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1. Egyptian Artifacts

2. Egyptian Mummies (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
   "The mummies from the Deir el-Bahri cache were removed to the Cairo Museum in 1881, and most, but not all, of the mummies found in the tomb of Amenhotep II were brought to Cairo after their discovery."

3. Milestones of Ancient Egypt (Exploring Ancient World Cultures)
   Ancient Egyptian milestones from 3100 BCE to 305 BCE. 1-04

4. Egypt - Pyramid Excavation (PBS Nova)
   Provides history and cross-sectional maps on excavations of pyramids in Giza Egypt.

5. Egyptian History (Rivendell)
   Provides well organized and somewhat comprehensive resources.

6. Egypt - My Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Donn)
   An eleven year old girl describes "her" life in ancient Egypt. Also includes a quiz. For example, why did ancient Egyptians eat fried mice? In addition, includes detailed information about the daily life of Egyptians. 03-06

7. Egypt - Make Your Own Cartouche (Busch Gardens)
   Provides the resources to develop your own official Egyptian nameplate, a cartouche.

8. Egypt - Map of the Ancient Sumer Region

9. Egypt - Ancient Egypt (ThinkQuest Team 16325 - Empires Past)
   Provides a history, vocabulary, arts, sciences, government and more.

10. Ancient Egyptians

11. Egypt - Ancient Egypt (Emory University)
    Provides a description of daily life, burials, mythology, and more.

12. Ancient Egyptians (Detroit Institute of Arts)
    Provides cross-curricular lesson plans. 2-01

13. Egyptian History (About.com - Rosenberg)
    Provides sources of information. 2-01

14. Ancient Egyptian Art (Artchive.com)
    Provides an introduction and examples of art. 3-01

15. Ancient Egyptians (Snaith Primary School)
    Provides worksheets and interactive problems to solve. 11-01

16. Hieroglyphs, Egyptian (Rosmorduc) 3-00

17. Women in Ancient Egypt (PBS.org)
    "As an Egyptian woman, you would have been among the most legally independent females in the ancient world."
    
    "Their legal rights of women meant they could bring an action in law, be a partner in legal contracts and own property. It was also possible for them to work, and even live alone."

18. -09-04-05 Egyptian Poll Monitors Banned (BBC News)
    "Egypt's electoral commission says it will not allow independent groups to monitor Wednesday's presidential election, defying a court ruling." 9-05

19. -11-26-05 Landmark Day for Gaza-Egypt Border (BBC News)
    "More than 1,500 Palestinians have crossed freely from Gaza into Egypt via a border point controlled for the first time by Palestinian officials."
    
    "Saturday was the first day Palestinians could use the reopened Rafah crossing - a vital gateway to the outside world for the Gaza Strip's economy."
    
    "Israel held the border station for nearly 40 years but ceded control to Palestinian forces after it withdrew."
    
    "The crossing reopened under the European Union's supervision." 11-05

20. -06-05-06 U.S. State Department: Israel and Egypt Failing in Fight Against Human Exploitation (Bloomberg.com)
    "Israel and Egypt, both U.S. allies, were demoted in a State Department ranking of countries judged on efforts to combat forced labor and other forms of exploitation."
    
    "Countries on the watch list are in jeopardy of being dropped the following year into the lowest ranking, where they face the possibility of U.S. sanctions relating to foreign aid. Support from the U.S. government for loans from the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank may also be withheld." 06-06

21. -001 Obama Makes Major Speech in Egypt (MSNBC News)
    "Using quotes from the Quran, President Barack Obama called for a 'new beginning between the United States and Muslims' Thursday and said together, they could confront violent extremism across the globe and advance the timeless search for peace in the Middle East." 06-09

22. CT Scans Reveal Ancient Egyptian Mummies' Secrets (CNN News)
    "Inside are the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion. Another body -- a prince no less -- is a few rooms down in a computer tomography scanner."
    
    "The bodies are part of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 11 Egyptian mummies, transported to the North Shore University Hospital to be scanned. The goal: Find out who they are, how they might have died and establish a chronology of advances in ancient Egypt's mummification techniques." 06-09

23. -03-01-10 Massive Head of Pharoah Found in Egypt (CBS News)
    "Archaeologists have unearthed a massive red granite head of one Egypt's most famous pharaohs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Sunday."
    
    "The leader of the expedition that discovered the head described it as the best preserved sculpture of Amenhotep III's face found to date." 03-10

24. -3,400-Year-Old Statue Found in Egypt (MSNBC News)
    "Archaeologists have unearthed the upper part of a double limestone statue of a powerful pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, Egypt's Ministry of Culture said Saturday." 09-10

25. -01-26-11 Protests in Egypt Continue (Time.com)
    "Everywhere, the message was the same: 'The people want the fall of the regime,' the protesters chanted as they marched over broken glass. On the Corniche, Cairo's busy road along the Nile, protesters stopped traffic, setting a dumpster on fire and chanting 'Down, Down Mubarak!' Moments later, they scattered after a charge by over a dozen plainclothes thugs, armed with sticks and knives, who chased them in between cars and onto a nearby bridge." 01-11

26. -01-28-11 Egypt's Turmoil Continues (Time.com)
    "Al Jazeera earlier showed images of crowds welcoming the arrival of an army personnel carrier on a Cairo street: While the police are the target of the protestors' ire, they have been chanting for the army to 'save' them. In Tunisia, it was the army taking the side of the demonstrators against the police that tipped the balance away from President Ben Ali, and Egyptian protestors are hoping to see the same effect. The military remains the cornerstone of the regime, but there are no indications thus far that it will move against the regime." 01-11

27. -01-28-11 U.S. to Egypt: Violence Is Not the Answer (MSNBC News)
    "The Obama administration threatened on Friday to reduce a $1.5 billion program of foreign aid to Egypt based on President Hosni Mubarak's response to swelling street protests in Cairo and other cities."
    
    " 'Violence is not the response' to the demands for greater freedoms, said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs." 01-11

28. -01-31-11 Egyptian Army Recognizes Legitimacy of Protesters (CBS News)
    "Egypt's military promised Monday not to fire on any peaceful protests and recognized 'the legitimacy of the people's demands,' a sign army support for President Hosni Mubarak may be unraveling. Protesters planned a major escalation, calling for a million people to take to the streets to push Mubarak out of power." 01-11

29. -02-01-11 Updates on Protests in Egypt (New York Times)
    Provides updates. 02-11

30. 02-05-11 Egypt: The Group of Three (New York Times)
    "Mr. Suleiman, a former military officer, appears to share power with two close allies, Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, the defense minister, and Ahmed Shafiq, the prime minister, a retired general who previously ran the country’s national airline, said Abdel Moneim Qattou, a retired Army general close to all three."
    
    " 'The three of them are military men,' Mr. Qattou said. 'They know each other very well and they are together trying to find a way out of this crisis. They want to do this without spilling blood and without hurting the dignity of Egypt or Mubarak while fulfilling the demands of the masses.' " 02-11

31. Tantawi and Military Council Take Control in Egypt (ABC News)
    "As thousands in Egypt celebrate the end of Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign today, authority in the North African nation has shifted to Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi, a man experts and some protestors said is undoubtedly a member of the old regime, but clean of the human rights abuses the plagued the state's intelligence and police agencies." 02-11

32. 02-17-11 How Egypt Is Different From Bahrain (MSNBC News)
    " 'Nationally, Bahrain is a very poor country and the wealth that does get created is concentrated in the hands of the rulers and the influential,' he said. '… I’ve never seen wretched poverty like I’ve seen in Bahrain.' " 02-11

33. -06-08-11 Editorials: Will Mubarak's Trial Unite or Divide Egypt? (New York Times)
    "Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya are using any means necessary to avoid the fate of Hosni Mubarak. The former Egyptian president faces trial this summer on charges that could bring the death penalty. He is accused of conspiring to kill unarmed protesters last winter and of involvement, with his sons Alaa and Gamal, in corrupt oil and gas deals." 06-11

34. -12-02-11 Islamists Dominate in Egyptian Election (Time.com)
    "The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt's political mainstream, and its most significant challengers are the more extreme Islamists of the Salafi movement rather than the secular liberal forces that dominate the Tahrir Square protest movement. That appears to be the not-exactly-surprising verdict of the electorate, according to reports from the first two days of voting in Egypt's protracted parliamentary election."
    
    "The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt's political mainstream, and its most significant challengers are the more extreme Islamists of the Salafi movement rather than the secular liberal forces that dominate the Tahrir Square protest movement. That appears to be the not-exactly-surprising verdict of the electorate, according to reports from the first two days of voting in Egypt's protracted parliamentary election."
    
    "The official announcement of results from the nine (out of a total of 27) provinces has been delayed until Friday or Saturday, but the New York Times reports that the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party looks to have garnered some 40% of the vote, while a further 25% could go to the even more conservative Salafist al-Nour party. Despite the apparent Islamist majority, Brotherhood leaders hastened to reassure Egyptians Thursday that they have no intention of seeking a coalition with the Salafists, seeing secular parties as the more natural ally for their vision of a democratic Egypt. If anything, the Islamists' share of the vote is more likely to grow than shrink, considering that the electoral districts that voted this week were the most urban, middle class and liberal." 12-11

35. -06-24-12 Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Wins Egypt's Presidency (CBS News)
    "Mohammed Morsi was declared Egypt's first Islamist president on Sunday after the freest elections in the country's history, narrowly defeating Hosni Mubarak's last Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq in a race that raised political tensions in Egypt to a fever pitch." 06-12

36. -07-06-12 New President of Egypt Orders Parliament to Convene (MSNBC News)
    "The military had been running Egypt since Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year. But, shortly before the handover to the elected president, the army put some curbs on the presidency and gave itself legislative powers."
    
    "After a little more than a week in office, Morsi's move highlights the power struggle likely to define his term, pitting long repressed Islamists against generals used to calling the shots and an establishment full of Mubarak-era officials." 07-12

37. -07-15-12 Egypt's Military Raises Stakes in Control (CBS News)
    "The military, which ruled after the fall last year of Hosni Mubarak, and the Brotherhood, the country's strongest political force, are in a competition over power that has intensified with Morsi's winning of the presidency last month. Days before Morsi was sworn in on June 30, the Brotherhood-led parliament was dissolved and the generals gave themselves legislative and budgetary authority and control over the process of drafting a new constitution, put severe limits on the president's authority." 07-12

38. -12-08-12 Egyptian President Gives Up Sweeping Powers (USA Today)
    "A national dialogue committee said a referendum on a disputed draft constitution will be held on schedule, but President Mohammed Morsi has agreed to rescind the near-absolute power he had granted himself." 12-12

39. Egypt (Library of Congress)
    Provides a history of the country, including culture, government, economy, and more. Also includes geographic information. 1-02

40. Egypt (U.S. State Department)
    Provides a history of each country, including culture, government, economy, and more. 1-05

41. Egypt (CountryReports.org)
    Provides a profile by topic, including Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People, National Anthem, Lyrics and Related Links. Provides a map and a flag. 6-02

42. Egypt

43. News from Egypt (Middle East Times)
    Provides news in English. 02-06

44. Chinchorro Mummies Believed to be 8000 Years Old
    "Various excavations of mummies (referred to as the Chinchorro) in Chile have brought scientists to believe that methods of highly complex mummification existed prior to that of the ancient Egyptians."

45. Hieroglyphics Alphabet and Symbols (Busch Gardens)
    Provides the alphabetic symbols and other symbols to create a message. You can write your name in hieroglyphics. 3-00

46. -Daily Life in Ancient Times (Donn)
    Provides information on toys, pets, food, jobs, entertainment, transportation, clothes, and other daily life details. Includes ancient China, Egypt, Greece, Rome and India. 03-06

47. Ancient History and Philosophy (Multnomah County Library)
    Includes Vikings, Stone Age, and Ice Age, as well as the traditional cultures of the Aztecs, Egyptians, Greeks, Incas, Mayans, Mediterranean, Middle East, and Romans.

48. Ancient History (Feig)
    Includes Egypt, Greece and other ancient civilizations. 2-01

49. Ancient Nubia (Kelsey)
    Provides pictures of artifacts from the ancient Nubian culture that existed along with the Egyptian culture. 10-09

50. Ancient Civilizations (About.com - Gill)
    Provides information on the art, mythology, laws, and daily life of ancient Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Illyrians, Celts, Phoenicians, and Persians. 6-99