Ancient Egypt Resources

General Resources

New Stuff on ABZU : Ancient Near East studies links
CCER : The Center for Computer-Aided Egyptological Research
The Ancient Egypt Site : An excellent source of information about all aspects of Ancient Egypt
The Rostau Page : Home page of the Ancient Egyptian Language mailing list
NOVA Online/Pyramids/Follow the Excavation
Guardian's Egypt Homepage
Resources for History B94 at Northwestern University

Egyptian Language and Literature

Reading Hieroglyphs - The First Steps
le Moyen Egyptien : An excellent introduction to reading Egyptian Hieroglyphic inscriptions.
A Little Egyptian Reading Book : Simple Egyptian reading exercises being developed by Stephen.
Admiral Ahmose relates his deeds : A short biographical passage from Dynasty XVIII
Papyrus Westcar : A hieroglyphic story, with vocabulary, notes, and comments (developed by Mike Dyall-Smith of the University of Melbourne).

The Teaching of Ptah-Hotep - A very famous "wisdom" text from the Papyrus Prisse. Made available by Matt Whealton.
Basic Lessons in Hieratic : An introduction to reading hieratic script for those who already know hieroglyphics (under development by Stephen)
Egyptian Pronunciation:

Part 1 : Introduction: The basics of Egyptian pronunciation

Part 2 : Some ideas on the pronunciation of Egyptian verbs

Coffin Texts Word Index
Papyrology Home Page
Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy : Online textbook on Demotic grammar and script by Janet Johnson
The Coptic Language : An introduction to the Coptic alphabet and basic lessons on Bohairic Coptic.
Introductory Coptic Grammar : Online photocopy of the textbook by J. Martin Plumley (1948)

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