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• The Aberdeen Bestiary Project - The manuscript, written and illuminated in England around 1200. It is a collection of short descriptions about all sorts of animals, real and imaginary, birds and even rocks.
• Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - More than 655 fables. Includes: Aesop, Ambrose Bierce, and La Fontaine. Indexed with morals, fairy tales, mythology, stories, sound clips, images, and message forum.
• Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves - Translation by Sir Richard Burton.
• The Ancient World Web - A Meta Index for all things Ancient.
• Animals, Myths and Legends - Oz Kids:Oban the Knowledge Keeper's tales of Animals Myths and Legends. Read amazing stories, solve puzzles, play games, meet a dragon and help save a world.
• The Arabian Nights - By Sir Richard Burton (1850): From Cornell University Library. A very large file!
• AU - Adult University - Live, interactive online classes and free tutorials. Choose from hundreds of courses. [Many courses fee based]
• A Book of a Thousand and One Nights - Works of art, music and literature inspired by the Nights. Plus history of the Nights and of many of the characters contained therein.
• British Archaeology - Bi-monthly British Archaeology Magazine, online.
• Bulfinch's Mythology - Annotated, hyperlinked edition of Bulfinch's Mythology.
• Byzantium - The Byzantine Studies on the internet. The state and culture of the Eastern Roman Empire in the middle ages.
• Cambodia's Ancient Temple City of Angor Wat - Some 800 years old, the ruins of Angkor Wat are fascinating reminders of how little we know about our past. Excellent photographs, history and essay on the temple.
• The Castles of Wales - Jeffrey L. Thomas is the host of this superb compilation of information, essays, and pictures about castles - over 400 of them, and related topics.
• Cinderella Project - University of Southern Mississippi has placed many versions of this delightful children's classic. Both text and images available. Links to Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer.
• Dictionary from 1894 - The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by the Rev. e. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. Full text searchable HTML.
• Diotima - Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World.
• The Dragon as an Archetype - A Jungian analysis of dragons in world mythology.A discussion paper by Laurence Mee.
• Duke Papyrus Archive - Electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt. Part of the Special Collections Library of Duke University.
• The Earth Dethroned- Nicholas Copernicus - The Earth Dethroned- Polish Suburban News - Issue 34, February 1999.
• Eliki - Art history, mythology, literature, classics, children's events, family history, ancient writings and more. Rare books and civil war letter found on the Roots of Eliki link.
• Encyclopedia Mythica - The encyclopedia of mythology, folklore and legend.
• Ex Tempore - Brief descriptions of obscure and lesser known deities.
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Introduction to the study of cultures of the past.
• Faculty of Classics - From the University of Cambridge. External Gateway to Classics Resources on the web. Literature, Philosophy, History, Art History and Archaeology, Linguistics and Philology and Interdisciplinary.
• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - Translated stories primarily from German tales and links to tales from Scandinavia, Britain and other regions.
• Freud Museum - The home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938.
• Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters - Mythical Creatures and Fabulous Beasts. Short descriptions of sundry creatures.
• The God-Idea of the Ancients - From the University of Virginia Library: Etext by Gamble, Eliza Burt, written in 1899.
• Indianmythology - Excellent site of stories in Indian mythology passed from generation to generation. Terminology, picture gallery, and links featured on the site.
• The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources - Extensive collection of medieval information. Also a source of medieval art, clip art, culture, history, law, literature.
• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Text of Gulliver's Travels, edited, and in the process of being annotated. The original graphics, along with later illustrations, are included. Links to other sources of research and reading.
• Korea in the Eye of the Tiger - The legend of the founding of Korea. (This is the preface to the main site dealing with Korean history).
• Labyrinth - Medieval studies scholarly resources compiled and organized from around the world.
• Le grenier de Clio - Brief articles on a large number of classical mythological figures, accompanied by a number of images from classical and renaissance art. This site is primarily en Francais, with English and Deutsch translations (click flag banner at bottom of page).
• The Legend of Phoenix - Brief summaries of the legend as described in the Near East and in China.
• Legends - Exploring Legends in History, Folklore, Literature, Fiction, and the Arts. Featured: Robin Hood, King Arthur, Pirates and Privateers, Fairy Tales and many more. Excellent content.
• Legends from a Small Country - From Africa: Arthur Goldstuck's web pages of beliefs, writings, legends, and pursuits.
• The Lives of Medieval Women - The City is a treatise on decorum of medieval women. Interesting site.
• Loadstar's Lair - Stunning photographs of tigers. A large selection of articles, drawings and information on tigers.
• Luminara's Web of Myth-tery - Discover ancient myths, and folklore, by "traveling" to different countries from Afganistan to Wales and cultures from Aztec to Zuni. A wealth of information.
• Megalithic Mysteries - A photographic guide to stone circles, megaliths and other prehistoric sites, by Andy Burnham.
• Mithology, Stories, Movies - Native American Spider Women stories.
• Morgana's Observatory: Universal Myths and Mysterious Places - Creation, Flood, and the Afterlife Myths from Around the World and Mystical Sites.
• Myth and Legend from Ancient Times to the Space Age - Extensive amount of information compiled by Philip Burns.
• Mythmaker - Original versions of myths, fairy tales, and legends from India and several stories from Russia.
• Mythology - From the University of Michigan Windows to the Universe, a collection of gods and goddesses of different cultures from around the world. A fun game, Mythology Hangman, available to play on the site. (Java must be enabled).
• Mythology: Mnthing Links - An annotated & richly illustrated collection of worldwide links to mythologies, fairytales & folklore, sacred arts & traditions. This huge, on-going project is the work of Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.
• Mythology Notes - Historical material on the mythologies of the Ancient Near East, Persia, Scandinavia, and the Celts.
• Myths and Legends - Collection of links to myth and legend related pages from many cultures.
• Myths and Myth-makers - EText from the University of Virginia Library. Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology: by Fiske, John; Published in 1872.
• Myths of India - Resource of the creations, Deities, and structure of the Vedic universe.
• Nicholas Copernicus - Copernicus' seminal work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, exists now in only about 270 original copies worldwide. Graphics tend to be slowloading.
• Of Gods and Men - The A to Z of Mythology and Legend. Site tends to be a little glaring but has useful information.
• Perseus Project - Digital library, all things classical Greek.
• Pirates! - From pirate history to pirate news, this is a comprehenisive web site created for learning a great deal about piracy.
• Prepare to Descend - Extreme 2000: Voyage to the Deep, a multimedia celebration of ongoing research by scientists in submersibles more than a mile below the surface of the Sea of Cortes.
• The Ramayana - An excellent summary of the Ramayana and its importance in Hindu worship.
• Rassegna Strumenti informatici per l'Antichità Classica - Resources for the classical periods of Greece and Rome. In Italian.
• Rig Veda - Hymns to the Mystic Fire - India: A commentary on the Rig Veda, the planet's most ancient text.
• The Serpent as Divinity - Robert T. Mason, Ph.D., D.D. analyzes serpent tales from the Near East and the rest of the world.
• Tales of Wonder - Folk and Fairy tales from around the world. Site has not been updated since 1997 but the content remains enjoyable.
• Today-in-History - Historic Events and Birthdates that occurred on a selected day of the year.
• Vampires - A historical survey of vampire like creatures.
• Visual Elements - A visually stunning site of the Periodic Table! In depth information, graphics and history abound. Shockwave and Acrobat Reader required to fully experience the site.
• A Walk Through Time - An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present.

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