Women in Ancient Egypt
Class outline on female pharaohs
Class outline on marriage, family, and daily customs
Images of women in ancient art a simply fabulous site with a chapter on Egyptian women
The Turin Canon an extremely important source of information on the Egytpian dynasties my Manetho. Lists Sobeknofru and other important women who ruled as kings.
Herodotus on Nitocris will the real Nitocris please stand up? Here is Herodotus's version of her revenge on those who killed her brother-husband and her death. This page has quite a few links to other sites related to the study of ancient Egypt. From an introduction to the history and culture of pharaonic Egypt
The Curse of Nitocris - Extracts from the Journal of Damien, Lord Mortlake Did she haunt the third pyramid, which Manetho mistakenly thought she completed and in which he thought she was buried?
Marriage as a tool of foreign politics during the New Kingdom from an introduction to the history and culture of pharaonic Egypt
Queen Hatshepsut's expedition to the Land of Punt: The first oceanographic cruise?
Hatsheptsut: female pharaoh of Egypt also at http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/hatshepsut.html
Hatshepsut: The Queen who would be King an excellent site with many graphics and very good textual resources.
Hatshepsut: The Queen who would be King
Queens of Egypt Part I and Part II (part II focuses on Hatshepsut's morturary temple)
Pharaoh Maatkare Hatsheptsut the falling ankhs on the opening screen are cool, but gee, they take forever to load.
Text of Hatshepsut's Obelisk at Karnak
Hatsheptsut, The Queen of Sheba, and Immanuel Velikovsky
Hatsheptsut site has a script for a play about Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut's Temple Great Buildings Online
The Theban Mapping Project tour Deir-el-Bahri and other Theban sites
Women monarchs and heads of state a lesson plan for grade school children on Hatshepsut
Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity An exihibtion at the Kelsey museum. many nice images and some good textual introduction to the problem of interpreting women's lives in ancient Egypt. A good many of the images come from the Roman period, however, when life for women was quite different than it was during the dynastic period.
Women in ancient Egypt: a course syllabus from Diotoma the syllabus links to some very good primary source texts, including texts relating to religious literature, biographical inscriptions, women and political power, legal status of women, and family law. There is also an extensive bibliography.
Papyri about women and children from the Duke Papyrus Archive
Women in ancient Egypt from Virtual Egypt
Female Pharaohs from Women's History
Discovery Online: The Search for Cleopatra's Palace
Discovery Online: Cleopatra: As the Nile Turns
EGYPTIAN WOMEN IN PTOLEMAIC AND ROMAN EGYPT a dissertation proposal
The Egyptian Economy and Non-royal Women: Their Status in Public Life
The Tel-el-Amarna collection explore the artifacts from the capitol city of Akhenaton and Nefertiti
The Amarna Site super site with virtual explorations of many locations related to Nefertiti, Akhenaton and other women associated with them.
Pharaohs of the Sun an exhibition
Do we have the mummy of Nefertiti?
Another article on the possible mummy of Nefertiti from Teh London Times ; another article from the Discovery Channel
Nefertiti: the Queen in her Chariot discussion of some of the art from the Nefertiti's time. Black and white drawings.
Temple of Hathor/Temple of Nefertari
House and Garden in Ancient Egypt
Man and Woman in Ancient Egypt
Personal Hygiene and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt
Medicine in Ancient Egypt: explore the Edwin Smith Papyrus from medical papyri we can learn much about women's health and also to what extent the Egyptians understood the female anatomy. This page has an excellent set of links as well as very good textual material.
Tatoos in Ancient Egypt some women had tatoos on their thighs that were symbolic of fertility
Childbirth and Children in Ancient Egypt
The Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
www.kemet.org learn about the modern practice of kemet, the ancient Egyptian word for their spiritual practices.
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Above: Bust of Nefertiti from the Berlin Museum Below: Bust of Cleopatra |
