The following are links to some helpful and informative websites and databases about Ancient Egypt.
All links to English sites except where specified. Other languages, where available, are in parentheses after the main link: 🇪🇬 ar (Arabic / عربي), 🇩🇪 de (German / Deutsch), 🇫🇷 fr (French / français).
General
- Digital Egypt for Universities by University College London
- Egyptology Resources by Nigel Strudwick
Topics
Funerary Practices
- The Theban Royal Mummy Project
Fantastic compilation by Wm. Max Miller of information regarding the Royal Mummies from dynasties 17-21, with extensive scholarly sourcing and bibilography.
Language
- Learn Hieroglyphs at Biblioteca Alexandina (🇪🇬 ar)
Great lessons and a helpful dictionary from the actual New Library of Alexandria!
Museum Collections Online
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
This link searches for “highlights” of the collection; from there you can search the entirety. - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Scholarly Resources and Databases
- Das altägyptische Totenbuch (🇩🇪 German only)
Countless Book of the Dead papyri, searchable by vignettes, presence of a particular spell, time period, etc. Note, the site is only in German. - Giza Digital Library at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Library of full-text searchable publications regarding the Giza Plateau - Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom
Just like the name says! At University of Mainz. - SITH Karnak Project (🇪🇬 ar, 🇫🇷 fr)
Système d’Indexation des Textes Hiéroglyphiques, not the Dark Side of the Force.
Database of scenes, monuments, and inscriptions at Karnak. - Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (🇩🇪 de)
“Treasurehouse of the Egyptian language”. A fantastic source for Egyptian words, including many citations of full sentences that use them. - Thot Sign List
Database of hieroglyphs, with information on their usage and distribution (chronologically and geographically). - Topographical Bibliography (Porter & Moss)
The reference work on Egyptian monuments with bibiography and annotations.
Other Link Collections
- Egyptology at Rowan University