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Hopkins in Egypt Today - http://www.jhu.edu/~neareast/egypttoday.html
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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Egyptology Resources - http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/
Internet resources, including mailing lists, news and gossip, contact information for institutes and individuals, journals and links from Nigel Strudwick. |
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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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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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Egyptian Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom - http://www.friesian.com/tombs.htm
Maps, diagrams, and detailed information about the Egyptian Royal Tombs from Kelley L. Ross. |
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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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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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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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Aspects of Life in Ancient Egypt - http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/timelines/topics/
Descriptions of daily life, material culture, social and political institutions, economy and geography of pharaonic Egypt |
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Egyptology in Australia - http://www.zeta.org.au/~ksowada/
Resources, collections, university programs, and fieldwork. |
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Saqqara - http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/
The Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt. |
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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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Travellers in Egypt - http://www.travellersinegypt.org/
Articles and journals feature the history of ancient travellers in Egypt and Near East. |
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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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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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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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Early Dynastic Egypt - http://xoomer.alice.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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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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Ptahhotep's Australian Egyptology Page - http://www.zeta.org.au/~ptahotep/
Egyptology contributions by Australia: excavations, coptology, and museum collections. |
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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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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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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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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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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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King Tut Liked Red Wine - http://acswebapplications.acs.org/applications/ccs/application/index.cfm?pressreleaseid=2310&categoryid=10
Report about how Spanish scientists analyzed residues from a wine jar found in the tomb of this early ruler by using a new technique to determine the color of wine used in ancient jars. From the American Chemical Society. |
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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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National Geographic - Abydos: Egyptian Afterlife - http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/
April 2005 issue features story reports on recent archaeological discoveries, including new evidence which shows that human sacrifice helped populate the royal city of the dead. Written by John Galvin, with photographs by Kenneth Garrett. |
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Few Had Wealth in Ancient Egypt - http://www.nature.com/nsu/021125/021125-8.html
From Nature, Most ancient Egyptians were on the poverty line while a handful of priest-kings held fabulous wealth. |
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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. |