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.
To learn more about how the OEB works you can see our sample search page. To find out how to gain access to our site visit our subscription page.
OEB latest releases : More new releasesOEB 344351
Wilkinson, Alison 2025. Women's rights in marriage in ancient Egypt. The Ancient Near East Today 13 (6).
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Quinlan, N. J. 2025. Review: Jacobs, Justin M. 2024. Plunder? How museums got their treasures. London: Reaktion Books.
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What's new
June 2025: A major infrastructure upgrade for OEB was completed in late May 2025. The project's backend database was upgraded and moved, along with the public and editorial websites, to a new server platform, which should provide a stable environment for a number of years to come. Thanks to the efforts of our IT Officer, Sarah Jones, and the IT Team of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in Oxford, this migration was carried out very smoothly, with no interruption of services for users.
Over the past three months, significant efforts have been devoted to incorporating auction and other dealer's catalogues into the OEB. While all the contributing databases included some such records, there were important gaps and some errors which we are now working to resolve. Examples of the work accomplished so far include the catalogues of Christie's London (1979-2007), Christie's South Kensington (1977-2007), and Christie's New York (1979-2007). This is just the beginning of an enormous task.
The number of colleagues who point out lacunae and inconsistencies in OEB has increased. We are extremely grateful for this help. It is not possible for regular OEB contributors to cover all possible sources for relevant publications, and as always we encourage anyone who finds something that can be improved to get in touch through the links provided on the OEB website.
OEB now presents almost 186,400 records online, which is an increase of 4,000 since December 2024. Of these, 2,350 (1.25%) are inherited records yet to be checked and adapted to OEB conventions - a reduction of 600 items.
