Ancient History Encyclopedia

Here is a site for all your Ancient History research.  

Ancient Civilizations Timeline

This is just one of the websites created by students involved in the ThinkQuest Competition.  It looks like a fun and handy tool for teaching history. 

Parthenon Graphics Timelines

I like timelines - I have really gotten into our timeline this year for myself.  My kids are not so thrilled with it yet.   I thought it would be nice to have a family time line so I've made the one we have mine.

I just found this website that makes time lines - they have a link within the site where you can buy them from.  I would love to have all of them as I think this kind of timeline would be better for my young children.

History through film

I found two fun websites I thought I would share with you all:

Have Fun with History    and  tV School House

Egypt: Books we are reading - 1

So right now we just did a Vacation Bible School that was centered around Egypt.  It was a great time!  So needless to say since we are starting Ancient History this year in our homeschool I have been reading lots of Egypt books to the kids.  I'll be posting what we have read and others that I would love to read in the next month.

Today we read Pharaoh's Boat, by David L. Weitzman.  It was an interesting book about one of the two boats built and then buried next to the great pyramid in Giza for Cheops.  Not only is it a good book about Egypt, but also goes into great detail about how the Egyptians made boats all without nails and the great detail that goes into archeology.

We also read a short book called Kids in Ancient Egypt, by Lisa A. Wroble.  This book seems to be currently out of print, but if you want a short book about Ancient Egypt it is pretty good.  Check your local Library, there is a line of the "Kids in" book series.

Mummies and Pyramids (Usborne Discovery), by Sam Taplin.  My son and I enjoyed reading this porch outside selling lemonade.   The internet links are also a lot of fun.  Mummies and Pyramids (Usborne Discovery)

Another great Usborne book is from the See Inside Board Book series.  We have quite a few of these.  The See Inside Ancient Egypt, by Rob Lloyd Jones.  These books are a lot of fun.  My son particularly likes the page where a guy is falling off the Pyramid and is yelling Aghh!  He has been taking these two books to bed

each night.

The VBS program we do is put out by GROUP.  It has really driven home that the worlds in the Bible are true historical accounts of things that happened long ago.  The only thing better would be a real trip to Egypt to see the pyramids in person!

Timeline: website find of the century!

This timeline site is great!  HISTORY CENTRAL


World History, American History, Biographical history and that is just the beginning.  If you wanted a good timeline site I think I have found it. 


The only thing annoying about this site is the adds that scare you with the sound level of them that say you are selected to win - yadda, yadda.  Just ignore it or turn your computer on mute before you go there.