• Further Information Index
  • Time, Eternity and The Year
  • Kings, Periods and Dynasties
  • Egyptian Names
  • Map of Ancient Egypt
    and links to many Answers to frequently asked questions
• The Roxy Walker Galleries of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology with lots of links to pages on various aspects of Egyptian funerary believes and practices

Michael C. Carlos Museum

• Odyssey On-Line An on-line journey to explore ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures. This site is aimed at 6th graders and includes this site on:
  • Egypt which has pages on:
    • Archaeology
    • Daily Life
    • Death and Burial
    • Myths
    • People
    • Writing
    • Videos and Books About Egypt
  • Have some fun with these Egyptian games:
    • Amulet Matching Game
    • Crack the Coffin Code
    • Find the Pharaoh's Fragment
    • Locate the Lotus
    • Papyrus Puzzler

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

• Life in Ancient Egypt
  • Orientation
  • Chronology
  • Natural World
  • Daily Life
  • Religion
  • Funerary Customs

CCER - Centre for Computer-Aided Egyptological Research

• Find the Pharoah's Name! This is a wordsearch puzzle hiding the names of famous Egyptian pharaohs.
• Download "The Trumpet of Tutankhamun" for information, pictures and the sound of the trumpet from Tutankhamun's tomb. [System requirements: To be able to run the program you need an IBM-compatible PC with Microsoft Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95 or NT, and... a sound card! The program size is 836 KB.]

Cleveland Museum of Art

• Rosetta Stone A fun site for children about the land of the Pharaohs which includes the following:
  • Quiz
  • Ask the Mummy answers to frequently asked questions about ancient Egypt
  • Book list
  • An ancient Egyptian coloring book
  • Build a Pharaoh
  • Fact or Fiction (brief descriptions of ancient Egyptian topics)

Cyberkids (this is an on-line magazine for children)

• Learn about Ancient Egyptian beliefs and then try the
• Pyramid crossword puzzle

Cyber Mummy "Unlock the secrets of a mummy with the help of modern medical imagery, a supercomputer, and an archeologist."

• "Mummy Movie"

Discovery Channel

• Tomb Tales: read about the latest discovery in the Western Desert
• Cleopatra
• The Search for Cleopatra's Palace
• Mummy Game Introduction
  • Mummy Game

• Discovery School
  • Cleopatra's Palace
    • Cleopatra's Palace Game
    • Viewing Guide
  • hieroglyphs
  • Alexander the Great
  • Build a Tomb
  • Byzantium

Egypt World

Guardian's Egypt

• On-line Tour of Egypt
  "Have you always wanted to GO to Egypt? Now here's your chance without leaving your computer!!"
• Live satellite images of Eygpt updated every three hours
• Kids' Section!

History Channel

• Tomb of the Pharaohs Game

Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

• Egyptian Exhibition. This site isn't really aimed at kids but has large-print text, lots of pictures and is fairly accessible to younger people.

The Journeyman Homepage- lots of photos with journals of trips to Egypt

• A Journey From Cairo To Aswan
• Luxor Revisited

The Funerary Chapel of Ka(i)pura, Saqqara, Egypt

Louvre

• Egyptian Antiquities

Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt

• Pyramids and Temples
• Kings and Queens
• Hieroglyphs

The Mining Co.

• Guide to Ancient and Classical History by N. S. Gill - links to pages on the ancient world created by grade schoolers.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

• World Mythology
  • Mythology of Ancient Egypt
    • Isis
    • Mummies
    • Thoth
  • Downloadable Resources including the following audio files:
    • The Story of Isis
    • The Story of Osiris

Museum of Fine Art, Houston

• Splendors of Ancient Egypt exhibition: For Kids!

National Geographic Television

• Mummy Index
• Mummy Quiz

P. S. Neeley's Egyptian Games for Windows

• Senet
• Hounds and Jackals
• 20 Squares

Newton's Apple (TV Show)

• Show 1301 Mummies information about ancient Egyptian mummies: how and why they were made

Nova Online: "This Old Pyramid" and "This Old Obelisk"

• Transcript of "This Old Obelisk"
• Transcript of "This Old Pyramid"
  • Pyramids -- The Inside Story
    • the pyramid of Khufu (Cheops, also known as the Great Pyramid)
    • the pyramid of Khafre(Chephren)
    • the pyramid of Menkaure (Mycerinus)
    • the Sphinx
    • Introduction to Egypt's Pyramid Age
    • History of Giza
    • Interview with Zaki Hawass, the Director of Giza
    • Who Built the Pyramids?
    • Follow the Excavation
    • Hieroglyphs: Say What? Learn about Egyptian writing!
    • Scaling the Pyramids Discover more about the pyramids, including:
      • Build a Scale Model of the Great Pyramid
  • Resources
    • Map of Egypt
    • Map of the Giza Plateau
    • Map of the bakery (the excavation)
    • Video fly-by of the Giza Plateau

O'Brien, Alexandra

• Death in Ancient Egypt

Oriental Institute

• Recommended Reading on Life in Ancient Egypt Annotated by Oriental Institute Museum Associate Curator Emily Teeter
• Recommended Reading on Ancient Nubia Annotated by Oriental Institute Museum Associate Curator Emily Teeter

Le Ramesseum

Temple de Millions d'Années de Ramsès II á Thébes-Ouest. A site full of information and images of Ramesses II's funerary temple and his tomb, including a virtual Ramesseum with computerized reconstructions.

English, Français.

The Royal Ontario Museum

• The Faces of Djed A CT-scan of a ROM mummy illuminates a life from ancient Egypt
• Fun Stuff A whole site full of fun things to read and do including:
  • Ancient Egyptian Quiz
  • Virtual Dig Out
  • Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs
  • Make Your Own Mummy
  • Popular Reading List for Ancient Egypt
  • Make Your Own Relief

• Toronto Star: Interactive with the Royal Ontario Museum
  • Egyptian Hieroglyphs
  • Hieroglyph Translator How to write your name in hieroglyphs

Scriptorium

• Odyssey in Egypt . Take part in a dig in Egypt on-line! This site is designed for 6th, 7th and 8th graders.

• The Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria
  • modern reconstruction
• The Great Pyramid of Giza

SIRA

• Autopsie d'une momie, slide show of a mummy autopsy

Splendors of Ancient Egypt from the St. Petersburg Times

• "Splendors of Ancient Egypt" A selection of artifacts from the 2,800-year rule of the pharaohs
• Postcards From Egypt A gallery of photographs and words by Times Travel Editor Robert Jenkins
• Riddle of the Sphinx Check your knowledge of all things Egyptian
• Extra Credit A study guide on the lives, times and lands of the ancients:
  • Egypt: Geography
  • Egypt: Daily Life
  • Religion of Ancient Egypt
  • Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

The Step Pyramid of Djoser

• Explore the complex with this clickable plan

The University of Illinois Mummy Project

• Mummy Video, a Macintosh QuickTime file (4.8 MB)

Think Quest

• Egypt
  • Egyptian Time-Line
  • Origins and Religion
  • Successions and Dynasties
  • Kings

Wild Egypt: an on-line safari for all ages!

• A Nile Journey
• An Overland Adventure
• A Red Sea Dive

Sites about the ancient Near East

Children's Books on the Ancient World A Selective Bibliography

This page is maintained by Diane Arnson Svarlien and has reading suggestions on Mythology and Literature, History, Biography , Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Civilization, Near Eastern, Biblical, Archaeology and Software amongst others. Most of it is Greece/Rome related but there is some Near Eastern material.

Le Village Virtuel: Le Village Emmaüs

Bulletin bi-mensuel du Village Emmaüs - une banlieu de la ville d'Antioche dans la province romaine de Syrie, vers l'an 80 sous le règne de l'Empereur Titus. Bimonthly newsletter from the village of Emmaus, a suburb of Antioch in the Roman province of Syria, in the reign of Titus.
Avec des pages aux sujets suivis: Architecture, Commerce, Culture, École, Église, Géographie, Histoire, Jeux, Politique, Religion, Société, Vie quotidienne et Lexique - Grec, Français et Latin.

Michael C. Carlos Museum

• Odyssey On-Line An on-line journey to explore ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures. This site is aimed at 6th graders and includes the following:
  • Greece
  • Near East with pages on Myth, Religion, Death and Burial, Archaeology, Writing, People and Daily Life
  • Rome

Detroit Institute of Art

• Persepolis and Ancient Iran
• Mesopotamia

Focus on Mediterranean Civilizations

• Civilizations and Cities of Ancient Anatolia (Turkey)
  • Ancient Anatolian Civilization
  • Ancient Sites of Anatolia including: Ephesus, Miletos, Didyma, Priene, Side, Catal Höyük, Shapinuwa
• Ancient Sites of Jordan including: Petra, Jerash and Wadi Rum
• More about:
  • Turkey
  • Egypt

Israel Antiquities Authority

• Youth
  • Virtual Archaeologist
  • Quiz
• View
  • The Story of a Site
  • The Story of an Artifact
• Archaeology News

Israel Museum

• Archaeology

Louvre

• Ancient Near Eastern Antiquities

The Mining Co.

• Guide to Ancient and Classical History by N. S. Gill - links to pages on the ancient world created by grade schoolers.

KidSat at NASA (kids exploring the earth through satellite images):

• The KidSat Exploration Homepage
  • The Not-So-Lost City of Ubar. Learn about this ancient Arabian city in Oman with the team that rediscovered it.
  • The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World

Metropolitan Museum of Art

• The Glory of Byzantium
  • Art Gallery
  • Themes in Byzantine Art
  • History
  • Timeline
  • Glossary
  • Teachers Resources

• World Mythology
  • Cross-cultural Comparisons of Mythological Themes
  • Downloadable Resources including the following audio file:
    • The Story of Nebuchadnezzar

P. S. Neeley's Games for Windows

• The Royal Game of Ur

Newton's Apple

• How do Archaeologists know where to dig?

Nova Online: The Lost City of Ubar

• Remote Sensing
• Desert Finds
• Artifact Gallery
• Map
• Interview with the excavator

Oriental Institute

• Recommended Reading on Ancient Mesopotamia Annotated by Carole Krucoff, head of the Oriental Institute Museum Education Department, with the assistance of a panel of teachers from the Chicago Public Schools

Royal Ontario Museum

• Virtual Dig Out Explore the ancient Near East via this frames based site!
  
• Archaeological Analysis: Pieces of the Past This page explains the job of the archaeologist

• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  • excavated palace remains in Babylon
  • reconstruction of the "Vaulted Building" where the gardens may have been
• The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
  • modern reconstruction
• The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
  • modern reconstruction
  • older, less accurate Reconstruction

Non-Egyptian Mummies

• Frozen in Heaven
  • Transcript of the TV show
  • Information on making "Frozen in Heaven"
• A Life in Ice
  • Transcript of the TV show
  • Information about the making of "A Life in Ice"
• The Ice Maiden
  • Transcript of the TV show
  • Information on making "The Ice Maiden"

Discovery Channel

• Mummies in the Mist - Chachapoya Mummies in the Peruvian Andes

The Mountain Institute

Ice Maiden

National Geographic

• Ice Treasures of the Inca

Nova On-Line

• Ice Mummies of the Inca
• Mummies of the World

Museum, Organisation and Society Home Pages for Young People

• Young Friends of the British Museum
  Print, fill out and mail the application form!

Metropolitan Museum of Art

• FAQs for Kids on:
  • The Museum's Collections
  • "What is the most looked at work of art in the Museum?" (The Temple of Dendur!)
  • "How was the Temple of Dendur moved from Egypt?"
  • "Who is William the Hippo?"

Sites for Teachers

Education Service Pages

These sites include material relevant to most of the ancient Near East, however, most of these links are the home pages of museum education departments which only contain details of how to contact these departments. Teachers should also use the links above; I have not included this material below to avoid duplication.

Archaeological Institute of America

• Current Projects
  • Outreach Volunteer Program
  • Resources for Teachers
• On-Line Course Database (This material is post-high school level)
  • Search the Database

The Archaeological Museum Of Bologna

• Education department

BBC

BBC Education On-Line Homepage
• Medicine Through Time - Teacher Notes

British Museum

• Education Service

Michael C. Carlos Museum

• Office of Educational Programs
  • Odyssey On-Line A journey to explore ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures designed for 6th graders and including:
    • Egypt
    • Greece
    • Near East
    • Rome

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

• Division of Education Homepage
  • Outreach Programs

Cleveland Museum of Art

• Education including:
  • For Teachers

Detriot Institute of Arts

• Educational Programs
  • lesson plans for teachers on Egypt including sections on: art, language arts, math and science, mummies and social studies

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

• Education Index including:
  • Resources for Educators

Library of Congress

• Exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls including:
  • Resources for Teachers

• Teacher and School Info

Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Education Office

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

• Teaching the Arts
  • Art Adventure Program

• World Mythology "On-line Curriculum"
  • Cross-cultural Comparisons of Mythological Themes
  • Downloadable Resources
    • World Mythology Slide Set and Player (requires StuffIt Expander)

• Abzu Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet
• Museum Education
• Virtual Museum (QTVR)

• Fun Stuff including:
  • Educational Kits Provided By Outreach Services
  • Archaeology on the Internet

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

• The School Centre
• School programmes

Ancient Near East

Library of Congress

• Exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls including:
  • Resources for Teachers

• World Mythology
  • Downloadable Resources including the following audio file:
    • The Story of Nebuchadnezzar

Oriental Institute

• Recommended Reading on Ancient Mesopotamia Annotated by Carole Krucoff, head of the Oriental Institute Museum Education Department, with the assistance of a panel of teachers from the Chicago Public Schools

Egypt

Material relating to Egypt can also be found in the more general sites above.

• Show: "Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts"
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Show: "Nefertari: For Whom The Sun Shines"

• History Guide
• Picture Gallery

• History Guide
• Picture Gallery

Michael C. Carlos Museum

• Odyssey Online, a journey to explore ancient Egyptian culture designed for 6th graders:
  • Egypt
    • Videos and Books About Egypt

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

• Life in Ancient Egypt
  • Resources for Teachers
    • Teacher's Guide [This is a comprehensive guide to ancient Egypt including "detailed background information, a bibliography, a glossary, and a list of classroom activities" which will print out at around 17-25 pages in length, depending on your printer and font choice]

Detroit Institute of Arts

• For Families with Young Children

• Splendors of Ancient Egypt at the DIA
  • Lessons Plans for Teachers "A selection of cross-curricular lesson plans created by local teachers"
    • Art
      Activities:
      • Fun with Hieroglyphs
      • Wall Relief Plaque
      • Make Your Own Canopic Jars
    • Language Arts
      Activities:
      • Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs
      • Personal Pyramid
    • Maths and Science
      Activities:
      • Egyptian Equation Quilt
      • Cubit Measures
      • Weather Journals
    • Mummies
      Activities:
      • Mummy Case Drawing
      • Life-Sized Mummy Case
      • Model Miniature Mummies
    • Social Studies
      Activities:
      • How Old is Old?
      • Investigating Ancient Egypt
      • Egyptian Market Day

The Field Museum of Natural History

• Public Programs
• Student/Teacher Programs

H-Net Reviews

• H-AfrTeach. The H-Net List for Teaching About Africa

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

• World Mythology
  • Mythology of Ancient Egypt
    • Isis
    • Mummies
    • Thoth
• Downloadable Resources including the following audio files:
  • The Story of Isis
  • The Story of Osiris

Nova Online

• Transcript of "This Old Obelisk"
  • Teacher's Preview

• Transcript of "This Old Pyramid"
• Pyramids -- The Inside Story
  • the pyramid of Khufu (Cheops, also known as the Great Pyramid)
  • the pyramid of Khafre(Chephren)
  • the pyramid of Menkaure (Mycerinus)
  • the Sphinx
  • Introduction to Egypt's Pyramid Age
  • History of Giza
  • Interview with Zaki Hawass, the Director of Giza
  • Who Built the Pyramids?
  • Follow the Excavation
• Resources
  • Map of Egypt
  • Map of the Giza Plateau
  • Map of the bakery (the excavation)
  • Video fly-by of the Giza Plateau

O'Brien, Alexandra

• Death in Ancient Egypt

Oriental Institute

• Recommended Reading on Life in Ancient Egypt Annotated by Oriental Institute Museum Associate Curator Emily Teeter
• Recommended Reading on Ancient Nubia Annotated by Oriental Institute Museum Associate Curator Emily Teeter

Royal Ontario Museum

• Reading List for Ancient Egypt

Scriptorium

• Odyssey in Egypt Have your class take part in a dig in Egypt on-line (designed for 6th, 7th and 8th graders)
  • Program Summary

The Step Pyramid of Djoser

• Explore the complex with this clickable plan

• Berger, First Program (These pages contain lots of ancient Eygptian images.)
• Pilgrimage to Abydos
• Fayum Mummy Portraits
• Lots of Egypt pictures which can all be turned into puzzles!

Maps

National Geographic Maps

• Map Machine Atlas (maps, flags, facts and profiles of the countries of the world)
  • Africa click on the country name for close-ups and information (Egypt and Sudan)
  • Asia click on the country name for close-ups and information (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen)

• View from Above (satellite maps) including:
  • Middle East

• Ancient Near East Map Series
  • Egypt-Nubia
  • Sudan-Nubia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Levant
  • Syria
  • Turkey

University of Texas

• Links to maps of the Middle East
• Links to maps of Africa

The Ancient World in the News

The Atrium

• Commentarium (news articles)
• The Rostra (audio files)

Some of these pages have been extracted from Abzu (compiled by Charles E. Jones). They have been compiled here on a separate page for the sake of convenience (they were hard to find amongst all the entries in Abzu) and the entries have been expanded with some additions.

August 10th

Ancient Sites walking tour of ancient Saqqara

February 6th
Reformatting of title and headings section. Addition of Recommended Readings on the Ancient Near East, with bibliographies for students on Egypt, Nubia and Mesopotamia and teachers Egypt, Nubia and Mesopotamia. Addition of Oriental Institute Map Series.

January 7th, 1998
Corrections made to various outdated links.

October 30th
Addition of Newton's Apple on "How do Archaeologists Know Where to Dig?" and Nova's site on "The Lost City of Ubar."

October 21st
Addition of Detroit Institute of Arts "Splendors of Ancient Egypt" Exhibition's Lesson Plans for Teachers.

September 18th
Addition of University of Illinois Mummy Project. Material from National Geographic including maps, and pages on Egyptian mummies and an Inca ice mummy.

June 9th
Addition of Cyber Mummy, the Splendors of Ancient Egypt site at the St. Petersburg Times and updating links within the Royal Ontario Museum site.

April 30th
Removal of A&E Special Show on Mummies as it is no longer available. Additions: A&E classroom materials for the shows on mummies and Nefertiti.

April 29th
Additions:
Carnegie Museum of Natural History including material on ancient Egypt for teachers and schoolchildren and links to the museum's Education department.

April 9th
Additions:
Tutankhamun's trumpet and "Find the Pharaoh's Name" puzzle from the CCER. Updated links for Cleveland Museum of Art's Education pages.

March 15th
Changes in the design of the header and contents list
Additions:
Seven Wonders of the World (Great Pyramid, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Pharos, and Temple of Artemis at Ephesus), Clickable Plan of Step Pyramid and pages on Alexandria and Cairo

March 13th
Additions:
Argos search engine form
BBC Horizon homepage and programmes on Ice Mummies, further material on Nova "This Old Obelisk" and "This Old Pyramid"; Guardian's Egypt homepage and links to satellite images of Egypt and on-line tour of Egypt within that site; NASA's KidSat homepage and exploration sites on Ubar and the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

March 5th
Additions:
Minneapolis Institute of Arts homepage and much of the contents within the site, chiefly World Mythology

February 18th
Additions:
Cyberkids homepage, Ancient Egyptian Beliefs and Pyramid Crossword Puzzle

February 6th 1997
Additions:
Nova: This Old Pyramid site with links to much of the contents
Death in Ancient Egypt

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