Essential Resources
Update 29 April 2013
- Collections of online resources
- Bibliography
- Major digitised publications
- Object, excavation, text, photo databases
- Language resources
- Student databases, resources
- Cultural Studies
- Directories, mailing lists etc
- ABZU: an index of Internet ANE Resources
--includes links to a number of online texts - Sisyphos: a collection of online archaeological and Egyptological resources (in German and English)
- TRISMEGISTOS: An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources
- Propylaeum: Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften (a central point for studying the ancient world)
General
- Online Egyptological Bibliography (formerly the Annual Egyptological Bibliography)
- AIGYPTOS--a database for research into Egyptological
- Demotistische Literaturübersicht
- Publications in Egyptology (Oxford)
- Oriental Institute Research Archives acquisition lists
- Wilbour Library and other NY area resources, including recent acquisitions
- Special Subject Collection Egyptology (Germany, Heidelberg)
- Bibliography Abbreviations (from Ancient Egypt Online)
Topographical
Specific
Inclusion of a volume here is based on its importance, and I cannot always vouch for the quality of usability of the digitised version.
- Description de l'Egypte
- Champollion, Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie (plate)
- Lepsius, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien
- Aegyptische Inschriften aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin vol I, vol II
- Sethe, Die altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte
- Urkunden des aegyptischen Altertums
- Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etc in the British Museum vol 1, vol 4, vol 6
- Egyptian Museum Cairo, Catalogue Générale (incomplete)
- Davies, Tytus Theban Tomb Series: Nakht | Puyemre I II | Two Sculptors | Two Ramesside Tombs
- Champollion, Monuments de l'Egypte et de la Nubie
- Rosellini, Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia
A larger number of older publications are available via the Ancient World Digital Library (ISAW New York): http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/
The EEF list also has a list of some digitized publications: http://www.egyptologyforum.org/EEFSeries.html
Many of the publications of the Oriental Institute in Chicago are now available for download. I flag in particular two otherwise very hard to obtain books:
- Nina Davies, Ancient Egyptian Paintings vol I, vol II, vol III
- Calverley and Broome, The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, vol I, vol II, vol III, vol IV
A list of Chicago publications on Egypt (print and download) may be found at http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/egypt.html
There are also others of which I cannot confirm the legality. I give the following references without liability!
- The Giza Archives Project
- The Tutankhamun object database in Oxford. Now includes the Carter Diaries for the excavation
- Database 'Cachette de Karnak'
- Archives of Bernard Bruyère (IFAO)
- Das altägyptische Totenbuch (Book of the Dead)
- The Deir el-Medina Database
- Deir el Medine online
- Meketre Middle Kingdom scene repository
- Funerary Cones database and research material
- H.W. Müller photo archive (Heidelberg)
- Ägyptologischen Datenbank AHA, Berlin
- Arielle Kozloff's Theban Tomb Photos (Only accessible via institutions participating in Artstor)
- Leuven Online Index of Ptolemaic and Roman Hieroglyphic Texts
- Brooklyn Museum Egyptian Lantern Slides
- E-Corpus
- Altägyptisches Wörterbuch:
All parts of the Wb can now be accessed through the site Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, which includes the Zettelarchiv. Registration is now required. (In German.) - Wortdiskussionen (index of discussions of Egyptian words in journals--in German)
- Demotic Wordlist (in German)
- Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari
- Demotic Dictionary Project
- The Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus NOW APPARENTLY DEFUNCT
- Prosopographia Aegypti NOW APPARENTLY DEFUNCT
- Dime -- Datenbank der demotisch und griechisch bezeugten Personen aus Soknopaiu Nesos (in German)
- Hieratistik (Mainz, in German)
- Ancient Egyptian Language site
- Rosette (French, English, Arabic)
- Ancient Egyptian Language Dictionary
- An copy of a guide to the Manuel de Codage system
- JSesh-hieroglyphic text editor
