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 353270
Erler, Dina and Anastasia Fischer 2022. Kindertheatermarathon: Münchner Dionysien e.V. MAAT - Nachrichten aus dem Staatlichen Museum Ägyptischer Kunst München 24, 38-41.
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Cooke, Neil 2019. Alexander Peckover (1830-1919) and his visit with friends to Egypt over the winter of 1864-65. Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East: Notes and Queries 80, 12-20.
What's new
July 2026: Increasing numbers of older articles, journal volumes and monographs are becoming available online through digitisation projects such as Gallica, Hathi Trust, and the Internet Archive, as well as through publishers' own platforms. Where possible, OEB updates existing records by adding URLs and DOIs for these online versions. However, we lack the staff to do this systematically or to add such links as soon as they become available. Users are therefore encouraged to check whether items already listed in OEB may be available online. By now the majority of new records added to the database are available in digital form, and many lack a paper counterpart.
Caitlin Jensen has made significant progress on incorporating auction and other dealer's catalogues into the OEB. In addition to Christie's London (1979-2007), Christie's South Kensington (1977-2007), and Christie's New York (1979-2007), the catalogues of Sotheby's London (1917-1997), Parke-Bernet (1967-1971), and Sotheby's New York (1972-2014) have been completed. Work on Hôtel Drouot - Richelieu is largely complete for 1849-1979. Bonhams catalogues are forthcoming.
OEB now presents 195,000 records online, an increase of 5,600 since December 2025. The number of inherited records awaiting review and adaptation to OEB conventions has fallen by around 550, leaving just over 1250 (0.65% of the total) still to be processed.
The project welcomed Ricarda Lutzenberger as assistant editor in Munich in February 2026. She succeeds Christoph Maschke, who left the project in July. We thank Christoph for his valuable contribution to the OEB and wish him all the best for the future.
