Online resources

Web sites of general interest

1. Egyptology Resources - Nigel Strudwick
   Edited by the Egyptologist N. Strudwick with the assistance of the Newton Institute of Cambridge, the site offers a series of internet resources for Egyptology; this page offers links to the main centers of international research, organized by continent and nations
   
2. Digital Egypt for Universities
   Resource for learning and teaching, in collaboration with University College, London and the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
   

Online documents

1. The EEF Guide to Internet Resources for Ancient Egyptian Texts
   Provides links to hundreds of Egyptian texts from the Pre-dynastic to the Ptolemaic period
   
2. Project Rosette - Text Database
   Provides hieroglyphic text, transcription and rough translation of Stele C14, Story of the shipwrecked sailor, Autobiography of Amenemheb (TT 85)
   
3. The Ancient Egypt Site
   Edited by J. Kinnaer, it provides the English translation and a comment of the Dream Stele of Thutmosis IV, of the Story of King Cheops and the magicians, of the Argument between Apopi and Seqenenra and of the Teaching of Hordjedef
   
4. Digital Egypt for Universities
   Excellent site, of the University College of London and Petrie Museum, and edited by Stephen Quirke, museum director. Selection of 22 hieroglyphic texts
   
5. Cartigli.it
   This site, created by an Italian aficionado, presents the cartouches of Egyptian and Nubian sovereigns (Napata and Meroe), with transliteration and translation, from the Early Dynastic until the Roman Periods. The general information is however only indicative and somewhat imprecise
   
6. Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
   Site by Francesco Raffaele (University of Naples - L’Orientale) dedicated to Predynastic and Protodynastic Egypt, with interesting corpora of palettes, ivories and inscriptions on stone vessels; it also provides original studies and downloadable .pdf articles on the subject
   
7. I Geroglifici ed Obelischi Eggizzi, 'opera postuma inedita di Pietro Bracci', 1767 – Griffith Institute, Oxford
   
   
8. Potmark-Egypt.com - The International Potmark Workshop
   
   
9. Taccuini di Gaston Maspero on-line - Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
   
   
10. Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom
    Ongoing database on person names of the Middle Kingdom (late 11th–17th Dynasty) with a list of the hieroglyphic sources, titles and prosopography. This research project was originally funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
    
11. Pharaoh.se
    Amatorial site by Peter Lundtsröm on the names of the kings of ancient Egypt. It counts 2339 names (each sovereign could have up to five names, some of them changed names during their reign and significant variants are present). Besides the section on sources (Turin Royal Canon, Abydos Canon, Karnak Canon,etc.), the user can browse by reign in the section “Dynasties”. There are also: a part of the site on the works by Manetho from Sebennytos and the various witnesses, image galleries, a bibliography and other interesting tools.
    
12. The Rosetta Stone online project
    Wordpress site by the ex Excellence Cluster TOPOI and by the Archaeological Department of the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin devoted to the trilingual text (Egyptian, Demotic, Greek) of the famous Memphis decree of Ptolemy V (known as the Rosetta Stone). The texts from the stone are annotated, transliterated and translated in German and English, but the section n Egyptian hieroglyphs does not appear to be active.
    
13. Texts in Translation – Egypt at the Manchester Museum
    The “Texts in translation” section of the blog dedicated to the Egyptological collection of the Manchester Museum, edited by Campbell Rodger Price, up to now contains 18 papers concerning objects with hieroglyphic inscriptions (or, in one case, cursive hieroglyphic), which are illustrated and translated in English.
    

Institutions, centers for study and research

1. Digital Karnak - UCLA
   The Digital Karnak Project was designed and built at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) under the direction of Dr. Diane and Dr. Willeke Wendrich, with the supervision of an academic committee. It provides chronological interactive maps, short video documentaries, a rich archive of photographs with many thematic indexes, a Google Earth downloadable reconstruction of the temple, and a page of links to many institutions. Archived web pages.
   
2. The Giza Archives - Boston Museum of Fine Arts
   Developed by The Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, this Web site is a comprehensive resource for research on Giza. It contains photographs and other documentation from the original Harvard University - Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (1904 to 1947), from MFA fieldwork, and from other expeditions, museums, and universities around the world
   
3. Theban Mapping Project - AUC
   Since 1978 the Theban Mapping Project has created a huge database of the Theban Necropolis (Thebes, now Luxor). The site focusses in particular on the Valley of the Kings, for which it provides an ample atlas. 3D reconstructions, photographs, a bibliography and information about the construction, discovery and work done by scholars over the centuries are available for each tomb
   
4. Edfu Explorer Online (Edfu Project)
   
   
5. Karnak: Projet d'index global des inscriptions des temples de Karnak
   
   
6. The Polychrome Hieroglyph Research Project
   Website by David Nunn (Université Libre de Bruxelles), on the artistic aspect of the Hieroglyphic writing system, with many examples organized by site, group, sign, period and colour. It also contains a bibliography, a palaeography and a diachronic study.
   

Academic materials

1. CHAMPOLLION's Grammaire Egyptienne - The University of Chicago Library
   CHAMPOLLION J-F., Grammaire Egyptienne, Typographie de Firmin Didot Freres, Paris 1836. Dated, but of considerable historic interest; it was the first scholarly grammar dedicated to Ancient Egyptian.
   
2. Wörterbuch der Ägyptische Sprache (1926-1953)
   
   
3. Ägyptisches Handwörterbuch
   ERMAN A., GRAPOW H., Ägyptisches Handwörterbuch, 1921. Ed. by Joseph Serdult, Association Ménès - Association pour la promotion de l'informatique en Égyptologie
   
4. The Beinlich wordlist
   New version of the list drawn up by the Egyptologists Horst Beinlich and Friedhelm Hoffmann, now on the site of the Egyptologist Nigel Strudwick. Provides the Egyptian word transliterated, a German translation, a brief reference to the Wörterbuch or to other publications.
   
5. Diccionario Conciso de Jeroglificos
   Diccionario Conciso de Jeroglificos (Castilian translation of FAULKNER R., A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian).
   
6. Ancient Egyptian Cooperative Electronic Dictionary
   
   
7. Project Rosette - Dictionary
   
   
8. Hieroglyphs step by step – Bibliotheca Alexandrina
   Bibliotheca Alexandrina created a webpage for learning Egyptian hieroglyphs through almost 30 lessons divided by topic, a dictionary, a photo gallery with transliterations and translations of Hieroglyphic texts and a section with electronic resources (rather general though).
   
9. VéGA – Vocabulary of Ancient Egyptian
   A Project for a Hieroglyphic dictionary by the University Paul Valery, Montpellier 3. The creation of a free personal account allows access to the site. The dictionary includes translations in French, English, German, Arabic, different attested writing systems, bibliographic references and a few accompanying notes. Each lemma has an indicator of its state of progress.
   
10. Hieroglyphic Egyptian: Language and Literature in the Middle Kingdom
    From the Daniel Selden page in academia.edu you can download the second edition of his Middle Kingdom grammar.
    
11. Vocalized Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian
    From the Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan page in academia.edu you can download his vocalized dictionary of ancient Egypt (2016).
    
12. Fabricius – Google Arts and Culture Lab Experiment
    Fabricius was launched in 2017 together with Assassin’s Creed Origins (Ubisoft) with the cooperation of international academic institutions. It uses machine learning to recognise, analyse and translate hieroglyphs texts. The site also includes a learn and a play section. The ambitious project aims at including other languages in the future.
    

Images

1. Global Egyptian Museum
   Edited by Dirk van der Plas and Muhammad Saleh, the site strives to gather the highest number possible of images of objects from the many Egyptology collections in the world (it now contains 10,014 images). It is a long-term project under the auspices of the International Committee for Egyptology
   
2. The Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies - Bibliotheca Alexandrina
   
   
3. MUDIRA Bilddatenbank - Munich Digital research Archive
   
   
4. Cleo – The AI Egyptology Platform
   A searchable data bank containing more than 45,000 images of the Egyptian collections from four important international museums: the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. It is even possible to perform searches based on the images the user uploads.
   

Texts

1. Catalog of Publications - Oriental Institute Library, Chicago University
   The Oriental Institute Library of Chicago University owns a number of titles, organized either by series or by subject, which can be purchased or are freely downloadable
   
2. Champollion and Rosellini Egyptian Expeditions (Oxford Digital Library)
   The Digital Library of the Oxford University allows online consultation of two works of great vaue for the history of Egyptology. The works are: “Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia” by I. Rosellini and “Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie” and “Notices Descriptives” by J-F. Champollion, which is the result of the French-tuscan scientific expedition of 1828-1829 in Egypt and Nubia. The tables and texts in the two monumental works are still of great interest and use, and they quote hundreds of hieroglyphic texts
   
3. A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts
   The entire concordance of the Pyramid Texts, an accurate work by one of the most important scholars of texts from the Old Kingdom, J.P. Allen (ALLEN J.P., A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, Brown University, Providence 2013), is now available through the Oriental Institute in Chicago. The link provided here conveniently points to the AWOL page, which gathers all the six links.
   
4. Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
   
   
5. Aegyptisches glossar
   
   
6. Some Values of Ptolemaic Signs
   
   
7. An Introduction to the Study of Ptolemaic Signs and their Values
   
   
8. SETHE K., Dramatische Texte zu altägyptischen Mysterienspielen, I: Das "Denkmal memphitischer Theologie"
   
   
9. HERMANN A., Die Stelen der thebanischen Felsgräber der 18. Dynastie
   
   
10. POLOTSKY J., Zu den Inschriften der 11. Dynastie
    
    
11. GRIFFITH F.Ll., A Collection of Hieroglyphs
    
    
12. KOEFOED-PETERSEN O., Recueil des inscriptions hiéroglyphiques de la Glyptothèque Ny Carlsberg
    
    
13. SANDMAN M., Texts from the Time of Akhenaten
    
    
14. PIERRET P., Études égyptologiques comprenant le texte et la traduction d'une stèle éthiopienne inédite
    
    
15. PIERRET P., Recueil d'inscriptions inédites du Musée Égyptien du Louvre 1
    
    
16. PIERRET P., Recueil d'inscriptions inédites du Musée Égyptien du Louvre 2
    
    
17. CLÈRE J.J., J. VANDIER, Textes de la première période intermédiaire et de la XIème dynastie
    
    
18. Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae, &c., in the British Museum [HTBM]
    
    
19. Dendara XIII-XV Online
    
    
20. HAYS H.M., The Organization of the Pyramid Texts
    
    

Fonts

1. JSesh, an Open Source Hieroglyphic Editor
   
   
2. Tksesh
   
   
3. HieroTeX
   
   
4. Font per la traslitterazione del geroglifico - IFAO
   
   
5. Hieroglyphic Pro/Desk
   Desktop version of an IOS application for the translation of signs and words from hieroglyphics to English and vice-versa.
   
6. Hieroglyphic Everywhere Project
   This blog by Bob Richmond, devoted to the worldwide digital diffusion of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Many papers deal with topics connected to the standard Unicode encoding, to digital paleography, to fonts and applications for writing in hieroglyphics.
   
7. Hieroglyphica
   A free hieroglyphic word processor in vector mode, released in 2021. The text is composed by searching for the signs (by code, name or transliteration) and then by drag-and-dropping the hieroglyphs and, when necessary, by grouping the signs. Texts can be saved in format XML.
   

Museums and collections

1. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology - UCL
   University museum at University College, London, the museum was created in 1892 with the donation of Amelia Edwards (1831-1892) and considerably expanded with the materials found by W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853-1942). The catalogue, including photos of the objects, can be fully searched online
   
2. DVCTVS - [Spanish] National Papyrological Funds
   
   
3. Musée Champollion des Ecritures du Monde
   
   
4. Papyrus Portal
   
   
5. Turin Papyrus Online Platform
   Catalogue of the papyrological collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, with comprehensive entries, high-resolution images and a user-friendly and effective search tool. Only one papyrus, with a royal cartouche and a depiction of Ramses IX, is currently included.
   

Collections of texts and digital libraries

1. Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Papyri (HHP)
   Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Papyri (HHP) is an online database of metadata. Its aim is to provide information about all published, semi-published as well as some unpublished texts written in these two scripts (excluding Abnormal Hieratic), currently some 1520 items.
   
2. Trismegistos
   An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources dealing with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800. There are very rich databases of metadata on papyrus and parchment.
   
3. Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions (CPI)
   This site, edited by Oxford University, gathers all the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Ptolemaic Egypt. The corpus is divided into three volumes on a geographical basis: the first covers the region of Alexandria and the Delta sites, the second covers the Fayum, Middle and Upper Egypt and the third includes the Southern border, the Oases and the inscriptions of uncertain date/provenance. As far as the first volume is concerned, each inscription includes an image and the text translation. Links to the database Trismegistos are also provided.
   

Bibliography

1. Online Egyptological Bibliography - Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
   
   
2. Glyphs and Grammars - Part I: Resources for beginners
   Edited by Aayko Eyma, moderator of the Egyptologist's Electronic Forum (EEF)
   
3. Glyphs and Grammars - Part II: Advanced resources
   Edited by Aayko Eyma, moderator of the Egyptologist's Electronic Forum (EEF)
   
4. ABZU
   Database for the research of periodicals and monographs of Egyptological and Near-Eastern interests, edited by Charles E. Jones, Head Librarian of the Blegen Library at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
   
5. Propylaeum
   Propylaeum (University of Heidelberg) offers several search options for finding subject-information about Egyptology, including the chance to search for printed monographs and journal articles from Germany or world-wide. Also offered is the use of an electronic document-delivery (journal articles via E-mail / book loans) and access to lists of newly published literature. Users have in addition access to various forms of electronic media including subject databases, E-Journals, freely-available Internet sources, direct access to digitized historical literature and a document server (which permits the free publication of monographs or articles).
   
6. On-line Egyptological Bibliographies, Databases, Search Engines, and Other Resources (EEF)
   
   
7. Digitized Collections of Ancient Egyptian Source Texts - EEF
   
   
8. THOT – A Bibliography on Ancient Egyptian and Related Subjects
   A bibliography updated up to 2014, taken from the Academia.edu page of Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan.