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(Last updated 2/98)

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Good Indices of Egypt-related websites and computer projects

  • The Guardian's Egypt Links. Probably the most exhaustive site for the hobbyist and student
  • ABZU Guide to Ancient Egypt info on the Internet
  • Egyptology Resources on the Internet, maintained at Newton Institute in Cambridge
  • Egypt-net Dedicated to Egypt in all its facets, ancient and modern. Newsletters, photo gallery, info on history and culture.
  • Computers and Egyptology, including:

    Sites on Egypt by Scholars and Hobbyists

  • Rigby's World of Ancient Egypt is a large hobbyist's site. Hilights include a good chronology of Egypt, a tour of the Cairo museum, and see especially the section on amulets, which may help with fetish design. .
  • Greg Reeder's flashy Egypt web page, including studies of a mysterious character named Tekenu, the famous mu'u dancers, and a guided tour of an Egyptian tomb.
  • The Ancient Egypt Site includes a good overview of history and an extensive section on writing.
  • Shaffner Library's Guide to History and Culture of Ancient Egypt -- very nice; it's a bunch of course materials for students at Northwestern.
  • (3/23)The Tomb of the Chihuahua Pharaohs. A middle school class' Egypt site, mostly on mummies, but designed for kids and teachers.

    Art Galleries, Tours, and General Egypt Info

  • Carnegie Museum's Online Gallery of Life in Ancient Egypt.
  • Egypt's Gallery of pictures, sound, and stuff on the country, both old and new. Really nice.
  • UChicago Oriental Institute's hilights of their ancient Egyptian collection.
  • Word Art Treasures' tour of Abydos; tour of Egyptian and other art
  • A beautiful tour of photos from Egypt by Ken Stein.
  • GIFsof Egypt from UPenn. Photos of Egypt and artifacts; maps; Egyptophile artists running amok with paint tools!
  • Unofficial Egypt homepage (good pictures and tour of country, but slow...it's coming from Egypt!)
  • Dartmouth's Egypt homepage
  • Army's guide to Egypt from antiquity to the present

    On specific archaeological sites and finds

  • (added 2/98) The excavations of the Valley of Kings: a fabulous site, easy to tour, including the recently-discover tomb of Rameses' fifty sons.
  • Nice tour of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, with plan and photos
  • Professional write-up of private tomb (Senneferi) in Thebes by Nigel Strudwick
  • Egyptology News & Gossip often has the latest dirt on new excavations.

    Mythology and Religion

  • (3/23) Ancient Egypt: The Mythology also includes sections on the land of Egypt, a bit of its culture and history, another brief listing of all the gods and some symbols (picture of an Anubis statue), and complete retellings of the 13 best-preserved myths and stories. You can get down to real stuff quickly here.
  • A good accurate Encyclopedia of Egyptian Mythology! At last!
  • (3/23)Egyptian Goddesses: photos of statues and paintings supplement it, and the spellings are good.

    Caveat: The following 3 are somewhat interpretive--

  • Walk Like an Egyptian In spite of its name, the scholar here covers much about Egyptian gods, philosophy, and key concepts, using our own language with English translations. My only quibble is that I am not certain he's right about all the myths being analogous to the body and its organs.
  • (3/23)House Netjer's encyclopedia of all the Egyptian gods (each here considered as a facet of an overarching deity) covers more gods than most sites and is fairly exhaustive, but occasionally has odd spellings for the gods' names. This is a modern religious organization dedicated to reviving the religion of Kemt through vigorous research of ancient texts and artifacts, and has extensive resources posted which include other religions from or practiced in Africa. (yes, I did ask permission to link to them.)
  • (3/23)Bast the Shredder: Actually an entire site devoted to Bast, there is a section of ancient poetry from Egyptian shrines dedicated to her.

    Language and Texts

  • (3/23)The lesson of Ptahhotep to his son, a little over 4,000 years old, reiterates the Strider philosophy of restraint in words, commitment to listening.
  • An online introduction to the Egyptian language.
  • A chart of late Egyptian phonetic hieroglyphs--these are the ones found on the Rosetta Stone, which you can use to spell out names.

    Miscellaneous

  • David Fidelner's site on Hypatia, including translations of all we really know about her
  • Ptolemaic Egypt, including an Alexandria section.
  • A Web Site devoted to Women in Ancient Egypt.
  • Egypt's info highway: Info about modern Egypt, products, health services, technologies; that sort of thing, prepared through government funding.
  • The Artists of Luxor. New site on modern rural Egyptian artists recreating ancient art on papyrus, mostly using the same techniques.
  • An article on Coptic art. No pictures.