Geography, source, methodology, and AI analysis — four ways to read the database beyond a flat browse.
Karnak, Luxor, Deir el-Bahri, Medinet Habu, Valley of the Kings
The densest cluster of New-Kingdom inscriptions in the corpus. Royal mortuary temples, private tombs, foundation deposits, and stelae from the Theban necropolis — the heart of pharaonic Egypt from the 11th Dynasty through the Ptolemaic period.
All 7,386 objects from the Egypt Exploration Society's Tell el-Amarna excavations
Pharaoh Akhenaten built a new capital at Amarna in c. 1346 BCE, abandoned it after his death, and the site was buried for three millennia. The EES excavations documented every find by Petrie grid; every object here carries its grid reference, traceable back to the exact dig spot.
Trismegistos-Text IDs link 2,407 records across DDB, HGV, APIS, MET, and BM
The unique-in-the-world claim of this database: a single Trismegistos ID stitches together a Greek papyrus's text edition (DDB), its scholarly metadata (HGV), its physical record at a museum (APIS, MET, or BM), and its bibliography. Below are the 200 most-bridged TM-Text IDs in the corpus.
GPT-4o reads 1,500+ artifacts: deities, royal cartouches, signs, materials, visible text
Each object's primary image goes through a structured vision-AI analysis: the model identifies deities, royal names, materials, hieroglyphic signs, and any visible text. Browse the most richly-analyzed objects below — the AI panel on each detail page shows its full read.
11,000+ objects from the Harvard-MFA Giza Archives
The cemeteries around the Great Pyramids: mastaba tombs of Old Kingdom officials, royal statuary, reliefs, and burial goods, documented over a century of excavation by the Harvard University and Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition. Nearly every object is photographed and tied to its tomb on the Giza plateau.
Freely-reusable, high-resolution images from Berlin, Cleveland, the Walters, and the Freer
Collections that publish their Egyptian holdings under open licenses: the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin (full-resolution images of every object), the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum (CC0 public domain), and the Smithsonian's Freer collection. Browse for objects whose imagery you can download, study, and reuse without restriction.
100,000+ papyri linked across DDbDP, HGV, and APIS by Trismegistos ID
After Alexander, Egypt's daily life was written on papyrus in Greek: contracts, letters, tax receipts, petitions, and literature. This theme gathers the documentary-papyrus corpus, where a single Trismegistos-Text ID stitches each document's edition (DDbDP), its scholarly metadata (HGV), and its physical record (APIS) into one cross-referenced whole.
13,000+ texts with transliteration, translation, and word-by-word lemma links
The corpus's deepest language layer, drawn from the Online Resource for Ancient Egyptian Corpus (ORAEC): each text carries a Manuel-de-Codage transliteration, a scholarly German translation, and per-token links to its dictionary lemmas in the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. These are the records where you can actually read the ancient Egyptian, not just see the object.
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