Texts

Admiral Ahmose Relates His Deeds
A simple hieroglyphic reading passage from Dynasty XVIII.
http://home.prcn.org/sfryer/Egyptian/Ahmose.html

Atum - A Bisexual High God
An excerpt from the Coffin Texts on origins.
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/018.html

The Coming into Day
The Book of the Dead, Chapter 125, The Judgment of the Dead.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/EGYPT/BOD125.HTM

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.).
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/166.html

The Dead Pharaoh Becomes Osiris
A selection from the Pyramid Texts.
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/167.html

Debate Between Osiris and the High God
An excerpt from the Book of the Dead, Chapter 175.
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/019.html

The Deir el-Medîna Database
Database of non-literary documents found at Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina archaeology excavation.
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/dmd/dmd.html

Demotic Texts on the World Wide Web
A guide to internet resources on papyri.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/DEMOTIC_WWW.HTML

Digitalized Egyptological Literature
Full-text web versions of Egyptian texts and publications on Egypt in English and German from Heidelberg University.
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/fachref/aegypt/online.htm

Duke Papyrus Archive
Images and texts concerning various ancient Egyptian papyri, plus links to papyrology on the web.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/

Egyptian Cosmogony and Theogony
An excerpt from The Book of Overthrowing Apophis, a late work.
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/054.html

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.)
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/017.html

The Egyptian Land of Silence and Darkness
A song in which a woman laments the death of her husband.
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/170.html

Egyptian Law Readings
A bibliography of texts regarding ancient Egyptian laws by Bernard Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/egypt.htm

Egyptian Love Poetry
Ancient verse, c. 2000 - 1100 B.C.E.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2000egypt-love.html

Egyptological Texts
Two texts by Flinders Petrie.
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/texts/

Hymn to Ra
A glimpse at the Egyptian reverence for their gods.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ra-ani.html

The Love Songs of the Chester Beatty
A papyrus containing songs for entertainment.
http://www.egyptology.com/extreme/mehy/

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.
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/088.html

The Memphite Theology
Ptah is portrayed as the creator god.
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Egypt/Memphis.html

Mummification
An excerpt from Herodotus's The Histories.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-mummies.html

The Offering of Uha
Male and female circumcision, c. 2400 B.C.E.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2400uha.html

Osiris - The Prototype of Every Soul who Hopes to Conquer Death
A portion of the Coffin Texts.
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/168.html

The Papyri Pages
Pictures, articles, and links about ancient Egyptian papyri.
http://members.tripod.com/~papyri/index.html

The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection
A large collection housed at the University of Copenhagen.
http://webarkiv.hum.ku.dk/cni/papcoll/

Papyrus of Ani
The Egyptian Book of the Dead as translated by E. A. Wallis Budge.
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Books/Papyrus_Ani.html

The Papyrus of Ani
Translation of this version of the 'Book of the Dead' by E.A. Wallis Budge.
http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/ani.htm

The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, c. 2200 B.C.E.
Electronic text of Ptah-Hotep's precepts, as translated by Horne.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ptahhotep.html

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.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1100egyptmagic.html

Ptahhotep
The instructions of Ptah-Hotep presented in hieroglyphic format with transliteration attached to each section.
http://members.aol.com/mwhealton/pthgly.htm

Pyramid Texts Online
Discover the texts in the pyramid of Unas, has photographs of the walls and translations.
http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/

The Rosetta Stone
Translation of the Greek section.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/rosetta-stone-translation.html

The Shipwrecked Sailor
A tale of Ancient Egypt, c. 2200 B.C.E.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2200shipwreck.html

A Spell for the Revival Osiris
A Coffin Text excerpt.
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/104.html

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.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1900horuspig.html

The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
A remarkable appreciation of the rights of the common people, c. 1800 B.C.E.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1800egypt-peasant.html