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ACRS (Ancient Culture Research Society) has been fascinated by all ancient cultures, from the ancient Egyptians, Mayans, and Incas, Celts and many other cultures. Our curiosity and enthusiasm lets us dream of new discoveries.

Our highest aim is the preservation of old cultures knowledge. Immaterial and material cultural assets of ancient civilizations must be protected. We are convinced of the fact that modern man can benefit from ancient wisdom.

Members of the ACRS want to be always at the archaeological and cultural frontline. This could be from discoveries, analysis of lost artefacts or by visiting historical museum’s. But nothing replaces the passion of travelling into regions of the world like Egypt or Central/South America where theory becomes practice.

Many great discoveries began with a dream, dreamt by adventurous and perhaps weird contemporaries people but the results were often amazing and incredible. In the year 1922 Howard Carter discovered the almost untouched grave of the famous pharaoh Tutankhamen.

This extraordinary discovery in history has proven that cultural and archaeological are full of magic moments. We are digging in the past, the present and the future of our passed and yet these existing civilizations have taught us about them and about ourselves.

DAP is a digitalization project focusing on archaeological data – our interest is on all archaeological objects (artifacts) data – especially important meta data.

Merging as much information as possible into one huge master database is one of the primary aims. Archaeological data consisting of pictures, geo mapping, descriptive information and other data – this all will be available for free to the world (using an internet platform).

Project Staff

• Roberto Alvarez
  Project Lead
• Michael Rettenmund
  Database & Software

• Datafiles of Historical Prices
  http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/

Databases – Pictures / Sound / Video

• The Tomba Project - a multilingual internet image database for the tombs of the élites in Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe (2400/2300-480/450 BC)
  http://www2.rgzm.de/tomba1/home/frames.htm
• Cologne’s Papyrus Collection – Highres pictures of egyptian papyri from cologne’s collection
  http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/
• The Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins
  http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/cml/rcape/vcrc/
• The Beazly Archive – Pictures of over 5000 roman and greek objects
  http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm
• Roman Inscriptions in Iberian Peninsula (Spain)
  http://www.eda-bea.es/

Databases – Bibliography

• DAPHNE – Data in Archeology, Prehistory and History on the Net
  http://www.daphne.cnrs.fr/daphne/search.html

• Bibliography Database – Archaeological Institute of Germany

  http://www.dainst.de/index_3454_de.html

Map Databases

• Ancient World Mapping Center
  http://www.unc.edu/awmc/
• Google Maps
  http://maps.google.com/
• IEG – Server for historical maps
  http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/
• Map Collections - 5 million maps of the world
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
• United States – Historical Maps
  http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/

Search Engines

• Google Academic (Scholar) Research
  http://scholar.google.ch/
• Google Books
  http://books.google.de/

Other

• Worlds Monument Fund

  http://www.wmf.org/watch/project-map

This section is still under construction. We thank you for your patience. If you know any good online resources (databases, picture collections) that are accessible for free on the internet, don’t hesitate to drop us a mail at info@acr-society.org. Thanks a lot!

We are proud to announce that this november we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ACRS.

The Ancient Cultures Research Society, short ACRS, was founded november 1st, 1999 in Pieterlen, a small village in Switzerland. Using the internet the ACRS was one of the first online communities concentrating on the research of archaeological mysteries around the world. Today the ACRS, still practices research with a new focus on prehistory aspects.

People joining the ACRS share a great enthusiasm and passion for archaeology, anthropology, ancient cultures and their mysteries. Among our members you can find anthropologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, egyptologists, mayanists, leisure time researchers and of course our many friendly supporters.

The ACRS looks forward to many more members and events in the years to come and we wish to thank our many generous supporters and friends from all over the world!