Science: Archaeology: Periods and Cultures: Ancient Egypt

Scholarly article by Donald P. Ryan, from C.N. Reeves (ed.), After Tutankhamun: Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes (1992).

Maps, diagrams, and detailed information about the Egyptian Royal Tombs from Kelley L. Ross.

Article by Donald P. Ryan.

Articles about stone technology, the Sphinx and temples.

Nigel Skinner-Simpson tries to track down the evidence behind stories of tunnels in the Giza plateau.

Conference at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 15-18 December 2000. Includes abstracts of papers.

Internet resources, including mailing lists, news and gossip, contact information for institutes and individuals, journals and links from Nigel Strudwick.

Musicians believe music will help us understand ancient Egypt's spoken language.

Information on past and present films dealing with Ancient Egypt or Egyptology.

At Utrecht University in The Netherlands offers computer resources and online lists and databases including complete Hieroglyphica, listing of Egyptologists and Institutions.

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that 5,250-year-old symbols unearthed near Luxor may predate Sumerian script.

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.

The history, language and culture of Ancient Egypt, by Egyptologist Jacques Kinnaer.

Egypt calls for urgent action to save the monuments of the Nile Delta.

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.

From Nature, Most ancient Egyptians were on the poverty line while a handful of priest-kings held fabulous wealth.

From Al-Ahram Weekly, excavations at Karnak Temple complex have been focusing on areas hitherto little explored, with rewarding results.

From Al-Ahram Weekly, can you imagine that an Ancient Egyptian physician once fitted a patient with a prosthetic toe?

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.

Includes 6,600 objects from 10 European collections, with extensive documentation and color photography.

The Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt.

From Discovery News, 2,000-year-old priest settlement in southern Egypt has been discovered by Egyptian and German archaeologists.

From Al-Ahram, a 17th dynasty inscription found three months ago in Upper Egypt uncovered a critical and previously unknown Kushite attack on Egypt.

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.

Features photo archives of major Ancient Egyptian sites, and Ancient Egyptian antiquities collections in major museums.