Intro to Middle Eastern History

Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today.

Hundreds of Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts from Harvard’s renowned library and museum collections. These rare—and frequently unique—materials are now freely available to Internet users worldwide.

Learn about Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe.

A powerful reference tool that offers a perspective on current events and modern Jewish history that is not available anywhere else.

An ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the 17th CE.

This site includes documents by year, diaries, personal reminiscences, conventions and treaties, photographs, etc. International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.

A digitized collection of selected maps, courtesy of the University of Alabama.

An easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

This Web site is designed to give scientists and the public an opportunity to explore rock art in the remote landscape of Saudi Arabia. Take a tour and learn about the ancient people who carved the petroglyphs and the animals they hunted and herded.