Egyptian history and E Guide - Resources and Review

Exhibition of Egyptian artifacts residing at the University of Memphis and a tour of over a dozen different ancient Egyptian sites along the Nile River.
 
Collection of information about life in Ancient Greece, China, Rome, India, and Egypt. Includes details of housing, families, entertainment, clothing and hair styles, religion, empires, weddings, and food.
 
The principal purpose of World Art Treasures is to promulgate the discovery and love of art. Thanks to the 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques
Edouard Berger Foundation, devoted to art, and including the civilizations of Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe, its purpose is to offer a different approach to art via the World Wide Web.
 
Collection of resources providing an insight into Egyptian history, archaeology and culture. Includes announcements of conferences, exhibitions and new books, information about various tombs and excavations, and details of related institutions, museums, societies, journals and magazines.
 
The archive provides electronic access to texts and images of over one thousand papyri from ancient Egypt.
 
A bibliography of resources for the study of ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Mesopotamian history. Includes a list of general reference works, mummification, religion, art, hieroglyphics, architecture, law and government and books for students and young readers.
 
Investigation into the life of Egyptian King Harwa through the excavation and analysis of his tomb. Provides site reports from each season of study, a bibliography of related material, a timeline of Egyptian periods, maps and plans of Western Thebes, the el
Asasif Necropolis, and the site of the tomb, and images of papyrus fragments, vases, pillars, and phials discovered.
 
Index of over 40 Internet resources about language and literature in the Ancient World between 700 and 1000 AD. Includes an introduction to Ogham, Middle Egyptian and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
 
Resource explaining what mummies are, how they are made, and who they are. Provides an account of the afterlife, including information about gods, the spirit of the dead, the world of the afterlife, and the journey to resurrection. Also features a key to hieroglyphs, a dateline, and a glossary.
 
Links to Egypt and Egyptology resources throughout the Web. Categories include: General Egypt Resources, Pyramids, Art and Music, Sites and Monuments, Hieroglyphs, Egypt Today etc.
 
Includes links to resources about the ancient world, such as art, archaeology, papyrology, epigraphy, philosophy and literature, along with faculty and prospectus information.
 
Information about the ancient Egyptians' view of death and the afterlife.
 
Details of a project aiming to raise an obelisk using only materials and techniques that the ancient Egyptians might have used. Provides information about the history and physics of obelisks, and offers images of temples, tombs, and other monuments including the Pyramids and the Sphinx.
 
An account of a 1996 expedition to the summit of Sara Sara in Peru in search of frozen sacrificial mummies, information about 'unquiet mummies' comprising a case study of the Siberian Ice Maiden, and analysis of the last meal eaten by an Iceman. Also explains how anthropologists are able to study bodies from prehistoric graves to identify their sex, diet, social rank, and age at time of death.
 
Project investigating the funerary customs and beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, covering the provision for life in the 'next world' and the significance of shabtis.
 
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