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| ANCIENT EGYPT RESEARCH RESOURCES | |
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| Ancient Egypt | |
| Information about Egyptian life, geography, gods and goddesses, mummification, pharaohs, pyramids, temples, time, trades, and writing. Each section includes the Story: information in a narrative form; Explore: a non-linear presentation of information; Challenge: an activity that develop skills (historical, analytical, mathematical, observational) within the context of the chosen topic; and Staff Room: helps teachers get the most out of the site. A glossary is also available. From the British Museum. | |
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Life in Ancient Egypt |
| This exhibit explores life in ancient Egypt, looking at their natural world, gods and religion, and funerary customs. An understanding of their artifacts provides glimpses into their daily life. Included are a timeline and many images. From the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. | |
| Ancient Egyptian Culture | |
| Organized by date and dynasty, this site provides brief descriptions of events and important people for each period. The Culture and Religion exhibits provide information on topics including medicine, calendars, and hieroglyphics. The Archaeology exhibit includes a history of Egyptology, archaeological sites, daily life in Ancient Egypt, and weird theories. | |
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Ancient Egyptian Cats |
| This essay explores the domestication and deification of cats by ancient Egyptians, including information on the goddesses Bastet and Sekhmet, Bubastis, the death and mummification of cats, and the present state of cats in Egypt. From Cats and Kittens magazine. | |
| KingTutOne.com | |
| Good introductory Web site on ancient Egypt, including pharaohs, pyramids, queens, King Tut, mummies, art, religion, gods, hieroglyphs, societies, and the Sphinx. Each topic has extended essays and further links. Searchable and browsable. | |
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The Ancient Egypt Site |
| This site guides you with the help of a timeline through three millennia of civilization and a veritable alphabet soup of gods and pharaohs. Includes a keyword index and a huge links page. Created by a Belgian Egyptologist. | |
| Daily Life in Ancient Egypt | |
| Designed for elementary or middle school students and teachers, this site provides basic background information about ancient Egyptian life and also has lesson plans, classroom activities, and annotated links. | |
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Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World |
| This site, based on the National Geographic Society's PBS documentary Egypt Eternal: The Quest for the Lost Tombs, offers information based on newly discovered relics inside the Great Pyramid. News stories, interactive features, pages for children, and lesson plans for grades K-12 are included | |
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| This site is of a project mapping the settlements of ancient Egypt at Giza. The annual reports for the project for 1991-1999 are available and contain the findings for each year. While the computer model for the Giza Plateau is still in development, models for Khufu pyramid and others are available, as is a rendering for the courtyard of the Sphinx temple. Included is a reprint of an article titled Excavation at Giza 1988-1991: The Location and Importance of the Pyramid Settlement by Mark Lehner, Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago | |
| Exploring Ancient World Cultures | |
| Developed as an on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, the early Islamic world, and medieval Europe with essays, chronologies and primary texts. Search for related essays, images, electronic texts, Internet sites and a space-time, cross-cultural chronology. | |
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Mysteries of Egypt |
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Information about Egyptian civilization, including
geography, architecture, government, writing, religion , daily life (food,
shelter, transportation, trades and crafts, clothing and adornment), and
sciences. There is also information about the female ruler, Hatshepsut, as well
as Tutankhamun, along with a QuickTime tour of his tomb. A teacher's guide,
bibliography, and related sites are also provided. Suitable for students. Also
available in French. From the Canadian Museum of Civilization
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| Mummies of Ancient Egypt | |
| This site about mummies describes what they are, how they were made, who they were, and Egyptian beliefs about an afterlife. There is a table of hieroglyphs that displays the image, its meaning, and sound; a dateline of dates, dynasties, and rulers of Egyptian civilizations; and a glossary. | |
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God and Goddess Links |
| updated 11/01/07 | |