Welcome to the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB).
The Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) holds the largest available collection of references in Egyptological literature and is updated nearly every day. It includes the records and abstracts from Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB, 1947-2001), combined with Bibliographie Altägypten (BA, 1822-1946), the Aigyptos database with keywords, and more than 70,000 further items. Coverage is from 1822 to the present. OEB is a collaboration of the University of Oxford and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Enhancements are announced as they are introduced. For search tips see the User information tab. For What’s new see below.
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OEB latest releases : More new releasesOEB 347443
Cooper, Julien, Rebecca Whiting, Ewa Czyżewska-Zalewska, and Kefilwe Rammutloa 2025. Pastoralists, travellers, and miners in the Atbai Desert (Sudan): surveys and excavations at Khor Rafit. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa early view.
OEB 347444
Eisenberg, Jerome M. 2011. Looting of the Egyptian Museum. Minerva 22 (3), 3.
What's new
December 2025: As we approach the end of 2025, the OEB has already incorporated records for some 1,300 items published this year. This represents over a third of the total we expect for the year, given that the OEB has been averaging around 3,500 new records annually throughout the 2020s.
The database now contains 189,400 records, 3,000 more than reported in June 2025. Review and conversion of inherited records have advanced significantly, leaving 1,800 items (slightly below 1%) still to be processed, a reduction of more than 500. Among the remaining entries are just under 1,000 from Bibliographie Altägypten (BA, 1822-1946, published in 1998), the bibliographical compendium that charts Egyptology from the decipherment of hieroglyphs to the beginning of the Annual Egyptological Bibliography, meticulously compiled by Christine Beinlich-Seeber, who made her underlying database available to the OEB. We owe an enormous debt to this work, which created an indispensable record of earlier scholarship, without which our current coverage and temporal depth would not be possible.
During revision, the OEB team seeks out online versions of older publications wherever possible, improving accessibility for users. This approach can introduce some unevenness, but we prioritise usability over complete consistency. In reviewing older items, we have been able to consult many works that Beinlich-Seeber could not see at first hand, allowing us to improve descriptions derived from older sources and to identify some additional items. Two thirds of the publications to which she did not have access have been verified, exemplifying the vast changes that have been brought by online presentation.
