Historical Primary Sources: Middle East & North Africa: Ancient Middle East

An archival library of cuneiform tablet collections from various universities, museums, and private collections. The site includes images of the tablets as well as information on their discovery and transliterations of the cuneiform into the English alphabet.

Clay tablets, cones, and brickfragments inscribed using the ancient writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of Congress’ collections.

A free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Searchable, high-resolution images of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history.

A multi-institutional collaborative electronic publishing project providing resources relevant to the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. ETENA Includes three databases: Abzu is a guide to resources relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, including articles, websites, books and presentations. Core Texts includes digitized versions of ancient texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to ancient Near Eastern studies and eTact is a repository for translations of religious, legal, literary and historical works in the Akkadian language.

Includes the Papyrological Navigator, which supports searching, browsing, and aggregation of ancient papyrological documents and related materials and the Papyrological Editor, which enables multi-author, version controlled, peer reviewed scholarly curation of papyrological texts, translations, commentary, scholarly metadata, institutional catalog records, bibliography, and images.

A digital collection of texts from the ancient Parthian Empire.