Purpose
This is an educational website that is dedicated to art history. Timelines presents selected resources (web links) about
the art and archaeology of ancient civilizations, including:
Egypt, Greece and Rome, Asia,
and the Middle East. My companion website, Old Stones, presents original material (images and text) about the same topics.
Timelines pages are organized by civilization and period. This arrangement allows convenient access to particular areas of interest, and facilitates the synchronic and diachronic study of art history. Each page deals with a particular place and time in art history, providing text links to relevant information and image links to particular objects.
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Thanks for visiting, and best wishes to you!
Mike Gunther
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Synchronic history is the study of cross-cultural comparisons at
approximately the same time. For example, one could study the
development of the Iron Age (c. 1500 bc) in various parts of the world,
or compare the civilizations of China and Europe during the Age of Exploration
(c. l500 ad).
Diachronic history is the study of one culture (such as Egypt,
Greece, etc.) as it develops over time. Because cultures interact, it is
necessary to supplement the study of diachronic history with the study of
synchronic history in order to achieve a balanced
view.
Mike Gunther was born in 1948, grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana, and studied mathematics at Indiana University (1969), Cambridge University (1970), and Stanford (1974). Mike joined IBM in 1974, where he held a variety of management and technical positions before retiring in 2003. His current interests include travel photography and the study of ancient art and architecture.
This website is copyright © Michael
D. Gunther. You are welcome to link to its pages
for personal or educational use, but copying of images from this website to other websites is not permitted. For all other rights and permissions, please see below.
When referring to material from this website, please cite: "Michael D. Gunther / www.art-and-archaeology.com"
Students and teachers (K-12 through college) are welcome to
include a reasonable amount of images and text from this website in
normal classroom activities such as homework, class handouts, lesson plans, powerpoint presentations, etc. Materials used should be cited as above, and must not be published externally or copied to another website. You do not have to write me for permission under this heading.
Use of images from this website in scholarly papers, including print or electronic journal articles, does require explicit permission, which will normally be granted on a courtesy basis without charge. You can email your request to the address above. Your note should include the url of the image(s) you want to use, the topic of your paper, and the journal or other medium (e.g., thesis) where the image will be used.
Most images from Old Stones are available for purchase at a standard charge of $125 for an A4 (approximately 8" x 11") print. Numerous other images of ancient art, in addition to those shown on the website, are also available upon request. To purchase images or request additional information, please write to the contact address above.
This site is actively maintained. I welcome correspondence, and especially solicit "peer review" in the form of notification of broken links, additions, and corrections to anything on the website. You may contact me at the address above.