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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Egyptology in Australia - http://www.zeta.org.au/~ksowada/
Resources, collections, university programs, and fieldwork.

Egyptology in Poland - http://www.egiptologia.pl/
A portal for Polish Egyptology, includes a history, suggested readings, museums, links, and gallery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Further Observations Concerning the Valley of the Kings - http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/Observ2.html
Article by Donald P. Ryan.

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.

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.

Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh - http://www.per-ankh.co.uk/events/hatshepsut_from_queen_to_pharaoh.asp
Exhibition of the art and architecture created during the reign of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, who shared Egypt’s throne for nearly two decades in the early New Kingdom as senior co-ruler with her nephew, Tuthmosis III.

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.

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/ - http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/
The Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt.

Ptahhotep's Australian Egyptology Page - http://www.zeta.org.au/~ptahotep/
Egyptology contributions by Australia: excavations, coptology, and museum collections.

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.

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.

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).

Spirit & Stone - http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/egypt/
Articles about stone technology, the Sphinx and temples.

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.

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.

The Ancient Egypt Film Site - http://www.wepwawet.nl/films/
Information on past and present films dealing with Ancient Egypt or Egyptology.

The Ancient Egypt Site - http://ancient-egypt.org
The history, language and culture of Ancient Egypt, by Egyptologist Jacques Kinnaer.

The Egypt Archive - http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/
Features photo archives of major Ancient Egyptian sites, and Ancient Egyptian antiquities collections in major museums.

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.

The Global Egyptian Museum - http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/
Includes 6,600 objects from 10 European collections, with extensive documentation and color photography.

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.

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.

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.

thenilevalley - http://phpbb-host.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=thenile&sid=3c10107180659bb9095e6c91925a64b0
Forum covers histories, cultures and customs from Nubia to ancient Egypt.

Travellers in Egypt - http://www.travellersinegypt.org/
Articles and journals feature the history of ancient travellers in Egypt and Near East.

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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