http://grants.rsu.ru/osi/Don_NC/Don_beg.htm
Web textbook "History of the Don
Land and North Caucasus from the Earliest Times to 1917".
A brilliantly written and illuminated, easy-to-use textbook. Many
maps, chronological tables, educating questions, reference lists,
information on the authors, a perfect design. Unfortunately, the
book only exists in a Russian version.
http://www.rnd.runnet.ru/region/tanais/home_.html
Tanais. A well designed site
telling of the historical and archaeological preserve museum
Tanais located in the Don delta. It contains information on the
history of the ancient city and its study. Unfortunately there is
no one who would update the site. The site is only in Russian.
http://www.khazaria.com/sarkel.html
A site telling of the Khazar fortress of
Sarkel (lower Don reaches). This is a brief site, yet
it is provided with detailed references to other sources and
reading lists. It exists as a part of a large site on the
Khazars' history "Khazaria Info Center". It is in
English, yet has links to sources in Russian.
http://www.archaeologist.ru
Web-site of Don Land Archaeological
Society. Information on the excavations carried by the
Society. Also broad information on history, geography and nature
of Rostov region of Russia. Description of soils, relief,
climate, vegetable and animal kingdom. Program for volunteers.
Russian and English languages.
http://www.spbumag.nw.ru/97-98/NO27-98/2.html
A web site telling of the work of a leading scientist M.I.Artamonov who investigated the
archaeological sites of the Don land and Central Pre-Caucasian
territories. It is placed within the site of the archive of the
web-paper of St. Petersburg University which is unfortunately
terminated now. The language is Russian.
http://www.archaeology.ru/
Scythica-Celticum. The basic
advantage here is a splendid world archaeological resources
repertory catalogue. It is renovated regularly. The site also has
an animated bulletin board and a forum. A part of archaeological
folklore is very interesting. The only language is Russian.
http://www.archeologia.ru
"Archaeology of Russia".
It contains scientific papers, textbooks, legislative acts in
archaeology. An adequate news reel with information on
archaeology and museumship. A gallery where one may place
pictures of finds.
http://www.sib.net/n_russia/index.html
Popular encyclopedia “Non-Slavic
Russia”. A popular, yet sufficiently detailed site
on the peoples who in the Greek-and-Roman times inhabited the
Eurasian steppe zone. So far the section dedicated to the
Scythians has been prepared. Sketches of history, way of life,
art. Chronological tables, lists of reference. Well illustrated.
In Russian.
http://www.pitt.edu/~haskins
Prof. John Haskins' Slide Collection.
This is a large picture gallery of Scythian-Sarmatian art
masterpieces. Photos of quite a number of world known artefacts
of a very high picture quality. The language is English, which is
not of fundamental importance since the basis of the site are the
pictures while the captions are self-comprehensive.
http://www.csen.org/
CSEN (US). This site belongs
to the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads (CSEN) of the
American Eurasian Research Institute, Inc. (AERI), USA. It
contains detailed publications on the investigations conducted by
the Center on the Eurasian territory. It has articles, pictures,
links, information on new books. The site is in English.
http://www.khazaria.com/
The Khazaria Info Center (US).
This is a very detailed site dedicated to Khazaria and the
Khazars. It contains a large number of references, in fact all
references possible. It is in English, yet it has links to the
sources written in other languages, Russian included.
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~dicky/RUSSIE/
http://www.uvm.edu/~jlippman/russia/
These are two small yet very nice picture galleries telling of
the excavations of the Chastiye Kurgany
burial mound group. Their authors are the participants
of the above excavations, a French woman Anne Dicky and an
American Marie Carol Ammerman.