In collaboration with

American Research Center In Egypt (ARCE)

Neues Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum

and 9 more collections

Travel back in time to ancient Egypt

Return of the Cat Mummy

Can you save the pharaoh's afterlife?

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Packing for the afterlife? Don't forget the cats!

Learn more about cats and the ancient Egyptian afterlife

Cultures of cat lovers

Did you know the Ancient Egyptians thought cats brought luck?

What do you need to pack for an eternity?

Explore the burial necessities to secure a safe journey to the afterlife

Figurine of the Goddess Bastet as a Cat

Bronze figure of a seated cat

Mummy of a cat

Figurine of the Goddess Bastet as a Cat

Mummified cat

Bronze figure of the cat-headed goddess Bastet

Is Egyptology your calling?

Quick tips on studying ancient Egypt

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What is Egyptology?

With Dr. Salima Ikram, University Professor at the American University in Cairo

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What's New in the World of Egyptology?

With Dr. Yasmin el Shazly, Deputy Director for Research and Programs, ARCE

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Who Ruled Ancient Egypt?

With Tessa Litecky, Project Archives Assistant, ARCE

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Who are the People Who Are Involved in Conservation?

With Bianca Madden, Art Conservator

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Restoration vs Conservation?

With Dr. Nicholas Warner, Conservation Architect

Life after life

Discover how the Ancient Egyptians prepared the dead for their next adventure

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The Journey to the Afterlife

Follow Menna on his journey into the afterlife and learn about the beliefs and rituals of the ancient Egyptians

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See the Tomb of Menna in 3D

Take a closer look at the life's journey of an ancient Egyptian official

Discover more tombs and gods of the dead

From A to Z of an ancient Egyptian tomb

Unroll the scrolls & meet the mummies

Explore the stories in Books of the Dead and get wrapped in these discoveries

Zoom In Heart weighing ceremony Cult of the Dead Look inside

What are hieroglyphs?

Discover the hand carved puns of Ancient Egypt

The ABCs

What the ancient symbols are all about

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The breakthrough

The Discovery That Changed Everything

The Rosetta Stone and the story of how we finally understood hieroglyphics

The secrets

How to Decode Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

The secrets of the intricate system of writing

How to read hieroglyphs with AI

Discover Fabricius and how it works

How Fabricius Translates Hieroglyphs

Learn how to use the Work feature

History's Past Attempts To Translate Hieroglyphs

Discover the different times people have tried to understand the hieroglyphics

Explore Fabricius

The brand new interactive game that helps you write and share your own Egyptian hieroglyphs

See hieroglyphs, up close

The history

The Ancient Language That Was Undecipherable For Centuries...

Learn the history of the Egyptian symbology

Learn with calligrapher Seb Lester

What do the hieroglyphs teach us today?

Seb Lester Looks at Hieroglyphs Through Calligraphy

How and why they're still a source of inspiration for artists today

Learn More About Hieroglyphs with Lettering Artist Seb Lester

The lettering and calligraphy artist explains the enduring impact of Ancient Egyptian script

What letter does the owl represent?

M

M is a phonetic transliteration for the symbol.

Unearthing Egypt's secrets

Meet the women Egyptologists digging into history

4 Leading Egyptologists Share the Secrets of Their Field

Louise Bertini, Yasmin ElShazly, Monica Hanna, and Alex Woods on the little known facts about Egyptology

Listen and look

Explore Ancient Egyptian artifacts while you enjoy music

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Music x The Iconic Women of Ancient Egypt

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Sit Back and Enjoy Ancient Egyptian Art Set to Traditional Music

Ancient creations

Egyptian art and architecture that continue to inspire us

Exploring the Art of Ancient Egypt

Creations carved in stone, painted on tomb walls, or cast in metal

The Masterpieces That Still Exist Today

From the Great Sphinx to the Tomb Chapel of Nebanum

Visit the pyramids

Discover surprising secrets about the mysterious structures

7 Intriguing Facts About The Pyramids

Did you know it took 20 years to build one?

A Tour of the Pyramids of Giza

Discover new things about the mystifying Pyramids of Giza

Take your virtual tour

Try to avoid the curses

5 Spectacular Views of the Egyptian Pyramids

Transport yourself back in time to Ancient Egypt and take a virtual tour of the pyramids of Giza

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ExploreLa gran pirámide

ExploreLa necrópolis de Guiza

ExploreLa pirámide de Djoser

Royal lives and love stories

The people pulling the strings back in the day

History's Most Beautiful Women

Answering the big questions about Queen Nefertiti

Get to know her

The Pharaoh Erased From History

When archaeologists found this in the sand, nobody knew who this guy was...

Queen, Wife, Mother ... Goddess?

How an everyday girl became a royal

Who was Nefertiti's husband?

Akhenaten

Plaster model of King Akhenaten (Thutmosis)

The curse of the child king

A tale of ancient secrets and modern tragedy

Unburying Pharaoh Tutankhamun

An exciting discovery after years of searching

How long did the mummification process typically take?

70 days

Hieroglyphs and demotics are two scripts often found.

Ancient Egypt meets AI

Learn more about what technology teaches us about the past

Egyptology and Technology