Egyptian Art

A comprehensive collection of links to references, full-text resources, audio files, and film on Ancient history. Courtesy of Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.

Offers a detailed perspective on the history, culture, and society of ancient Egypt. Includes hyperlinks to a comprehensive collection of related reference material.

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 26,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period (ca. 300,000 B.C.–A.D. 4th century). More than half of the collection is derived from the Museum's thirty-five years of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing Western interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Extensive digital collection containing online lectures, films, scholarly articles & blogs, and images with detailed object descriptions. Additional resources included in each description may include bibliographies, lectures, related images, full-text articles, and web sources.