On-line Egyptological Bibliographies, Databases, Search Engines, and Other Resources

version 25 (June 2006)

(I) Selected Bibliographies for Ancient Egypt

(A) General Bibliographies

• The Ancient Egypt Site Bibliography: bibliography on the website of Jacques Kinnaer with over 300 titles.
  Sections: Miscellaneous (Introductions; Mummies; Pyramids, Society, Research Tools); Arts (General; Sites & Monuments; Museum Catalogues; Exhibition Catalogues); History (General; By Period); Language (Grammars; Sign Lists; Dictionaries; Semantic Studies); Literature (Text Publications; Translations); Religion (General; Life After Death; Mythology; Rituals & Temples); Sciences (Miscellaneous; Astronomy; Medicine).
• The Bibliography of Ancient Egypt: extensive bibliography on the website of Francesca Jourdan.
  Sections: General Titles; Anthropology; Influence of Egypt; Chronology; Archaeology; Art & Architecture; Biographies [of Egyptologists]; Language & Literature; Economy & State; Law & Institutions; Spirituality; Society [general titles, women, beauty/cosmetics, diet, etc); Artistic & Sport Issues [incl. Music CDs]; Science & Medicine; Astronomy & Mathematics; Technology; Environment; Animal World; Relations with other Countries; Religion; Cities & Archaeological Sites; Bible; History; Pharaohs; Monuments & Tombs; Dictionaries & Atlases; Museum & Travel Guides; Novels & Fiction; Children's Books; Cartoon Books; Videos; CD-Roms; In honour of... [Honorary/Memorial volumes]. Further: Recent Book Reviews; Links of Interest; Web Rings.
• OI's Recommanded Reading on Ancient Egypt: bibliography on the website of the Oriental Institute (Chicago).
  Sections: General Reference Books; Books for Students; Egyptian Religion; Hieroglyphs and Egyptian Literature; Mummies and Mummification; Art: Composition, Themes and Theory; Art: Sources for Specific Chronological Periods; Building and Construction of Temples.
• Kent Weeks' Bibliography for Ancient Egypt: extensive bibliography on the KV5 website, in due time 30,000 titles.
  Sections: Abbreviations; Theban Mapping Project; Egyptology as Discipline; Bibliographical Sources for Museums; The Natural Environment; Surveys of Ancient Egyptian Culture; Philosophy, Religion and Magic; Social Organization & Society; Economy; Performing Arts; Physical Recreative Activities; Science and Medicine; Technology and Minor Arts & Crafts; Theban Sites. Every section has several subsections.
• Selected Bibliography by Brown University: Brown's Egyptological Department provides a "starting point" for the interested reader.
  Sections: General Works and Histories; Art and Literature; Hieroglyphs; Mummies; People and Daily Life; Pharaohs; The Pyramids; the Sphinx and Other Monuments; Religion; Tutankhamun; Women in Ancient Egypt.
• Bibliography for History of Ancient Egypt: by Dr. Peter Piccione (Northwestern University)[at end of his page]
  Sections: Art, Architecture and Technology; Crime and Punishment; Ethnology of Egypt and Nubia; Greek, Egyptian and Near Eastern Relations and Historiography; Historical Studies of Ancient Egypt; Land and Environment of the Nile Valley; Language and Writing; Literacy and Education; Nubian History and Society; Religion of Egypt; Translations and Anthologies of Egyptian Texts; Women in Egypt.
• Kasia's Library recommended Egyptological Literature by Kasia Szpakowska (several sections).
• Egyptian Reading List: a selection of Egyptological titles by Katherine Griffis (several sections)

• Systematic Bibliography on Deir el-Medina: the Deir el-Medina Database (DMD) on the website of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO).
• Ancient Nubia: A Selected Bibliography of Recent Works: by Peter A. Piccione; with also Egyptian-Nubian relations.
• Bibliography on Tuna el-Gebel (Hermopolis West) by Dieter Kessler, University of Munich, Germany.
• The Late Dynasty 18: alphabetical bibliography by Marshall F. Johnson.
• Akhetaten Excavation Reports: by Marshall F. Johnson.
• Sinuhe
• Egyptian law
• Kellis: publications about Ismant el-Kharab, ancient Kellis.
• Bibliographies on the sites of el-Amarna and Deir el-Bahari.
• Seti I: website dedicated to this king, with several texts from his tomb, with (URL) bibliography about his reign.
• Hatshesput: website dedicated to this queen and her time, incl. complete documentation of the Chapelle Rouge.
• Sudan: bibliography on ancient Sudan.
• Kadero, bibliography about the excavations in this Sudanese site.
• Early Dynastic Egypt: Dynasty 1-3; site of Francesco Raffaele with large bibliography.
• Hierakonpolis: bibliography about and refering to this site.
• Edfu-Project of the University of Hamburg, Germany
• The annotated Genealogy of the Ptolemies, by Chris Bennett, with links to available online classical, numismatic and papyrological sources.
• The Hawara Labyrinth, bibliography and virtual reality models (part of the Digital Egypt project at University College London).
• Tomb of Harwa (TT 37)
• Tomb of Harwa, Tomb of Harwa
• Tomb of Djehuty (TT 11)
• Mut Precinct: bibliography of recent excavations in the Precinct of the goddess Mut, Karnak.
• "Bibliographie Magie": bibliography about AE magic, by Axel Michaels.
• Shenhour: bibliography about this site, excavated by Belgian missions.
• The Petrie Museum's Digital Egypt for Universities website has bibliographies on three sites: Tarkhan, Naqada, Meydum pyramid.
• Website dedicated to the Polish-Egyptian Archeological Mission at Sakkara West
• Website of the Waseda University Egyptian Expedition to Dahshur.
• Saqqara Online, website dedicated to the Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom Necropolis at Saqqara.
• The Amarna Royal Tombs Project, the Valley of the Kings Foundation website.
• The Qift Regional Expedition: website with the reports of the Australian mission at Koptos.
• Djehuty Project: the Spanish work in the tombs TT11 (Djehuty) and TT12 (Heri).
• Kahun: reconstructions and database.
• Deir al-Barsha, an interdisciplinary research
• Dra' Abu el-Naga Cartographic Project (DANCP)
• The Theban Mapping Project (TMP), bibliography on the Valley of the Kings.
• Annals of Thutmosis III, selective bibliography (in PDF)
• Hatshepsut (German)
• Nahal Tillah (site in Palestine, but with predynastic finds)
• Tomb of Senenmut, project by the IEAE surrounding TT353.
• Tomb of Iufaa, excavation report of the tomb of a priest in the Persian period.
• Amheida, Columbia University excavations at this site.
• The Giza Archives Project of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• The mastaba of Akhethetep of the Musée du Louvre
• The Niagara Falls Mummy, an online study by the University of Tuebingen.
• Tell Tebilla and the South Sinai Survey and Excavation Project
• Pharmacopoea Aegyptia et Graeco-Aegyptia, bibliography on AE pharmacopoeia.
• Classified Bibliographical Database of Ancient Egyptian Medicine and Medical Practice
• Alexandria docta, bibliography on papyri found in Alexandria.
• Old Kingdom Archaeology
• Tell el Borg: website of the archaeological mission working in N. Sinai.
• The Dakhleh Oasis Project (DOP)
• Ptolemaica: "une bibliographie sur l'Égypte lagide."
• Ptolemaic: A Selective Bibliography (Pdf-file: 215 KB)
• La bataille de Qadech. Récits et images: website dedicated to the Battle of Kadesh.
• Vorläufige Bibliographie Magie
• Sa el-Hagar (Sais) Bibliography
• The Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project of the University of Memphis
• Kom Firin, fieldwork at this site in the Western Delta.
• Medinet Madi and Khelua, Archeological Mission of the University of Pisa at these sites.
• Dra Abu el Naga, the Spanish Mission in TT1 and TT12.
• The Theban Tombs Publication Project: the tombs of Ahmose (no. 121) and Rây (no. 72).
• Medinet Madi and Khelua: archeological mission of the University of Pisa at these sites.
• Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, about the excavations at this site.
• Tell Abqa', the University of Liverpool excavations of the Ramesses II fortress in the Western Delta.
• Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project.
• TT320, the Deir el-Bahri royal cache.
• Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium

Publications by individual Egyptologists (also CVs and personal web sites) - now due to size a seperate PAGE.

(II) Online Bibliographical Databases et.al. for Egyptology and Papyrology

• Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA): website with ancient Egyptian and Demotic texts with German translations. If you click on transcribed words you will get a list of similar usages in the database. There are also links to the Digital Slip Archive (DZA, see below).
• Heidelberg Egyptological Database: a database of Egyptological literature, of the University Library of Heidelberg, containing over 10.000 titles (no journals). You can search for authors, titles, ISBN, institutions, year of publication and the like. You can jump to the search engine here or here ("Fachkatalog Aegyptologie").
• "Literaturdatenbank" of the Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster; 38,000 titles, with Search function.
• AIGYPTOS, a database for quick and precise search for Egyptological publications. By the Institute of Egyptology, University of Munich, in cooperation with the Institute of Egyptology in Heidelberg, Germany.
• Prosopographisches Lexikon der Frauen nicht-koeniglicher Herkunft auß dem Neuen Reich, a Goettinger Datenbank-Projekt with the data on ca. 4500 non-royal women (titles, family, etc.).
• The Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB), on the NINO website (in cooperation with the IAE); carrying the volumes AEB 1992-1996 which are available for on-line browsing, and a list of newly published books and articles (1997-1999).
• Bibliography of Ancient Egypt: Information about the "BA - Bibliographie Altaegypten 1822-1946".
• The Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research: Egyptological Resources, for example: Catalog of the 6900 signs available in the Extended Library,version 2; Prosopographia Aegypti (online), database of 58.000 Ancient Egyptian private names, based on the archives of the WB; Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus, now consisting of seven languages (English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese).
• The Global Egyptian Museum (GEM) of CCER, a virtual Egyptian museum where ten European museums are displaying more than 6,600 objects, and that amount will increase in time. Access is only free for the first 24 hours.
• OI Research Archives On-Line Catalogue, catalogue of the Oriental Institute, Chicago, that can be searched by keyword (like name of author), as magazines are broken down in seperate articles.
• A list of the existing Digitalized Egyptological Literature at the University of Heidelberg website.
• The University of Chicago Library's EOS (Electronic Open Stacks), with several digitalized books on Egyptology, among which Sethe's Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte.
• The "Altägyptisches Wörterbuch" (AAEW) of the Berlin - Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. With the Digitalisierten Zettelarchiv (DZA), the Digitized slip archive of the Woerterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache; Project Altaegyptisches Woerterbuch, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
• The Beinlich Wordlist: a search engine for Ancient Egyptian, created by Nigel Strudwick
• Demotische Wortliste (DWL), Demotic database that allows online searches for word parts and determinatives.
• Bibliographical Abbreviations & Links: on the EEF website; abbreviations of titles of Egyptological magazines, series and reference works; with links if journals and publishers have a Web presence or an e-mail address.
• "Deir el Medine Online" provides photographs, transcription, and translation of non-literary hieratic ostraca from Deir el Medine.
• "The Deir el-Medina Database", an intermediate presentation of the ongoing research project "A Survey of the New Kingdom Non-literary Texts from Deir el-Medina of Leiden University".
• The Theban Mapping Project (TMP), a very extensive website about the Valley of the Kings, incl. an interactive atlas, narrated tours, a searchable database of texts and images, articles, bibliography, etc.
• The On-line Geographical Information System of the Theban Necropolis (OLGIS-TN): a GIS syetme for the cemeteries of Western Thebes.
• Ägyptologische Datenbank AHA, Berlin, incl. Datenbank altägyptischer Särge und Sarkophage (DASS), and Ägyptologische Universaldatenbank SESCH.
• Lepsius's "Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien" digitization project of the Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle (Saale), Germany; (general project info)
• The Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) (papyrology) is now on-line; linked to The Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections (LHPC) and the Prosopographia Ptolemaica.
• The Catalogue of Mythographic Papyri (CMP)
• The Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) (the catalogues of six American papyrus collections)
• The Theban Necropolis Database: "The purpose of this database is to introduce all the data available so far concering the details of the private tombs in the Theban Necropolis, such as location, plan, the name and title of the owner, family relationship, wall decoration, funerary cones, etc., and the complete bibliography of the past research, in order to prepare the framework and to enhance the future research of the Theban Necropolis."
• Totenbuch-Projekt Bonn: the project has assembled a database with over 3.400 sources with BD-spells. "Am Computer können die Forscher so nach etwaigen Gemeinsamkeiten der Texte suchen." (URL).
• Trismegistos [TM] : a platform aiming to surmount barriers of language and discipline in the study of Late Period Egypt (roughly BC 800 - 800 AD). It includes the Demotistische Literaturübersicht (DemLü) and the online database Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic Texts [DAHT], that aims to provide information about all published (and semi-published) texts written in these two scripts.

(III) Databases for Egyptological dissertations and theses in progress

• USA/Canada: at ABZU - URL (specifically Egyptology) and URL (proposals at the University of Chicago)
• France: at URL (general), and at Thotweb - URL (specifically Egyptology; also entries from Germany, Belgium and Italy).
• Australia: at Macquarie University - URL (specifically Egyptology)
• Germany/Austria/Switzerland: in the Informationsblatt der deutschsprachigen Ägyptologie - URL (specifically Egyptology, look under the individual institutes) (NB: This online version of INFO is of 1997...so for the current info you will need the paper version of INFO).
• Great Britain/Ireland: URL (general)
• University Microfilms Dissertation Database (UMI) - URL and URL (accessible via libraries that subscribe to ProQuest)
• ProQuest, Online Dissertation Services - URL
• British Library's Document Supply Centre - URL
• Canadian Thesis Service (through the National Library of Canada) - URL

(IV) Databases for Egyptological Photographs

• The Egypt Archive of Jon Bodsworth.
• Datenbank zum Photoarchiv H.W. Müller (Sondersammelgebiet Ägyptologie der UB Heidelberg)
• Hundreds of old photos of Egyptian monuments can be found at the Griffith Institute, Oxford and the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
• Fotosearch: Stock Photography and Stock Footage: image search engine allowing you to search over 1.3 million images from over 50 stock photography, stock illustration, and video footage publishers at one website. Both royalty free images and rights managed images. This online photography archive includes thousands of pictures of Egypt. All the photos are high resolution, professionally produced, and searchable by keyword. Browsing through the online museum is free, and there are no access charges, registration requirements, or usage limits.
• Alain Guilleux's "Une promenade en Egypte", has hundreds of photos of monuments and artefacts (texts are in French), arranged by place/site.
• Photographic Archive Collection of the Frank H. McClung Museum, some 121 19th - early 20th century prints related to ancient and modern Egypt.
• Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, database of the photo agency of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin.

(V) Publications by Egyptological societies and institutes

• Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie (IBAES) a fully web-based series published at the Richard-Lepsius-Institute of the Humboldt-University of Berlin (former Seminar für Sudanarchäologie und Ägyptologie).
• SUE Publications (The Uruguyan Society of Egyptology)
• Publications of the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Publications of Research Projects of the Department of Egyptology of the University of Hamburg, Germany
• Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch - Publikationen
• Publikations of the Institut für Ägyptologie, University of Vienna, Austria
• Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Ägyptologie in München und seiner Mitarbeiter, Germany
• Publications of the Ägyptologisches Seminar of the University of Bonn, Germany
• Publications in preparation, forthcoming, or recently published, as announced by IACS members (and others), in: Newsletter, nr. 40, 2000 - URL
• Publikation des Aegyptologischen Seminars Basel, Switzerland (ab 1995)
• IFAO publications (Boustany's Publishing House, sole agent and distributor)
• The Carlsberg Papyrus Collection: Inventory (Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
• Publications of the Institut für Ägyptologie of the University of Würzburg, Germany (since 1995)
• Publications of the Seminar für Ägyptologie der Universität Münster, Germany
• Publications of the Collège de France, currently published by Editions Soleb.

(V) General Book Search Engines, Publishers and Book Sellers

• Three meta-search engines for new and used books, that search several databases of bookdealers (online and not online): Bookfinder, Addall Search, and Advanced Book Exchange. They partly overlap.
  Some of the stores covered: 1BookStreet.com, A1Books, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, BookBuyers Outlet, BookCloseOuts.com, Fatbrain.com, Powell's Books, Alibris (*), Antiqbook (*), Bibliofind (*), BookAvenue.com (*), Global Book Mart (*), Half.com (*), Usedbooks.com (*), YourBooks.com (*).
• Chambal.com allows to compare prices of books across major online book sellers in real time, plus various other services.
• BooksPrice.com: Search and compare the price of several books together.
• Bibliopolis: another meta-search engine.
• Specialized Booksellers: specialized in Egyptology, of course. Museum Books (was: Museum Bookshop) (London, UK, specialist mail order service) (catalogue "Egyptology"). Atleest (Leiden, Holland)(online catalogue). Halos Books on Archaeology (Holland; with online Egyptology catalogue). Otto Harrassowitz (hrackow@harrassowitz.de; "Catalogue AO 684" about Egyptology, Papyrology, Coptology; now online). S.N. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner S.A. (Paris, France). Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium (Holland; online catalogue Nr. 623 "Sand and Paper", section: "Nile & Euphrates"). Egypt Book (Turin, Italy)(info@egyptbook.it; with online catalog). Ancient History Books (UK)(ancient.history.books@lineone.net, with catalogue on Egypt). Maat Books and Prints (USA), Biblio-Orient (France; *), Leila Books (Cairo, Egypt)(sole distributor of all IFAO publications). Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (the OBO series also carries some Egyptological volumes)
• General bookdealers: J. Eisenbraun (with ANE catalogue), Bookwire, So.CA Used Bookstores, BibliOZ.com, The Book Search Wizard (*)(Australia), Ankh Antiquarian Books (Australia)(*), Archaelogia (*), Eisenbraun Scholar's Source Used Book List (*) ZVAB (Germany)(*), Antikvariat (Scandinavia) (*), Alapage (France) (*), Chapitre (France)(*), France Antiques (France) (*), Oxbowbooks (with section on Egyptology), JustBooks (German antiquarian bookdealer), Association of Swiss Antiquarian Book and Print Dealers, QM Dabney (*), Books at Sixpence (UK)(*), Book Browser, Blackwell, JPBooks, Borders.com, Bol.com, Bol.fr, Papyrus Books, Louis Collins, B&B Smith, Hyla Arborea + EgyptWorld (two nice Egyptological selections of Amazon titles), Ars Libri (*), Berkelouw Books (*) (Australia), Dove Booksellers (*), Kessinger Publishing (*), Schoenhof's (Cambridge MA), Atticus Books (*), Caliver Books (*), Internet Bookshop (*), Boekenvondst.nl (*)(Dutch antiquarian books), The BookWire Index (*), Antiquarian De Boekenbeurs (*), Mare Magnum Librorum (*), Sandpiper Books Ltd / Postscript Mail Order, L'Ex-Libris (*) (French used books), Bookbyte.com (new & used college textbooks)(*).
• ABZU Page on Books: collection of publishers and booksellers dealing with Ancient Near Eastern materials, by Charles E. Jones.
• Archaeology on the Net, Book database: also new releases each month.

(VI) Miscellaneous

• On-line Directories of Egyptological Societies and Institutes and of addresses of individual Egyptologists (both on the EEF website).
• ABZU Page on Egypt: a catalogue of resources on the Internet relating to Ancient Egypt, by Charles E. Jones of the Oriental Institute, Chicago.
• Document delivery service for Egyptology in Germany (excellent, and very addictive) - SSG-S

  Non-egyptological resources that could be of use:

• Index of On-line Dictionaries: an overview of about 800 dictionaries and some 160 grammars and more.
• Webster's Dictionary, Britannica.com, Thesaurus Lookup
• Lycos Translator, Free Translation Page, Alta Vista Translation.
• Metagrid: Zeitungen&Magazine: more than 7000 newspapers and magazines. There is also an English version (interface), Metagrid: Newspapers & Magazines
• Other document delivery services: copies or scans of articles etc. via post, fax, e-mail, or ftp; GBV (Germany), Subito-doc (Germany), list of document delivery services, Librissimo.com (France, scanned books)
• General directory of discussion lists on the website of David Meadows.
• Greek Dictionary, Latin Dictionary
• Search engine that is geared to internet resources that deal with Ancient Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology. Joint project of Mnemotrix Systems, Inc. and the Institute of Archaeology, Bar Ilan University.