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MY EGYPTOLOGY
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Ever since early childhood I have experienced dreams of ancient
Egypt. At the age of five I drew pyramids, palm trees, and desert without
ever having seen photographs of the pyramids in Egypt or drawings of
ancient Egypt. During my childhood, as a teenager, and during my twenties
I read mostly Egyptology books. I designed my room to look like a
combination of ancient Egyptian temple and a tomb. It made for some
entertaining parties. My friends loved it. I even played records
of ancient Egyptian music. Later I sought addmission to the American
University of Cairo. Unfortunately, it was fairly expensive and my
parents didn't want to foot that bill. I was already enrolled at an
American university in the U.S. to study anthropology. The only
universities in the U.S. that had a curriculum for Egyptology were also fairly
expensive. I became disgusted with the Anthropology department
at the university I attended and switched to History. They had a much
better History department. My advice to anyone in or just out of high
school, or in the early stages of university work, is to seek every avenue
of assistance available to insure the success of one's career plans. Don't
let anyone stand in your way. I, for one, missed out on my dream. I
even missed out on my alternative plan of action. I went to a business school
to acquire a diploma as a travel agent., and I then spent three years
attempting to break into the travel industry. That was much more difficult
than I thought. At the time I had no computer nor typing skills so
the other training I had didn't amount to much. I thought if I became
a travel agent I would at least be able to make some trips to visit the ancient
monuments in Egypt.
To this day I have yet to see Egypt. Everything that
can go wrong has gone wrong--like Murphy's Law ("Everthing that can go wrong
will go wrong"). So here I am creating a website page devoted to Egyptology
within the personal journal section of my Tropical Zines Cafe website.
Anyone who shares the same fascination for ancient Egypt should find
the links on this page worth visiting. Perhaps some of us will
make it to Egypt someday. Meanwhile, enjoy your visit on-line. And,
check out the recommended books list.
RECOMMENDED
LINKS:
Welcome to Akhet Internet
http://www.users.mwfree.net/~jarjar/
Ancient Egyptian Virtual Temple
http://www.netins.net/showcase/ankh/index.html
Egyptology Resources
http://www.newton.com.ac.uk/egypt/
Frankie's Bibliography of Ancient Egypt
http://www.boston.quik.com/akb/
Ancient Egypt--Guardian's Egypt
http://guardians.net/egypt/
KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt
http://www.egyptology.com/KMT
Welcome to Rigby's orld of Egypt
http://www.powerup.com.au/~ancient/
Anthony's Egyptology & Archaeology
http://www.osirisweb.com/egypt/
Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt
http://eyelid.ukonline.co.uk/ancient/egypt.htm
The Egyptian Gazette Online Edition
http://www.egy.com/
Egypt Search
http://www.egyptsearch.com/
Egyptology.com--Reeder's Egypt page
http://www.egyptology.com/
Cairo
http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt/Cairo/
Khufu's Last Will
http://rostan.webprovider.com/
Eye of Horus
http://www.primenet.com/~meehanix/Enter.html
Egyptologica
http://hosting.netvision.be/egyptologica/e_hiero.htm
The Ancient Egyptian Site
http://www.geocities.com/~amenhotep/index.html
Walk Like An Egyptian
http://members.aol.com/tokapu/walkle01.htm
Ancient Nile Webring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?
MORE TO COME!
RECOMMENDED
BOOKS:
Akhenaten: King of Egypt
by Cyril Aldred
The Dwellers on the Nile: The Life, History,
Religion, and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
Egyptian Magic
The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary
Archaeology
all three by E. A. Wallis Budge
The Chronicle of the Pharaohs
by Peter A. Clayton
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the
Dead
translated by Raymond O. Faulker
Egypt of the Pharaohs
by Sir Alan Gardiner
Fascinating Hierogyphics: Discovering, Decoding
and Understanding the Ancient Art
by Christian Jacq
The Complete Pyramids
by Mark Lehner
Red Land Black Land
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs
both by Barbara Mertz
Egytpian Religion
by Siegfried Morenz
The Pharaohs Master Builders
by Henri Stierlin
Gods of Ancient Egypt
by Barbara Watterson
MORE TO COME!
