Egyptological Resources
In this section you will find a number of resources for professional egyptologists and amateurs. Corrections and updates are welcome by email (ccer@ccer.nl).

Multilingual index on Egyptian Treasures cd-roms
All items of the released Egyptian Treasures cd-rom series can be searched for on the internet.

Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus
This Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus has been compiled mainly for the (computerised) documentation and retrieval of museum objects.

Hieroglyphica (hieroglyphic library of more than 6900 signs)
The Book Hieroglyphica contains a listing of more than 6900 signs available in the Extended Library, a hieroglyphic computer font for Glyph for Windows and MacScribe.

Prosopographia Aegypti (online)
Database of 58.000 Ancient Egyptian private names, based on the archives of the Wörterbuch der Ägyptische Sprache (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften). The database could be realised with financial support of the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO).

The Temple of Abu Simbel
Visit the great temple of Abu Simbel, dedicated to the glory of pharao Ramses II.

Remarkable and bizarre notes about Egypt by early travellers
"Apropos of harems: An amusing incident happened to Mr. and Mrs. Gorham and their friend, Miss Cox, guests at our hotel. They were told that one passport would suffice for all three on their recent trip through Palestine. Later they discovered on examination that it was made out in true Oriental fashion: "Gorham Pasha and harem", which resulted in somewhat mixed feelings in the whole trio as to just who was who."

Restoring Ancient Egyptian artifacts... by computer
by Hans van den Berg.

The Trumpet of Tutankhamun
The Trumpet of Tutankhamun is a freeware educational program for PC (Microsoft Windows). It contains a truly unique recording of the original silver trumpet from the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, who lived in the 14th century B.C.

Coptic fonts
A ZIP-file with the Coptic font used by Glyph for Windows, as well as three (!) other Coptic fonts.

Egyptian transliteration font
The Egyptian transliteration font used by Glyph for Windows.

Egyptian transliteration font for Mac
The Egyptian transliteration font used for MacScribe.