Ancient Egypt


How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, at Amazon UK for £8.49 or Amazon USA
Egyptian Hieroglyphics : How to Read and Write Them, at Amazon UK for £5.06 or Amazon USA
Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs : How to Read the Secret Language of the Pharaohs, at Amazon UK for £12.06 or Amazon USA
Egyptian Hieroglyphs, at Amazon UK for £12.99 or Amazon USA
Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Reading the Past, Vol 6), by WV Davies, at Amazon USA
Egyptian Hieroglyphics, by WV Davies for the British Museum Press, at Amazon UK for £5.59
Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt, at Amazon USA
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Egyptology Resources
Ancient Egypt at Suite 101
Egypt WWW Index
The Ancient Egypt Site
Virtual Egypt
Herodotus on the pharaohs
Virtual Egypt update
Chronology of Ancient Egyptian History
Adopt-a-Mummy (animal)
Champollion, Jean Fran‡ois
Jean-Fran‡ois Champollion 1790-1832
Howard Carter's personal diaries of the first excavation season in the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922
Excavations at Oxyrhynchus
Ushabti
Zahi Hawass Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities


Oldest alphabet found in Egypt - 15/11/99
Ancient sculpture goes home to Egypt - 21/01/00
The 2,700-year-old bike rack - 04/02/00
Ancient sarcophagus discovered - 17/02/00
Runaway donkey stumbles into [Egyptian] treasure - 08/03/00
Dr Hawass, Director of the Pyramids at Giza
Ancient Egypt
Egypt's treasures in danger - 28/03/00
Queen's pyramid discovered near Cairo - 03/04/00
Divers find Pharaohs' lost city - 03/06/00
Body of 'Exodus pharaoh' found (in Niagara Falls!) - 16/07/00 More than 3,000 years after it was stolen from a tomb in Egypt, scientists believe they have found the body of Ramses I
How it all went pear-shaped for Tutankhamen - 03/08/00
Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - Near East & Egypt
Egypt opens up marine treasures - 24/09/00
Writing discovered in Berlin museum believed to be that of Cleopatra - 26/10/00
Egyptologists discover 'oldest boat' - 01/11/00
Tutankhamun to undergo DNA tests - 12/11/00
Pyramids lined up with the stars - 15/11/00
Czechs find ancient Egyptian tomb - 22/11/00
Virtual mummy tour - 29/11/00
King Tutankhamen's mummy to undergo DNA testing - 05/12/00
Tutankhamun: Who was the rightful heir of the pharoahs? - 12/12/00 RealVideo
Egypt's hidden city - 16/12/00
Ancient Egyptian animal cemetery found - 02/01/01
Egypt seeks money for mummies - 01/04/01
Gilded mummies uncovered - 10/04/01 Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered some of the most realistic mummies ever found in the Bahariya oasis, some 400km west of Cairo
10 new views give clue to Cleopatra's enigmatic allure - 12/04/01
Disaster that struck the ancients - 26/07/01
Egypt rebuilds ancient tomb of Seti - 26/07/02
Robotic Indiana Jones to penetrate pyramid - 13/09/02
Wooden coffin yields ancient mummy - 31/03/03
'Mummy's organ' removed from jar - 30/04/03
Nefertiti mummy 'found in Egypt' - 10/06/03
Mummified lion unearthed in Egypt - 14/01/04
Secrets of Egyptian mummy unravelled - 29/06/04
Pet mummies given VIP treatment - 15/09/04
Tests may end Tutankhamen mystery - 13/11/04
Ancient necropolis found in Egypt - 21/04/05
In pictures: Egypt's loveliest mummy - 03/05/05
2,300-year-old mummy unveiled in Egypt - 04/05/05
Face of Tutankhamun reconstructed - 10/05/05
Glassmakers key to Egypt's status - 17/06/05
King Tut's tipple 'was red wine' - 26/10/05
Ancient Egypt 'respected dwarfs' - 27/12/05
Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt - 10/02/06
Egypt Pharaoh find 'not a tomb' - 15/03/06
Egyptologists launching online encyclopedia - 28/04/06 The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology will go online in 2008
In pictures: Egypt's sunken treasures - 11/05/06
Ancient garland in Egyptian tomb - 29/06/06
Tut's gem hints at space impact - 19/07/06
Giant Ramses statue gets new home - 25/08/06
Cairo moves 3,200-year-old Pharaoh - 25/08/06
Thieves find pharaohs' dentists - 23/10/06
Egypt to dig up pharaonic tombs - 02/12/06
New finds at Egypt's city of dead - 20/02/07
A glowing legacy - 13/03/07 Tutankhamun is returning to London
Mystery of Great Pyramid 'solved' - 31/03/07
Row over Nefertiti bust continues - 07/05/07
'Find of century' for Egyptology - 27/06/07 Hatshepsut
Cairo toe earliest fake body bit - 27/07/07
King Tut's face unveiled to world - 04/11/07
Egypt 'to copyright antiquities' - 25/12/07 Zahi Hawass gets tough
Czech Egyptologists uncover intact 4,500 year-old tomb - 07/01/08
Grim secrets of Pharaoh's city - 25/01/08
Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed - 15/02/08
Big statue of Amenhotep III discovered in Luxor - 22/03/08
Statue of Pharaonic queen discovered in south Egypt - 22/03/08 Queen Tiy was the wife of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III
Study shows life was tough for ancient Egyptians - 28/03/08


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