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Churches of Italy
Bill Thayer's tour: thumbnail images lead to pages or sites on mainly medieval churches in Rome, Milan, the Marche and Umbria.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Topics/churches/
Top/Regional/Europe/Italy/Arts_and_Entertainment/Architecture

Ancient and Historic Rome
Bill Thayer's gazetteer of buildings and monuments: photographs and history. Also online editions of Platner's 'Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome' and Rodolfo Lanciani 'Pagan and Christian Rome'.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/
Top/Regional/Europe/Italy/Regions/Lazio/Localities/Rome/Arts_and_Entertainment/Architecture

Encyclopaedia Romana
James Grout's collection of articles, plans and pictures of ancient Rome and its remains, with a bibliography. Includes Vitruvius's comments on temple architecture.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/
Top/Regional/Europe/Italy/Regions/Lazio/Localities/Rome/Arts_and_Entertainment/Architecture

A Gazetteer of Umbria
Information on the communes of the region each one with a form containing the local links.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Umbria/
Top/Regional/Europe/Italy/Regions/Umbria/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides

When God Looked the Other Way
Site promoting Wesley Adamczyk autobiographical book about his family's deportation to Soviet gulag from Eastern Poland in 1940.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/004430.html
Top/Regional/Europe/Poland/Society_and_Culture/History/World_War_II

Encyclopaedia Romana: Boudica
Account of the Iceni revolt, with quotes from contemporary accounts.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/boudica/boudicanrevolt.html
Top/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Society_and_Culture/History/Roman/Boudicca

Photograph Archive: Iran
Photos from Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/photo/Iran.html
Top/Regional/Middle_East/Iran/Maps_and_Views/Photos

Jerusalem Photograph Archive
Library of early photographs of Jerusalem (19th century) from the University of Chicago archive.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/photo/Jerusalem.html
Top/Regional/Middle_East/Israel/Localities/Jerusalem/Maps_and_Views

Oriental Institute Archaeology Projects - Aqaba
Includes reports about the excavations in Aqaba, written by Donald Whitcomb, Project Director.
http://asmar.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/AQA/Aqaba.html
Top/Regional/Middle_East/Jordan/Localities/Aqaba

University of Chicago - Locations in Palestine
Early photographs of locations in Palestine (19th century), from the Middle East Department of the Joseph Regenstein Library.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/photo/Palestine.html
Top/Regional/Middle_East/Palestinian_Territory/Society_and_Culture/History