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𓂋𓏺𓈖𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖 Egyptian

Ancient Egyptian is attested for millennia in hieroglyphic and related scripts, spanning everything from royal inscriptions to religious and literary texts. It’s a core language for anyone studying ancient Egypt and its long cultural history.

Dictionaries

• Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae

  • Access: Registration
  • Notes: You need to register in order to look up words. Registration is free, however. An excellent resource.

• Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute

  • Notes: Scroll down and click the arrows to download.

• Budge’s Egyptian Dictionary

  • Notes: A classic text. The link goes to volume 1, and volume 2 is also available.

• Hieroglyphics Dictionary

  • Notes: With various types of entry and instructions. You can also browse through the listing.

• Dictionnaire Rosette

  • Notes: Egyptian–French dictionary. The site interface is in French; translation tools may help if needed.

• Demotic Egyptian-German Wordlist

  • Notes: Can be used all online.

• French Egyptian Dictionary

  • Notes: An older book online.

• French Hieroglyphics Lexicon

  • Notes: Or “Lexique Hieroglyphique.”

• German Egyptian Dictionary

  • Notes: There always has to be a Handworterbuch…

• Gardiner’s Sign List

  • Notes: Very useful and important to know for the language.

• Cooperative Ancient Egyptian Dictionary

  • Notes: Works as a wiki. Some annoying ads, unfortunately.

• Color Hieroglyphic Dictionary

  • Notes: In French, but organized by parts of speech and other divisions.

• A Signlist

  • Notes: Link is on the right side, under “language.”

• The Beinlich Wordlist

  • Notes: Supports transcription and German entry.

• Hieroglyphics list

  • Notes: Instructions are in French, has thousands of entries.

• Middle-Egyptian Portugese Dictionary

  • Notes: Instructions are all in Portugese as well.

Grammars

• Egyptian Grammar

  • Notes: Includes tables of signs and readings.

• The Demotic Verbal System

  • Notes: Another great title from the U of Chicago.

• Grammaire Egyptienne

  • Notes: An old grammar in French.

• Another French Grammar

  • Notes: For Egyptian.

• An Introductory Grammar of Demotic

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: From the University of Chicago.

• Egyptian Demotic Guide

  • Notes: A very nice intro text.

• Short Egyptian Grammar

  • Notes: See also the answers to the exercises.

• Hieroglyphs Lessons

  • Notes: Some basic lessons.

• French Hieroglyphic Lessons

  • Notes: A couple other lessons besides this one.

• A Little Egyptian Reading Book

  • Notes: Very basic reading helps.

• Egyptian Exercises

  • Notes: Very basic exercises.

• Concise Middle-Egyptian Grammar

  • Notes: Missing lots of pieces. Link is on the right.

• Key to Gardiner’s Egyptian Grammar Exercises

  • Notes: All available online.

• Key to Ockinga’s Grammar of Middle Egyptian

  • Notes: Also done through HTML.

• Basic Lessons in Hieratic

  • Notes: An introduction to the writing system.

Charts & Aids

• Hieroglyphics Flashcards for Windows

  • Notes: Several expansion files available, a very useful tool.

• More Hieroglyphics Flashcards

  • Notes: Hundreds more, actually (really).

• Hieroglyphic Characters

  • Notes: A very convenient, printable picture.

• Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian

  • Notes: Lots of background, plus tables of some characters.

• Hierowriter

  • Notes: Use this online system to write hieroglyphs.

• WikiHiero

  • Notes: Another online system for writing, with support for several languages and online integration.

Texts

• Duke Demotic Manuscripts Online

  • Notes: Images and descriptions.

• Duke Hieratic Manscripts Online

  • Notes: Images and descriptions - the same collection as above.

• Demotic Papyri

  • Notes: Lots of different texts.

• Katalog der Papyrussammlung

  • Notes: Various ways of searching.

• Trismegistos

  • Notes: Many papyrological and epigraphical resources.

• Chicago Papyri Collection

  • Notes: Many different kinds of texts.

• Hieroglyphic Texts from the British Museum

  • Notes: England ended up with most of the good stuff.

• AEL Text Index

  • Notes: A list of texts - some give lots of help for reading, others none at all.

• Thotweb’s Texts Online

  • Notes: Site is in French, but it has many links.

• Papyrus of Ani

  • Notes: A facsimile. See volume 2.

• Various Egyptian Texts

  • Notes: Tutankhamen, Amenism, and others.

• The Rosetta Stone

  • Notes: Not the company with those annoying ads on Pandora and in airplane magazines. A fascinating story.

• Egyptian Readings for Beginners

  • Notes: An older but useful book.

Other Resources

• Egyptology Resources

  • Notes: An online collection of resources for the study of Egypt.

• Checklist of Old Text Editions

  • Notes: Papyri, ostraca, and tablets.

• Portugese Introduction to Hieroglyphs

  • Notes: Includes a lot of different resources.

• Digital Egypt Online

  • Notes: A collection of many different learning and teaching resources.

• Ancient Egypt Online

  • Notes: Be sure to visit King Tut’s Facebook page.

• The British Museum’s Ancient Egypt

  • Notes: Lots of cool stuff online.

• Egyptian Cultural Topics

  • Notes: Many different things online.

• Akhet Egyptian Mythology

  • Notes: Another site with a great deal of information.

• The Ancient Egypt Site

  • Notes: Very nice feathers are the top of the site.

• Ancient Egypt: The Mythology

  • Notes: Looking forward to Ancient Egypt: The Musical.

• Ancient Egypt Sites

  • Notes: Many, many, many different sites. Grab some sunglasses for the insane background color though.

• Manuel de Codage

  • Notes: A project for systematizing the computer encoding of Egyptian characters. Site is very old, unfortunately.

• Hieroglyphs Translator

  • Notes: See your name the way it was made to be written.

• 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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