ARCHIVES & LINKS

EEF Administration:

• EEF Archives [below]: here you can download the archives of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. For the detailed contents of each sorted monthly archive, please check out the relevant contents link. (Includes, at the bottom of page, some general Egyptological abbreviations in common use.)
• EEF Home Notes: Administrative FAQs - Charter clarifications, posting suggestions, Internet conventions.
• EEF NEWS (website version): the latest edition of the EEF newsletter that also carries all still current older news. Look here for exhibitions, lectures and conferences on Ancient Egypt.
  

• EEF BBS: bulletin board to carry pictures etc. refered to during discussions on the EEF mailinglist.
  Available on this board: KV63 interview & photos
• EEF Library: online working papers by laypersons, students and professionals.
  
• EEF Reviews: reviews or descriptions by members of books, CD-ROMs, performing arts, etc., dealing with Ancient Egypt.
• EEF Publications: info on the first EEF publication (A. K. Eyma, C. J. Bennett (eds.), A Delta-man in Yebu. Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum No. 1, 2003), with Table of Contents and background. The TOC and one free paper (in PDF) may also be found at the site of the publisher (see also Google Books for sample pages).
• EEF Guest Book: here you can place your thoughts about the forum, plus personal inquiries and offtopic chat.

• Bibliographical Abbreviations & Links: 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.
• Institutes - Abbreviations & Links: links to, and abbreviations of the names of, Egyptological societies, departments and institutes. Museums excluded.
• E-mail addresses of scholars (links)
• Transliteration charts: for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Coptic, Greek and Hebrew.
• Literature Lists & Databases: links to bibliographies for Ancient Egypt, to databases and digitized literature, and to publishers and book search engines.
• Glyphs and Grammars, Part I: resources for beginners - how to learn to read hieroglyphs and how to learn Middle Egyptian; literature list plus web links to online resources and fonts.
• Glyphs and Grammars, Part II: literature list for Old, New, and Late Egyptian, Hieratic and Demotic, and Vocalisation.
• How to become an Egyptologist? and How to join an excavation in Egypt? are two much asked questions, and they are answered in detail on the website of Nigel Strudwick. The TMP website also answers the first question, listing university programs worldwide. Of use may also be ASOR's "Ask an Archaeologist" or "Ask a Volunteer" pages.
• A list of open and closed tombs may be found at this URL
• Abbreviations that are used in email.
• AEL: the Ancient Egyptian Language forum, EEF's sister-list for topics on Middle Egyptian.

• Online AE Text Resources: guide to online resources for 'famous' ancient Egyptian texts.
• Online CG Volumes (Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire)
• E-journals and Digitized Journals (Egyptology)
• Online Urk Volumes (Urkunden des aegyptischen Altertums)

• Websites: Major websites with collections of Egyptology links and websites, maintained by EEF members.
• Files designed/compiled by the website maintainer (A.K. Eyma):
  
  • CIVIL4.0: a tiny DOS program (Zipped, 25kB) to convert Egyptian Civil dates into Julian and Gregorian dates, B.C. and A.D. (There does exist a mirror image program, which converts Julian and Gregorian dates into Civil dates, using different algorithms than CIVIL employs; it is written by Michael St. John and may be requested at his address; please use a real full name).
  • JGJConvertor: a tiny DOS program (Zipped, 22kB) to convert Julian dates into Gregorian dates and the reverse.
  • Ancient Egyptian loan-words: which Ancient Egyptian words made it into English? (continuously updated)

THE EEF ARCHIVES

There is always a backlog in making the archives (a manual job, usually done per blocks of four months), also with an eye on threads overlapping months. If you need a past thread of a month not yet put up, just ask the moderator for the Weekly Digest(s) containing them.

Because archives are a less fluid/temporal medium than a mailing list, it seems reasonable to take out matters which (when looking backwards) may be slightly embarrassing to posters/members. So should you feel that your post (or part thereof), even though made on a public forum, should not be included in the Archives, then just contact the archivist. It is of course less desirable to edit out material to which others have responded. Normally, typing errors, garbling of names, obvious transliteration gliches, etc, will be removed automatically (if the moderator's eye spots them, that is).

Each monthly archive contains plain text files, each text file gathering sorted posts that make up one subject thread (although sometimes very small threads are combined), so as to create a (hopefully) handy 'reference library'.
Perhaps I may express the hope, that such accessible archives will help prevent the ever re-running of subjects that are very popular with the general public (Amarna Period notably), without a successive run adding something new. When intending to post on those subjects, please check the archives first to see whether your question has not already been indirectly answered.

Please note that the archives are orientated towards threads rather than towards time (months) in a strict sense. So spill-overs *may* occure, with posts done in one month being archived under the previous or following month, if such posts were a tail or a start of a longer thread mainly taking place in that previous or following month.

The archives have been made with WinZip, the handy Windows version of Pkzip (you can put it on your desktop; it also covers other formats). It's shareware, so you can get a free evaluation copy. People with a Mac can unzip the archives with an advanced copy of Stuffit, like Stuffit Deluxe or Stuffit Expander / Drop Stuff software. (Please let us know whether shareware like Maczip or Unzipit also works, then we put up a link).
If you have saved all the (unzipped) text files of the Archives onto a disk, you can search them for a text string with Text Search, a tiny DOS program (zipped 11kB) that searches all txt or html files on a given disk for an entered name or word. If the text string contains any spaces, put it between "   " and it will be treated as if one word. I believe that for the Mac a similar tool exists called BBEdit.

General Egyptological Abbreviations in common use:

• AE = Ancient Egypt(ian)
  UE/LE = Upper Egypt/Lower Egypt
  
• PD = Predynastic Period
  ED = Early Dynastic or Archaic Period (German: FrZt = Frühzeit, Thinitenzeit; French: Epoque thinite)
  OK/MK/NK = Old, Middle and New Kingdom (German: AR/MR/NR = Altes, Mittleres und Neues Reich; French: AE/ME/NE = Ancien, Moyen, et Nouveau Empire)
  FIP/SIP/TIP = First, Second and Third Intermediate Period (German: ZwZt = Zwischenzeit)
  LP = Late Period (German: SpZt = Spätzeit)
  
• For Pyr./PT = Pyramid Text, CT = Coffin Text, and BD = Book of the Dead chapter (German: Tb = Totenbuch Kapitel; French: L.Morts = Livre des Morts chapitre), see the Bibliographical Abbreviations page. These originally were referring to specific publications though the numbering systems are used in any edition now.
• KV = Kings' Valley [eastern part of the Valley of the Kings] (German: TdK = Tal der Könige; French: VR = Vallée des Rois)
  WV = West Valley [western part of the Valley of the Kings]
  QV = Queens' Valley (German: = Tal der Königinnen; French: VRe = Vallée des Reines)
  TT = Theban Tomb Nr.
  W. [Name] = Wadi...
  DM, DeM = Deir el Medina (oDeM, ODM = ostraca of Deir el Medina number)
  EA = El Amarna (EAT = El Amarna Tablets)
  
• gr[name] = Grafitto/Grafitti ... (also Gr. [name])
  i[name] = Inscription
  p[Name] = Papyrus ... (also: P.[Name], Pap.[Name])
  pdem [name] = Demotic Papyrus ... (not to be confused with P. DeM [no.] = Deir el-Medinah Papyrus no. ...)
  o[Name] = Ostracon/ostraca ... (also: O.[Name], ost[Name], Ostr.[Name])
  odem [name] = Demotic Ostracon/Ostraca ...
  st[Name] = Stela ...
  
• BCE = Before the Common Era (same as: BC = Before Christ; German: v.Chr.; French: av.J.-Chr.)
  CE = Common Era (same as: AD = Anno Domini; German: n.Chr.; French: apr.J.-Chr.)
  BC/AD is the historical custom (which came about before the zero was employed in Europe, so 1 BC and 1 AD are back-to-back); the astronomical custom does insert a year zero (1 BC = 0), and works with -/+ figures (so 1322 BC = -1321, 2000 AD = +2000).
• Dyn. = (Manethoan) Dynasty
• BM = British Museum, London
• ANE = Ancient Near East

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