Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Egypt
See Main Page for a guide to
all contents of all sections.
Contents
General
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WEB Abzu: Guide to Resources for
the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet
- WEB Egyptology Resources [Cambridge]
- WEB Digital Egypt for Universities [At UCL]
- WEB The Global Egyptian Musuem
At a rough estimate, over 2 million objects from ancient Egypt are kept in about 850 public collections, dispersed over 69 countries around the world. This website aims to collect them into a global virtual museum, which can be visited at any time, from any place. The Global Egyptian Museum is a long-term project, carried out under the aegis of the International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG).
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WEB Neferchichi [Internet Archive backup here]
Images of divinities, clip art, fonts and much more.
- WEB Ancient Egyptian Texts [Was Nefertiti, now Internet Archive]
A now defunct site, but with access to a wide variety
primary sources still available through this Internet Archive backup]
- WEB Sacred Texts: Ancient Egypt [Internet Archive backup here]
- Maps
- Chronologies
There are competing "high, middle, and low" chronologies for Egyptian
history of the earlier periods. See under Mesopotamia above for some links on these issues.
- Modern Egyptology
- Manetho: The Fragments of Manetho. Loeb Classical Library, 1940. full text [At Demonax [Internet Archive version here]
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The Old Kingdom (2705-2213 BCE)
[Dynasties 3-8]
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The Middle Kingdom (2705-2213 BCE) [Dynasties 12-13]
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The New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE)
[Dynasties 18-20]
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Birth of
Hatshepsut 18th Dynasty [Was At Creighton, now Internet Archive]
- The Battle of Meggido, Egyptian Account, 15th Century BCE [At this Site]
- The Peace Treaty between Ramses II and Hattusili III [Was Nefertiti, now Internet Archive]
- Pen-ta-ur: The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita, 1326
BCE [At this Site]
- The Battle of Kadesh, Egyptian Account, c. 1294 BCE [At this Site]
- Stele of
Merneptah [At Internet Archive, from ANET]
This Egyptian stele is the first mention of "Israel" in any historical sources.
- Princess Ahura: The Magic Book, c. 1100 BCE [At this
Site]
On the brother-sister marriage of the two children of the King Merneptah.
- The Abbott Papyrus: An investigation into tomb robberies held under Ramses IX [Was Nefertiti, now Internet Archive]
- WEB Valley of the Kings [At PLU] [Internet Archive backup here]
The royal cemetery of Egypt's New Kingdom.
- 2ND Sayed Z. El-Sayed: Hatshepsut's Mission to Punt [Was At TAMU, now Internet Archive]
- Wikipedia: Invasion of Sea Peoples c.1200 BCE
- 2ND David Kaniewski, The Sea Peoples, from Cuneiform Tablets to Carbon Dating (2011) [Plos One]
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Akhnaten [Amenhotep IV] (r. 1363-1347 BCE)
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Post
Imperial Egypt (1070-332 BCE) [Dynasties 21-31]
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Religion
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WEB Egyptian Religion [Was at Mankaton, now Internet Archive]
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2ND Two Approaches to an Egyptian Pantheon [Was At UNT, now Internet Archive]
- Origin Myths
- The Memphite Theology
- Isis and Osiris
- Death and Resurrection
- The Dead Pharaoh Ascends to Heaven from Pyramid Texts (Ca. 2425-2300 B.C.) [Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
Among the oldest Egyptian religious texts. At this stage survival is for the pharoah.
- The Dead Pharaoh Becomes Osiris from Pyramid Texts [Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
- Osiris - the Prototype of Every Soul Who Hopes to Conquer Death Coffin Texts, I, 197
[Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
The Coffin Texts from the interior of coffins, belong to the Middle Kingdom
(2250-1580 BCE) and indicate 'democratization' of the ancient funerary ritual - each soul
now hoped to achieve a ritual assimilation to the god. [Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
- Man's Soul Identified with Osiris and Nature Coffin Texts 330 [Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
- Survival as Ba, Survival in the Tomb are Complementary [Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
- The Egyptian Land of Silence and Darkness [Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
- The Book of
Ani, or the Egyptian Book of the Dead [At Upenn][Full text in E. Wallis Budge's
translation.] [Internet Archive version here]
- Hymn to Ra, from the Book of Ani, [At this Site]
- Judgement of the Dead Book of
the Dead, Chapter 25 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- The Egyptian Negative Confession Book of the Dead, Chapter 125 [Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
- Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Herodotus: Description of
Mummification, from The Histories [At this Site]
With link to a CT scan of a mummy.
- WEB Death in Ancient Egypt [At
ABZU] [Internet Archive version here]
Includes an illustrated guide to various topics, including Ba and Ka.
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Art and Architecture
- WEB Art History Resources: Egypt
- WEB Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt [Was At eyelid.co.uk, now Internet Archive]
Spectacular images of pyramids and temples.
- WEB The Global Egyptian Musuem
At a rough estimate, over 2 million objects from ancient Egypt are kept in about 850 public collections, dispersed over 69 countries around the world. This website aims to collect them into a global virtual museum, which can be visited at any time, from any place. The Global Egyptian Museum is a long-term project, carried out under the aegis of the International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG).
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Literature
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Music
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WEB Egyptian Music [La musica
nell'antico Egitto] [Internet Archive backup here]
The site is in Italian. The Instruments
Page and the Papyrus
Illustrations Page are especially interesting.
- YouTube: Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt - Michael Atherton [1998] [YouTube][Note YouTube videos are often removed. Just search for the title at YouTube if this link goes bad.]
There is much information on what ancient instruments
looked like, but any reconstruction of the sound is extremely tentative.
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Everyday Life
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Mathematics
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2ND Egyptian Mathematiics [Was At eyelid.co.uk, now Internet Archive]
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2ND Egyptian
Mathematics [At Buffalo] [Internet Archive version here]
With translations of problems.
- WEB Egyptian Fractions [At
UCI] [Internet Archive version here]
A website which discusses Egyptian fractions, and which has links to other sites on
Egyptian mathematics.
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Gender and Sexuality
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For Women: see WEB Diotima: Ward Texts
[All now via Internet Acrhive]
- Will of Prince Nikaure, son of King Khafre (ca. 2600 B.C.)
- The Wills of Two Brothers and the Inheritance of One Brother's Wife (ca. 1900 B.C.)
- Dispute over Property between a Mother and Daughter
- Marriage Agreement between a Bridegroom and his Father-in-law
- A Wife Wins a Dispute over Her Inheritance
- A Woman Charges her Husband with Wife Abuse
- A Father's Promise to his Daughter in Case of Divorce
- A Woman Asks an Oracle to Settle a dispute over land
- The Will of Amonkhau in Favor of His Second Wife (ca. 1100 B.C.)
- A Daughter's Double Inheritance of Family Property (13th c. B.C.)
- Coptic Texts: The Thunder: Perfect Mind, Translated by Anne McGuire
- Status of Women in
Egyptian Society, by Peter Piccione [At Internet Archive, from NWU]
- Princess Ahura: The Magic Book, c. 1100 BCE [At this
Site]
On the brother-sister marriage of the two children of the King Merneptah.
- The Offering of Uha, c. 2400 BCE [At this Site]
Male and Female Circumcision in Egypt.
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For Gender variants: See WEB People With a History: Near East and Egypt
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Nubia
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Libya and Western North
Africa
- Accounts of Ancient Mauretania, c. 430 BCE- 550 CE
[At this Site]
From Herodotus, Strabo, and Procopius of Caesarea
- Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): On Libya, from The
Histories, c. 430 BCE [At this Site]
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Modern Perspectives on Egypt
- Black Athena Debate [Modern Accounts]
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NOTES:
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was
4/8/1998. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location]. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
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