Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies

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The Digital Library of Inscriptions is considered a digital recording of all inscriptions existing on ancient buildings and monuments throughout the ages. These inscriptions are digitally displayed for the user, including a brief description and pictures of the inscriptions. The languages included in the Digital Library are Ancient Egyptian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Greek languages. Moreover, there are inscriptions bearing Thamodic, Musnad, and Nabatean scripts. These inscriptions are digitally displayed for the user, including all the information that is related to those inscriptions such as the place of the inscriptions on the monuments and antiquities, the script used, the discovery place and the storage areas. Also, the era in which each inscription dates back to, and its dimensions. In addition, the user can obtain a detailed description of the inscription, with its images and a transcription, beside transliteration and translation of these inscriptions. All the inscriptions have been documented; also, the scientific references that are related to these inscriptions have been published. The user can access to this reference in case more details about a particular inscription is needed.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina - L'Art Arabe

L'Art Arabe - Bibliotheca Alexandrina

L'Art Arabe is one of the most important books on the Islamic monuments of Egypt. It consists of four volumes compiled by the French orientalist Prisse d'Avennes, one of the greatest pre-20th century Egyptologists, and was published in 1877. To preserve this valuable collection, ISIS has digitized the three–plate volumes (222 plates) and the text volume (388 pages).The material has been scanned and processed in high resolution. The processing phase included treatment of the damaged pages and restoration of the defected parts while keeping the original appearance. The text volume was OCRed (Optical Character Recognition) to provide a full text search facility. The digitized output was integrated on a virtual browser and published on the Internet. The website was launched during the 34th session of the General Conference of UNESCO in October 2007.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Memory of Suez Canal

Memory of Suez Canal

This project contains a huge number of digitized documents, images and other media related to the Suez Canal and donated by the Association of the Friends of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the BA, and the Suez Canal Authority. The collection documents the history of the Canal since its inauguration.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Memory of Modern Egypt

Memory of Modern Egypt

It is a digital repository documenting the last 200 years of Egypt’s modern history through tens of thousands of varying items, such as documents, pictures, audios, videos, maps, articles, stamps, coins, etc. that created an index of 14 different material types.

From the Memory of Modern Egypt repository, the user has access to:

• Over 50,000 photos of famous figures and important events in Egyptian history;
• Over 18,000 documents related to subjects such as the formation of ministries and political parties, wars and revolutions, etc;
• About 1,200 analytical and biographical essays written by the Special Projects Department;
• Over 5,800 news clippings gathered from various newspapers and magazines;
• More than 200 unique maps;
• Over 1,000 speeches by different rulers and prime ministers, covering diverse topics and events;
• Over 1000 audio recordings, including songs, speeches, and interviews with figures from various fields;
• More than 1600 video recordings, mostly of rare quality;
• About 590 historical advertisements for different goods and services;
• Over 1000 covers of magazines, newspapers, novels, albums, and film posters;
• About 290 currencies, both coins and notes;
• Over 1000 stamps commemorating significant people and events in modern Egyptian history;
• About 100 medals awarded to different figures; and
• Relevant books accessed through DAR.

Page with rulers of modern Egypt below:

Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Description de l'Égypte - Description of Egypt

Description de l'Égypte - Description of Egypt

Also available at:

• Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France), the 24 volumes text of the 2nd edition
• High resolution images from the second edition held by the State Library of Victoria
• A series of images from the second edition
• World Digital Library presentation of Description de l'Egypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. Antiquitiés or Description of Egypt: Antiquities, Volume One (Plates): Or, Collection of Observations and Research Conducted in Egypt During the Expedition of the French Army. Second Edition.

Documenting North Africa & the Middle East 2011

ARCHIVE-IT's COLLECTION: North Africa & the Middle East 2011

This collection documents the events in Northern Africa and the Middle East in 2011 after the Tunisian uprising. Content includes blogs, social media and news sites about Egypt, Yemen, Sudan and other African countries. These sites contain content in Arabic, English, and French. 

Documenting Tunisia 2011

ARCHIVE-IT's COLLECTION: Jasmine Revolution - Tunisia 2011

This collection consists of websites documenting the revolution in Tunisia in 2011. Our partners at Library of Congress and Bibliothèque Nationale de France have contributed websites for this collection, and the sites are primarily in French and Arabic with some in English.