Ancient literature online; poets and writers, databases, libraries
A guide to ancient texts

Ancient Scripts
The aim of Ancient Scripts is not to replace texts books or instructional web sites. Instead, it is designed to give an introduction to writing systems, which hopefully will tantalize the reader into searching for more information on the web or in books and publications.

Ancient texts, hieroglyphs, cuneiform tablets *

The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.

Ancient Scripts.com
Writing systems from around the world.

Babylonia and Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Britannica Keyed

Enuma Elish
The Seven Tablets of Creation

Cuneiform *

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.

Vorderasiatisches Museum

Hermitage Cuneiform Collection

Ashmolean Museum

Institut Catholique de Paris

Hearst Museum of Anthropology

New York Public Library

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Horn Museum

Cornell University Cuneiform Library

CUNES

Cornell University Kroch Library

Walters Art Museum Cuneiform

Oriental Institute

Iraq Museum

Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire

USC Archaeological Collection

Demotic Texts on the World Wide Web
Legal and administrative texts, religious texts, letters, non-literary yexts, literature, unidentified texts. A guide to internet resources on papyri, Egyptian, Greek, Greco-Roman texts.

Internet Classics Archive, MIT. Greek, Roman and Oriental texts.

Linear B,
Wikipedia entry.

Papyri *

Papyrus of Ani; The Egyptian Book of the Dead,
translated by E.A. Wallis Budge.

Oxyrhynchus papyri

Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Wikipedia entry.

Oxford University: Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project

Oxyrhynchus Online

Table of Contents

The Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri

The Oxyrhynchus papyri
edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt.

Sacred Texts
A collection of scared texts in etext format.

Scripts, writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.

Trismegistos.org
Online database of ancient manuscripts.

Writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.

Arabic literature,
Wikipedia entry.

British Museum Collections Database. Search.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Papyri

Greek and Latin. Textkit
Learn Greek and Latin.Textkit is the Internet’s largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers. With currently 146 free books to choose from, Greek and Latin learners have downloaded 384,641 grammars, readers and classical e-books.