Links

Regional resources

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.

Global Archaeological Sites within the CIS Space

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.

Sites Associated with the Scythian-Sarmatian World

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.

Our Friends and Partners

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.


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