Goal is to digitize over 1000 historic maps

Electronic Texts and Ancient Near Eastern Archives

Founded in 1957, the year after Sudanese independence, to collect and preserve the private papers of British officials who had served or lived in the Sudan during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium period (1899-1955), this is now the pre-eminent archive on the Sudan outside Khartoum, with 800 boxes of official, semi-official and personal papers from over 320 individuals, 50,000 photographs, 1,000 maps, 130 cinefilms, museum objects and sound recordings

The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel guides, museum catalogs, and travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, and historical maps of Egypt and Cyprus

The Gertrude Bell Papers comprise Gertrude's personal correspondence, diaries and miscellaneous items, such as Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia (1920), notebooks, obituaries, lecture notes and miscellaneous reports, memoranda and cuttings. Circa. 1,600 letters and diaries covering the years 1877-1879 and 1893-1900

Access to thousands of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, publications, everyday objects, works of art and audio materials (1796-1925)

Part of the Avalon Project, Yale University

Official Government Document available through Google Books. Contains public notices, legislation, statistics

Check under Documents. Site also includes declassified electronic briefing books: focus on American policy in Iran and Iraq

The collection consists of the personal accounts of 134 individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in Iran from the 1920s to the 1980s

Translation of thousands or oral narratives and folk stories