Primary Sources

Digital collections of Middle Eastern & African artifacts from ancient Sumerian tablets to 20th century photographs.

Digital collections from across the globe collected by the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and organizations around the world. Browse by topic.

Brings together free collections of Middle Eastern cultural heritage items from libraries and institutions around the world. Partnership of Council on Library and Information Resource and Stanford University.

Digitized scans of newspapers from across the Middle East and North Africa. Mostly Arabic, some English & French.1870 - 2021.

Scans of over 2000 Islamic manuscripts held by the Princeton University Library. Mostly in Arabic. 700s - 1900s.

Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums. Scans only, no transcription/translation. 1300s - 1900s.

Mix of photographs and scanned documents related to Palestinian history. 1800s - 1900s (and modern photographs of older ruins).