Ancient Civilizations: Ancient: Africa: Egypt: Page 2

Read about the periods, kingdoms and kings of ancient Egypt.

Read articles about the Egyptian civilization, gods, poetry, and hieroglyphics. Includes related multimedia and clip art.

Online exhibition shows highlights Egyptian architecture, culture, daily life. Take a virtual tour of the tomb of Tutankhamen, timeline and bibliography.

Description and history of this early urban center from 4000 BC has many links to key names, places, and related topics; a Tour Egypt Feature Story by Marie Parsons.

Examines the problem of rising water tables in the Nile Delta and throughout Egypt, its effects on Egypt's monuments, and some solutions; by Chad Cohen, National Geographic.

Extensive archaeological database of Thebes. Features interactive atlas of each tomb in the Valley of the Kings including plans, descriptions, images and movies. Articles on the history of Thebes, tomb development and decoration. Staff, progress reports and publications.

This online multimedia project, produced by IBM and the Egyptian Government, presents 5,000 years of Egyptian history and culture using a database of three-dimensional high resolution images of artifacts, two-dimensional images, panoramic views, and reconstructed lost or damaged sites; in English, French, and Arabic.

Essay on "Photography and the Early Documentation of Egyptian Monuments" and 30 photographic images of the Nile Valley at the turn of the 20th century; from the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Resource on temples and monuments between Aswan and Luxor. Also has information on pharoahs and travel tips.

Descriptions and photographs of monuments and sites.

Articles on medicine and body structure in art.

Predynastic and Early Dynastic culture, monuments of archaic egyptian dynasties, Dynasty 0, First Dynasty, Second Dynasty, Third Dynasty, Saqqara, Abydos, Hierakonpolis.