Ancient Egyptian Art
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ANCIENT EGYPT
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- The Art of Ancient Egypt, a Web Resource(through The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- Ancient Near Eastern Art, Thematic Essays through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- L’Egypte par David Roberts (lithographic prints produced in the 1840s)
- The Virtual Egyptian Museum, a venture of the California Institute of World Archaeology (CIWA)
- Egyptian Art (through ArtLex)
- Egyptian Art (Mark Harden's Artchive)
- Egyptian Art in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Egyptian Art in the collection of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
- Ancient Egypt in the Archaeology and Ancient History section of the BBC's History site, with a Timeline
- The Giza Plateau (through egyptvoyager.com)
- The Pyramids and Temples at Gizeh (the complete Contents of W.M. Flinders Petrie's book, 1883)
- Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association
- Pyramid Texts (through egyptvoyager.com)
- A World of Obelisks (PBS Nova Online Presentation)
- History of the Egyptian Obelisks (Carlos Lunghi Jr)
- Egyptian Museum (Ägyptische Museum), Berlin-Mitte
- Egyptian Art in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Egyptian Art in the Gregorian Egyptian Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
- Ancient Egypt in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Ancient Egyptian Pottery, with links to
- The Gebel el Arak knife, a depiction of a predynastic battle scene (part of An introduction to the history and culture of Pharaonic Egypt)
- Egyptian Sculpture (through Mark Harden's Artchive)
- Egyptian Antiquities (208 selected examples) in the collection of the Louvre Museum, Paris
- Egyptian Art in the Vatican's Museo Gregoriano Egiziano
- Egyptian Artifacts from the David M. Robinson Collection (The University Museums, University of Mississippi)
- The Victoria Museum of Egyptian Antiquities at Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum
- The decorative palettes of the late fourth millennium, including the Narmer Palette (part of An introduction to the history and culture of Pharaonic Egypt)
- Saqqara (Jacques Kinnaer, through egyptvoyager.com), with links to
- Reconstructions of the Solar Temple of Nuiserre, the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I, and the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III (through the Museum of Reconstructions)
- Ancient Egyptian Photo Galleries (through The Freeman Institute)
- Waseda University Egyptian Expedition (through Waseda University Institute of Egyptology, Tokyo), with links to
- Egyptian Architecture (part of 40 Centuries of Architecture, through Thais)
- The Deir el-Medina Database: Tomb builders of the Valley of the Kings
- Architectural elements used by ancient Egyptian builders (part of An introduction to the history and culture of Pharaonic Egypt)
- Egyptian Architecture (part of a History of Western Architecture, through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with links to
- Ancient Egyptian Quarries (Dr James H. Harrell), with links to
- Catalogue General Antiquites Egyptiennes du Musee du Caire: The Royal Mummies (Le Caire: Imprimerie de L'institut Francais D'archeologie Orientale, 1912) (through the University of Chicago Library)
- Egypt (Highlights of the collection of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago)
- Egypt (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
- Ancient Egyptian Art (at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University)
- Ancient Egypt (British Museum), with links to
- Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt (exhibition in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan)
- Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers by Amelia B. Edwards. Complete contents of the book first published in 1891, with illustrations (through A Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Explorer in Egypt
- The Buried Cities of Ancient Egypt
- Portrait-Painting in Ancient Egypt
- The Origin of Portrait Sculpture and the History of the "KA"
- Egypt the Birthplace of Greek Decorative Art
- The Literature and Religion of Ancient Egypt
- The Hieroglyphic Writing of the Ancient Egyptians
- Queen Hatasu, and Her Expedition to the Land of Punt [i.e. Hatshepsut]
- The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser (University of Pennsylvania)
- Guardian's Egypt (Andrew Bayuk), with links to
- Mark Millmore's Ancient Egyptian Page, with links to:
- The Giza Plateau Mapping Project
- The Giza Archives Project (through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- The Amarna Site
- Amarna Royal Tombs Project (Valley of the Kings Foundation)
- Tutankhamun (through egyptvoyager.com)
- Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation (the complete records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun made available online through the Griffith Institute, Oxford), with links to
- Monuments in Egypt (through Egyptian Ministry of Tourism), including, besides Mosques and Islamic Monuments, Christian Churches and Monuments, Graeco-Roman Monuments, the following links to Pharaonic Monuments:
- Egyptian Virtual Museum (through Egyptian Ministry of Tourism), with links to:
- Ancient Egypt, exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum
- Mysteries of Egypt (through the Canadian Museum of Civilization), with links to
- Mysteries of the Nile (PBS NOVA Online) - QuickTime needed
- Old Kingdom
- Khufu Pyramid
Khafre Pyramid
- Giza Plateau
- New Kingdom
- Karnak Temple
- Luxor Temple
- Tomb of Ramose
- The Sacred Temple Island of Philae
- Theban Mapping Project, with links to Sites in the Valley of the Kings, an illustrated Glossary, an Egyptian Timeline, and to illustrated Articles on the history and development of the Valley of the Kings and the cultural practices that have influenced and shaped the construction and utilization of the tombs in it:
- KV 5: Tomb of Sons of Rameses II
- Tomb Development
- History of the Valley of the Kings
- Mortuary Beliefs and Practices
- Les monuments d'éternité de Ramsès II - Nouvelles fouilles thébaines (with an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, February-May 1999), with links to:
- Centre d'Études Alexandrines, which includes the underwater site of Qaitbay, believed to be the site of the Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria
- La Tombe de Ramsès II, with additional links to:
- The Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep (Greg Reeder)
- The Colossi of Memnon (through Akhet Egyptology)
- Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Tombs (Hany Farid, Dartmouth College), with a link to The Burial Chamber of Sennedjem (with a movie and a virtual tour)
- The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology (University College London)
- Faces of Ancient Egypt: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Oriental Institute Museum (presented at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago)
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