Links:
Ancient Egypt Websites:
The Oriental Institute, Chicago
A great starting point for anyone interested in Ancient Egypt. Many online resources and
photographs.
Digital Egypt for Universities
One of the best Ancient Egypt sites. It has info on almost anything related to Ancient Egypt's history.
Abzu
A guide to online resources regarding the study of the Ancient Near East. Through this website you can find many books, articles, magazines etc.
The Ancient Egypt Site
Another very good site regarding Ancient Egypt.
Ancient Egypt Tombs Central
About all the tombs of ancient Egypt. Don't forget to take the Virtual Reality tours of some of the tombs.
For this you'll need to install the Cortona Player (see:Cortona VRML Client) but it's well worth
it: with this "Virtual Reality Tour" you can "walk" through
tombs and see the wall paintings etc.
Akhet Egyptology
A site that concentrates on the 18th Dynasty, Akhenaten etc.
The Theban Mapping Project
Online mapping project of Thebes, concentrates on the Valley of the Kings.
Pharaohs of the Sun
This is a website of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts about the Exposition "Pharaohs of the Sun".
Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
An Italian website (though most text in is English) by Francesco Raffaele, an Italian
Egyptology Student.
Ancient Egypt Museums:
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Dutch National Museum of Antiquities
The Egypt Website of the British Museum
Current Excavations:
Saqqara Online
Current Excavations in the New Kingdom Necropolis in Saqqara by the University of Leiden
and the Museum of Antiquities, Leiden The Netherlands.
Amarna Project
Excavation and preservation at Amarna, by the "Egypt Exploration Society".
The Egypt Exploration Society
Founded in 1882, they are currently engaged in various projects (fieldwork) in Egypt.
KV 63, Valley of the Kings
The recently discovered tomb KV 63.
Interactive Dig at Hierakonpolis
About current and past digs at Hierakonpolis: if you follow the links you can read a weekly report how archeology digs are
done.
Google Earth Links:
Google Earth Community
This is the official Google Earth Community web board. There are many people posting files to places of interest in GE.
Google SketchUp
You can download Google SketchUp here and make your own 3D models.
Google Earth Blog
A Blog that features new developments, placemarks etc.
Tutankhamon's tomb 3D with real textures
This is a link to a post made by someone who developed a model for Tutankhamun's tomb in The valley of the Kings.
If you download the file, it will open a 3D model of the tomb in Google Earth. Looks very interesting.
Official Google website about 3D models made with "Google SketchUp"
I added this link to a search page regarding 3D models from Egypt's History. You
need to download Google SketchUp (for free) to see some of these models.
If you would like me to add a link to your website, please mail me.;)