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Geography
- Maps
  - Relief Map [289 Kb], from the University of Texas
  - Relief Map of the Sinai Peninsula, from the University of Texas
  - The Nile from Alexandria to Aswan [clickable map, but crowded with detail]
  - The Theban Mapping Project
  - Atlas of the Valley of the Kings, from the Theban Mapping Project
    [click on "Atlas" to start program]
  - Satellite Iamge of Giza
  - Sites in the Valley of the Kings, from the Theban Mapping Project
    [Clickable]
  - Clickable Maps of the Major Egyptian Regions, with Gazetteers
  - Egypt-Nubia Archaeological Sites, from the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
  - The Luxor-Farshut Road Project, from the Oriental Institute
  - The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project, from the Oriental Institute
  - The Giza Plateau Mapping Project, from the Oriental Institute
- Gazetteers
  - Modern Equivalents of Major Ancient Place-Names
Language
- The Language of Ancient Egypt
- Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, ed. Janet H. Johnson
- Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (Third Edition), by Janet H. Johnson, Oriental Institute
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Reference
Bibliography
- General
  - The Ancient Egypt Bibliography, by Jacques Kinnaer
  - AEB. The Annual Egyptological Bibliography [by subscription]
  - Absolute Egyptology [K-12-colorful introductory site]
  - ABZU: Annual Report on Electronic Resources, 1997-1998, by Charles E. Jones and John C. Sanders
  - Ancient Egypt On the Internet, ABZU
  - Egyptology Resources
  - Egyptological Links, from The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities
- Topical
  - AIGYPTOS. Eine Datenbank zur Literaturrecherche im Fachgebiet Äegyptologie, from the University of Munich
  - "Death in Ancient Egypt", by Alexandra A. O'Brien, at the University of Chicago
  - Egyptian Mummies, from the Encyclopedia Smithsoniana
  - Demotic Texts published on the World Wide Web, by Alexandra A. O'Brien.
  - Directory of North American Egyptologists, edited by Richard H. Wilkinson and Charles E. Jones.
  - Disjecta Membra in Araneo - Scattered Remains on the Web, by Alexandra A. O'Brien.
  - Egyptology as a Discipline
  - Papyrologie [an introduction from Bibliotheca Classica Selecta - Bibliographie d'orientation
  - Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs, and Paintings., ed by Jaromir Malek, from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  - Theban Tombs, Some Scholarly Works
  - Women in Egypt, by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe
- Popular and Fiction
  - Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Web Resources for Young People and Teachers, by Alexandra A. O'Brien, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
  - Christian Jacq [a site with extensive materials in Spanish]
  - Theban Tombs, Some Popular Works
  - El antiguo Egypto en la novel histórico
Journals
- Index of Archaeology, Egyptology, Coptology Journals, from Egyptology Resources
- Kelsey Museum Newsletter
- KMT. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt [Tables of contents from Summer 1995 to the present]
Booksellers and Publishers
- Ancient Egypt History Books, Amazon.com
- Index of Egyptology Booksellers and Publishers, Egyptology Resources
Institutions
- Associations and Societies
  - Egyptology Resources Index of Asssociations and Societies
  - International Association of Papyrologists [Association Internationale de Papyrologues]
    - International Association of Papyrologists List of Members
- Research Centers
  - ABZU: The Oriental Institute, at the University of Chicago
    - Egyptological Institutions [a definitive list]
  - Ägyptologisches Institut der Universität Leipzig
  - American Research Center in Egypt, at Emory University
  - Centre for Computer-Aided Egyptological Research, from the Universiteit Utrecht
  - Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, at Oxford University
  - Department of Egyptology, at Brown University
  - Digital Egypt, University College London
  - Griffith Institute, at Sackler Library, University of Oxford
  - Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, at the University of Memphis, Tenn.
  - Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden University
  - Newton Institute Egyptology Homepage, University of Cambridge
  - Egyptology Resources, from Cambridge University
  - Sussex College of Egyptology
  - Theban Mapping Project, with a great deal of information on the Valley of the Kings, American University in Cairo
  - Researchers
    - The Brothers Brugsch: Heinrich (1827-1894) & Émile (1842-1930) Giants of Egyptology KMT 7:3, FALL 1996 [archive.org copy]
    - Heinrich Karl Brugsch , 1827-1894, from Wikipedia [in German]
    - Heinrich Brugsch, 1911 Online Encyclopedia
    - Heinrich Brugsch, My Life and My Travels , as a teenager, translated the Rosetta Stone demotic section, became leading 19th century German Egyptologist; mentored by Alexander von Humbodt and the Berlin Museum's curator of the Egyptian collection, Guiseppe Passalacqua (1797- 1865). [Mein Leben und mein Wandern English version, 1992]
    - Richard F. Burton on Heinrich Brugsch, from The Land of Midian, Chapter 4
    - Restoring Ancient Egyptian artifacts... by computer, Hans van den Berg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Museums
- ABZU Guide to Museums and Collections on the Internet
- Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin [Egyptian Museum, in English]
- British Museum, London
- Dallas Museum of Art, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, Dallas, Texas
- Eqyptian Museum, Cairo
- Room in the Egyptian Museum (Vatican)
- Joseph and Mary Grimshaw Egyptian Gallery, from the Oriental Institute
- Life in Ancient Egypt, from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Louvre, Paris [English version]
- Nubia - "Its glory and its people": 1987 Exhibition
- Nubia Exhibits at the Oriental Institute Museum, U. Chicago
- Museums with Egyptian Collections on the Web
- "Das Netzwerk des berliner Ägyptischen Museums", by Florian Steinborn
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
- Wellcome Museum, Museum of Egyptian Antiquities University of Wales Swansea Egypt Centre
- Vatican Museum: Ancient Near East Collection, Rome, Italy
- WWW-VL: History: Museums
Materials
- General
  - Ancient Egypt: K-12
  - Antony's Ancient Egypt
  - The Egypt Page, by Jacques Kinnaer
  - Ancient Egypt, by Mark Millmore
  - Absolute Egyptology, by Ottar Vendel
  - Land of the Pharoahs, offers serveral categories of quality materials
- Texts
  - ABZU Guide to Philology, Texts, and Translations on the Internet
  - Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Sondersammelgebiet Ägyptologie, from Heidelberg
  - Digitalisierte ägyptologische Print-Literatur und WWW-Publikationen [an excellent collection of secondary texts]
  - Articles on the Valley of the Kings, from the Theban Mapping Project
  - Egyptian Texts for Downloading
- Images
  - Gallery of Ancient Egyptian Images, Freeman Institute
  - A Photo Album of Ancient Egypt
Timelines
- Timeline of Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egyptian Dynasties
History
- General
  - Egyptology
  - Ancient Egypt, from the British Museum
  - History of Ancient Egypt
  - Historia general de Egypto
  - Ancient Egypt
  - Ancient Egypt: Nile
  - Ancient Egypt Overview, from eHistory
- Archaic (Pre-Dynastic) Period, 3411-3100 BC
  - "Predynastic and Protodynastic Egypt and a Synthetic Model of the Ancient Egyptian Civilization Origin and Development", by Francesco Raffaele.
  - Predynastic (5,500 - 3,100 BC)
  - Naqada IIc (IIC) - IIIa2 (IIIA2), 1400-1300 BC, from Francesco Raffaele.
  - Naqada IIIB, 3120-3050 BC, from Francesco Raffaele.
- Old Kingdom, 3100-2181 BC
  - Early Dynastic Period, 3000-2575 BCE
  - Old Kingdom, 2575-2150 BCE
  - The Turin "Royal Canon" a list of Egyptian kings compiled in the reign of Rameses II and discovered in 1822 AD
  - The First Dynasty, 2860-1050 BC
    - The First Dynasty
    - First Dynasty, from Francesco Raffaele.
      - Introduction [scroll down]
      - Rulers [scroll down]
  - Second Dynasty, 2860-2710 BC
    - The Second Dynasty, , from Francesco Raffaele.
    - The Second Dynasty, 2860-2710 BC
  - Third Dynasty,
  - The Third Dynasty, from Francesco Raffaele
  - 3rd Dynasty (2650 - 2575 BC)
  - The Third Dynasty
  - Pepi I, 2289-2255 BC
  - Pepi II, 2246-2152
  - Statue of Pepi II
    - The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser
    - Excavations at Abusir
- The Fourth Dynasty, 2575-2465 BC
- The Fifth Dynasty
- The Sixth Dynasty
- Kings of the 7th/8th Dynasties, 2150-2130
First Intermediate Period, 2181-2125 BC
- First Intermediate Period
- First Intermediate Period, 2150-2040, from Amenhotep
Middle Kingdom, 2125-1650 BC
- Middle Kingdom, 2040-1640, Egyptologist Jacques Kinnaer
- The 11th Dynasty, 2134-1991 BC, Jacques Kinnaer
- The Twelfth Dynasty
- Amenemhet I, 1st King of the 12th Dynasty, by Jimmy Dunn
- Sesostris III, 1878-1841 BC
- The Thirteenth Dynasty, 1783-post 1640, Jacques Kinnaer
- Kings of the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Dynasties
Second Intermediate Period 1650-1540 BC
- Second Intermediate Period, 1640-1540 14th through 17th Dynasties
- The Hyksos Invaders
New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC
- New Kingdom, 1540-1270 18th through 20th Dynasties
- The 18th Dynasty
  - The 18th Dynasty
  - Rulers of the 18th Dynasty, 1540-1307
  - Ahmose I, Founder of the 18th Dynasty and the New Kingdom (1550-1525 BC), by Richard Warner
  - Amenhotep I, the Second King of Egypt's 18th Dynasty
  - The Mortuary Temple of Merenptah on the West Bank at Luxor
  - Amenhotep II (1382-1344 BC)
  - Amenhotep III (ca. 1344 - 1304 BC)
  - Thutmose IV (ca. 1391-1401 BC)
  - The Amarna Period
    - General
    - Rulers
      - Akhenaten - Amenophis IV (1352-1336)
      - Nefertiti: Royal Queen of Egypt. [wife of Amenhotep IV]
    - Culture and Society
    - Tutankamun, 1333-1233
      - The Search for Tutankamun.Howard Carter's records of the five seasons of excavations, 1915-1922, from the Griffith Institute
      - At the Tomb of Tutankhamen, multi-media from National Geographic
      - Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation. Howard Carter's records of the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, from the Griffith Institute
  - Sethy I (ca. 1294-1279), by Raymond Monfort [French or English]
  - The Tomb of Senniferi [ca. 1420 BC]
  - The Deir el-Medina Database [materials the city of tomb-builders]
  - Amarna
    - Akhet-Aten. The internet source for Amarna period information.
    - The Amarna Tablets (ca. 1350 BC)
  - Expedition to Dashur North [Late 18th-Early 19th Dynasties]
- 19th Dynasty, 1307-1196 BC
  - Rulers of the 19th Dynasty
- 20th Dynasty 1196-1070 BC
  - Rulers of the 20th Dynasty
  - The Temple Palace of Rameses III at Medinet Habu 1175 BC, by Mohammed Motlib
- First Phase of the Late Period, 1069-517 BC
  - Late Dynastic Period, 1070-332 BC
- First Period of Persian Domination, 517-425 BC
- Second Phase of the Late Period, 425-342 BC
- Second Period of Persian Domination, 342-332 BC
- Greek (Ptolemaic) Period, 332-30 BC
  - The House of Ptolemy [index page; offers a large number of links to Ptolemaic, Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt]
  - Prosopographia Ptolemaica, from Universiteit Leuven
  - Graeco-Roman Period, 332 BC-395 AD
  - The Great Spectacle and Procession of Ptolemy II, Philadelphus, 285 BC, by Athanaeus, c 200 AD, from the Ancient History Sourcebook
  - Alexandria
    - City Plan
    - Alexandria: Ptolemaic, Roman-Egypt and Byzantine
    - Alexandria
    - "Mapping Alexandria's Royal Quarters," by Angela M. H. Schuster, from Archaeology, 1999
    - Les Ports Submerges de L'ancienne Ile de Pharos, by Gaston Jondet (Le Caire : Siege de L'institut Egyptien, 1916)
    - Treasures of the Sunken City, by PBS
  - Excavations at Berenike [Graeco-Roman harbour on the Red Sea]
  - Oxyrrhincus
    - Oxyrrhincus. The City and Its Writings [an excellent site with extensive content]
- Roman Period
  - Roman Emperors, 30 BC-395 AD
  - The Quseir al-Qadim Project
- Coptic Period
  - Why Coptic History, St. Marks Foundation for Coptic History Studies
  - The Arab Conquest of Egypt And the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, by Alfred J. Butler, D. Litt., F.S.A, Oxford University Press 1978 [.pdf]
  - International Association for Coptic Studies
- Byzantine Period
  - Bir Umm Fawakhir: Insights into Ancient Egyptian Mining, by Carol Meyer
Disciplines
- Papyrology
  - Bibliography
    - Papyrologie [an introduction from Bibliotheca Classica Selecta - Bibliographie d'orientation
  - On-Line Journals
    - Journal: ZPE: Index of the Journal of Papyrology
    - Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
  - Methods
    - Papyrology, University of Michigan
    - Recording, Processing and Archiving Carbonized Papyri, from Helsinki University of Technology
    - Beinlich's Egyptian Wordlist
  - Resources
  - Organizations
  - Studies
- Art
  - A New Light On Ancient Art
  - Anthropomorphic representation of the Apis bull
  - Apis bull
  - Egyptian Art
  - Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  - Gold hawk
  - Images of Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture, from the Jacques Eduoard Berger Foundation
  - Isis
  - Lion inscribed for Pharaoh Nectanebo I
  - Mask of a mummy
  - Roman Portraits from Egyptfrom the Jacques Eduoard Berger Foundation [click on "to know more" for lectures in French]
  - Sakkara mastaba de Kajemni [zoomable high-resolution image], from World Art Treasures.
  - Thoth, god of learning and patron of scribes
  - Torso of Pharaoh Nectanebo I
- Archaeological Sites
- Imaging and Site Reconstruction
  - ABZU Guide to Imaging and Site Reconstruction on the Internet
  - Imaging
    - The Abydos Plgrimage, from the Jacques Eduoard Berger Foundation [click on "to know more"]
    - Tel el-Amarna, from the Jacques Eduoard Berger Foundation [click on "to know more"]
  - Mapping Projects
- Eygptian Food
  - Eygptian Recipes
- Unsorted

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Site managed by George Laughead, manager, United States History Index. Thanks to Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, original author and Kansas Heritage Group founder. Special thanks to the late Dr. Heinrich G. Brugsch, Waban, MA, for sharing his grandfather Heinrich Brugsch's and granduncle Emile Pasha Brugsch's works and lifes. Updated: 24 February 2010.

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