Classical Studies, Sources : Fields of Study

Secondary literature on Egyptology from U. Heidelberg.

Journal. The Amarna Research Foundation.

University of Leipzig.

This database includes all of the more than 4,000 available Early Dynastic inscriptions.

Museums, digs, journals, newsgroups, etc.

Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology

HathiTrust.

The research project "The Neolithic in the Nile Delta" focuses on the Neolithic site of Merimde Beni Salama and the region along the Western Delta edge from the modern town of El-Qata in the south to Khatatbah in the north. This area was first surveyed in 1927/8 by Hermann Junker and his team as part of the Austrian West Delta Expedition, which led to the finding of the first Neolithic site in the Nile Delta (Merimde Beni Salama), and its subsequent excavations. Since the most recent investigations in the region (in the late 1970s to early 1980s), significant new findings have come to light, notably the discovery of a Neolithic to Late Predynastic sequence (6th millennium to late 4th millennium BC) at the site of Sais (western Delta) and new discoveries along the northern shore of Lake Qarun in the Faiyum. Many more Early and Mid-Holocene sites in the Western Desert, Eastern Desert and Sinai have also been discovered in the last few decades. Research on the material from these sites allows us to think about the dispersal of technology in a new way, and more available data help us investigate the directionality of influence as we consider the production of lithics, ceramics and other examples of material culture.

This is a work in progress undertaken by the Classics Department at the University of Cincinnati under the direction of Professor Peter Van Minnen. The aim is to offer a translation with introduction and notes to all documents from ancient Alexandria that survive on papyrus. A similar project was undertaken for the documents found on the island of Elephantine in southernmost Egypt (B. Porten ed., The Elephantine Papyri in English, 1996).

Vanessa Davies and Dimitri Laboury, Oxford 2020.

Also published as the British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt.

The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae is made available by the Project Structure and Transformation in the Vocabulary of the Egyptian Language (former Ancient Egyptian Dictionary Project) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Within the Thesaurus, a digital corpus of Egyptian (including Demotic) texts have been released to the public for computer-assisted search. Lemmatization and morpho-syntactic annotation of the text material allow for specific research from lexical, philological, linguistic, and historico-cultural points of view. All texts come with running translations to assist particularly non-specialists and scholars of neighboring disciplines in their work.