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• Ancient Egyptian Reader

  http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/index.html
  General information and numerous translations of work from this period.

• Demotic Texts on the World Wide Web

  http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/DEMOTIC_WWW.HTML
  A guide to internet resources on papyri.

• Duke Papyrus Archive

  http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/
  Images and texts concerning various ancient Egyptian papyri, plus links to papyrology on the web.

• Egyptian Love Poetry

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2000egypt-love.asp
  Ancient verse, c. 2000 - 1100 B.C.E.

• Egyptological Texts

  http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/texts/
  Two texts by Flinders Petrie.

• Hymn to Ra

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ra-ani.asp
  A glimpse at the Egyptian reverence for their gods.

• Mummification

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-mummies.asp
  An excerpt from Herodotus's The Histories.

• Princess Ahura - The Magic Book

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1100egyptmagic.asp
  A tale, c. 1100 B.C.E., from The World's Story, A History of the World in Story, Song and Art.

• Pyramid Texts Online

  http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/
  Discover the texts in the pyramid of Unas, has photographs of the walls and translations.

• The Deir el-Medîna Database

  http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/dmd/dmd.html
  Database of non-literary documents found at Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina archaeology excavation.

• The Love Songs of the Chester Beatty

  http://www.egyptology.com/extreme/mehy/
  A papyrus containing songs for entertainment.

• The Offering of Uha

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2400uha.asp
  Male and female circumcision, c. 2400 B.C.E.

• The Papyri Pages

  http://members.tripod.com/~papyri/index.html
  Pictures, articles, and links about ancient Egyptian papyri.

• The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection

  http://pcarlsberg.ku.dk/
  A large collection housed at the University of Copenhagen.

• The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, c. 2200 B.C.E.

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ptahhotep.asp
  Electronic text of Ptah-Hotep's precepts, as translated by Horne.

• The Rosetta Stone

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/rosetta-stone-translation.asp
  Translation of the Greek section.

• The Shipwrecked Sailor

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2200shipwreck.asp
  A tale of Ancient Egypt, c. 2200 B.C.E.

• The Tale of Horus and the Pig, c. 1900 B.C.E.

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1900horuspig.asp
  Why the Egyptians did not eat pork from the Coffin Text, c. 1900 B.C.E.

• The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1800egypt-peasant.asp
  A remarkable appreciation of the rights of the common people, c. 1800 B.C.E.

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