Ancient (BCE-40 CE)

Welcome to the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. This department houses some of the most extensive and historically important metazoan and protozoan collections available to researchers today. Among the one million specimens in the collections are almost 10,000 type depositions. The taxonomic and geographic strengths of the invertebrate collections reflect the research interests of curators and their areas of geographic interest throughout the history of the museum.

The exhibits of the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences look at the natural world through the distinct lens of North Carolina's diverse geography, geology, plants and animals. By exploring our own backyards and taking a closer look at the familiar, we can better understand the world and our place in it as we learn about North Carolina's global connections. In this way, the Museum becomes a window on the world.

In 1849, while constructing the first railroad between Rutland and Burlington, Vermont, workers unearthed the bones of a mysterious animal near the town of Charlotte. Buried nearly 10 feet below the surface in a thick blue clay, these bones were unlike those of an y animal previously discovered in Vermont. After consulting with experts, the bones were identified as those of a "beluga" or "white" whale, an animal that inhabits arctic and subarctic marine waters in the northern hemisphere.

Exhibitions at the Yale Peabody Museum

UCMP's Mission:
The mission of the University of California Museum of Paleontology is to investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth's biota through research and education.

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium. Despite the 150 years since the decipherment of cuneiform, and the 100 years since Sumerian documents of the 3rd millennium B.C. from southern Babylonia were first published,

You may search through Diotima's bibliography (keywords listed below) using the box appearing in the footer after every search, and via the form on this page just below the keywords. Please note that any linked bibliographies stored in other servers will NOT be searched. The database was last modified August 7, 2003.

The Antikythera Mechanism is the most sophisticated scientific instrument surviving from antiquity. It is an astronomical calculator with precision gearing, containing 32 bronze gears including a differential gear, and accurate to 1 part in 40,000. It was built in Rhodes in about 80 BC, and discovered in a sunken shipwreck. It has enabled historians of science to completely reassess the high technology of the ancient Greeks. The lecture will describe the machine, reveal the secrets of its intricate gearing, and prove a theorem to show how the Greeks were able to be so accurate.

Tibetan Medecine. an annotated bibliography

Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.