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The Ancient Egypt Site - http://ancient-egypt.org
The history, language and culture of Ancient Egypt, by Egyptologist Jacques Kinnaer. |
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The Global Egyptian Museum - http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/
Includes 6,600 objects from 10 European collections, with extensive documentation and color photography. |
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Secrets of the Pharaohs - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/
PBS companion to the TV series focusing on new findings: genetic disease in the 18th dynasty; the tombs of the pyramid builders; mummy of a noblewoman and chantress from Luxor named Asru. |
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Egyptology Resources - http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/er/
Internet resources, including mailing lists, news and gossip, contact information for institutes and individuals, journals and links from Nigel Strudwick. |
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http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/ - http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/
The Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt. |
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Giza Archives Project - http://www.gizapyramids.org/
Designed to serve as a centralized online repository for archaeological activity at the Old Kingdom Giza necropolis, beginning with the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavations (1902-1947). Page contains thousands of excavation photographs, expedition diary pages, object register book pages, maps, tomb plans and sections, books and articles. |
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Hopkins in Egypt Today - http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/
Records day-by-day activities of the Johns Hopkins University Expedition archaeological team in Egypt. Features details of the excavations with photos. |
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The Egypt Archive - http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/
Features photo archives of major Ancient Egyptian sites, and Ancient Egyptian antiquities collections in major museums. |
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The Egyptologist's Electronic Forum - http://www.netins.net/showcase/ankh/eefmain.html
This mailing list has available online various archives, news items and Egyptology FAQs, as well as a comprehensive list of upcoming events in Egyptology. |
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Early Dynastic Egypt - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/
Francesco Raffaele presents an illustrated history of the second and third dynasties, king by king, with references. Also corpora of First Dynasty labels and Early Dynastic inscriptions, and articles. |
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Egyptology in Poland - http://www.egiptologia.pl/
A portal for Polish Egyptology, includes a history, suggested readings, museums, links, and gallery. |
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Akhet - Egyptian Religion and Temple Life - http://www.philae.nu/akhet/index.html
Features detailed information on the history of religion, creation myths, gods and goddesses, temples, the king and the priesthood, festivals, and other aspects Ancient Egyptian religion; also includes articles about queens and ordinary women and their daily lives. |
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Spirit & Stone - http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/egypt/
Articles about stone technology, the Sphinx and temples. |
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Some Observations Concerning Uninscribed Tombs in the Valley of the Kings - http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/Observ1.html
Scholarly article by Donald P. Ryan, from C.N. Reeves (ed.), After Tutankhamun: Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes (1992). |
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Further Observations Concerning the Valley of the Kings - http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/Observ2.html
Article by Donald P. Ryan. |
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Aspects of Life in Ancient Egypt - http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/
Descriptions of daily life, material culture, social and political institutions, economy and geography of pharaonic Egypt |
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Wonders of Ancient Egypt - http://www.nekhebet.com/
Features the wonders, mysteries, religion and history of ancient and modern Egypt. With details and resources on related topics. |
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BBC: Pharaonic Tomb Find Stuns Egypt - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4700032.stm
An ancient tomb is discovered in the Valley of the Kings, the first since Tutankhamun's was found in 1922. |
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The Heqanakht Papyri - http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0868.shtml
Review by Morris Silver of: James P. Allen's "The Heqanakht Papyri, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art" ISBN: 1-58839-070-5. An analysis of Egyptian economics as seen through the lens of this text. |
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Egypt's Treasures in Danger - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/693465.stm
Egypt calls for urgent action to save the monuments of the Nile Delta. |
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Date Converter for Ancient Egypt - http://aegyptologie.online-resourcen.de/
A scientific tool for converting calendar dates mentioned in Greek and Demotic Papyri from Egypt into Julian dates. |
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The Shaft, the Subway and the Causeway - http://www.towers-online.co.uk/pages/shafted.htm
Nigel Skinner-Simpson tries to track down the evidence behind stories of tunnels in the Giza plateau. |
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The Sounds of Ancient Egypt - http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9705/11/egypt/
Musicians believe music will help us understand ancient Egypt's spoken language. |
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Ancient Egyptian Priest Settlement Uncovered - http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s901864.htm
From Discovery News, 2,000-year-old priest settlement in southern Egypt has been discovered by Egyptian and German archaeologists. |
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Famous Lives - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/622/he2.htm
From Al-Ahram Weekly, Saqqara tomb of a scribe in Akhenaten's reign and a colossal statue of one of Ramses II's wives at Zagazig have shed more light on two famous Pharaohs. |
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Elkab's Hidden Treasure - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/649/he1.htm
From Al-Ahram, a 17th dynasty inscription found three months ago in Upper Egypt uncovered a critical and previously unknown Kushite attack on Egypt. |
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Tel er-Rub'a - http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/faculty/dandrea/tel.html
Large tel complex located about 100 km northeast of Cairo in the eastern Nile Delta. |
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Dig Days: Hidden Treasures on View - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/621/he2.htm
From Al-Ahram Weekly, can you imagine that an Ancient Egyptian physician once fitted a patient with a prosthetic toe? |
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Ancient Egyptian Gardens - http://www.egyptstudy.org/ostracon/archives/JBigelow_Feb2000.pdf
Ostracon 11(1). Ancient Egyptian gardens and their requirements are a complex subject. |
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Fruitful Seasons - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/613/hr2.htm
From Al-Ahram Weekly, excavations at Karnak Temple complex have been focusing on areas hitherto little explored, with rewarding results. |
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Golden Hopes from Pharaoh's Map - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/449680.stm
BBC reports that geologists and engineers in Egypt are searching for gold using a 3,000-year-old map, believed to have been drawn by King Seti I. |
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Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Tombs - http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/egypt
Features a brief history of ancient Egyptian tombs and monuments, with digital reconstruction of the tombs of Sennedjem and Inherkhau. |
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Tableau May be Oldest Text - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/16/MN229801.DTL
An article in the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that 5,250-year-old symbols unearthed near Luxor may predate Sumerian script. |
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Encounters with Ancient Egypt - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/events/conferences/enco/
Conference at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 15-18 December 2000. Includes abstracts of papers. |
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thenilevalley - http://phpbb-host.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=thenile&sid=3c10107180659bb9095e6c91925a64b0
Forum covers histories, cultures and customs from Nubia to ancient Egypt. |