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Fashion and Clothing History

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Ancient World Clothing and Textiles

Books about the Ancient World

Costume e Cultura dell-Antico Egitto
cover of Fashion, Costume, and Culture: clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear through the ages

Museum Collections

What little we know about how ancient people dressed comes largely from museum collections. Museum catalogs and museum image databases like Artstor are good sources of  information about these cultures.

Eternal Egypt
Masterpieces of Classical Art
Light on Stone
Assyrian Reliefs and Ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Databases and Sites

ARTSTOR

Artstor

has thousands of images from museum collections around the world.  You can browse by Country of Origin, Museum, Medium and Time Period.

British Museum

British Museum

Includes major collections of ancient and Medieval art - Middle East, Egypt, Greece Rome and Europe.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art collections organized by time period, geography and theme.

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Museum in Vienna, Austria that houses some of the world's most important ancient collections.

National Archaeological Museum

National Archaeological Museum

Museum in Athens, Greece with Prehistoric, Cretan, Egyptian and Ancient Greek art and artifacts.

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

The museum at the University of Pennsylvania holds many noteworthy ancient collections, especially some of the treasures of Ur, Sumeria.

Walters Art Museum

Walters Art Museum

Museum in Baltimore, Maryland with an extensive collection of Ancient Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Classical art.

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