Useful Websites

Al-Ahram http://www.ahram.org.eg
ASTENE http://www.astene.org.uk
Bibliotheque Nationale http://www.bnf.fr
Book Reviews (Danny's) http://dannyreviews.com/h/Road_Oxiana_Byron.html
British Egyptian Society http://www.britishegyptiansociety.org.uk
British Museum http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Brooklyn Museum of Art http://www.brooklynmuseum.org
Cambridge Museum of Arch and Anth http://cumaa.archanth.cam.ac.uk/museum.html
Cassandra Vivian's site http://users.telerama.com/~cass/EgyptHandbook.html
Cornucopia's Award-winning journal on Turkey http://www.cornucopia.net
Darf Publishers (under construction) http://www.darfpublishers.co.uk/
ESRC Database for latest projects http://www.regard.ac.uk
Family Search net http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
Leighton and the Middle East: Leighton House Museum, London http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/leightonmiddleeast/links.html
Linant Pacha and his travels http://linant.org
Literature of Travel and Exploration http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/london/trav_fs.htm
Museums around the World http://www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/catalog/index.htm
Monthly Newsletter of the International Society for Travel Writing http://english.cla.umn.edu/istw/index.html
National Museums of Scotland http://www.nms.ac.uk/
Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century / European Painters in the Middle East http://www.orientalistart.net
Pitt-Rivers Museum http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/
Public Record Office http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/
RGS http://www.rgs.org/
Rotterdam Museum http://www.wereldmuseum.rotterdam.nl
Sorbonne http://www.univ-paris3.fr/
V&A http://www.vam.ac.uk/?view=compliant
World Monuments http://www.wmf.org/html/programs/addresses.html
Other book searches and rare books try:
access to 23 million out-of-print, used and rare books free of charge. Type in the details of the book you are looking for and site provides a list of matches from dealers around the world. http://www.clique.co.uk http://www.bookfinder.com http://www.ukbookworld.com
http://www.AddAll.com http://www.abebooks.com http://www.booksearch-at-hay.com
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Administrative Office, c/o CMEIS, University of Durham, South Rd, Durham DH1 3TG. Tel: 0191 374 7989; Fax: 0191 374 2830 http:/www.brismes.ac.uk
The British Museum, Gt Russell St, London WC1B 3DG www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Middle East Studies Association (MESA), The University of Arizona, 1643 East Helen St, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. www.mesa.arizona.edu
Michael J. Irlam, Mikes Railway History Guestbook mjirlam@btinternet.com http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net
I.B. Tauris, e-mail: mail@ibtauris.com http://www.ibtauris.com
Historical DNB and annual printed bibliography, also on CD-Rom http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/rhs

Waterstone's on-line department (01225 448595) will search the internet on your behalf. It can also advertise for your book in trade publications.
A similar service by Twiggers (0208 8788644).
Find travel book reviews on: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/books/
Egyptology News and Gossip http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/news.html
Egyptological resources http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/
Griffith Institute http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/Griffith.html
Egyptology in Manchester http://www.thornbridge.zetnet.co.uk/egypt.htm
Scottish Egyptology http://www.akhet.co.uk/scotland.htm
Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge http://www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/
The Egypt Centre, Swansea http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/mushp.html
Margaret Murray Collection, UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/murray.htm
MDA Museums around the UK http://www.mda.org.uk/vlmp/star.htm
BUBL link pages on Egyptian history http://www.bubl.ac.uk/link/e/egyptianhistory.htm
BBC News Middle East http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/middle_east/default.stm
Oriental Insitute Oxford http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk
Who's Who in Archaeology in Oxford http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/schoolarch/whoswho.html
Amelia Edwards http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gavin.egypt/amelia.htm
Ancient Near East Links http://www.art.man.ac.uk/arthist/ane-link.htm
Wilkinson's Egypt http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gavin.egypt/wilkinso.htm
J.J. Clere http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4clere.html
Directory of British Archaeology http://www.cix.co.uk/~archaeology/directory/wales.htm
Links for Orientalists http://www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/olinks.html
Louvre, Paris http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/ae/ae_f.htm
KMT http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/
Virtual Museum Links http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/RESEARCH/virtual-museum/links/vm.html
CMEIS, Durham http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dme0www/index.htm
Sudan and Nubia links http://www.spicey.demon.co.uk/Nubianpage/SUDANARC.htm#French
Mahas Survey http://www.spicey.demon.co.uk/Nubianpage/mahas.htm
Africa and near East http://www.shef.ac.uk/~assem/1/bibaf.html
SOAS, Near East http://www.soas.ac.uk/NearMiddleEast/assul.html



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