Ancient Egypt Periods and Cultures Archaeology

Ancient Egypt Periods and Cultures Archaeology

Ancient Egypt

The scientific study of material remains of past human life and activities in ancient Egypt from the pre-Dynastic to the end of the Ptolemaic Period in 30 BC. It is about the process of archaeological research more than the resulting understanding of history.

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- Egyptology contributions by Australia: excavations, coptology, and museum collections.
- Article by Emad Asfour proposes standards for electronically recording, storing, and managing data from ancient Egyptian objects. Includes author's profile, animation files, and photos.
- PBS companion to the TV series focusing on new findings: genetic disease in the 18th dynasty; the tombs of the pyramid builders; mummy of a noblewoman and chantress from Luxor named Asru.
- From The Independent, Egypt's leading archaeologist has demanded the return of the Rosetta Stone.
- From Al-Ahram Weekly, can you imagine that an Ancient Egyptian physician once fitted a patient with a prosthetic toe?
- Francesco Raffaele presents an illustrated history of the second and third dynasties, king by king, with references. Also corpora of First Dynasty labels and Early Dynastic inscriptions, and articles.
- Story from Egyptian State Information Service about Egyptian antiquities that were smuggled into Switzerland.
- Internet resources, including mailing lists, news and gossip, contact information for institutes and individuals, journals and links from Nigel Strudwick.
- A scientific tool for converting calendar dates mentioned in Greek and Demotic Papyri from Egypt into Julian dates.
- From Discovery News, 2,000-year-old priest settlement in southern Egypt has been discovered by Egyptian and German archaeologists.
- Resources, collections, university programs, and fieldwork.
- From Al-Ahram Weekly, excavations at Karnak Temple complex have been focusing on areas hitherto little explored, with rewarding results.
- Scholarly article by Donald P. Ryan, from C.N. Reeves (ed.), After Tutankhamun: Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes (1992).
- Provides links to Web pages about ancient Egypt. [English and Spanish]
- A portal for Polish Egyptology, includes a history, suggested readings, museums, links, and gallery.
- Ostracon 11(1). Ancient Egyptian gardens and their requirements are a complex subject.
- Records day-by-day activities of the Johns Hopkins University Expedition archaeological team in Egypt. Features details of the excavations with photos.
- Maps, diagrams, and detailed information about the Egyptian Royal Tombs from Kelley L. Ross.
- Conference at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 15-18 December 2000. Includes abstracts of papers.
- From Nature, Most ancient Egyptians were on the poverty line while a handful of priest-kings held fabulous wealth.
- At Utrecht University in The Netherlands offers computer resources and online lists and databases including complete Hieroglyphica, listing of Egyptologists and Institutions.
- Large tel complex located about 100 km northeast of Cairo in the eastern Nile Delta.
- Egypt calls for urgent action to save the monuments of the Nile Delta.
- The Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt.
- Includes 6,600 objects from 10 European collections, with extensive documentation and color photography.
- Articles and journals feature the history of ancient travellers in Egypt and Near East.
- Articles about stone technology, the Sphinx and temples.
- Musicians believe music will help us understand ancient Egypt's spoken language.
- Examination of everyday life in ancient Egypt through artifacts on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
- Short essays on the period of 3000 years ancient Egypt.
- An article in the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that 5,250-year-old symbols unearthed near Luxor may predate Sumerian script.
- Article by Donald P. Ryan.
- Rossella Lorenzi reports for Discovery News that a high-ranking priest served the Nubian dynasty as a king, and his tomb reveals the trappings of power.
- BBC reports that geologists and engineers in Egypt are searching for gold using a 3,000-year-old map, believed to have been drawn by King Seti I.
- This mailing list has available online various archives, news items and Egyptology FAQs, as well as a comprehensive list of upcoming events in Egyptology.
- Information on past and present films dealing with Ancient Egypt or Egyptology.
- Features a brief history of ancient Egyptian tombs and monuments, with digital reconstruction of the tombs of Sennedjem and Inherkhau.
- Features photo archives of major Ancient Egyptian sites, and Ancient Egyptian antiquities collections in major museums.
- From Al-Ahram Weekly, Saqqara tomb of a scribe in Akhenaten's reign and a colossal statue of one of Ramses II's wives at Zagazig have shed more light on two famous Pharaohs.
- The history, language and culture of Ancient Egypt, by Egyptologist Jacques Kinnaer.
- Collection of Egyptological works held at The Brooklyn Museum of Art.
- Features the wonders, mysteries, religion and history of ancient and modern Egypt. With details and resources on related topics.
- Nigel Skinner-Simpson tries to track down the evidence behind stories of tunnels in the Giza plateau.
- Features detailed information on the history of religion, creation myths, gods and goddesses, temples, the king and the priesthood, festivals, and other aspects Ancient Egyptian religion; also includes articles about queens and ordinary women and their da
- Descriptions of daily life, material culture, social and political institutions, economy and geography of pharaonic Egypt
- From Al-Ahram, a 17th dynasty inscription found three months ago in Upper Egypt uncovered a critical and previously unknown Kushite attack on Egypt.

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