Classics

Get closer to the British Museum's collection and immerse yourself in two million years of history, across six continents. It allows access to almost four and a half million objects in more than two million records.

Includes Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History and Open Access Artworks, more than 375,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the collection

It includes examples of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman sculpture in stone, clay, and bronze, as well as coins, glass, jewelry, vases, and mosaics of outstanding quality and interest. There are some 2,300 works of ancient Mediterranean art in the department’s holdings: a strong collection of Greek vases, particularly red-figure technique pieces; Greek and Roman coins, stone sculpture, and jewelry, all showcasing the origins and early development of Western art from the dawn of the third millennium BCE to the time of the great Byzantine Empire.

Images of artifacts at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece.

The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece. The permanent collection includes pottery, figurines, sculpture, metalwork, and more from the Prehistoric to the Roman era.

Houses a huge collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including from Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Look through a massive library of art objects, sites, and buildings. The library's catalogs document 1305 coins, 1909 vases, 2003 sculptures, 179 sites, 140 gems, and 424 buildings. Each catalog entry has a description of the object and its context; most have images.

From Harvard University.