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- Earth's Ancient History - An online text that explores the theory of ancient times and dawn of mankind, and includes translations of several ancient texts from Sumer, Babylonia, the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and sacred texts.
- Ancient History Sourcebook: The Ancient Near East and Egypt - Excellent link connection: ancient texts, and modern analyses.
- On-Line Texts Related to Biblical Study: Nag Hammadi Collection - A large collection of online texts.
- Mandaean Gnostic Texts - Rare Mandaean Gnostic texts.
- Gist of Gnostic Texts - Various Gnostic texts in html format.
- Classics - Ancient Carthage - Excerpts from ancient texts with artistic depictions, topography, table of dates, bibliography and links .
- Apocalypse of Adam - Wikipedia - A summary of this text and the Gnostic implications.
- Apocryphon of John - Wikipedia - An article detailing this Gnostic text.
- Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources - Drawing together ancient texts and images concerning the major figures of Greek and Roman mythology, by Laurel Bowman, University of Victoria.
- Perseus Project - Summary of Apollodorus's Library - Frazer's summary of Apollodorus' handbook of Greek mythology all aspects of ancient texts, and including a superb image library.
Wikipedia Articles
- Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament - Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament by James_B._Pritchard is a key sourcebook for ancient texts that have a literary relationship with the Old Testament.
- Ancient Egyptian funerary texts - The literature that make up the Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts are a collection of religious documents that were used in Ancient Egypt, usually to help the spirit of the concerned person to be preserved in the afterlife.
- Coffin Texts - The Coffin Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary spells written on coffins beginning in the First intermediate period. The texts are derived in part from the earlier pyramid texts, reserved for royal use only, but they contain substantial new material related to everyday desires that reflects the fact that the texts were now ...
- Pyramid Texts - The Pyramid Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the time of the Old Kingdom. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved on the walls and sarcophagi of the pyramids at Saqqara during the 5th and 6th Dynasties of the Old Kingdom.
- Uttarakuru - Uttarakuru is the name of an ancient country and its people referenced in ancient Vedic, Brahmanical, Hindu, and Buddhist texts as well as numerous other ancient Sanskrit texts.