Ancient Egypt Web SitesThe following list represents the diversity and wealth of web sites dedicated to Ancient Egypt. The list is presented courtesy of the Seattle Art Museum's Teacher Resource Center (TRC). For more information about school and teacher programs at the Museum call (206) 654-3186.Index Sites I Museum Sites I On-line Egypt Tours I Miscellaneous Sites Index and Link SitesAncient Egypthttp://personalwebs.myriad.net/steveb/egypt.html Links to many sites accompanied by Egyptian mood music. Egypt http://history.evansville.net/egypt.html#Daily%20Life%20and%20Culture An extensive list of ancient Egypt links on history (people, places and events), art and architecture, literature and drama, music and dance, religion, mummies and mythology, daily life and culture. Egypt Page http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Egypt.html A listing of Egypt links on the Web from the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Egypt Tours and Travel http://touregypt.net/ A commercial site with extensive links to modern day and ancient Egypt sites. Check out Egyptian Antiquities for information on rulers, monuments and Egyptian astrology, and access the complete Book Of The Dead online. Art History Resources on Ancient Egypt http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHancient.html#AncEgypt A big list of links focusing the art historical aspects of ancient Egypt. Guardian’s Egypt http://guardians.net/egypt/ Another extensive site with links to everything Egyptian. The Egypt WWW Index http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt/Home.html List of many contemporary and ancient Egypt links on culture, history, Egyptology and more. Egypt's WWW Sites http://www.liii.com/~hajeri/egypt.html Links to sites on ancient and contemporary Egypt. Rigby’s World of Egypt http://www.powerup.com.au/~ancient/index.html Links to the Nubia and Luxor Museums and Egyptian Antiquities and Other Egyptian Web Sites. Okeanos: Web site for Biblical, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies http://www.weber.u.washington.edu/~snoegel Scholarly web site chock full of resources about the Aegean, Egypt, Isreal/Canaan and Mesopotamia. Index Sites I  Museum Sites I On-line Egypt Tours I Miscellaneous Sites
Museum SitesSearching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Collections/ancientegypt.html This is the traveling Egyptian exhibition that will be at the Seattle Art Museum in Fall 1998. Check out the online slide show for a preview. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology http://www.upenn.edu/museum This is the web site of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, responsible for organizing Egypt, Gift of the Nile. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo http://www.powerup.com.au/~ancient/museum.htm This page explores the Egyptian Museum floor by floor. The Egyptian Museum is the resting-place for Tutankhamun’s tomb. The Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OI_Museum_Egypt.html The Oriental Institute Museum's Egyptian collection is one of the largest and most complete in the United States. Images and text illustrate aspects of ancient Egyptian daily life, religion, and funerary practices. Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, The Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.clemusart.com/ This is the first exhibition exclusively devoted to this lost art.The University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/main.html Tour Egyptian monuments, view art and artifacts with detailed descriptions. Links to other Egypt sites. The Louvre, Department of Egyptian Antiquities http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/Treasures/Egyptian/ Several ancient Egyptian artifacts with brief descriptions. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University http://www.emory.edu/CARLOS/egypt.gal.html Text documenting ancient Egyptian arts accompanied by images of art and artifacts. Ancient Egypt, Mankato State University http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/egypt/index.htm An informative site on architecture, art, daily life, history, religion, maps and the military. The Splendors of Ancient Egypt http://www2.sptimes.com/Egypt/Egypt.6.html An exhibition of Egyptian artifacts at the Florida International Museum in St Petersburg, Florida. World Art Treasures: Egypt http://sgwww.epfl.ch/berger/First/english/start_egypt.html Not a museum, but an online exhibition of 15 images of Egyptian artifacts. The Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/Griffith.html Contains a large collection of records and papers on ancient Egypt. Check out the For Young People section and find out how rich would Tutankhamun be today. Index Sites I Museum Sites I  On-line Egypt Tours I Miscellaneous SitesOn-line Egypt ToursNOVA: Online Pyramids Tourhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/ Wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built. Follow the1997 field team of archaeologists as they excavated the bakery that fed the pyramid builders. Odyssey in Egypt http://www.website1.com/odyssey/week1/home.html Each week log in to watch and participate with an archaeological excavation in action. Meet and interact with the people at the excavation, see the discoveries and objects uncovered during the week, learn about how archaeology is done, and learn about life in Egypt. The Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/QTVR96/QTVR96_Image_EG_Menu.html A virtual online tour of Egyptian galleries at the museum. The Virtual Museum Take a tour of Egyptian Artifacts from around the world. Splendors of Ancient Egypt, an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/voyager/egypt/tour/index.html A thorough online tour through the Egypt exhibit with audio descriptions and sound effects. Pilgrimage to Abydos http://sgwww.epfl.ch/berger/Abydos/english/start.html Tour a temple. You must visit each room in the ordained order or your tour ceases. Includes glossary of Egyptian words. Index Sites I Museum Sites I On-line Egypt Tours l  Miscellaneous SitesMiscellaneous SitesHistory of Ancient Egyptian Medicinehttp://www.mic.ki.se/Egypt.html Links to sites on medicine in ancient Egypt. Walk like an Egyptian http://members.aol.com/tokapu/Walkle01.htm A modern guide to the religion and philosophy of Ancient Egypt. Digital Mummies http://www.desk.nl/~pdenijs/faraos.html Actual digital images of mummies accompanied by a few facts. Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research http://www.ccer.ggl.ruu.nl/ccer/CCER.HTML CCER at Ultrecht University in the Netherlands specializes in matters related to the application of computers in Egyptology. Egyptological lists & databases include The Complete Hieroglyphica (4700 hieroglyphs) and Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus. The Egyptian Recipes Page http://touregypt.net/recipes/index.htm An interactive recipe book. Ancient Egyptian Mathematics http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/egypt.html Detailed look at Babylonian and ancient Egyptian math, suitable for high school and college. The Pyramids: Design and Construction http://touregypt.net/construction/ Just how did those ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? The People of the Amarna Period http://www.malone.org/~jrodrigu/isis/intro.html Documents this fascinating period with links to biographies of the main players of this time, i.e. Arkhenaten, Nefertiti and Tutankhamun. The Ancient Egypt Site http://www.geocities.com/~amenhotep/ This site is an interactive book about the history and culture of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. |