Last updated: 2024.11.11.

Content is limited to free-to-access, English language material targeting mainly non-academic, adult audience. There is a huge amount of online resources available, so the selection here is somewhat subjective to keep the length limited.

Additions and corrections are welcome, just open a Pull Request or create a new Issue in the source repository of this page on GitHub, or contact the maintainer in any other way.

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Podcasts

• The History of Egypt Podcast - 250+ episodes
• Afterlives with Kara Cooney - 50+ episodes
• ARCE Podcast - ~18 episodes

YouTube channels

• World of Antiquity
• National Geographic: documentary full episodes: 1 2 3 4 5

Blogs

• Ancient Egypt Blog
• Dr Chris Naunton's Blog
• Tales from the Two Lands
• SciTechDaily

Websites

Just a very limited selection with great content.

• Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt
• Amarna Project
• Digital Karnak (archived)
• Digital Karnak (another)
• Digital Egypt for Universities
• OsirisNet: Tombs of Ancient Egypt
• Pharaohs
• The Ancient Egypt Site

Geolocations

• ancientlocations.net
• my personal collection - a KMZ file that can be opened in Google Earth

Models in 3D

• The Giza Project at Harvard University
• Theban Mapping Project

eLearning

Free online courses.

• HarvardX: Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology
• Coursera: Introduction to Ancient Egypt and Its Civilization
• Coursera: Wonders of Ancient Egypt
• American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE): Online Lectures

eBooks

• Guide to Ancient Egyptian Art, by Smarthistory

The following texts are well over 100 years old, so they are only for historic interest:

• Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt, by G. Maspero
• Ancient Egypt, by George Rawlinson and Arthur Gilman
• The Egyptian Conception of Immortality, by George Andrew Reisner
• An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus

Ancient texts

With English translations.

• A collection of text corpus at University of St Andrews
• Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty, by W. M. Flinders Petrie
• Pyramid Texts of Unas

Hieroglyphs

• Gardiner's sign list
• Hieroglyphs in Unicode

Social media

• reddit/ancientegypt

Some egyptologists to follow on social media

• rudjedet @tumblr
• thatlittleegyptologist @tumblr

Lists

• Wikipedia: Index of ancient Egypt-related articles
• Wikipedia: List of notable egyptologists
• IMDB: Films set in Ancient Egypt
• GoodReads: List of books about Ancient Egypt

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