for thousands of years to record languages, trade, law, literature, astronomy, and administration.
Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated handwritten book in an unknown script, famous because its text has resisted convincing decipherment while its physical evidence points to a real early fifteenth-century object.
Religion
Religion refers to organized and lived ways people relate to the sacred, ultimate meaning, moral order, community, ritual practice, and inherited traditions.