Universitätsbibliothek Mainz

Egyptology

Databases

The most important databases:

OEB: Online Egyptological Bibliography

The Egyptologists’ Electronic Forum

The Digital Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology

Propylaeum–Specialized Information Service (FID) Ancient Studies

PropylaeumDOK–Publishing Platform for publications on Ancient Studies

More databases:

DBIS—Archaeology

Full texts

Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae

Database of Early Dynastic Inscriptions / Ilona Regulski

Papyrus Portal

Papyri.info–Heidelberg complete list of Egyptian Greek papyrus documents, Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri and Advanced Papyrological Information System

Berlin Papyrus Database (BerlPap)

Oxyrhynchus Online

Coptic Scriptorium

E-Books

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia (2021)

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt (2012)

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology (2019)

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography (2020)

The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead (2023)

The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings (2016)

A Companion to Ancient Egypt

Journals

Aegyptus (via @JSTOR, via @ProQuest)

Archéo-Nil (not the last 3 years)

Egypt and the Levant (via JSTOR)

Bibliotheca Orientalis (not the last 3 years)

BIFAO: Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale

British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 

CIPEG Journal

ENiM–Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne

Études et Travaux

Göttinger Miszellen

JARCE: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (via @JSTOR)

JEA: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections

Announcements of the German Archaeological Institute Cairo

Announcements of the German Oriental Society 

NeHeT–Revue numérique d’Égyptologie

Orientalia (via @JSTOR) 

OLZ: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung

Prague Egyptological Studies

Rivista del Museo Egizio

Studies in Ancient Egyptian Culture (via @DigiZeitschriften, via @JSTOR)

The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture

Trabajos de Egiptología–Papers on Ancient Egypt

WdO (Die Welt des Orients)

ZÄS: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (until 2019)

Reference books / Dictionaries online

Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae

Trismegistos

Das altägyptische Totenbuch

Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom

Thot Sign List (on hieroglyphs)

Palaeography of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs (AKU-PAL) 

Demotic word list

Wissenschaftliches Bibellexikon (WiBiLex) 

Coptic Encyclopedia

Local Institutions

Institute of Ancient Studies, Egyptology Department

New literature for you

New acquisitions from Non-European Languages

New Acquisitions Classical Archaeology

Location in library

In the Central Library, you will find Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies under the call number 21G and under 20D and 21F in the textbook collection. In the reading room, Egyptology is under ARCHAEOL D as well as under HIST J (Ancient History) and LING G (Semito-Hamitic Languages and Literatures).

Cataloging Systems at our Locations

Further information

Ancient Egyptian cursive scripts

Trismegistus–Interdisciplinary portal to papyrological and epigraphical resources

Digital Rosetta Stone

Propylaeum–Specialized Information Service (FID) Ancient Studies

PropylaeumDOK–Publishing Platform for publications on Ancient Studies

PropylaeumSEARCH–Central Research Portal for Ancient Studies

Recensio.antiquitatis–Reviews of Publications on Ancient Studies

International Association of Egyptologists

Deutscher Archäologen-Verband e.V. (DArV)

Bibliography of Egyptological databases and datasets (maintained by the Mainzer Ägyptologie)

Internal bibliography of Egyptology in Mainz