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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

Egypt

 

See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.

Contents
General

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The Old Kingdom (2705-2213 BCE) [Dynasties 3-8]

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The Middle Kingdom (2705-2213 BCE) [Dynasties 12-13]

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The New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE) [Dynasties 18-20]

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Akhnaten [Amenhotep IV] (r. 1363-1347 BCE)

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Post Imperial Egypt (1070-332 BCE) [Dynasties 21-31]

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Religion

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Art and Architecture
  • WEB Art History Resources: Egypt
  • WEB Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt [Was At eyelid.co.uk, now Internet Archive]
    Spectacular images of pyramids and temples.
  • WEB The Global Egyptian Musuem
    At a rough estimate, over 2 million objects from ancient Egypt are kept in about 850 public collections, dispersed over 69 countries around the world. This website aims to collect them into a global virtual museum, which can be visited at any time, from any place. The Global Egyptian Museum is a long-term project, carried out under the aegis of the International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG).

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Literature

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Music
  • WEB Egyptian Music [La musica nell'antico Egitto] [Internet Archive backup here]
    The site is in Italian. The Instruments Page and the Papyrus Illustrations Page are especially interesting.
  • YouTube: Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt - Michael Atherton [1998] [YouTube][Note YouTube videos are often removed. Just search for the title at YouTube if this link goes bad.]
    There is much information on what ancient instruments looked like, but any reconstruction of the sound is extremely tentative.

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Everyday Life

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Mathematics
  • 2ND Egyptian Mathematiics [Was At eyelid.co.uk, now Internet Archive]
  • 2ND Egyptian Mathematics [At Buffalo] [Internet Archive version here]
    With translations of problems.
  • WEB Egyptian Fractions [At UCI] [Internet Archive version here]
    A website which discusses Egyptian fractions, and which has links to other sites on Egyptian mathematics.

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Gender and Sexuality
  • For Women: see WEB Diotima: Ward Texts [All now via Internet Acrhive]
    • Will of Prince Nikaure, son of King Khafre (ca. 2600 B.C.)
    • The Wills of Two Brothers and the Inheritance of One Brother's Wife (ca. 1900 B.C.)
    • Dispute over Property between a Mother and Daughter
    • Marriage Agreement between a Bridegroom and his Father-in-law
    • A Wife Wins a Dispute over Her Inheritance
    • A Woman Charges her Husband with Wife Abuse
    • A Father's Promise to his Daughter in Case of Divorce
    • A Woman Asks an Oracle to Settle a dispute over land
    • The Will of Amonkhau in Favor of His Second Wife (ca. 1100 B.C.)
    • A Daughter's Double Inheritance of Family Property (13th c. B.C.)
  • Coptic Texts: The Thunder: Perfect Mind, Translated by Anne McGuire
  • Status of Women in Egyptian Society, by Peter Piccione [At Internet Archive, from NWU]
  • Princess Ahura: The Magic Book, c. 1100 BCE [At this Site]
    On the brother-sister marriage of the two children of the King Merneptah.
  • The Offering of Uha, c. 2400 BCE [At this Site]
    Male and Female Circumcision in Egypt.
  • For Gender variants: See WEB People With a History: Near East and Egypt

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Nubia

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Libya and Western North Africa
  • Accounts of Ancient Mauretania, c. 430 BCE- 550 CE   [At this Site]
    From Herodotus, Strabo, and Procopius of Caesarea
  • Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): On Libya, from The Histories, c. 430 BCE [At this Site]

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Modern Perspectives on Egypt

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NOTES:

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was 4/8/1998. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of  Fordham University, New York. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, the Fordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in providing web space and server support for the project. The IHSP is a project independent of Fordham University.  Although the IHSP seeks to follow all applicable copyright law, Fordham University is not the institutional owner, and is not liable as the result of any legal action.

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