Any criticism in my notes is purely my personal opinion, and hopefully, constructive and certainly not meant to be destructive in any way. To visit the sites, just click on any of the screens. Sites highlighted in red are must see sites in my opinion.
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Absolute Egyptology - a site for pictures of 96 gods, and biographies of the pharoahs up to the end of the 17th Dynasty - good reference material here, but maybe a bit too colourful! |
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Akhet Egyptology - A good site specialising in the Amarna period, with a reasonable content on the rest of Egyptian history |
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Al-Akhram Weekly - Weekly edition in English of Egypt's most famous newspaper. Well worth a regular look, if only to get another view of current affairs. |
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Amarna, Capital City of Ancient Egypt - an academic site describing the work of the Egypt Exploration Society at Akhenaten's capital. excellent for detail, and extremely well designed. |
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Ancient Egypt Magazine - Website of the eponymous magazine. Many good articles here, but only a small sample of what appears in the actual magazine - so go out and buy it, you cheapskates! |
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Cairo Times - An online version of an English language newspaper. It only features a few of the stories that are headlined though. |
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The Egypt Archive - One of the best collections of photographs and information that I have found so far. Extremely well laid out site, with excellent photography. |
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Egyptian Home - The personal site of my friend Neri, who lives in Alexandria. She even has online Arabic lessons! |
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Egypt Today - The online version of a glossy Cairo based monthly magazine. Gives an excellent idea of modern middle-class Egyptian life, and has good restaurant reviews - which generally include prices. Look before you visit! |
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Egyptian Monuments - This is a site full of content - photographic, historic and full of advice for the tourist - even down to good advice on how to take photographs in the Egyptian sun. One of the easiest to navigate sites I have visited. |
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The Egyptian Museum - The official site of the wonderful Egyptian Museum in Cairo. A new facelift for an old favourite, but it still does not have enough content for my liking - but it is a clear and well-designed site. |
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Egipto em Portuguese - This site looks good, feels good, but I can't understand it as it is in Portugese!!. I'm pleased to link to this site, as we don't often see many foreign language sites within links. |
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Egyptology.Com - Quite an eclectic site - good information and links, although there are some quite odd pages on the site - well worth a visit though. |
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Egyptology Online - An excellent resource site for all things Egyptological - well worth more than a single visit. |
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Egyptvoyager.Com - A handy site, with too many advertisements for my taste, but useful nevertheless, as it deals with virtually every aspect of Egypt. |
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Eternal Egypt - Although this site shares it's name with mine, I don't mind! It's a fairly new site, and is full of excellent content. It is the official site of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and you can spend many a happy hour browsing there. Really worth a visit, although because of the multimedia content, expect long download times on a dial-up modem |
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Friends in Alexandria - This site is by my friend Neri, who lives in Alexandria and her friend Tania. They have set it up as a place where visitors to Alexandria can contact them, and they can arrange accomodation, visits to the Alexandrian monuments and seafront and give advice on where else to go and what to see. |
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Fruit of the Nile - an oddly named site, but beautifully designed, and easy to navigate. Has it's own bookstore, and deals with Gods, Pharoahs and history in general. |
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Gateway to Ancient Egypt - This site has everything - lots of detail about Egyptian history, dynasty by dynasty, a great collection of photos of the major sites, and links to both Egyptian and non-Egyptian sites. It is maintained by a good friend of mine, but I'm not biassed in my view of her site - really! |
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Giza Online - A small site specialising in the Pyramids and Sphinx. It has some interesting articles on working with stone. |
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The Griffith Institute - a British academic site based in Oxford, which has interesting collections of old photographs and a lot of material on the search for, and excavation of, Tutankhamen's tomb from Howard Carter's notes. |
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Guardian's Egypt - nothing to do with The Guardian, but one of the best Egyptian index sites on the web today. Everything is there! |
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Hapi-Ur - Another oddly named site, but one which is looking really good, despite still being developed. An all-round resource for Egyptological information. |
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Horus - This is the site of a local Egyptian society, based in Ashton-in-Makerfield. Dr Joann Fletcher is a sometime guest speaker there. |
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Kemet - A good site to visit if you're interested in the chronology of Ancient Egypt. Brief biographies of all of the important pharoahs are there. |
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Luxor4U- This aims to be the definitive site about Luxor. It will include details of the monuments, restaurants, shopping, hotels as well as having its own online shop and accomodation finder. It has one of the best forums (fora!) about Luxor - you can find nearly all you need to know there. At present only the forum section is available, but over the next few months other parts will be active. |
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Luxor Magazine - A nice site about Luxor, made originally for Japanese visitors, from a small company that hires bikes in Luxor to tour the valley - or so it seems to me. There's an essential page on what tombs etc are open, with fees and times. |
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MAES - Stands for Manchester Ancient Egypt Society. It's based in the University, and has excellent day schools - Sue and I have been to a couple on a Saturday, and really enjoyed them. |
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NEMES - Another local society, which has regular meetings - unfortunately for me they are on a Monday, when I am busy conducting my pub quiz! |
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Oasis Estate Agency - if you are looking to buy or rent property in the Luxor area, this is one of the sites you should visit, A professionally run company. |
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Old Photos of Egypt - OK, I realise that is not the real title of this page, which is in German, but it really is a fine collection of pictures of Egypt taken in the late 19th century! It's fairly easy to work out what is what without any German. |
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Osiris - A great French site - most of it is translated into English. It has clear navigation, and great content on Egyptian history and religion |
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The Pyramid of Man - I had to include this one as one of the best examples of pyramidology I have seen. It is one of the better sites that discuss alternative views of the pyramid and its meaning, and the site design is excellent. Although I don't subscribe to the author's views, I still recommend it. |
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Rigby's World of Egypt - A pleasant personal site from Australia, detailing most of the popular Egyptian sites, but doesn't seem to have been updated for quite a while - the latest news item is from 1998. |
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Saqqara Online - An excellent site from the University of Leiden, providing a guide to the Saqqara site. Maybe a little academic, but for the interested visitor to Saqqara this is a must. |
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The Tameside Egyptology Group - This is my local Egyptology society, which I have never been able to visit as their meetings are on a Monday evening. But it looks a fun place to go. |
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The Theban Mapping Project - The biggest and the best site to go to for information on the West Bank at Luxor. It has recently added a gigantic scrollable aerial photograph of the entire West Bank. If I could only ever visit one site, this would be it!!! Every tomb is fully documented, many with plans and photographs. |
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Tour Egypt - The definitive site for the tourist, with everything the visitor needs to know about Egypt - from train timetables to restaurant and hotel reviews, as well as serious Egyptological content. This would be the second site that I would visit if I were only allowed two sites! |
