State Archives of Assyria
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As you may guess, old computers aren't my only hobby. I'm also
interested in history. Before few years I decided to organize my
knowledge about the ancient Mesopotamia [1]. I already have had
several books at home (mostly Czech translations of books from 1960s
and 1970s) so I have started to search more recent sources.

I have found several paid (but good) books on the Amazon [2] (I have
the Kindle reader - I got it as a Christmas present from my employer
few years ago). In one of these books was hint that there is available
online archive of the Assyria empire. And, yes, it is: the "State
Archives of Assyria Online" page [3],[4].

The archive is actually very nice: there are cuneiform tables with
letters and other texts, with photos and English translations! Of
course the archives are far from complete as many tables didn't
survive.

From technical point of view, there are two caveats:
- use nothing less than the Firefox WWW browser - the pages looks to
 be old but actually they use CSS and they are hard to use with
 browsers like the Links or the old Netscape
- the images are sometimes large, sometimes too large for 1990s-era
 computers

References:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia
[2] http://www.amazon.com
[3] http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/corpus
[4] http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/saa.html

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