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	Duke Papyrus Archive - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/ Images and texts concerning various ancient Egyptian papyri, plus links to papyrology on the web.
	The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection - http://webarkiv.hum.ku.dk/cni/papcoll/ A large collection housed at the University of Copenhagen.
	Demotic Texts on the World Wide Web - http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/DEMOTIC_WWW.HTML A guide to internet resources on papyri.
	The Deir el-Medîna Database - http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/dmd/dmd.html Database of non-literary documents found at Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina archaeology excavation.
	Papyrus of Ani - http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Books/Papyrus_Ani.html The Egyptian Book of the Dead as translated by E. A. Wallis Budge.

	The Love Songs of the Chester Beatty - http://www.egyptology.com/extreme/mehy/ A papyrus containing songs for entertainment.
	The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, c. 2200 B.C.E. - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ptahhotep.html Electronic text of Ptah-Hotep's precepts, as translated by Horne.
	The Papyrus of Ani - http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/ani.htm Translation of this version of the 'Book of the Dead' by E.A. Wallis Budge.
	Hymn to Ra - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ra-ani.html A glimpse at the Egyptian reverence for their gods.
	The Egyptian Land of Silence and Darkness - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/170.html A song in which a woman laments the death of her husband.

	Osiris - The Prototype of Every Soul who Hopes to Conquer Death - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/168.html A portion of the Coffin Texts.
	The Dead Pharaoh Becomes Osiris - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/167.html A selection from the Pyramid Texts.
	The Dead Pharaoh Ascends to Heaven - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/166.html An excerpt from the Pyramid Texts, texts inscribed on the interior walls of the pyramids of certain pharaohs of the fifth and sixth dynasties (c. 2425-2300 B.C.).
	Egyptian Cosmogony and Theogony - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/054.html An excerpt from The Book of Overthrowing Apophis, a late work.
	The Coming into Day - http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/EGYPT/BOD125.HTM The Book of the Dead, Chapter 125, The Judgment of the Dead.

	Mans Soul Identified with Both Osiris and with Nature - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/088.html The clearest identification of the soul with nature that the ancients have left us from the Coffin Texts.
	Atum - A Bisexual High God - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/018.html An excerpt from the Coffin Texts on origins.
	The Egyptian High God in the Age of the Coffin Texts - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/017.html Writing inscribed on the interior of coffins belonging to the Middle Kingdom (2250-1580 B.C.)
	A Spell for the Revival Osiris - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/104.html A Coffin Text excerpt.
	Debate Between Osiris and the High God - http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/019.html An excerpt from the Book of the Dead, Chapter 175.

	Pyramid Texts Online - http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/ Discover the texts in the pyramid of Unas, has photographs of the walls and translations.
	Egyptian Love Poetry - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2000egypt-love.html Ancient verse, c. 2000 - 1100 B.C.E.
	Princess Ahura - The Magic Book - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1100egyptmagic.html A tale, c. 1100 B.C.E., from The World's Story, A History of the World in Story, Song and Art.
	The Offering of Uha - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2400uha.html Male and female circumcision, c. 2400 B.C.E.
	The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1800egypt-peasant.html A remarkable appreciation of the rights of the common people, c. 1800 B.C.E.

	The Rosetta Stone - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/rosetta-stone-translation.html Translation of the Greek section.
	The Shipwrecked Sailor - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2200shipwreck.html A tale of Ancient Egypt, c. 2200 B.C.E.
	Mummification - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-mummies.html An excerpt from Herodotus's The Histories.
	The Tale of Horus and the Pig, c. 1900 B.C.E. - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1900horuspig.html Why the Egyptians did not eat pork from the Coffin Text, c. 1900 B.C.E.
	The Memphite Theology - http://www.kheper.net/topics/Egypt/Memphis.html Ptah is portrayed as the creator god.

	Egyptian Law Readings - http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/egypt.htm A bibliography of texts regarding ancient Egyptian laws by Bernard Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
	Egyptological Texts - http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/texts/ Two texts by Flinders Petrie.
	The Papyri Pages - http://members.tripod.com/~papyri/index.html Pictures, articles, and links about ancient Egyptian papyri.

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