𓂋𓏺𓈖𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖 Egyptian
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Dictionaries
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- Access: Registration
- Notes: You need to register in order to look up words. Registration is free, however. An excellent resource.
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Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute
- Notes: Scroll down and click the arrows to download.
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- Notes: A classic text. The link goes to volume 1, and volume 2 is also available.
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- Notes: With various types of entry and instructions. You can also browse through the listing.
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- Notes: Egyptian–French dictionary. The site interface is in French; translation tools may help if needed.
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Demotic Egyptian-German Wordlist
- Notes: Can be used all online.
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- Notes: An older book online.
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- Notes: Or “Lexique Hieroglyphique.”
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- Notes: There always has to be a Handworterbuch…
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- Notes: Very useful and important to know for the language.
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Cooperative Ancient Egyptian Dictionary
- Notes: Works as a wiki. Some annoying ads, unfortunately.
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- Notes: In French, but organized by parts of speech and other divisions.
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- Notes: Link is on the right side, under “language.”
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- Notes: Supports transcription and German entry.
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- Notes: Instructions are in French, has thousands of entries.
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Middle-Egyptian Portugese Dictionary
- Notes: Instructions are all in Portugese as well.
Grammars
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- Notes: Includes tables of signs and readings.
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- Notes: Another great title from the U of Chicago.
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- Notes: An old grammar in French.
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- Notes: For Egyptian.
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An Introductory Grammar of Demotic
- Format: PDF
- Notes: From the University of Chicago.
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- Notes: A very nice intro text.
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- Notes: See also the answers to the exercises.
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- Notes: Some basic lessons.
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- Notes: A couple other lessons besides this one.
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A Little Egyptian Reading Book
- Notes: Very basic reading helps.
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- Notes: Very basic exercises.
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Concise Middle-Egyptian Grammar
- Notes: Missing lots of pieces. Link is on the right.
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Key to Gardiner’s Egyptian Grammar Exercises
- Notes: All available online.
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Key to Ockinga’s Grammar of Middle Egyptian
- Notes: Also done through HTML.
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- Notes: An introduction to the writing system.
Charts & Aids
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Hieroglyphics Flashcards for Windows
- Notes: Several expansion files available, a very useful tool.
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- Notes: Hundreds more, actually (really).
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- Notes: A very convenient, printable picture.
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Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian
- Notes: Lots of background, plus tables of some characters.
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- Notes: Use this online system to write hieroglyphs.
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- Notes: Another online system for writing, with support for several languages and online integration.
Texts
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Duke Demotic Manuscripts Online
- Notes: Images and descriptions.
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Duke Hieratic Manscripts Online
- Notes: Images and descriptions - the same collection as above.
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- Notes: Lots of different texts.
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- Notes: Various ways of searching.
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- Notes: Many papyrological and epigraphical resources.
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- Notes: Many different kinds of texts.
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Hieroglyphic Texts from the British Museum
- Notes: England ended up with most of the good stuff.
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- Notes: A list of texts - some give lots of help for reading, others none at all.
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- Notes: Site is in French, but it has many links.
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- Notes: A facsimile. See volume 2.
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- Notes: Tutankhamen, Amenism, and others.
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- Notes: Not the company with those annoying ads on Pandora and in airplane magazines. A fascinating story.
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Egyptian Readings for Beginners
- Notes: An older but useful book.
Other Resources
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- Notes: An online collection of resources for the study of Egypt.
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Checklist of Old Text Editions
- Notes: Papyri, ostraca, and tablets.
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Portugese Introduction to Hieroglyphs
- Notes: Includes a lot of different resources.
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- Notes: A collection of many different learning and teaching resources.
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- Notes: Be sure to visit King Tut’s Facebook page.
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The British Museum’s Ancient Egypt
- Notes: Lots of cool stuff online.
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- Notes: Many different things online.
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- Notes: Another site with a great deal of information.
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- Notes: Very nice feathers are the top of the site.
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- Notes: Looking forward to Ancient Egypt: The Musical.
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- Notes: Many, many, many different sites. Grab some sunglasses for the insane background color though.
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- Notes: A project for systematizing the computer encoding of Egyptian characters. Site is very old, unfortunately.
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- Notes: See your name the way it was made to be written.
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Burial Practices in Ancient Egypt
- Notes: A great article on the burial practices in Ancient Egypt. Submitted by Ms. L’s 6th grade social studies class. Thank you for the suggestion!
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