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[[File:Pompeii-couple.jpg|thumb|right|This wall [[painting]] found in the Roman city of [[Pompeii]] is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times ([[portrait of Terentius Neo]]).]]
[[File:Diario de Anne Frank, Iglesia de San Nicolás, Kiel, Alemania, 2019-09-10, DD 22.jpg|thumb|right| The diary of [[Anne Frank]] is an example of a written primary source, particularly for study on [[World War II]].]]
In the study of [[history]] as an academic discipline, a '''primary source''' (also called an '''original source''') is an [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifact]], [[document]], [[diary]], [[manuscript]], [[autobiography]], recording, or any other [[source of information]] that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. Similar definitions can be used in [[library science]] and other areas of scholarship, although different fields have somewhat different definitions.
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