LINKS

Click on any of the following Egypt-related sites
(Updated 08 November, 2008)

If you would like your site included on this list send details to: scarab@telkomsa.net

Alexander the Great – Excellent illustrated history by John Popovic

Amarna letters online to the public  The famous 14th-century B.C.E archive is viewable in high-resolution detail for scholars and public alike.

Amarna project  - Information on the Amarna excavations

Ancient Egypt & World Prehistory – A great introduction to the concept of archaeology

Ancient Egyptian Society of Western Australia -

Archaeology Magazine – Lively and happening US site, anything but dry

Bibliotheca Alexandrina  - Egyptian site – The new library at Alexandria, Egyptology section

British Museum – Explore the Ancient Egypt page

Computer Aided Egyptological research – Including a virtual expo

Dictionary of ancient Egypt – What all the words mean etc.

EgyptAir

Egyptian Gazette – All about Cairo, past and present

Egypt Exploration Society, London – Founded in 1882, and what they are currently up to

Egypt Information Highway – Egyptian government information portal

Egypt News & Gossip – Nigel Strudwick combs the media for you – current news digest

Egypt State Information Office – Gateway to Egypt – Egypt State Information Service

Egypt Today Travel – Great packages with a great personal guide

Egypt Voyager – A superb general site

Excavations at Edfu – Read all about the current excavations and finds at Edfu

Excavation Projects Delta and Sinai – Survey and Excavation projects, current fieldwork reports

Film Site – All the movies featuring ancient Egypt…

Giza Plateau Mapping Project -       Information on the work  of Dr Mark Lehner and his international team on the Giza Plateau 

Graffiti on Nubian monuments – A testimony of the early travellers in Egypt and the Sudan

Great Pyramid – Rudolf Gantenbrink – A scientific report about the ‘air shafts’ inside the Cheops pyramid

Guardians Egypt – Surf the ancient world with an enthusiast

Hieroglyphs in Australia – Seeing is believing

Louvre Museum, Paris – One of the greatest collections outside Egypt

Karnak Temple  -   A great site, allows you to ‘virtually visit’  any part of this wonderful temple.

KMT Modern Journal of Egyptology

Manchester Ancient Egyptian Society

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Osirisnet.net

- Fabulous site that allows you to ‘virtually enter’ some tombs, including the closed tomb of Nefertari

Photographs of Egypt

Photographs of Egyptian Monuments

 

Ramesses & Qadesh - The decisive war between the Egyptians and the Hittites for the control of Syria

Society for Underwater Discovery – Alexandria harbour, ancient shipwrecks and more

Tel Edfu blog - Read about the latest discoveries at the Edfu excavations.

Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society

The Rosetta Stone -Bringing the Rosetta Stone back to Egypt

Theban Mapping Project - Detailed coverage – Valley of the Kings

Tutankhamun site with images – Fan site with kids’ section

University of Chicago – Oriental Institute – The research archives

University of Stellenbosch – Department Ancient Studies

Valley of the Kings Foundation – The website of archaeologist Nicholas Reeves

Waseda University – Egyptian Culture Center – Japanese academics – activities, reports, excavations

World Art Treasures – The antiquities collection of JE Berger, Switzerland

Zahi Hawass Web Page – Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt