Understanding historical events can be tedious for some who can’t remember dates and specially those who find it boring going through traditional textbooks. Ancient History Encyclopedia (AHE) can help you understand history. The encyclopedia is free for all and its run by the community of historians and history enthusiasts. The need for this website is felt because the lack of reliable source of information on ancient history on the internet. As the website points out:
“The goal is to make quality ancient history information freely available on the internet, which is something that is clearly missing: Books are expensive, Wikipedia is comprehensive but unreliable, and many other sites are either amateurish, with a nationalist agenda, or their presentation is so bad that it nearly makes them useless.”
AHE contains topics in alphabetical index containing articles with suggestions of useful books. You can use most of the website material freely as they are under the creative commons license. However, examine the license policy before using the articles as some might be protected under copyright.
An excellent tool provided in AHE is the ‘Timeline’ search for a specific period of history. You can find historical events during a defined period. For example in my search of events related to Greece during 1600 BC to 300 BC, I got 69 results nicely arranged in two forms of timeline as shown below. This site can be a great tool for young students and scholars who wish to explore history in an interactive way from an authentic source.
Ancient History Encyclopedia can be accessed from here.
