Records of the Past

This is the index page for the series Records of the Past, which published translations of Near Eastern and Ancient Egyptian texts at the end of the 19th century.

Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. I
ed. by A. H. Sayce [1888]
First in a series of translations of mythological and historical texts from the Ancient Near East.

Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. II
ed. by A. H. Sayce [1888]
Includes many key documents: the Moabite Stone, the Tel El-Amarna letters, plus Assyrian king lists and chronologies.

Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. III
ed. by A. H. Sayce [1890]
Includes the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, the 'oldest book in the world,' the Hymn to the Nile, and the India House inscription of Nebuchadrezzer.

Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. IV
ed. by A. H. Sayce [1890]
Includes a Hymn to Osiris, the Synchronous History of Assyria and Babylonia, various conquest stelae of Shalmaneser II, Babylonian Votive inscriptions, and much more.