Andre Dollinger
Reshafim: Clothing
A comprehensive description of clothing in ancient Egypt: fabrics, construction, styles, laundering, and footwear. Many pictures accompany the commentary.
University of Michigan
Univerisity of Michigan: A Taste of the Ancient World: Farming at Karanis
Primarily pictures, but some commentary about food production in ancient Egypt. Particularly interesting is the pigeon pot for housing pigeons.
Discovering Egypt
Discovering Egypt: Hieroglyphs
A fantastic resource containing a history and overview of the use of hieroglphics in ancient Egypt. Contains many stunning visuals and links to translations.
BBC
Bbc News: Egypt Votes in Landmark Election
This article reports as Egyptians vote in their country's first contested presidential election. The current leader has ruled for 24 years and now, for the first time, faces nine other candidates. (September 7, 2005)
Other
City College of New York: Egypt's Acquisition of Foreign Goods
This essay debates the use of trade and military invasion as means of obtaining goods and labor in ancient Egypt during the Old Kingdom.
University of Chicago
Ancient Mesopotamia: The Role of Women [Pdf]
Students could use a copy of Hammurabi's Laws to discover what rights women did and did not have in ancient Mesopotamia. They could then do research to compare the lives of women in Mesopotamia with the roles and social status of women...
Andre Dollinger
Reshafim: The Nile
Along with a map of the Nile, read about settlements in the area and the importance of the Nile and its flooding to the ancient Egyptians. Follow hyperlinks to additional information.
Other
Dr. Zahi Hawass: Quest for the Mummy of Hatshepsut
The story of Dr. Hawass's (Egypt's foremost expert on ancient Egypt) first attempts to locate and identify the mummy of Hatshepsut. He finally identified her mummy in 2007.
Andre Dollinger
Reshafim: Beverages
Learn about the beverages the Egyptians drank, how they were produced, and in what rituals they were used. A very comprehensive look at Egyptian drink.
Other
Mit: A New Angle on Pyramids
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigated whether the ancient Egyptians could have used a synthetic concrete for the huge stones used in building the pyramids. The theory has met enormous resistance...
abcteach
Abcteach: Social Studies: History
[Free Registration/Login Required] A directory of history resources (games, activities, puzzles, graphics) to be used as part of elementary study of Ancient Egypt and Greece, the Middle Ages, the Revolutionary War, and other topics....
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: About Pi
This site provides an in-depth discussion on what pi is. It gives a brief history revealing what the Egyptians and Babylonians estimated pi at.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for the Underworld
Ancient Egyptians believed that in order to become immortal after death, a spirit must first pass through the underworld. Tejal Gala describes an Egyptian "Book of the Dead" a customized magic scroll written by the living to promote a...
Institute and Museum of the History of Science
Museo Galileo: Multimedia: Video: Astronomical Use of the Plane Astrolabe
Invented in ancient Egypt, the plane astrolabe is a tool used by astronomers and navigators to determine time and identifying positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets. Read text or view the video to understand the details of its...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Calculating the Radius of the Earth
Science students often have difficulty thinking about large spatial scales. The purpose of the exercise is to redo Eratosthenes' calculation of the radius of the Earth using data from to sites in ancient Egypt. The excercise teaches...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister: The Inclined Plane
This site from Dirtmeister gives information on how the Ancient Egyptians used the inclined plane. Dirtmeister explains the inclined plane and its uses.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Robert Koch and Tuberculosis
In 1905 scientist Robert Koch gave a famous lecture on his discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium. He demonstrated and explained his work, bringing his entire laboratory equipment and tissue samples for the audience to examine, and left...
BBC
Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Dung Beetle
Learn what ancient Egyptians thought about this peculiar insect. This resource has a detailed fact sheet to learn more about the history and physiology of the Dung Beetle.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Did the Amazons Really Exist?
It was long assumed that Amazons, the fierce and fearsome women warriors of Greece, were imaginary. But curiously enough, stories from ancient Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India and China also featured Amazon-like...
Emory University
Emory University: Odyssey Online: Ancient Civilizations
Brief studies of the peoples, mythology, daily life, death and burial, writings and archaeology of civilizations in the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Africa, and the Ancient Americas.
Other
Air Pano: Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt
A virtual tour in 3D of the Great Pyramids of Giza. There are easy to understand navigational tools, and different photographs to start an exploration from.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Egypt
A thorough look at Egypt from the Country Studies section of the Library of Congress. Read about its history, economy, people, and government. Information through the 1990s.
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University of North Carolina at Pembroke: Lecture Notes: Ancient Civilizations
Lengthy illustrated notes, to accompany a university-level course, on the first civilizations in the ancient Near East: Sumer and Egypt.
Tour Egypt
Tour Egypt: Thirty First Dynasty
Extensively details the period of Persian rule in Egypt by referring to multiple sources, some of which are non-Egyptian. Contains hyperlinked definitions of terms and descriptions of people.
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