Many of the following links and resources were originally complied by The Bryn Mawr College Egyptology Association and re-posted here with permission. It’s an excellent set of Egyptological resources, categorized by type, for easy use by researchers, students, and curious people alike!
As education and outreach are two major tenants of our chapter’s mission, we are working on developing a set of teacher/educator aimed resources such as activities and lesson plans for primary and secondary education. Check back soon!
Egyptology Reference Works
Online Egyptological Bibliography:
The O.E.B. is an Oxford database of Egyptological journal publications and books. If you are researching a topic in Egyptology, this is one of the best places to find relevant publications!
Porter and Moss is one of the most important reference works in the history of the discipline. Volumes I-VII systematically work through most sites in Egypt and Nubia, describing the architecture, ornamentation, and statuary in great detail, and provides references to publications of each aspect of the site. Volume VIII (still being digitized) describes statues and artifacts in museums around the world which lack any provenance.
Ancient Egyptian Literature Vol. I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
Ancient Egyptian Literature Vol. II: The New Kingdom
Ancient Egyptian Literature Vol III: The Late Period
Miriam Lichtheim’s work on Egyptian Literature is a set of essential texts from ancient Egypt, and they are widely regarded as good translations. If you are interested in Egyptian mythology, poetry, funerary texts, philosophy, or documents from daily life, these volumes are an excellent place to start.
Egyptology Collections and Databases
Triarte – Online catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges’s collections
The British Museum Collection Database
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection
The Turin Museo Egizio Database
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Collections
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Collections
Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire
The Oriental Institute Digital Epigraphy Project
Trismegistos- An online database of papyrological and epigraphic evidence
Turin Papyrus Online Platform (Museo Egizio Collezione Papiri)
Papyri.info (formerly APIS-The Advanced Papyrological Information System)
St. Andrews Corpus of Egyptian Literature (with glyphs, translation, and transliteration)
Digitized Egyptology Journals and Newsletters
EEF- Egyptologists’ Electronic Forum (listserv, archives, resources)
The 1905-1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan Photographic Catalogs
The Directory of North American Egyptologists
Academic Institutes and Organizations
ARCE-The American Research Center in Egypt
IAE- The International Association of Egyptologists
OI- The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago
The Griffith Institute at Oxford University
AIA- The Archaeological Institute of America
The American Society of Papyrologists
CRE- Current Research in Egyptology
ASE- The Association for Students of Egyptology
ICYE- International Congress of Young Egyptologists
Landmark Egyptology Publications
Description de l’Égypte
~ Cumulative publication of Napoleon’s 1789 expedition to Egypt, 1809-1822
Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia
~ by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, 1820
Lettre à M. Dacier
~ by Jean-François Champollion, 1822
Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien (Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia)
~ by Karl Richard Lepsius, 1849-1846
The Grammar of Ornament
~ by Owen Jones, 1856
A Thousand Miles up the Nile
~ by Amelia B. Edwards, 1877
The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians Vol. I, II, III
~ by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, 1878
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani
~ by E.A. Wallis Budge, 1885
Egypt Through the Stereoscope
~ by James Henry Breasted, 1900
Ancient Records of Egypt
~ by James Henry Breasted, 1906
Ancient Egyptian Paintings Vol. I , Vol II., Vol III.
~Nina Davies, 1936
The American Research Center in Egypt Missouri Chapter 