Ancient Egypt Web Sites
The 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
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Ancient Egypt
http://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://weber.u.washington.edu/~snoegel/okeanos.html
Scholarly web site chock full of resources about the Aegean, Egypt, Israel/Canaan and Mesopotamia.
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Searching 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.
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NOVA: Online Pyramids Tour
http://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.
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History of Ancient Egyptian Medicine
http://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.