Historical Primary Sources: Middle East & North Africa: Egypt

Collections include digitized postcards, maps, photographs, oral histories, magazines, and more.

A comprehensive electronic archive of publicly available, English-language material pertaining to the presidency of Anwar Sadat.

Provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.

This collection of websites represents emerging expressionism by Egyptian political parties and movements, along with blogs and news media sites of the time.

The Egyptian elections of 2012 received global coverage and witnessed a proliferation of political platforms advertised on websites associated with various parties and distinguished political personalities. Perhaps for the first time, popular social media channels covered the events on a daily basis, thus providing documentation of what was happening on the ground and people’s opinions of it. This collection of websites includes many of these Egyptian parties’ websites, in addition to the coverage of major news agencies and social media outlets.

The site is a product of Dr. Sarah Ketchley's work to transcribe and analyze a multi-volume collection of Nile travel journals written by Mrs. Emma B. Andrews.

The site contains photographs and other documentation from the original Harvard University - Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (1904 to 1947), from recent MFA fieldwork, and from other expeditions, museums, and universities around the world.

The Memory of Modern Egypt repository includes 14 different material types, divided into documents, speeches, photographs, movies, audio, maps, books, essays, news, covers, currency, medals, stamps and advertisements, which have been collected from a number of sources.

The collection includes documents, photos, films and maps relating to the creation and use of the Suez Canal.

Collection of documents, news articles, images and more on the life of Egyptian President Nasser; most material in Arabic, some in English.

Digitised images of the majority of the photographs in International Photographic Archive of Papyri are now available from this site, organized according to published collections.

Project to create a full text retrieval database of the documents found in the Geniza chamber of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo.

Materials gathered in and around Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, between March 2011 and May 2012.

Extensive collection of images, texts, and maps documenting European and American travels to Egypt in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The archaeological record of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.