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ANCIENT EGYPT
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Egyptian Art, Thematic Essays through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- An Artisan's Tomb in New Kingdom Egypt
- Egypt in the Late Period (ca. 712–332 B.C.)
- Egypt in the Middle Kingdom (2030–1640 B.C.)
- Egypt in the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.)
- Egypt in the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2150 B.C.)
- Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period (1070–712 B.C.)
- Egyptian Amulets
- Egyptian Modern Art
- Egyptian Red Gold
- Egyptian Tombs: Life Along the Nile
- Harry Burton (1879–1940): The Pharaoh's Photographer
- The Housemistress in New Kingdom Egypt: Hatnofer
- Kings and Queens of Egypt
- List of Rulers of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
- List of Rulers of Ancient Sudan
- Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Art
- Photographers in Egypt
- Precious Metals from Tell Basta
- The Private Tombs North of the Senwosret III Pyramid Complex, Dahshur
- The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III in the Cemeteries of Dahshur
- Queens and Princesses in the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III, Dahshur
- Roman Egypt
- The Temples of Senwosret III at Dahshur
- The Tomb of Wah
- Tutankhamun's Funeral
- Wadi Kubbaniya (ca. 17,000–15,000 B.C.)
- The Year One
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Masterpieces (first of 16 pages)
- Pharaonic Gods
- Pharaonic Eras
- Glossary
- Restoration of a monumental statue (God Amun & Goddess Mut from Karnak)
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
- Development of Pyramids
- The Private Lives of the Pyramid Builders: Mystery Builders
- Building the Great Pyramid: Great debate
- The Great Pyramid: Gateway to Eternity: Egyptian world of the dead
- A Short History of Pyramidology: Fringe beliefs
- Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
- Sacred Animals of Ancient Egypt
- Treasures of Tutankhamun
- Twelve Great Dynasties of Egypt
- Egypt: The End of a Civilisation: Defining the end point
- Akhenaten and the Amarna Period: The appeal of the Amarna period
- The End of the Amarna Period: Apogee and decline
- Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis: a royal feud?: Endless death
- Primary Sources of the Old Kingdom: Preoccupation with death
- The Fall of the Egyptian Old Kingdom: End of a dynasty
- Ramesses the Great: Jupiter of pharaohs
- Voices from Ancient Egypt
The Giza Plateau (through egyptvoyager.com)
- Giza: History, and page two
- Pyramid of Khafre
- Pyramid of Khufu
- Pyramid of Menkaure
- The Sphinx, and page two, page three, and page four
  - Sphinx in Pictures,and page two, page three, and page four
  - Age of the Sphinx, and page two, and page three
- The Giza Plateau - 3D Illustration
- Photograph Gallery
- Virtual Tour
The Pyramids and Temples at Gizeh (the complete Contents of W.M. Flinders Petrie's book, 1883)
- Introduction
- 1. Object and means.
- 2. Instruments.
- 3. Methods and measurement.
- 4. Excavations.
- 5. Co-ordinates.
- 6. Outside of Great Pyramid.
- 7. Inside of Great Pyramid.
- 8. Outside the Second pyramid.
- 9. Inside the Second pyramid.
- 10. Outside of Third pyramid.
- 11. Inside of Third pyramid.
- 12. Lesser Pyramids of Gizeh.
- 13. Position and orientation of Pyramids.
- 14. The Granite Temple, &c.
- 15. Tombs of Gizeh.
- 16. Notes on other Pyramids.
- 17. Historical notes.
- 18. Architectural ideas of builders.
- 19. Mechanical methods of Builders.
- 20. Values of the cubit and digit.
- 21. Theories compared with facts.
- 22. History of the Great Pyramid, and its design.
- Appendices
Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association
- Introduction and Overview of the Great Pyramid
- Picture Tour of the Great Pyramid
- How the Great Pyramid of Giza could shine like a star
- The interior passages of value of PI
- Measurements of the Great Pyramid
- Napoleon's strange experience in the Kings Chamber
- The man who was almost decapitated in the pyramid
- Sir Issac Newton's study of the Great Pyramid of Giza
- An early account of a visit to the Great Pyramid
- The hidden chamber and strange metal plate
- Artifacts and wood discovered in the Great Pyramid
- Exploring above the King's Chamber
- Pyramidology - Prophetic time lines in the Great Pyramid
- Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza
- The use of meteorites by the Ancient Egyptian
- The pyramid texts, coffin texts, and Book of the Dead
- The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Book of the Dead
- What draws people to the Great Pyramid of Giza?
- Ushabtis
Pyramid Texts (through egyptvoyager.com)
A World of Obelisks (PBS Nova Online Presentation)
- Luxor
- Cairo
- Istanbul
- Rome
- Paris
- London
- New York
- Raising the Obelisk
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)
- Room I. Hieroglyphic inscriptions on stelae and statues (2600 BC-600 AD)
- Room II. Funerary customs in ancient Egypt (2600 BC-200 AD)
- Room IV. Egypt and Rome (1st-2nd century AD)
- Room V. Masterpieces of pharaonic statuary (2000 BC-100 AD)
- Room VI. Votive bronzes of the 1st millennium BC
- Room VII. Bronze and clay figurines from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Ancient Egypt in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Ancient Egyptian Pottery, with links to
- History of Egyptian Pottery
- Early Egyptian Pottery
- Types of Pottery
- Artwork of Egyptian Pottery
- Uses of Egyptian Pottery
- Examples of Egyptian Pottery
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
- Djoser History, and page two, and page three
- Djoser Complex Photography Gallery
- Saqqara Virtual Tour
- Djoser Funerary Complex - 3D Illustration
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)
- Tutankhamen Collection 32 Photographs
- Miscellaneous Collection 31 Photographs
- Sphinx of Giza and Pyramids Collection 30 Photographs
- Miscellaneous Collection 32 Photographs
- Miscellaneous Collection 30 Photographs
- Miscellaneous Collection 33 Photographs
- Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV) Collection 22 Photographs
- Miscellaneous Collection 20 Photographs
Waseda University Egyptian Expedition (through Waseda University Institute of Egyptology, Tokyo), with links to
- Ancient Egyptian Temples and Other Monuments
- Ancient Egyptian Quarries
  - Quarry at Qurna (Limestone)
  - Quarry at Gebel Silsilah (Sandstone)
  - Quarry at Aswan (Granite)
  - Tools in the Ancient Egypt (replicas)
  - Stones in the Ancient Egypt
  - Bibliography on the Quarry in the Ancient Egypt
- Photographs of Pyramids, including
  - Khufu
  - Khafre
  - Menkaure
  - Djoser (Step Pyramid)
  - Sneferu (Bent Pyramid)
  - Sneferu (Red Pyramid)
  - Shepseskaf
Egyptian Architecture (part of 40 Centuries of Architecture, through Thais)
- Localities Index
- Subject Index
- Periods index
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
- Giza
- Deir El-Bahali
- Karnak
- Luxor
- Abu Simbel
- Dendera
- Philae
Ancient Egyptian Quarries (Dr James H. Harrell), with links to
- Background Information
- Hardstone Quarries With Color Images of Stones
- Softstone Quarries With Color Images of Stones
- Index for Regional Quarry Maps
- Access to the Ancient Egyptian Stone Collection
- List of Color Images of Quarry Stones
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
- Egyptian Life
- Geography
- Gods and Goddesses
- Mummification
- Pharaoh
- Pyramids
- Temples
- Time
- Trades
- Writing
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)
1. The Explorer in Egypt
2. The Buried Cities of Ancient Egypt
3. Portrait-Painting in Ancient Egypt
4. The Origin of Portrait Sculpture and the History of the "KA"
5. Egypt the Birthplace of Greek Decorative Art
6. The Literature and Religion of Ancient Egypt
7. The Hieroglyphic Writing of the Ancient Egyptians
8. 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
- QTVR Panoramas
- Saqqara, with a link to
  - The Step Pyramid
- Meidum, with links to
  - The Pyramid at Meidum
  - Mastaba #17
- Dashur, with links to
  - The Bent Pyramid, with views of the interior
  - The Red Pyramid, with views of the interior
- The Giza Plateau
  - Pyramid of Khufu (The Great Pyramid), with a link to a Plan of the Interior
  - Pyramid of Khafre, with further information, including a plan, the interior, and the funerary complex
  - Pyramid of Menkaure
  - The Great Sphinx
- Pyramid of Djedefre
- Abu Sir
- Abu Ghurab
  - The Sun Temple of Niuserre
Mark Millmore's Ancient Egyptian Page, with links to:
- Pyramids and Temples
- Temple at Kom Ombo, with a link to more photographs and a plan, and photographs of Sobek and Horus
- Kings and Queens
  - The Old Kingdom
  - The Middle Kingdom
  - The New Kingdom
    Kings and Queens
  - Pepi II and the Dwarf (Pepi II around 2250 BC)
  - The Woman Who Was King (Hatshepsut 1479 - 1457 BC)
  - The Napoleon of Ancient Egypt (Thutmose III 1479 - 1425 BC)
  - The Amarna Period (Amenhotep III 1390 - 1352 BC & Akhenaten 1352 - 1336 BC)
  - Usr-Maat-Ra Setep-en-Ra (Rameses II 1279 - 1213 BC)
  - The Beloved of Ptah - Son of Rameses II (Merenptah 1213 - 1203 BC)
  - The Last Great Pharaoh (Ramesses III 1187-56 BC)
- Hieroglyphs
The Giza Plateau Mapping Project
The Giza Archives Project (through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
The Amarna Site
- Amenhotep III
- Tiye
- Akhenaten
- Tutankhamun
- Smenkhkare
- Horemheb
- Ay
- Nefertiti
- Kiya
- The Amarna Cache - Tomb KV 55
- The Talitat Wall
- Amarna items in the National Museum of Scotland
- The Royal Tomb at Akhetaten
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
- Gallery of Photographs (first of 93 pages of the original photographic record of the excavation by Harry Burton)
- Photographs showing work in Tutankhamun's tomb
- Photographs by anonymous photographers, showing scenes outside the tomb
- John Ross’s colour photographs of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun
- The Search for Tutankhamun (Howard Carter's records of the five seasons of excavations, financed by Lord Carnarvon, in the Valley of the Kings 1915 - 1922)
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:
- The Pyramids: Design and Construction
  - The Step Pyramid
  - The True Pyramid
  - The Various Possible Methods of Pyramid Construction
- The Temple of Deir el Bahari (XVIII Dyn)
- Abu Simbel - Nubia
- The Alabaster Sphinx - Saqqara
- Beit al-Wali - Nubia
- Caesareum - Alexandria
- The Catacombs of Kom es-Shouqafa - Alexandria
- The Causeway - Saqqara
- The Colossi of Memnon - Luxor
- The Colossus of Ramesses - Saqqara
- Crocodilopolis - Fayoum
- Dionysias - Fayoum
- The Early Kingdom Mastabas - Saqqara
- Edfu - Nubia
- Elephantine Island - Aswan
- The Enclosure Wall - Saqqara
- Geziret Fara'un - Sinai
- The Great Pyramid of Cheops - Giza
- The Great Sphinx - Giza
- Kalabsha Temple - Nubia
- Karanis - Fayoum
- Karnak - Luxor
- Kiosk of Qertassi - Nubia
- The Maidum Pyramid - Dhashur
- The Oracle of Amun - Siwa
- The Palace of Amenhotep - Luxor
- The Persian Shafts - Saqqara
- Philae (Now on Agilika Island) - Nubia
- The Pyramid Complex of Djoser - Saqqara
- The Pyramid Complex of Menkaure - Giza
- Pyramid of Amenemhat III (the Labyrinth) - Fayoum
- The Pyramid of Chephren - Giza
- The Pyramid of Meidum - Meidum
- The Pyramid of Sekhemkhet - Saqqara
- The Pyramid of Teti - Saqqara
- The Pyramid of Unas - Saqqara
- The Pyramids of Abu Sir - Abu Sir
- The Pyramids of Dhashur - Dhashur
- The Ramesseum - Luxor
- The Serapeum - Saqqara
- South Saqqara - Saqqara
- The Step Pyramid of Djoser - Saqqara
- Sun Temple of Abu Ghurab - Saqqara
- Temple Dedicated to Sobek - Fayoum
- The Temple of Abydos - Abydos
- Temple of Deir el Bahari - Luxor
- The Temple of Dendera - Dendera
- Temple of Dush - Kharga
- Temple of Hibis - Kharga
- The Temple of Luxor - Luxor
- Temple of Ramesses III - Luxor
- The Temple of Taposiris Magna - Alexandria
- Three Minor Pyramids - Giza
- The Tomb of Ankh-mahor - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Kagemni - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Mereruka - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Princess Idut - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Ptah-hotep - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Queen Nebet - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Ti - Saqqara
- The Tombs of the Nobles - Aswan
- The Tombs of the Nobles - Luxor
- Unfinished Obelisk - Aswan
- The Valley of the Kings - Luxor
Egyptian Virtual Museum (through Egyptian Ministry of Tourism), with links to:
- Pre-Dynastic
- 4th Dynasty
- Middle Kingdom
- 11th Dynasty
- 18th Dynasty
- Tut'ankhamun (18th Dynasty)
- 19th Dynasty
Ancient Egypt, exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum
Mysteries of Egypt (through the Canadian Museum of Civilization), with links to
- Egyptian Civilization
- Tutankhamun
- Hatshepsut
- VR Gallery
Mysteries of the Nile (PBS NOVA Online) - QuickTime needed
- Old Kingdom
  - Great Sphinx of Giza
- Khufu Pyramid
  Khafre Pyramid
- Giza Plateau
- New Kingdom
  - Colossus of Memnon
- Karnak Temple
- Luxor Temple
- Tomb of Ramose
  - Main Hall
  - Inner Hall
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:
- Le Ramesseum, with additional 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:
- Le Creusement
- Le Décor
- La Visite de la Tombe
- Recherches et Travaux
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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