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Egyptian Archaeology
Electronic resources (indexes and full-text resources)
AIGYPTOS: A Database for Egyptological Literature
From the Institute of Egyptology, Munich. Emphasis on subject indexing (called keyword here); excellent coverage of non-English journals. Coverage: 1978 on.
Annual Egyptological Bibliography Online
Covers 1992-1998, with some bibliography through 2002. See below for print version, which covers 1947-2000.
ATLA religion database + ATLAS
Provider: SilverPlatter
Provides online access to the entire core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly journals in the field of religion. Also provides citation information for journal articles, book reviews and essays for over 600 journals in the fields of religion and theology. Covers 1949-present.
Oxford art online
Not just art--also good articles on archaeological sites, with plans and bibliography.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Very useful for locating older articles in journals in English and western European languages. The major archaeology, art, and classics journals are indexed, and coverage is from the first volume of the journal.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
A general database without deep coverage of Egyptology, but several archaeology journals (with full-text coverage) are included. Citations from the 1970s, most full-text from 1990s or 2000s.
Print resources (for finding bibliography)
Annual Egyptological bibliography.
Publisher: Leiden, E. J. Brill.
The print AEB (Carpenter Reference Z3656.A2 A6) covers 1947-2000, and includes sections on art, archaeology, history, religion, literature, etc. The Annual Egyptological Bibliography Online includes the contents of 1992-1998, and a supplementary list of books and articles that have appeared until 2002 (see above for link).
Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs, and paintings,
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960-
Encyclopedias and dictionaries:
The encyclopaedia of ancient Egyptian architecture
Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2003.
Lexikon der Ägyptologie.
Publisher: Wiesbaden, O. Harrassowitz, 1972-1993.
In German, but the last volume has an English index to the German. Good for finding bibliography.