Subject-related web resources
The following links to authoritative online resources are
related to the study of Coptology, Egyptology, Papyrology and
Sudanology. They are freely available on the internet. Some links
take you to invisible web sites which are excluded from
general-purpose search engines and web directories.
By following any of these links you will be leaving the British
Museum web site. Please note that the Museum does not take
responsibility for any information contained on these external
sites.
General resources
Archaeological
Resource
Egyptology
Resources
British
Egyptological Societies Directory
Egyptologists'
Electronic Forum
International Book Search
British
Library Catalogue
COPAC : Union catalogue of
the online catalogues of the members of the Consortium of Research
Libraries (British Isles)
IFLANET : a
directory of all known current national union catalogues
The
European Library (Europe)
Egyptian Libraries
Network (Egypt)
Library of Congress
Catalogue (Washington, USA)
LIBWEB : Library
Servers via WWW (Worldwide)
LibDex : a comprehensive
international library catalogue directory, index to 18,000
libraries
InforM25 : M25 Consortium
of Academic Libraries (London and South East England)
OCLC WorldCat
Online catalogues
Online catalogues of Egyptological libraries or major libraries
with good collections of books on Egypt and the Sudan
Australia
Macquarie University
Library
Canada
University of Toronto
Libraries : the holdings of the two major Egyptological
libraries, The John P. Robarts Library and the library of the Royal
Ontario Museum, are included in this Union Catalogue
Czech Republic
Czech
Institute of Egyptology (Prague)
Egypt
American University in
Cairo Libraries
Bibliotheca
Alexandrina
Great
Cairo Public Library
Tanta
University
England
British Library (London)
Egypt
Exploration Society Library Catalogue (London)
The holdings of the Sackler Library
at Oxford University are included in the Oxford University Union
Catalogue
France
Bibliothèque
d'Égyptologie du Collège de France (Paris) : retro-conversion
is on-going
Germany
The holdings of the library of the Ägyptologisches
Seminar at the Freie Universität Berlin are included in the
University's Union
Catalogue
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: Seminar für Archäologie und
Kulturgeschichte Nordafrikas
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, fachbezogene Informationen
Sondersammelgebiet Ägyptologie
The holdings of the library of the Seminar
für Ägyptologie der Universität zu Köln are integrated in the
University's Union
Catalogue
Italy
Fondazione Museo
delle Antichità Egizie di Torino (Turin) : best library for the
subject, an on-line catalogue is not yet available
Istituto
Archeologico Germanico di Roma (Rome) : retro-conversion
ongoing
Istituto
Papirologico "Girolamo Vitelli" (Florence)
La Sapienza: Università degli
Studi di Roma (Rome)
Biblioteca Pontificio
Istituto Biblico (Rome)
Università di Bologna :
Portale delle Bilioteche
Università di Pisa
Università degli
Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (Naples)
Japan
Database
on the Ancient Egyptian Architecture part 1 and part
2, compiled by Prof. Shin-ichi Nishimoto (Institute for the
History of Architecture, Waseda University Tokyo)
Netherlands
Nederlands
Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (Leiden)
Scotland
National Library
of Scotland Online Catalogues (Edinburgh)
Glasgow University
Library
Switzerland
The holdings of the library of the Ägyptologisches Seminar at
Basel University are included in the University's Union Catalogue
USA
Brown University Library
(Providence)
Cleveland Public Library
(Cleveland)
Johns Hopkins
University Libraries Catalogue (Baltimore)
Oriental Institute Library Catalogue (Chicago)
Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archive Catalogue : search the
Wilbour Library for books on Ancient Egypt (Brooklyn)
University of California,
Berkeley : Library (Berkeley)
UCLA Library (Los
Angeles)
University of
Pennsylvania Library Catalogue (Philadelphia)
Yale University
Library (New Haven)
New acquisitions lists
New acquisitions list in Egyptology and Sudanology
Bibliothèque d'Égyptologie du Collège de France (Paris)
Egypt
Exploration Society Library (London)
Universitätsbibliothek
Heidelberg, Sondersammelgebiet Ägyptologie
Bibliothek
des Seminars für Ägyptologie der Universität Heidelberg
Sackler Library
(Oxford)
Wilbour
Library at the Brooklyn Museum
Buying
books
Advanced Book Exchange
(International)
Atleest (Netherlands)
BookFinder (International)
British
Museum Book Shop (UK)
Casalini libri (Italy)
Eisenbrauns (USA)
Dr Rudolf Habelt (Germany)
Harrassowitz Verlag
(Germany)
Institut
Français d'Archéologie Orientale (Egypt)
Isseido Booksellers
(Japan)
Leila Books (Egypt)
Librairie Cybèle
(France)
Librairie Erasmus (France)
Librería
Mizar (Spain)
Museum Books
(UK)
Oxbow Books (UK)
Peeters (main office in
Belgium)
Pórtico Librerías
(Spain)
UKBookWorld.com
(UK)
Yare
Egyptology (UK) : specialised in the "supply of old and
out-of-copyright books and journals on CD-ROM"
Verlag Philipp von
Zabern (Germany)
News and
blogs
Ägyptologie-Blatt
Al-Ahram Weekly
On-line
Egypt Daily
Egypt Today
Egyptologists'
Electronic Forum : News: a moderated scholarly mailing list
Egyptology Blog
Egyptology
News
Khartoum Monitor
Luxor News
Middle East Times
News and
Gossip
Oriental Institute News
& Notes
Thotweb égyptologie
Databases and e-resources
ABZU : "Abzu is a guide
to networked open access data relevant to the study and public
presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean
world"
Ancient Egyptian Cemeteries, Tombs, and
Burials
Annual Egyptological
Bibliography
Aigyptos : Database for
Egyptological Literature
British
Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan
The Deir el-Medina
Database
Demotische Wortliste
online
Digital Egypt for
Universities (Petrie Museum, London)
Digitalisierte
ägyptologische Print-Literatur und WWW-Publikationen
(Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Sondersammelgebiet
Ägyptologie)
Egyptian Antiquities
Information System : Egyptian Antiquities Information System is
the official Geographic Information System (GIS) department of the
Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)
Giza
Digital Library
G. Möller, Hieratische
Paläographie (Bde. 1-4, 1909-1936, 2. verb. Auflage, 1965)
PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of
Egypt/Egyptology
Prosopograhia
Aegypti
Prosopographia
Ptolemaica
SISYPHOS
- Sammlung archäologischer und ägyptologischer
Internetquellen
SSG-S
- Subito : Document Delivery Service for the Special Subject
Collections
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA)
(Arbeitsstelle Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Berlin-Brandenburgische
Akademie der Wissenschaften) : "Im Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae wird
ein digitales Corpus von Texten in ägyptischer (auch demotischer)
Sprache zur computergestützten Recherche publiziert."
UCLA Encyclopedia of
Egyptology (Implementation Phase 1: 2006-2008)
Wörterbuch der
Ägyptischen Sprache and its Belegstellen
Film
The Ancient Egyptian
Film Site
(warning: contains explicit material)
British Film Institute (London)
Internet Movie Database
Librairie-boutique de
l'Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris)
Coptology, Coptic Egypt and Papyrology
The Coptic
Network
Coptic Orthodox Electronic Publishing
(Australia)
W. Ewing Crum, A Coptic
Dictionary, 1939
The Christian Coptic
Orthodox Church
International Association
for Coptic Studies
The St. Pachomius
Library : "A first draft for a living Encyclopædia of Orthodox
Christianity"
The St. Shenouda the Archimandrite
Coptic Society
Advanced
Papyrological Information System (APIS)
The Duke
Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP)
Papyrology Home
Page (Drew University, Madison)
Papyrology
Resources in Perseus
Thesaurus Linguae
Graecae
Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik : articles of the years
1988-2000 can be downloaded for free
Sudanology
Durham University Library Sudan Archive
Heinrich-Barth-Institut
Köln
Meroitic
Mailing List
Meroitic
newsletter : Reginald Smith has completed (May 2008) the
digital compilation of The Meroitic Newsletter. Issues 1-30 are now
available for free online, with dozens of articles
Sudan Archaeological Research
Society (SARS) (London)
Sudan Guide
from Satellite
Sudan
Open Archive
Sudanarchäologische
Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V.