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Wonders of Ancient Egypt

http://www.nekhebet.com/

Features the wonders, mysteries, religion and history of ancient and modern Egypt. With details and resources on related topics.

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Travellers in Egypt

http://www.travellersinegypt.org/

Articles and journals feature the history of ancient travellers in Egypt and Near East.

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The Sounds of Ancient Egypt

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9705/11/egypt/

Musicians believe music will help us understand ancient Egypt's spoken language.

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The Shaft, the Subway and the Causeway

http://www.towers-online.co.uk/pages/shafted.htm

Nigel Skinner-Simpson tries to track down the evidence behind stories of tunnels in the Giza plateau.

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The Global Egyptian Museum

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/

Includes 6,600 objects from 10 European collections, with extensive documentation and color photography.

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The Ancient Egypt Site

http://www.ancient-egypt.org/

The history, language and culture of Ancient Egypt, by Egyptologist Jacques Kinnaer.

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The Ancient Egypt Film Site

http://www.wepwawet.nl/films/

Information on past and present films dealing with Ancient Egypt or Egyptology.

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Tel er-Rub'a

http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/faculty/dandrea/tel.html

Large tel complex located about 100 km northeast of Cairo in the eastern Nile Delta.

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Tableau May be Oldest Text

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/16/MN229801.DTL

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that 5,250-year-old symbols unearthed near Luxor may predate Sumerian script.

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Spirit & Stone

http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/egypt/

Articles about stone technology, the Sphinx and temples.

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Some Observations Concerning Uninscribed Tombs in the Valley of the Kings

http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/Observ1.html

Scholarly article by Donald P. Ryan, from C.N. Reeves (ed.), After Tutankhamun: Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes (1992).

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Secrets of the Pharaohs

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/

PBS companion to the TV series focusing on new findings: genetic disease in the 18th dynasty; the tombs of the pyramid builders; mummy of a noblewoman and chantress from Luxor named Asru.

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Saqqara

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/

The Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt.

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Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Tombs

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/egypt

Features a brief history of ancient Egyptian tombs and monuments, with digital reconstruction of the tombs of Sennedjem and Inherkhau.

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Hopkins in Egypt Today

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/

Records day-by-day activities of the Johns Hopkins University Expedition archaeological team in Egypt. Features details of the excavations with photos.

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Golden Hopes from Pharaoh's Map

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/449680.stm

BBC reports that geologists and engineers in Egypt are searching for gold using a 3,000-year-old map, believed to have been drawn by King Seti I.

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Giza Archives Project

http://www.gizapyramids.org/

Designed to serve as a centralized online repository for archaeological activity at the Old Kingdom Giza necropolis, beginning with the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavations (1902-1947). Page contains thousands of excavation photographs, expedition diary pages, object register book pages, maps, tomb plans and sections, books and articles.

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Fruitful Seasons

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/613/hr2.htm

From Al-Ahram Weekly, excavations at Karnak Temple complex have been focusing on areas hitherto little explored, with rewarding results.

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Few Had Wealth in Ancient Egypt

http://www.nature.com/nsu/021125/021125-8.html

From Nature, Most ancient Egyptians were on the poverty line while a handful of priest-kings held fabulous wealth.

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Famous Lives

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/622/he2.htm

From Al-Ahram Weekly, Saqqara tomb of a scribe in Akhenaten's reign and a colossal statue of one of Ramses II's wives at Zagazig have shed more light on two famous Pharaohs.

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Elkab's Hidden Treasure

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/649/he1.htm

From Al-Ahram, a 17th dynasty inscription found three months ago in Upper Egypt uncovered a critical and previously unknown Kushite attack on Egypt.

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