Welcome to Clio Ancient Art’s Links Page, containing a series of web links that customers and other visitors to the site may find useful in researching purchases of antiquities and generally expanding their knowledge of ancient art and antiquities.

GENERAL ANTIQUITIES, ANCIENT ART & HISTORY RESOURCES

http://www.finds.org.uk/
The site has been updated. It is now much easier to use and includes half a million objects, ranging from Neolithic to post-Medieval antiquities. Especially helpful in the database section is the use of “controlled vocabulary” that assists visitors in utilizing the correct search terms to find the types of objects of interest to them. The U.K.'s Portable Antiquities Scheme offers the most rational solution to issues of national patrimony and the antiquities trade.

http://medarch.weebly.com/
Mediterranean Archaeology Resources online. Despite one annoying pop-up and a number of dead links, a great resource, featuring journals, links to other online resources, schools, institutes, etc. One could spend hours trolling the many ancient art. archaeology and antiquities related resources.

http://archnet.asu.edu/
This includes a broad range of archaeological research resources, publications, websites, etc. worldwide but with plenty of Classical, Near Eastern and Egyptian links. Potentially very useful.

http://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/welcome.htm
Perhaps best known in the U.S. for having written and presented a number of documentaries for television including Helen of Troy, which was widely shown on Public TV, Bettany Hughes lectures throughout the world and has been awarded a Research Fellowship at King's London, was invited to re-open the new Ashmolean Museum, Oxford after its 61 million pound re-design, and was given a Special Award for Services to Hellenic Culture and Heritage by the Greek state. Her website is a great resource for those with an interest in classical archaeology, art and history.

ONLINE ANTIQUITIES COLLECTIONS & MUSEUM DATABASES

www.britishmuseum.org
The British Museum. Very useful tool for searching images and text relating to ancient art, from the most mundane to the most magnificent antiquities. Generally good quality images and detailed text, including provenance.

www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/index2.html
The Petrie Museum of Egyptology at University College, London. First rate search tool of the museum’s extensive selection of Egyptian antiquities, ranging from  Neolithic to  early Islamic. Images are good quality, although provenance is sometimes lacking.

www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Good search tool for their extensive collections, especially Greek and Roman antiquities. Good images and text although search tool can be awkward to use.

www.thinker.org
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Another good search tool, with many examples of Greek ceramics and Roman glass in their collections. The antiquities images are high quality though the text is often limited.

http://collection.cmog.org/main.php?module=objects#.TsPZk_IaJD4  
The Corning Museum of Glass. This link takes you directly to their collections search page. Simply enter a term, such as "Roman Glass" or "Core Formed Glass" and you will have access to a vast collection of ancient glass from all periods and in all styles and techniques.

http://www.mouginsmusee.com/index.asp
Opened in 2010, the Mougins Museum of Classical Art houses a large and diverse collection of antiquities, including Roman, Greek and Egyptian sculpture, vases, coins, and jewellery, and the world’s largest private collection of ancient arms and armour. These are interspersed with a hundred classically-inspired paintings, drawings, and sculptures by artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Dufy, Cézanne, Rodin, Dali, Andy Warhol, Marc Quinn, Antony Gormley, and Damien Hirst. A unique concept and well worth a visit in person or on-line.
   
http://www.penn.museum/collections/
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

http://www.carlos.emory.edu/
Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Atlanta. Through judicious buying, they have built one of the finest collections of ancient art, particularly Egyptian antiquities, in North America over the past several years. Both their search tool and collections links provide useful information.
 
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/
UK Detector Finds Database
ANCIENT COIN RESOURCES

www.wildwinds.com/coins/
For those interested in ancient numismatics, I highly recommend this site. It is a non-commercial reference, attribution and valuation site for ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins. Very useful and easy to use.
 
http://www.acsearch.info/index.html
Ancient Coins Search Engine

http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/
The Maskukat Collection of Islamic Coins

ANTIQUITIES TRADE ASSOCIATIONS & RELATED RESOURCES

http://aiad.org.uk/
Association of International Antiquities Dealers (AIAD), a not-for-profit international association of antiquities dealers, ancient art dealers, numismatic dealers and other interested individuals who are keen to promote the positive aspects of artifact ownership. The organization aims to promote responsible antiquities dealing and to provide a support network and means of exchanging relevant information about fakes, forgeries, fraudulent misrepresentation and stolen goods with a view to identifying such items offered for sale and notifying the appropriate authorities. AIAD promotes responsible antiquities trading which necessarily includes meeting all legal requirements concerning reporting and documentation. Clio Ancient Art & Antiquities is a member of AIAD.

http://www.ancientartifakes.net/joomla/
Ancientartifakes is a highly recommended online forum and photo gallery that addresses the problem of low end and questionable dealers in faked, modified and fraudulent antiquities, especially on sites like E-Bay. Signing up is easy and there are active ongoing discussions surrounding these issues, along with a photo gallery of known fakes. An excellent resource both for beginning collectors and for those concerned professionally with this issue.

http://www.iadaa.org/index.html
International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art

PRINT & ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

http://www.minervamagazine.co.uk//
MINERVA  The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/index.shtml
Ancient Egypt Magazine

http://www.popular-archaeology.com/
Popular Archaeology Magazine