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(Last updated 2/98)
(10/99) This is my oldest contribution to the web, a list of good Egypt web sites I started in 1993 when the web was first sprouting and Yahoo was (believe it or not) just a list of bookmarks one page long. However, Yahoo and other people have kept at it, and I fell behind long ago. I have checked to make sure all my links work (unless otherwise marked) and have added a few new ones. Some of these sites I keep going back to; others I'm delighted or bemused to rediscover when I revamp this page. For a really comprehensive meta-index to Egypt on the web, go to the Guardian. To see my own favorites, read on...
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Good Indices of Egypt-related websites and computer projects
The Guardian's Egypt Links. The best, IMHO.
ABZU Guide to Ancient Egypt info on the Internet
Egyptology Resources on the Internet, maintained at Newton Institute in Cambridge
Egyptian Antiquities presented by Egypt's ministry of tourism: excellent sections on history, the monuments, a who's who of ancient Egyptians (pharaohs AND commoners), mythology, and more
Egypt-net (slow link) 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..
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.
The British Museum's Egyptian Antiquities: select objects
UChicago Oriental Institute's hilights of their ancient Egyptian collection.
The Egyptian Museum of Cairo has posted photographs of many of the most famous items from King Tut's tomb
BROKEN LINK--anyone know where this went? Egypt's Gallery of pictures, sound, and stuff on the country, both old and new. Really nice.
Word Art Treasures' tour of Abydos; tour of Egyptian and other art
Animals of Egypt: photos from Egypt by Ken Stein.
GIFsof Egypt from UPenn. Photos of Egypt and artifacts; maps; Egyptophile artists running amok with paint tools!
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
The Guardian's photographic guides to the pyramids of Giza and Sphinx
Abu Simbel: brief but useful web site on the temple
Egyptology News & Gossip often has the latest dirt on new excavations.
(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!
Summaries of lots of goddesses (Egyptian and beyond)
Goddess Gallery: A commercial site selling reproductions of Egyptian art, but they're good enough to give you a feel of the meanings behind the gods
Thoth, Egyptian God of Wisdom and Writing, a fun in-depth look at this god
House of Bast a modern devotee of the goddess shares her research
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)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.
Sources for Hypatia, Neoplatonic scholar and mathematician, killed by Christians 415 AD -- last guardian of the traditions of the great Library of Alexandria
The House of Ptolemy, an index of web sites on the Ptolemaic (Hellenistic) period of Egypt
Akhet-Aten web site on the Amarna period, a bizarre aberration of art and religion instigated by the "heretic" king Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti
Egypt's info highway: Info about modern Egypt, products, health services, technologies; that sort of thing, prepared through government funding.
An article on Coptic art. No pictures.