This guide is intended for students and researchers studying Egyptology at the University of Oxford, although students and researchers from any field may find it useful.
Use this guide to find out about books, journals and electronic resources for Egyptology, including ebooks, ejournals and bibliographic databases.
Oxford has a wide range of ebooks for Egyptology and printed books, including the Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library. For more detailed info about our book collections visit our books page of this guide.
The full range of Egyptological journals, in print and, where available, in electronic format, can be searched via SOLO. Below are the top journals for Egyptology, but you can find a longer list on the Journals page of this guide.
Aegyptus (eformat only)
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology in print format and in eformat
Lingua Aegyptia: journal of Egyptian language studies (print only)
Search SOLO, the University's resource discovery tool, for print and ejournals at Oxford. You can filter by topic, publisher and more.
Oxford subscribes to many bibliographic databases. They can be used to locate journal articles, conference proceedings, books, patents, images, data and more. You can find some of the key databases for Egyptology below, but take a look at the databases page of this guide for more titles.
The Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, (also known as "Porter & Moss" or "TopBib") is an essential and comprehensive reference resource for Egyptologists, presenting and analysing both published and unpublished information about ancient Egyptian monuments.
Online Egyptological Bibliography
The OEB, which is available through SOLO, holds the largest available collection of references for Egyptological literature.
Trismegistos, which is available through SOLO, is a searchable online database of metadata of all published and semi-published texts from Egypt and the Nile valley, between roughly BC 800 and 800 AD, not only in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian in its various scripts (Demotic, hieroglyphic, hieratic and Coptic), but also in Meroitic, Aramaic, Arabic, Nabataean, Carian, and other languages.
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Collections from ancient Egypt and Sudan represent every period of human occupation in the Nile Valley from prehistory to the 7th century AD.
The heart of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, located at the University of Oxford for over eighty years.
The University of Oxford's dedicated centre for research into the history, languages and cultures of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus and Central Asia from antiquity to modern times.
Houses the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford, including objects from Egypt and the Sudan.
The Griffith Archive is the largest archive of unpublished Egyptological material in the world, and you can browse the collection via the online catalogue. Consultation of the collection is by appointment only.
The Bodleian Library holds some archival material, most importantly the Papers of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson. The great majority of this material is not on open access.