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One of many digital dictionaries of South Asia

"Local newspapers offer insights into an area's culture, which makes them great reading material before a trip. You can also use foreign language newspapers to practice learning that language."

Also has Android and iphone apps.

"Chrome: Lingualy is a language learning extension for Chrome that learns how good you are with a language, and then recommends texts online for you to read to test your skills."

"The structure of the social network among characters in Homer's Odyssey indicates the story is at least partially based on actual events."

Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman World in digital form.

Why Hittite must be Indo-European

Useful iphone app

via @SeanBanville

Homer's poem set to bawdy verse

The language of British headlines

"James Cheshire (Department of Geography, UCL) produced a series of interactive maps of London that show the relationship of common surnames to different neighbourhoods: This map shows the 15 most frequent surnames in each Middle Super Output Area (MSOA) across Greater London."

A great index of Ancient Language Resources online

The spread of Indo-European languages visualised

A comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions from all corners of the Roman Empire searchable online

All public domain Loebs collected together via  Language Hat

"Surrounding yourself as much as possible with a new language you want to learn is one of the keys to learning a new language quickly and fully. Language Immersion for Chrome gets you one step closer by switching select words on web pages into your target language."