Texts

• Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Graphemics and Orthography: Egyptian Hieroglyphs  (17)

Admiral Ahmose Relates His Deeds - A simple hieroglyphic reading passage from Dynasty XVIII.

Atum - A Bisexual High God - An excerpt from the Coffin Texts on origins.

The Coming into Day - The Book of the Dead, Chapter 125, The Judgment of the Dead.

The Dead Pharaoh Ascends to Heaven - An excerpt from the Pyramid Texts, texts inscribed on the interior walls of the pyramids of certain pharaohs of the fifth and sixth dynasties (c. 2425-2300 B.C.).

The Dead Pharaoh Becomes Osiris - A selection from the Pyramid Texts.

Debate Between Osiris and the High God - An excerpt from the Book of the Dead, Chapter 175.

The Deir el-Medîna Database - Database of non-literary documents found at Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina archaeology excavation.

Demotic Texts on the World Wide Web - A guide to internet resources on papyri.

Digitalized Egyptological Literature - Full-text web versions of Egyptian texts and publications on Egypt in English and German from Heidelberg University.

Duke Papyrus Archive - Images and texts concerning various ancient Egyptian papyri, plus links to papyrology on the web.

Egyptian Cosmogony and Theogony - An excerpt from The Book of Overthrowing Apophis, a late work.

The Egyptian High God in the Age of the Coffin Texts - Writing inscribed on the interior of coffins belonging to the Middle Kingdom (2250-1580 B.C.)

The Egyptian Land of Silence and Darkness - A song in which a woman laments the death of her husband.

Egyptian Law Readings - A bibliography of texts regarding ancient Egyptian laws by Bernard Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Egyptian Love Poetry - Ancient verse, c. 2000 - 1100 B.C.E.

Egyptological Texts - Two texts by Flinders Petrie.

Hymn to Ra - A glimpse at the Egyptian reverence for their gods.

The Love Songs of the Chester Beatty - A papyrus containing songs for entertainment.

Mans Soul Identified with Both Osiris and with Nature - The clearest identification of the soul with nature that the ancients have left us from the Coffin Texts.

The Memphite Theology - Ptah is portrayed as the creator god.

Mummification - An excerpt from Herodotus's The Histories.

The Offering of Uha - Male and female circumcision, c. 2400 B.C.E.

Osiris - The Prototype of Every Soul who Hopes to Conquer Death - A portion of the Coffin Texts.

The Papyri Pages - Pictures, articles, and links about ancient Egyptian papyri.

The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection - A large collection housed at the University of Copenhagen.

Papyrus of Ani - The Egyptian Book of the Dead as translated by E. A. Wallis Budge.

The Papyrus of Ani - Translation of this version of the 'Book of the Dead' by E.A. Wallis Budge.

The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, c. 2200 B.C.E. - Electronic text of Ptah-Hotep's precepts, as translated by Horne.

Princess Ahura - The Magic Book - A tale, c. 1100 B.C.E., from The World's Story, A History of the World in Story, Song and Art.

Pyramid Texts Online - Discover the texts in the pyramid of Unas, has photographs of the walls and translations.

The Rosetta Stone - Translation of the Greek section.

The Shipwrecked Sailor - A tale of Ancient Egypt, c. 2200 B.C.E.

A Spell for the Revival Osiris - A Coffin Text excerpt.

The Tale of Horus and the Pig, c. 1900 B.C.E. - Why the Egyptians did not eat pork from the Coffin Text, c. 1900 B.C.E.

The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant - A remarkable appreciation of the rights of the common people, c. 1800 B.C.E.