Primary Source Originals
Selected Primary Sources
In history, primary sources are "original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. Primary sources may include letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Congress or the Office of the President, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons. These sources serve as the raw material to interpret the past..." (Primary Sources on the Web, a website of the History Section of RUSA, American Library Association).
The Ancient near East by Call Number: BS1180 .P83 2011ISBN: 9780691147260Publication Date: 2010-11-28
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells by Call Number: Open Access eBook (PDF)ISBN: 0226044440Publication Date: 1986-04-01
The Literature of Ancient Egypt by Call Number: PJ1943 .S5ISBN: 0300014821Publication Date: 1972-01-01
Milestone Documents in World History by Call Number: D5 .M55 2010ISBN: 9780979775864Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Near Eastern Religious Texts Relating to the Old Testament by Call Number: BL1060 .R4413ISBN: 0664213634Publication Date: 1978-05-01
The Sacred Books of the East by
Search HathiTrust using the title to access the Zoroastrian Avesta and Pahlavi Texts in Vols: 4,5,18,23,24,31,37,& 47
Call Number: Open Access eBookPublication Date: 1879-1910
Women in the Ancient near East by Call Number: HQ1137.M628 W65 2014ISBN: 9780415448550Publication Date: 2013-10-04
- Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian LiteratureThe corpus contains Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations, and bibliographical information for each composition.
- Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian EmpireWith the kind permission of the authors and the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, this project brings together translations and transliterations of 2100 texts.
- Mesopotamian Royal InscriptionsThis is a selection of inscriptions catalogued by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.
- Old Babylonian Model ContractsThis site provides translations of a selection of contracts written in Old Babylonian.
- The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform CorpusOracc is a collaborative effort to develop a complete corpus of cuneiform sources. Includes: Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Persian, and Kassite.