The Translation Research Center provides a fantastic search engine that looks for terms in glossaries, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other references.
A search engine geared to internet resources that deal solely with Ancient Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology. It also allows the search of Archaeology Newsgroups by content.
A database of Egyptological publications from the Institute of Egyptology in Munich. The comprehensive subject indexing of all material using a standardized and detailed keyword system makes for a precise search. Enter "Gast" in the Name box, leave password blank.
ArchNet serves as the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology. This server provides access to archaeological resources available on the Internet. Information is categorized by geographic region and subject.
Archaeology related news, books and annotated web resources. Check their home page at www.qozi.com under Resources for other topics such as dictionaries.
A catalogue of links to Web resources for archaeology and prehistory, covering subjects such as projects, programs, publications, organizations, fieldwork, directories, databases, and other topics.
A simplified on-line version of the Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, Volume 8, Parts 1 & 2 (Part 3 is the index) edited by Jaromir Malek for the Griffith Institute, United Kingdom.
Provides a list of on-line books on Egyptology. The library lends its books (within Europe only) and provide electronic or hard copies of articles within 48 hours FOR A MODEST FEE. All new acquisitions of their special subject collections are listed at http://ssg-neu.uni-hd.de and are updated monthly.
Gallica is an incredible resource of (mainly) French works in the public domain that are downloadable as tiff or pdf files. You have to see this site to believe it! Fantastic for historians, archaeologists and anthropologists.
Some excellent rare texts about ancient Egypt (and other regions) by Mariette, Maspero, de Morgan, de Garis Davies, Champollion - keep an eye on this one. The selection is mostly French though.
Some rare and valuable archaeology books in the public domain in JPG format. Two or three books have display errors but it's still a useful resource. It's a shame they have not expanded their on-line collection of about 30 books.
Great site for anthropologists and archaeologists with tons of books in the public domain. Covers everywhere from Mesopotamia to Hawaii and the on-line texts are in html format.
Free downloadable texts of millions of books in the public domain including fiction, nonfiction and historical fiction. Text format or less often HTML.
Great collection of Latin and Greek (and some others) most with English and Greek/Latin side by side. Texts such as code of Hammurabi (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html in English); Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in Greek with embedded forms (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/thucy1.doc). Also provides good links to historical documents, e.g. early Egyptian literature (http://www.egyptology.com/extreme/mehy/).
University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, MOA, has a few historical, archaeological and anthropological books in text form (though not proofed) and images files. Try searching by typing Egypt in the Subject box or browse by author or title. Keep checking back for new stuff. Peruse the title list at http://www.umdl.umich.edu/title-list.html -- unfortunately most are restricted use.
On-line German books, monographs and journals in the public domain - only a couple so far in archaeology but definitely worth checking every now and again for new items.
The Bibliotheca is building up special collections on Egypt, the Middle East, and Islam. It plans to have every book in the world available on-line. Nothing there so far but keep checking back!
Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie is a fully web-based series published at the Richard-Lepsius-Institute of the Humboldt-University of Berlin (formerly Seminar für Sudanarchäologie und Ägyptologie). The publications (html & pdf) have German & English summaries.
Not very user-friendly with a long download per page and difficult to get the page you actually want. Still it's a valuable contribution to provide his Denkmaler free. Or try demo at http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/
Revues ouvertes en ligne. Articles de revues en accès libre sur la Toile. Bibliotheca Classica Selecta Revues électroniques traitant du monde antique. Bibliotheca Classica Selecta Publications électroniques (BCS-PUB).
A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Searches all forms of media including books. See the Million Book Project: http://www.archive.org/texts/collection.php?collection=millionbooks
Fantastic reference for finding out what the abbreviations referring to classical Greek and Latin sources actually stand for, and an English translation to boot.
Fantastic resource for bibliographies of all periods, images, site maps, tomb plans, and more from the Petrie Museum and the University College London.
More than an introduction to the history and culture of Pharaonic Egypt! An outstanding site: elegant, uncluttered, informative. Terrific glossary and collection of Egyptian texts, a well-chosen list of links and so much more. A joy to visit and conduct research!
List of who's who in ancient Egypt, list of Egyptian kings, list of monuments, a section on mythology, a virtual museum, a glossary of terms, and a history of each dynasty.
This document is a part of a larger collection
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_index.html) of the AnthroGlobe
(http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/anthroglobe/) specialist bibliographies.
It forms a subsection of the Asian Studies WWW VL
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) and Pacific Studies WWW VL
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html).
The Theban Mapping Project provides a bibliography, glossary, maps and much more pertaining to this Upper Egyptian site. They used to have a more far-reaching bibliography but I can't seem to locate it.
French/English Website devoted to Pharaoh Seti I, including the hieroglyphic texts and translations of the Destruction of Mankind (the Heavenly Cow), the Litany of Re, the Book of Gates from Seti's sarcophagus -- the 19 plates from Samuel Sharpe, The Alabaster Sarcophagus of Oimenepthah I., King of Egypt, London, 1864 are provided.
The British organization offers an annual journal, beautiful and informative
bulletins, numerous scholarly benefits, and is always responsive to members.
An international journal of Egyptology. This French site provides a directory of
centers and libraries, an index of research topics for students, excellent links to
forums, databases, and more.
A complete index downloaded as an Excel file through Internet Explorer only. Persistent
popups and cookies though! The site can also be accessed from www.egyptology.com. Some of
KMT's Contents pages are up at its own site but they are cursory.
Complete listing of ALL the Egyptian articles from the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin
downloadable as pdfs. Also provided at www.mfa.org are views of Giza and some of the mastabas,
overviews of the project & George Reisner's career, and an on-line collections database.
Digitized articles from the journals known as Abhandlungen der Königlichen Preußischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Philologische und historische Abhandlungen provided
by the BBAW.
The tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available on-line.
From the home page at http://antiquity.ac.uk/ access the Reviews Section which has a selection of book reviews and review articles taken from the latest issue.
PHOENIX, journal of the Classical Association of Canada, publishes scholarly papers embodying original research in all areas of Classical Studies. The contents pages of many of their volumes are on-line. Check home page for more offerings.
The publication of the workshop on animal cults held in Berlin June 2002 is available in PDF-format, either as the complete volume or as single articles. Summaries of each article can be read in HTML both in German and English. All articles are in German.
Link Exchange. The organization requested that this link include their description: "Explore the human past with the premiere publication devoted to worldwide archaeological discovery. Exclusive on-line articles and links to related sites."
Search Engines & Links Lists for Translation Assistance
Search a great number of online dictionaries and search engines simultaneously and have the results displayed to you within the KudoZ.net application. If you don't find a satisfying answer to the term or phrase in question, you can request assistance from the ProZ.com network of translators. You must be a member, however, membership is free.
Lexicool's wonderfully uncluttered site has links to 2000+ translation dictionaries & glossaries including a directory of bilingual or multilingual dictionaries.
Useful German to English dictionary of ceramic terminology (also French & Italian).
Also a great and thorough list of metric measures with their British system equivalents.
This fantastic dictionary contains illustrated explanations of names, technical terms, and
other vocabulary relating to Greek history, myth, geography, art and architecture.
Edited by Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, & Marian Holland McAllister at the
Perseus Project (www.perseus.tufts.edu). Lots of other useful info about ancient Greek and
Rome as well.
Some great on-line reference works such as The Columbia Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of
World History and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable but there are so many pop-up ads.
)Such a nice helpful article on Lepsius at
http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/egyeb/lexikon/pallas/html/064/pc006414.html
have to find the home page and see what else is there.
This Web site links to free, on-line automatic translation engines, translation dictionaries, translation word lists and multiple language process resources. The sites are arranged by language. Additional resources include access to sites that provide multiple translations simultaneously, tools and program links, a spreadsheet grid to translation from English to 18 other languages and language identification sites.
Combination of a large number of resources, tools and info and a simple and clean sense of order and presentation. Designed for fast access to downloadable dictionaries, glossaries and word lists, this site also provides 16 software packages, 15 translation memory systems and 34 machine translation systems. There are 4 consolidated and refined language-related search engines. The browser also finds industry resources and an active and current forum.
ProZ is a community of professional translators and experts who help with a word or phrase. It's very active and you can get help extremely quickly. You will have to provide context for your question. First search the archive as all the discussions are saved and searchable. Glossaries are also available.
A repository of info for translators, including a variety of guides, glossaries, term banks, databases of the differences between English/American, French/Québecois, etc.
Magazine that offers much on-line as well, including employment opportunities, product reviews, free downloadable supplements on language technology topics, news, calendar, etc.
Free stand alone part of the SDLX Translation Suite can be downloaded from the main page
(on the right hand side there's a Green arrow with "Download Trial").
This evaluation version will continue to function after the 30 days.
The pdf file "How to Use SDL Termbase 2003" can be found on their documentation page:
http://www.sdlintl.com/products-support-documentation.htm
A French site that classifies 6742 hieroglyphic characters by theme, lists 468 phonograms,
and compares old and new versions of Winglyph (glyphs are adapted from the old CCER list).
The far from complete Digitized Slip Archive of the Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache.
Provided by the BBAW = Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften whose Egyptology
home page is http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/altaegyptwb/index.html
New site to provide MdC (Manuel de Codage) text resources and a comprehensive dictionary
resource including an English version of the Beinlich list and the Demotisches Glossar.
They will include links to the relevant pages in WB (Wörterbuch) and DG (Demotisches Glossar).
Bookstores Specialized in Archaeology and the Classics
Best site for reprinted rare books. Huge (and growing) fabulous selection of AFFORDABLE paperbacks (average $20)! User friendly search engine, downloadable PDF test pages for viewing quality and an e-mail service that notifies of books coming available in your chosen topic/s and languages.
Mostly created for use by large libraries -- the web site wasn't very user friendly when I visited. I recommend wherever possible to use the services at the University of Heidelberg instead (see above).
