Directory of Egypt Resources

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Focus on history of women in Ancient Egypt.

Resources in This Category

• Ancient Egypt Index

  http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptian.html
  Articles on pharaoh Maatkare Hatshepsut, priestesses, and roles of Egyptian women.

• Ankhesenamun: Princess of Amarna

  http://www.angelfire.com/ne2/TiaDuat/home.html
  Biography of Ankhesenpaaten/Queen Ankhesenamun of ancient Egypt, wife of Tutankhamen.

• Cleopatra VII, the Last Pharaoh

  http://www.royalty.nu/Africa/Egypt/Cleopatra.html
  Condensed biography, bibliography and links on the life of Cleopatra: part of larger site about royal rulers throughout history.

• Egypt Women in Ancient Egyptian Religion, Part II, The Divine Adoratrice and God's Wife of Amun in the Third Intermediate Period

  http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/women2.htm
  Part 2 of series regarding women's place in Egyptian religious celebration in the Old/New Kingdoms (see also http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/women1.htm)

• Egypt: Women in Religion in the Old-New Kingdoms, Part I

  http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/women1.htm
  Article outlining women's place in Egyptian religious activity in Egypt (Part 1 of 2).

• Egyptian women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

  http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/OBRIEN_DISSPROP_TEXT.HTML
  Dissertation on economic, legal activities of women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt reflected in surviving texts; footnotes and sources.

• From Warrior Women to Female Pharaohs: Careers for Women in Ancient Egypt

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/women_01.shtml
  Part of BBC's ancient history articles, this site deals with multiple aspects of the lives of women in Ancient Egypt.

• The Egyptian Economy and Non-royal Women.

  http://www.stoa.org/diotima/essays/wardlect.shtml
  The economics of women's life in ancient Egypt from 1995 lecture, Brown University.

• The Great Queens of Egypt

  http://www.kingtutone.com/queens
  Biographies of famous queens of Ancient Egypt: Ankhesenamun, Cleopatra VII, Hatshepsut, Nefertari, and Nefertiti.

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