Through the Eras

\MEDIA AND ONLINE SOURCESGENERALThe British Museum: Ancient Egypt (http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/)—The British Museum’s website on ancientEgypt. The site includes a section on writing that showsexamples of hieroglyphs and information about whereand when writing was used. The Shabaka Stone, onwhich is preserved what may have been the earliestEgyptian drama, is also featured on the site, but theterm Shabako must be used in the search instead ofShabaka.Brooklyn Museum of Art (http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/permanent_collections/ancient-egypt/)—Thissite examines the reconstruction of an Old Kingdommastaba as well as other aspects of Egyptian art andlanguage such as using statues in Brooklyn to explorestatue types and a tomb relief to explore Egyptian depictionsof the human form and information on readinga stele.The Coptic Museum (http://www.sis.gov.eg/egyptinf/culture/html/copt001.htm)—The website of the Coptic Museumin Cairo includes many illustrations of clothing.Egypt: A New Look at an Ancient Culture (http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Exhibits/egyptintro.html)—This site,based on the Egyptian collection of the University ofPennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Philadelphia, includes online exhibits of many aspectsof Egyptian culture, including daily life, writing, funerarypractices, and gods and goddesses. The site also hasa section on several of the University of Pennsylvania’sEgyptian excavations.Egyptian Museum (http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/)—The Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s website includes avirtual tour of the museum, which houses thousands ofartifacts from various tomb sites and includes jewelry,art, and sculpture, among other things. The museum isalso home to nearly 2,000 objects from Tutankhamun’stomb, and there is a link that allows the site visitor toview samples from the Tutankhamun exhibit.The Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/department.asp?dep=10)—The MetropolitanMuseum of Art’s Introduction to Egypt siteincludes 50 artifacts featured from the museum’s collectionin approximate chronological order. There arelinks to exhibits and special web resources for learningabout Egyptian art and culture.The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Explore Ancient Egypt(http://www.mfa.org/egypt/)—The Explore Ancient Egyptwebsite of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, includesmany illustrations of clothing, a section on hieroglyphsand information on excavating Egyptian art, scenes ofdaily life, and Egyptian artistic style.ARCHITECTUREDavid Macaulay’s World of Ancient Engineering: Pyramid,PBS, 2000—Excellent animated graphics demonstratemethods used while building the pyramids.The Giza Plateau Mapping Project (http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html)—This website from theOriental Institute at the University of Chicago contains321