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NES 18, Egyptology: Online Open Sources

Open Source & Museum Websites

OPEN SOURCE MATERIALS:

AWOL - Ancient World Online

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology

MUSEUM WEBSITES:

Ashmolean Museum: http://www.ashmolean.org
British Museum: http://www.britishmuseum.org
Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org
Fitzwilliam Museum: https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/collections/egypt
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien: http://www.khm.at/en/visit/collections/egyptian-and-near-eastern-collection/
Le Louvre: http://www.louvre.fr/en
Manchester Museum: http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/
Medelhavsmuseet: http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/en/medelhavsmuseet/
Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org
Museum of Fine Arts Boston: http://www.mfa.org/
Museo Egizio Turin: http://collezioni.museoegizio.it/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection
Oriental Institute Chicago: http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum-exhibits
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology: https://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/
Penn Museum: https://www.penn.museum/
Petrie Museum: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung: http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&moduleFunction=highlight&filterName=filter.collection.highlights.1000

Bibliographies

Online Bibliographies

Digital Topographical Bibiography: http://topbib.griffith.ox.ac.uk//index.htm
ETANA (Includes ABZU): http://etana.org
TRISMEGISTOS: An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources

OTHER USEFUL SITES:

Diotima: Gender studies of the Ancient World (Mainly Hellenistic period): http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
Digital Egypt for Universities - Good starting point, with A-Z references and bibliographies: http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk
Herodotus Histories: http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html
Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/
Archaeobotany (for those of you who are writing about beer) http://www.ancientgrains.org

Databases

DATABASES:

The Giza Archives Project
The Tutankhamun object database in Oxford. Now includes the Carter Diaries for the excavation
Database of Early Dynastic Inscriptions
Database 'Cachette de Karnak' (IFAO)
Archives of Bernard Bruyère (IFAO)
Anthroponymes et Généalogies de l’Égypte Ancienne (IFAO)
Das altägyptische Totenbuch (Book of the Dead)
The Deir el-Medina Database
Deir el Medine online
Meketre Middle Kingdom scene repository
Oxford Expedition to Egypt: Scene-details Database
Funerary Cones database and research material
H.W. Müller photo archive (Heidelberg)
Travelers in the Middle East Archive
Ägyptologischen Datenbank AHA, Berlin
Arielle Kozloff's Theban Tomb Photos (Only accessible via institutions participating in Artstor)
Brooklyn Museum Egyptian Lantern Slides

Egyptological Institutions and Centers

Egypt

USA

Excavation Sites