Argos is a limited-area search engine. In other words, it is a search engine that will only search out sites that have something to do with the ancient and medieval past. It is created and maintained by a team of scholars who maintain specialized link pages. (
http://argos.evansville.edu
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Although this began as an "online textbook," it has evolved into something more useful, with major indices of online articles, art, and resources, organized into regional/chronological guides. (
http://eawc.evansville.edu/eawcindex.htm
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One of the best sites on the net -- a major resource for anyone interested in classical cultures. (
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/index.html
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JNES remains the only periodical in the United States devoted
exclusively to an examination of the ancient and medieval civilizations of the
Near East. (
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JNES/
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The Byzantine and Frankish, and Early Islamic World in the News