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L’Ifao propose ici quelques liens et ressources à destination des étudiants et des chercheurs.

1. Bibliothèques

Pour des liens donnant accès aux catalogues de bibliothèques d’Égypte et de France, autres que celle de l’Ifao : cliquer ici

2. Topographie

Le service topographie met à la disposition des internautes un texte rappelant des notions, ainsi qu’un manuel pratique téléchargeable, en français et en arabe.

En cas d’utilisation de ce manuel, veuillez créditer l’Ifao et les auteurs (M. Gaber/D. Laisney).

3. Outils et ressources numériques en histoire de l’Égypte

Vous trouverez ci-dessous une liste de liens donnant accès à des catalogues, bases de données, collections et autres outils en ligne utiles pour l’égyptologie, ainsi que pour l’étude de l’Égypte des périodes médiévale, moderne et contemporaine.

Egyptology

* Web portal

Egyptologists' Electronic Forum: www.egyptologyforum.org/

*Bibliographies:

Aegyptiaca – Ägyptologische Literaturdatenbank (WWU Münster): aegyptiaca.uni-muenster.de/

Online Egyptological Bibliography (University of Oxford): oeb.griffith.ox.ac.uk (available through subscription, e.g. in the IFAO library)

Bibliographie de l’Égypte des Origines (IFAO): ifao.egnet.net/bases/beo/ 

*Online Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias:

Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TOPOI): aaew.bbaw.de/tla/servlet/TlaLogin

Thoth Sign List (Uliège/Berlin/SAW zu Leizig): thotsignlist.org 

Ramsès (Université de Liège): ramses.ulg.ac.be/

Demotische Wortliste online (LMU Munich): www.dwl.aegyptologie.uni-muenchen.de/suche.php 

Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UC Los Angeles): escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee

*Databases:

- Thematic

Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (Fritz Thissen Foundation): pnm.uni-mainz.de/info 

AGÉA (Anthroponymes et Généalogies de l’Égypte Ancienne ; IFAO): ifao.egnet.net/bases/agea/noms/ 

AKU-PAL (Paläographie des Hieratischen und der Kursivhieroglyphen): aku-pal.uni-mainz.de 

Mortexvar: database.mortexvar.com (on Coffin Texts)

Das altägyptische Totenbuch (N-W AKW/Universität Bonn): totenbuch.awk.nrw.de/  

Trismegistos (KU Leuven): www.trismegistos.org 

Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions (University of Oxford): cpi.csad.ox.ac.uk/inscriptions/

Tempeltexte 2.0 (Tübinger Institut für die Kulturen des Alten Orients): www.tempeltexte.uni-tuebingen.de/portal/#/main 

- Museums and archives

Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung: recherche.smb.museum/ 

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts: collections.mfa.org/collections

Brussels, Royal Museum of Art and History: carmentis.be/eMP/eMuseumPlus 

Chicago, Oriental Institute: oi-idb.uchicago.edu/

Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden: www.rmo.nl/collectie/collectiezoeker/ 

London, British Museum: www.britishmuseum.org/collection 

London, Petrie Museum: collections.ucl.ac.uk/search/simple 

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Arts: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/ 

New York, Brooklyn Museum: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/ 

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: collections.ashmolean.org/ 

Oxford, Griffith Institute: www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/ 

Paris, Louvre: collections.louvre.fr 

Turin, Museo Egizio: collezioni.museoegizio.it 

Vienna, Kunst Historisches Museum Wien: khm.at/en/objectdb/

The (virtual) Global Egyptian Museum: globalegyptianmuseum.org 

- Sites

MastaBase (Leiden University): digitalegyptology.org/mastabase (to download)

Giza Archives (MFA Boston and Harvard University): gizapyramids.org 

Karnak (UC Santa Cruz): humtech.ucla.edu/project/digital-karnak/

Project Karnak (CNRS): sith.huma-num.fr/ 

‘Cachette’ of Karnak (IFAO): www.ifao.egnet.net/bases/cachette

Theban mapping project (ARCE): thebanmappingproject.com

Deir el-Medina Database (Leiden): dmd.wepwawet.nl 

Deir el-Medine Online (LMU Munich): dem-online.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/

Delta Survey (Egypt Exploration Society): www.ees.ac.uk/delta-survey

*Digital tools for edition:

JSesh: jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/ 

Converter in Unicode transliteration: www.ifao.egnet.net/publications/publier/outils-ed/convertisseurs/

Unicode keyboards for transliteration; examples: 

- www.ifao.egnet.net/publications/outils/polices/ (for AZERTY keyboards)

- dmd.wepwawet.nl/fonts.htm

Arabic studies

*In general:

- Online access to the issues of Arabic Journals

- Online platform with several Arabic dictionaries

*Medieval period:

- Online catalogues of Arabic manuscripts

https://themaydan.com/2019/01/digital-resources-manuscripts/

https://digitallibrary.al-furqan.com/world_library

https://amirmideast.blogspot.com/2010/12/alphabetical-list-of-open-access_10.html

http://alnadeem-mss.malecso.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl

-Databases to search directly in the pages of Arabic works

https://shamela.ws/

https://books.rafed.net/m/?type=c_fbook&b_id=2464

*Contemporary period:

- Digital libraries 

http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/ 

http://dar.bibalex.org/webpages/dar.jsf 

- Online periodicals / Research tools for press collections

https://archiv.zmo.de/jaraid/index.html 

https://zaidanfoundation.org/al-hilal-issues-1892-2007/ 

http://cedej.bibalex.org/ 

https://archive.alsharekh.org/magazines

http://pfe.cealex.org/ 

- Online archival collections 

http://nasser.bibalex.org/Home/Home.aspx?lang=ar 

https://akkasah.org/en/ 

- Map collections and cartographic portals

https://www.almadaq.net/en/ 

https://www.cedejcapmas.org/adws/app/4d5b52dc-669d-11e9-b6a6-975656a88994/index.html 

- Research/archival guides

https://hazine.info/

4. Bibliographie égyptologique

Vous trouverez ici une bibliographie (non exhaustive) indiquant des ouvrages et autres outils de travail essentiels pour les recherches sur l’Égypte ancienne.

Liste outils de recherche égyptologiques - version 4.06.23 

En cas d’utilisation de manuel, veuillez créditer l’Ifao.

 



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The IFAO here proposes some links and resources for students and scholars.

1. Libraries

For links to catalogs of libraries in Egypt and in France, other than the IFAO: click here.  

2. Topography

The topography department provides Internet users with a text reminding of certain concepts, as well as a practical manual that can be downloaded, in French and Arabic.

In case of a reuse of this manual, do not forget to acknowledge the IFAO and the authors (M. Gaber/D. Laisney).

3. Digital tools and resources for history of Egypt

Below is a list of links to catalogs, databases, collections and other online tools useful for Egyptology, as well as for the study of Egypt in the medieval, modern and contemporary periods.

Egyptology : see above.

Arabic studies : see above.

4. Egyptological bibliography 

You will find here a (non-exhaustive) thematic bibliography with books and other essential tools for researching ancient Egypt.

List of research tools in Egyptology - version 4.06.23

If you use this list, do not forget to acknowledge the IFAO.