THE EGYPTOLOGISTS' ELECTRONIC FORUM

The Egyptologists' Electronic Forum (EEF) is a membership-wide e-mail list for conferencing on the culture and civilization of ancient Egypt c. 5000 BCE - 641 CE. The EEF serves as a nexus for dialog between academics working in Egyptology and other persons interested in ancient Egypt.

EEF Administration:

• EEF Application Form: how to subscribe to the forum.
• EEF Charter: statements that specify the nature of the forum and its moderation.
• EEF Home Notes: administrative FAQs - Charter clarifications, posting suggestions, Internet conventions.
• EEF NEWS (website version): the latest edition of the weekly EEF newsletter with news items on events, discoveries, and publications. Also look here for an overview of exhibitions, lectures and conferences on Ancient Egypt.
  
• EEF Archives: here you can download the archives of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum for the years 1998-2008. For the detailed contents of each sorted monthly archive, please check out the relevant contents link. For later years, there are no online archives.
• For all questions about subscription matters, or item submissions by non-subscribers, please contact the forum's moderator (A.K. Eyma).

• EEF BBS: bulletin board to carry pictures etc. refered to during discussions on the EEF mailinglist.
  
• EEF Members' Papers: online working papers by EEF subscribers.
  
• EEF Reviews: reviews or descriptions (by EEF members) of books, CD-ROMs, performing arts, etc., dealing with Ancient Egypt.
• EEF Publications: info on the first EEF publication (A. K. Eyma, C. J. Bennett (eds.), A Delta-man in Yebu. Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum No. 1, 2003), with Table of Contents and background. The TOC and one free paper (in PDF) may also be found at the site of the publisher.

• Bibliographical Abbreviations & Links: abbreviations of titles of Egyptological magazines, series and reference works; with links if journals and publishers have a Web presence or an e-mail address.
• Institutes - Abbreviations & Links: links to, and abbreviations of the names of, Egyptological societies, departments and institutes. Museums excluded.
• E-mail addresses of scholars (links)
• Personal homepages of Egyptologists: private pages by professionals with info on their CVs and bibliographies.
• Transliteration charts: for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Coptic, Greek and Hebrew.
• Literature Lists & Databases: links to bibliographies for Ancient Egypt, to databases and digitized literature, and to publishers and book search engines.
• Glyphs and Grammars, Part I: resources for beginners - how to learn to read hieroglyphs and how to learn Middle Egyptian; literature list plus web links to online resources and fonts.
• Glyphs and Grammars, Part II: literature list for Old, New, and Late Egyptian, Hieratic and Demotic, and Vocalisation.
• How to become an Egyptologist? and How to join an excavation in Egypt? are two much asked questions, and they are answered in detail on the website of Dr Nigel Strudwick. The TMP website also answers the first question, listing university programs worldwide. This press report, Egyptology as a Career Choice, has some information as well, and somewhat cynical (but valid) caveats may be found in Shmoop Carreer Guide: Egyptologist.
• Abbreviations: some general Egyptological abbreviations in common use, plus abbreviations that are used in email.

• Online AE Text Resources: guide to online resources for 'famous' ancient Egyptian texts.
• E-journals and Digitized Journals: an overview of journals (relevant to Egyptology) that can be downloaded for free.
• Three publications that are available online or partly digitized, hosted by the EEF website:
  
  • The Egyptian Museum (Cairo) Newsletter (online issues)
  • The Ministry of Antiquities (Egypt) Newsletter (online issues)
  • The Heritage of Egypt Magazine (online issues)
• Digitized Collections of Ancient Egyptian Source Texts: list of volumes (available online) that collect translations and/or drawings of (multiple) ancient Egyptian texts.
• Digitized Egyptological Book Series: list of some book series that are online.
• Online CG Volumes: the online issues of the Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.
• Online Urk Volumes: the online issues of the important Urkunden des aegyptischen Altertums
• Online Video and Audio Files: media files dealing with both Egyptology and Egyptomania.
• Tributes:
  • Classical Authors on ancient Egypt (online resources)
  • Mariette
  • Petrie
• EMINA, Egyptian Mummies in North America, a searchable database, by SJ Wolfe & John Stoffel, hosted by the EEF website.
• Translation of Georg Möller's works on Hieratic, by Tom Stableford

• Files designed/compiled by the website maintainer (A.K. Eyma):
  
  • CIVIL4.0: a tiny DOS program (Zipped, 25kB) to convert Egyptian Civil dates into Julian and Gregorian dates, B.C. and A.D. (There does exist a mirror image program, which converts Julian and Gregorian dates into Civil dates, using different algorithms than CIVIL employs; it is written by Michael St. John and may be requested at his address; please use a real full name).
  • JGJConvertor: a tiny DOS program (Zipped, 22kB) to convert Julian dates into Gregorian dates and the reverse.
  • Ancient Egyptian loan-words: which Ancient Egyptian words made it into English? (continuously updated)