Menkaure and His Queen
4th Dynasty, c. 2470 BCE
slate, height 4 feet 8 inches)
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)


Women in Egypt ADDITIONAL SITES Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

Egyptian Women

Internet Sites about Ancient Egyptian Women
The Status of Women in Ancient Egyptian Society (Peter A. Piccione, Northwestern University)
The Egyptian Economy and Non-royal Women: Their Status in Public Life (William A. Ward, Department of Egyptology, Brown University)
Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti
Cleopatra, the Last Pharaoh (B.C. 69-30)
Egyptian Goddesses

General

Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology (University of Memphis), with links to:
- Egyptian Artifacts Exhibit
Egypt (Professor Hugh Lester, Tulane University)
Color Tour of Egypt, with a link to a clickable map, and links to:
- Abu Simbel
- Abydos
- Aswan
- Cairo
- Dendera
- Edfu
- Giza
- Kom Ombo
- Luxor
- Saqqara
- The West Bank/Luxor
Egypt (Highlights of the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago), with links to:
- Funerary Stela
- Relief from the Tomb of Mentuemhat
- Reconstructed Predynastic Burial
- Predynastic Jar
- Model of a Butcher Shop
- Book of the Dead
- Bed
- Mud Brick Stamped with Cartouche of Ramses II
- Statue of the God Horus
- Trial Piece
- Bust of a Man
- Potter
- Colossal Statue of Tutankhamun
- Mummy Mask
- Coffin of Ipi-Ha-Ishutef
- Butcher Slaughtering a Calf
- The Mummy and Coffin of Meresamun
Egyptian Architecture (through Thais, Italy)
Egypt (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
Pilgrimage to Abydos (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
Ancient Egyptian Art: Introduction (at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University)
Egyptian Museum Artifacts (The Egyptian Museum in Cairo), with links to:
- Accessories and Jewellery
- Architectural Elements
- Furniture
- Mummies
- Sculptures
- Tomb Equipment
- Written Documents
Studying the Old Kingdom and Predynastic Egypt, with the Palette of Narmer
L'Egitto dei Faraoni, the Egyptian Collection in Mantua, Italy (through Mantova, uno scrigno di segreti: in Italian)
Links to Images of Papyri and Ostraca
The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser (University of Pennsylvania)
The Pyramids (through Archimedia I- Architecture in Ancient Near East), with links to:
- Djoser Pyramid
- Meydum Pyramid
- Cheops Pyramid
Explore the Pyramids (PBS NOVA Online)
Guardian's Egypt
Mark Millmore's Ancient Egyptian Page, with links to:
- Pyramids
- Temples
- Kings and Queens
- Hieroglyphics
The Giza Plateau Mapping Project
Egyptian Antiquity Information (through Egyptian Ministry of Tourism)
Monuments in Egypt (through Egyptian Ministry of Tourism), including, besides Mosques and Islamic Monuments, Christian Churches and Monuments, Graeco-Roman Monuments, the following links to Pharaonic Monuments:
- The Temple of Deir el Bahari (XVIII Dyn)
- Abu Simbel - Nubia
- The Alabaster Sphinx - Saqqara
- Beit al-Wali - Nubia
- Caesareum - Alexandria
- The Catacombs of Kom es-Shouqafa - Alexandria
- The Causeway - Saqqara
- The Colossi of Memnon - Luxor
- The Colossus of Ramesses - Saqqara
- Crocodilopolis - Fayoum
- Dionysias - Fayoum
- The Early Kingdom Mastabas - Saqqara
- Edfu - Nubia
- Elephantine Island - Aswan
- The Enclosure Wall - Saqqara
- Geziret Fara'un - Sinai
- The Great Pyramid of Cheops - Giza
- The Great Sphinx - Giza
- Kalabsha Temple - Nubia
- Karanis - Fayoum
- Karnak - Luxor
- Kiosk of Qertassi - Nubia
- The Maidum Pyramid - Dhashur
- The Oracle of Amun - Siwa
- The Palace of Amenhotep - Luxor
- The Persian Shafts - Saqqara
- Philae (Now on Agilika Island) - Nubia
- The Pyramid Complex of Djoser - Saqqara
- The Pyramid Complex of Menkaure - Giza
- Pyramid of Amenemhat III (the Labyrinth) - Fayoum
- The Pyramid of Chephren - Giza
- The Pyramid of Meidum - Meidum
- The Pyramid of Sekhemkhet - Saqqara
- The Pyramid of Teti - Saqqara
- The Pyramid of Unas - Saqqara
- The Pyramids of Abu Sir - Abu Sir
- The Pyramids of Dhashur - Dhashur
- The Ramesseum - Luxor
- The Serapeum - Saqqara
- South Saqqara - Saqqara
- The Step Pyramid of Djoser - Saqqara
- Sun Temple of Abu Ghurab - Saqqara
- Temple Dedicated to Sobek - Fayoum
- The Temple of Abydos - Abydos
- Temple of Deir el Bahari - Luxor
- The Temple of Dendera - Dendera
- Temple of Dush - Kharga
- Temple of Hibis - Kharga
- The Temple of Luxor - Luxor
- Temple of Ramesses III - Luxor
- The Temple of Taposiris Magna - Alexandria
- Three Minor Pyramids - Giza
- The Tomb of Ankh-mahor - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Kagemni - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Mereruka - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Princess Idut - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Ptah-hotep - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Queen Nebet - Saqqara
- The Tomb of Ti - Saqqara
- The Tombs of the Nobles - Aswan
- The Tombs of the Nobles - Luxor
- Unfinished Obelisk - Aswan
- The Valley of the Kings - Luxor
Egyptian Virtual Museum (through Egyptian Ministry of Tourism), with links to:
- Pre-Dynastic
- 4th Dynasty
- Middle Kingdom
- 11th Dynasty
- 18th Dynasty
- Tut'ankhamun (18th Dynasty)
- 19th Dynasty
Tomb of the Sons of Ramses II (recently discovered in the Valley of the Kings)
More on the Tomb of the Sons of Ramses II (no images)
The Window of Appearance: The Temple Palace of Rameses III at Medinet Habu 1175 BC, with a Quicktime movie of the The Rising of Rameses III ("Symbolism in Architecture", Mohammed Motlib)
The Egyptian Collection at the The Archaeological Museum, Bologna, Italy, with links to:
- Introduction
- The New Egyptian Section
- The Old Kingdom
- The Middle Kingdom
- The New Kingdom
- Late and Ptolemaic-Roman Period
- The Horemheb Reliefs/A>
- The Amulets
- The Bronze Statuettes
- The Funerary Objects
- Writing
- The Ushabti
- The Virtual reconstruction of the Horemheb Tomb in Memphis
Centre for Computer-Aided Egyptological Research (CCER), with two Quicktime VR objects, one of a statue of the goddess Selket from the Tomb of Tutankhamun and the other of a statue of the royal scribe Nebmertouef
Summaries of notable Egyptian Gods (Shawn C. Knight)

IMAGES OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT ART
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