Primary Sources: Ancient History: General Sources Ancient

A collection on ancient documents provided as part of the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

The Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) is an initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. AWDL will identify, collect, curate, and provide access to a broad range of scholarly materials relevant to the study of the ancient world.

With NYU's Digital Library Technology Services (DLTS), AWDL is developing mechanisms to digitize, preserve, and host digitized print and born-digital scholarly content. We are actively soliciting partnerships with publishers, scholarly societies, organizations, and individuals who hold the rights to scholarly content as we expand our collection.

The site includes items such as the Vindolanda writing tablets; Romano-British curse tablets; and various collections of papyri.

Created to provide access to primary source texts for educational purposes.

A collection of 441 works by 59 authors covering classic works mainly Greco-Roman, with some Chinese and Persian. (English translations)

"Livius is a website on ancient history written and maintained since 1996 by the Dutch historian Jona Lendering. It started at a different URL; the present one has been in use since 2000.

The website is not for profit; with a couple of exceptions that have been indicated, you can use every photo and text, provided that you do not make profit either. A link back is appreciated."

The main collection was designed to cover "the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. " It includes both primary and secondary resources. Click on the Collections link to access these resources and resources for other topics including Arabic language documents; materials for the study of the Germanic Peoples; primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature; Issues of the Richmond Times Dispatch; Sources on the history of the 19th-century United States and Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri.