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 Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt
Mark Millmore's site is comprehensive, updated daily, and features a great section on temples and pyramids.
 Egypt WWW Index
Egypt WWW features a broad set of links covering History, Egyptology, Art, Culture and Tradition, and many other Egypt-related topics
The British Museum: Ancient Egypt
The British Museum site offers great images, simulations, and games to make the study of Ancient Egypt enticing for students.
Egypt's Golden Empire
The resources offered here are designed to help you use the PBS "Egypt's Golden Empire" video series and companion Web site in secondary social studies, civics, religion, and language arts classes. There are three lesson plans, a timeline, an interactive map, a heiroglyph translator, and more.
World Cultures to 1500: Egypt
A terrific overview of Ancient and Medieval History can be found at this online course, based at Washington State University. It offers clear and informative lecture notes, maps, a photo gallery, timelines, links to relevant sites, and more. Click Contents.
ABZU: Egypt
ABZU provides a helpful index of resources for the study of ancient Egypt.
Theban Mapping Project
An impressive site that focuses on the Theban Necropolis, the Valley of the Kings, the tomb of Rameses II, and Egyptology. It offers a maps, a timeline, Q&A's and updates on the KV5 (Rameses tomb) archeological expedition.
Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World
This fine National Geographic Society presentation reveals the interior organization and a number of facts about the construction of the pyramids. There is also a timeline, news stories, a quiz game on daily life in Ancient Egypt, and lesson plans on Mummies.
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
This National Gallery of Art exhibition covers the period of the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC) through the Late Period (664-332 BC). It is divided into six sections: Journey to the Afterworld, The New Kingdom, The Royal Tomb, Tombs of Nobles, The Realm of the Gods, and The Tomb of Thutmose III.
Guardian's CyberJourney: Egypt
CyberJourney provides useful images, virtual tours, discussions, and commentary on Ancient Egypt
Pyramids -- The Inside Story (PBS)
This attractive PBS site provides a nice blend of images and history of the pyramids and offers insights into excavations and mysteries.
At the Tomb of Tutankhamen (National Geographic)
Focuses on Tut's tomb and Egyptian "mysteries". Has links and resources
Mr Dowling's Electronic Passport: Ancient Egypt
Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport helps kids browse the world in his virtual classroom. He introduces you to many civilizations with clear explanations, engaging graphics for kids, and "cool links". His study guides, homework assignments and exams are free and available for you to print or to edit.
Egyptology Resources
This site is set up with the assistance of the Newton Institute in the University of Cambridge to provide a World Wide Web resource for Egyptological information.
Treasures of the Sunken City
This PBS Nova site examine the remains of sunken Alexandria. Features a map of underseas Alexandria, film clips, a teacher's guide, and more.
 Splendors of Ancient Egypt(Florida Int'l Museum)
Provides an interactive tour of Ancient Egypt
The University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology home page
The institute offers a tour of Egypt and an exhibit of their artifacts
Ancient Egyptian Virtual Temple
Learn about Egyptian temples via the great images this site has to offer
The Egypt Museum in Cairo
Provides a visual tour of Ancient Egypt
Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides, Activities, and more
Ancient Egypt Lesson Plans for Teachers
Sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Art, the site features cross-curricular lesson plans by local teachers for enriching the study of Ancient Egypt at the elementary and middle school levels.
Mr. Donn's Ancient History: Ancient Egypt
Don Donn of the Corkran (Maryland) Middle School provides a complete unit with daily lesson plans and unit test for sixth graders. There are also links to multiple K12 lesson plans and activities.
Inside the Great Pyramid
In this PBS activity you will crawl online through Khufu's narrow passageways and navigate your way through to the King's burial chamber. This tour requires a Quicktime plugin.
BBC History: Khufu's Pyramid Complex
King Khufu (2609-2584 BC), the second king of the Fourth Dynasty, made elaborate provisions for his own death and his afterlife. His body was to be entombed within a pyramid, the most perfect pyramid Egypt had ever seen. Explore the Great Pyramid's complex reconstruction through these BBC images to discover more about the various structures.
Scaling the Pyramids
Learn from PBS Nova about the construction of the pyramids with a click through map and build models to scale.
Egypt's Greatest Leaders
In this lesson, students will learn about seven of Egypt's most famous pharaohs. They will discuss leadership styles and draw conclusions about the success of each of these pharaohs. After learning about the personality and life of each pharaoh, students will break into groups to create in-depth projects about one of the seven pharaohs they have learned about and will teach others in the class about this leader. PBS, Middle School.
A Day in the Life of an Egyptian
The focus of this lesson is to teach students about the daily lives of ancient Egyptians from every social class. Life varied dramatically for people based upon where they were in the social order, and students will examine how people from all walks of life lived. Students will use creative means to present what they have learned about the lives of Egyptians from all social classes. PBS, Grades 6-12.
Tombs and the Afterlife
This lesson focuses on the concept of the afterlife and the importance of pleasing the gods and goddesses, the significance of tombs and tomb building, and the burial customs and traditions of the ancient Egyptians. After learning about all of these concepts, students will design a tomb, create a model of it, and complete a short written assignment explaining the design and contents of the tomb. PBS, Grades 6-12.
The Curse of Tut: Fact or Myth?
A fun site for kids to learn about the fascinating life of King Tut. See pictures in the Tomb or solve the Lock Key Puzzle to see Tut smile. Students can learn the facts behind the myth and decide for themselves about the truth of the curse. Teachers will appreciate the spatial reasoning required to solve the Lock Key puzzle. Bibliography includes print and web resources
The Clickable Mummy
Click on different parts of the Mummy to view interesting facts and information about the mummification process.
Oasis of the Ancestors
People in the ancient Middle East relied on song, poetry, story, and symbols to share ideas and information. Students will study hieroglyphics of yesterday and today.
Tomb of the Pyramid Builders
Graveyards of the workers who built the pyramids were found on the Gaza plateau and will tell archaeologists more about life in ancient Egypt. The activities included give you ideas for conducting your own dig.
This Just in! Nile Network News Update
In this elementary school lesson plan, students will conduct research on the large number of engineering, scientific, architectural and artistic contributions of the ancient Egyptians. They will share their findings by producing a TV news broadcast presentation
BBC History: God and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Gallery
The deities in this BBC gallery are just 12 out of a possible 2,000 gods and goddesses who were worshipped in ancient Egypt. Some of them were major deities wielding great religious, temporal and political power, others being not much more than demons and genies, or living creatures chosen by ordinary Egyptians to be their personal gods.
BBC History Games: The Mummy Maker
Test your knowledge of history with an interactive challenge. Enter the embalmer's workshop and prepare a body for burial.
BBC History Games: Pyramid Challenge
As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the most important building project of your career -- building the king's pyramids.
BBC History: Ancient Egypt Timeline
Chart the ebb and flow of power on the banks of the Nile over three thousand years with this interactive BBC timeline.
The Paper Boat
Using household materials and similar but more modern methods, you can make your own paper, similar to papyrus the Egyptians used 5,000 years ago. PBS Scientific American
BBC History: Animals of Ancient Egypt Gallery
Animals of all kinds were important to the Ancient Egyptians, and featured in the daily secular and religious lives of farmers, craftsmen, priests and rulers. Explore their images in this BBC gallery.
The World's History: River Valley Civilizations
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic. This chapter focuses on the civilizations that developed in the Nile valley of Egypt and the Indus River valley of India/Pakistan.
The World's History: Dawn of the Empires
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic. The empires in this chapter come from three different regions: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece.
Western Civilization: Armies and Empires
The online study companion to Margaret King's Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History has many features: chapter learning objectives, online quizzes, writing activities, essay questions, web links, built-in search engines, and faculty modules that include PowerPoint outlines, presentation graphics, and lecture hints and activities
Brief Review in Global History and Geography: Document Based Essays and Practice Tests
PH@School's Brief Review in Global History and Geography Web site provides multiple-choice questions from actual Regents exams. You can also practice your test-taking skills on document-based essay questions (DBQs), with the option of e-mailing answers directly to your teacher for review.
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