Egyptology
The colourful frieze above is found along
the tops of walls in hundreds of ancient Egyptian tombs, and on
many other decorated objects. This type of decoration, with
dozens of variations in colour and proportion, was used from the
middle of the Old Kingdom (around 2400 BC) and continued into the
Roman period some 25 centuries later.
Pictures & Articles in
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Links
- The
Manchester Ancient Egypt Society organises regular lectures, visits and
social events. This site also has a full list of local
Egyptology Societies around the UK.
- The
Manchester Museum houses
one of the major Egyptian collections in the UK,
including more than 20 human mummies (though not all are
on public display). The buildings have recently be
enlarged & modernised.
- The Theban Mapping Project has news of the latest discoveries in the
Valley of the Kings, including Prof. Kent Weeks' current
excavation in tomb KV5.
- The
Upuaut Project details
the exploration of the so-called "air shafts"
inside the Great Pyramid of Giza by a robot camera. One
thing that is certain is that these were never intended
as air vents!
- Egyptology Resources at Cambridge University was the very
first Egyptology site on the web - it has dozens of links
and regular news updates.
- Hieroglyphs.net has an online Hieroglyph/English
dictionary and grammar lessons, as well as a
comprehensive list of software & fonts for
Egyptologists.
- Encyclopedia Mythica - a massive site covering many ancient
religions & mythologies.
- Ancient Scripts - information on hieroglyphs, cuneiform,
ancient alphabets, etc.
- The
Egypt Exploration Society
- The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh - the full text of Flinders Petrie's
classic 1883 book on the pyramids is available online.
- Guardians Egypt
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