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Nicky van de Beek

Digital/Virtual/3D

This page contains links to digital, virtual and 3D projects in Egyptology.

Objects

3D Petrie Museum
Amarna Virtual Museum
Book of the Dead in 3D
British Museum on Sketchfab
Egyptian Sculpture Digitization Project
Ushebtis 3D

Sites

Amarna 3D
Saqqara: Constructing the Sacred
Digital Giza
Digital Karnak
Digital Saqqara
El-Hibeh
Karanis
Piramesse

Tombs

Nefertari’s tomb
Nefertari: Journey to Eternity
Tomb of Nakht
Tomb of Tutankhamun

Virtual tours/360° photography

British Museum
Describing Egypt
National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
National Museum of Brasil
Tomb of Horemheb and Maya
Tomb of Ramses III
Temple of Kom Ombo
World Heritage Tours

Online courses

Ancient Egypt: a history in six objects (University of Manchester)
Blue Symposium and Yellow Symposium (University of Manchester)
Ancient Egypt (Khan Academy)
Introduction to Ancient Egypt and Its Civilization (University of Pennsylvania)
Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archeology (Harvard University)
Superpowers of the Ancient World: the Near East (University of Liverpool)
Wonders of Ancient Egypt (University of Pennsylvania)

Podcasts

BBC Radio 4 In Our Time
The History of Egypt Podcast

YouTube

Voices of Ancient Egypt | Learn hieroglyphs with Egyptologist Melinda Nelson-Hurst.

Apps

AED | Ancient Egyptian Dictionary.
Petrie Museum for Android / iOS | Visitor guide that detects where you are in the museum.

Epigraphy

Digital Epigraphy | Download the ebook by Krisztián Vértes and the Epigraphic Survey.
Digital Epigraphy | Website by the Oriental Insitute with reviews, manuals and tutorials.

Iconography

Beni Hassan | Visual dictionary for Middle Kingdom elite tombs.
Djedmontefanch | Zoom in to view this splendid 21st dynasty coffin in great detail.
Meketre | Online repository for Middle Kingdom scenes.

Hieroglyph tools

Jsesh | Open source hieroglyphic editor.
SignWriter | Includes selected texts, hieroglyphic editor, dictionary and sign list.
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae | Online version of the Wörterbuch der Ägyptischen Sprache.
Hieroglyphs.net | English-Egyptian dictionary.
Hiero | Egyptian-French dictionary.
Demotic Dictionary | By the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
GlyphBasic | Hieroglyphic font.
Trlit_CG Times | Transliteration font.

Crowdsourcing

Aton-num | Puzzle together some Amarna talatat.
MicroPasts | Contribute to archaeological research by digitizing data.

Museum search

CLEO | Search multiple museum collections with one tool.
Egyptological museum search | Search several museums by inventory number.

Thesauri

Thot – Thesauri & Ontology | Documenting and encoding ancient Egyptian resources.

Nicky van de Beek is a digital and public Egyptologist, currently on an adventure in Germany to do a PhD about ancient Egyptian landscape and climate change.

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