Three tiers designed for different teaching contexts
Whether you are a student reading independently, a classroom teacher building one unit, or a history department equipping an entire school, there is a plan that fits — including a permanent free option.
Free Reader
Full read access to all historical articles, the complete timeline, the dynasties chronology, the hieroglyphs guide and the pharaoh profiles. No account required, no time limit, no conditions.
- All 214 reference articles, permanently free
- Complete chronological timeline from predynastic to Ptolemaic
- Dynasties chronology with Manetho numbering and scholarly dates
- Hieroglyphs guide including sign-reading exercises
- 42 individual pharaoh profiles
- Religion, daily life, art and Egyptology sections
- Bibliographies and suggested further reading on all articles
- Suggested citation format (APA and Chicago) on each article
- No paywalls, no registration, no advertising
Classroom
Everything in Free Reader, plus the full library of downloadable teaching materials for a single named teacher. Designed for one educator using the materials across their own classes.
- All Free Reader content
- 22 topic-specific lesson packs (PDF, editable DOCX)
- 108 classroom worksheets with answer keys
- Discussion and debate prompt sets for 14 major topics
- Source analysis exercises drawn from primary Egyptian texts
- Hieroglyph reading activities for beginner and intermediate levels
- Curriculum alignment notes for GCSE, A-Level, IB History and Egyptian national syllabus
- Printable and digital distribution to enrolled students permitted
- Priority response on editorial enquiries (within 3 working days)
- Update notifications when materials are revised
- Single-teacher licence · Unlimited students
Institution
Everything in Classroom, extended to every history teacher at a single school or college. The most cost-effective route for a department with more than three teachers using the materials.
- All Classroom content and permissions
- Unlimited teacher accounts at one named institution
- Centralised download portal for the institution's history department
- Custom topic pack request — one per year (we write it to your specification)
- Named account manager from the editorial team
- Priority support response (within 1 working day)
- Annual usage report for curriculum documentation
- Co-branding option: materials can carry the school's name alongside the Trust's
- Eligibility for the Trust's partner-school programme and reader-question shaping
- Multi-teacher licence · Unlimited students · One institution
What each plan includes
| Feature | Free Reader | Classroom | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| All reference articles (214) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Full timeline and dynasties chronology | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hieroglyphs guide and sign exercises | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pharaoh profiles (42) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lesson packs (22 topics) | — | Yes | Yes |
| Classroom worksheets (108) | — | Yes | Yes |
| Answer keys | — | Yes | Yes |
| Discussion and source analysis sets | — | Yes | Yes |
| Curriculum alignment notes | — | Yes | Yes |
| Print and digital distribution permitted | — | Yes | Yes |
| Number of teacher accounts | — | 1 | Unlimited |
| Centralised department portal | — | — | Yes |
| Custom topic pack (annual) | — | — | Yes |
| Named account manager | — | — | Yes |
| Co-branding option | — | — | Yes |
| Support response | 3 working days | 1 working day | |
| Annual price (EGP) | Free | 890 | 3,400 |
All prices are per academic year (September–August). Renewal invoices are issued six weeks before expiry. Prices quoted in Egyptian pounds (EGP); payment also accepted in USD, GBP and EUR at the exchange rate on the invoice date. UK and EU educational institutions may be exempt from local VAT — please include your VAT number on the purchase order.
Lesson packs and worksheets in practice
Each of the 22 topic packs covers a discrete subject — for example, the Old Kingdom and the pyramid complex, the Amarna period and Akhenaten, or the decipherment of hieroglyphs. A typical lesson pack contains an annotated reading (drawn from the corresponding site article, reformatted for classroom use with reading-level adjustments available), a timeline activity, two or three source documents in translation with analysis questions, a structured essay prompt with a scaffolding guide, and a glossary of key terms.
Worksheets are designed to work independently of the lesson packs — they can be set as homework alongside a site article, used as revision activities, or given to students working ahead of a class. Answer keys are written for teacher use only and are stored in a separate folder in the download portal. The discussion prompt sets are formatted for use with whole-class discussion, small group work and structured debate — they include suggested groupings and a notes sheet for the teacher.
All materials are supplied in editable DOCX format alongside the PDF, so teachers can adapt them to their class level, cut sections that fall outside the curriculum scope, or add their own questions alongside ours. The Trust's branding and attribution remain in the footer. The study guides overview page lists all 22 topic packs with a description of each. If you are building a scheme of work on ancient Egypt and want to know which packs cover which curriculum objectives, write to us and we will send a mapping document.
Try before you subscribe
We offer a 14-day review period for first-time Classroom and Institution subscribers: contact us with your school name and curriculum topics and we will give access to one complete topic pack for evaluation.
No payment required during the review period.
The 22 topic packs at a glance
Chronological foundations
Early Dynastic and unification; Old Kingdom and the pyramid age; Middle Kingdom literature and society; New Kingdom empire and the Amarna period.
Later periods and transitions
Third Intermediate and Libyan-Nubian pharaohs; Late Period and Persian rule; Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic world; the end of pharaonic Egypt.
Thematic — religion and belief
The Egyptian pantheon; the Osiris myth and kingship theology; funerary practice from predynastic to Ptolemaic; the Book of the Dead; Akhenaten's religious revolution and its reversal.
Thematic — society and daily life
Social hierarchy and the scribal class; women in ancient Egypt; the worker communities of Deir el-Medina; food, medicine and everyday technology.
Language and script
Introduction to hieroglyphs: structure and sign types; reading cartouches and royal names; the decipherment of hieroglyphs — Champollion and the Rosetta Stone.
Egyptology and interpretation
The history of Egyptian archaeology and the ethics of excavation; how Egyptologists reconstruct the past — sources, methods and limits of the evidence.
Frequently asked about study plans
Yes. All historical reference articles on egypthistory.xyz are free to read in full, with no account or payment required. Students can read the complete dynasties chronology, the pharaoh profiles, the hieroglyphs guide and all thematic sections without any subscription. The paid plans add structured teaching materials — worksheets, lesson packs, discussion guides — built on top of the freely available content. Free access is permanent; the reference content will never move behind a paywall.
The Classroom plan is a single-teacher licence: one named educator can download, adapt and use the materials with an unlimited number of students in their own classes during the licence year. If multiple teachers at the same school or college wish to use the materials, the Institution plan is considerably more cost-effective — at EGP 3,400 per year for unlimited staff at one site, it works out cheaper than four individual Classroom subscriptions. Contact us if you are unsure which plan fits your department's structure.
Yes, under both Classroom and Institution plans, printed and digital distribution to enrolled students is explicitly permitted under the licence. This covers distributing printed worksheets in class, sharing PDFs through a school VLE or learning management system, and displaying materials on a classroom screen. The licence does not extend to sharing materials with teachers at other schools, publishing materials on public websites, or including them in commercially sold resources. The materials carry a licence notice in the footer confirming their educational use, which satisfies most schools' citation and copyright documentation requirements.
The core materials are written to be curriculum-agnostic and cover the topics addressed by the major frameworks used by our partner schools: GCSE History (OCR, AQA and Edexcel specifications), A-Level History, IB History Paper 1 and Paper 3 regional option, the Australian F–10 History curriculum and SACE, and the Egyptian Ministry of Education national history syllabus for secondary level. Each lesson pack header includes a curriculum mapping table noting which objectives the pack addresses under which specification. If your institution uses a framework not listed, contact us — we have produced custom curriculum mappings for several partner schools and can usually do so within two weeks.
Each article on the site carries a suggested citation block at the foot of the page, formatted in both APA 7th edition and Chicago 17th edition. The recommended author for all articles without a named byline is "Ancient Egypt Education Trust" followed by the article title, the full URL and the access date. For assessed work — particularly IB History and A-Level coursework — we recommend students confirm the required format with their teacher or supervisor before submitting, since institutional requirements vary. The editorial standards described on our about page explain our source-checking process, which teachers can share with examining bodies if the site's reliability is questioned.
Active Classroom and Institution subscribers receive an email notification when any study guide they have previously downloaded is revised or updated — for example, when new archaeological findings affect a topic, or when curriculum specifications change and the alignment notes need updating. The revised version is available for re-download at no additional charge for the remainder of the active subscription year. A revision note within the document explains what changed and why, allowing teachers to decide whether to replace materials already distributed or use the update for the following academic year.
We offer a 14-day review period for first-time Classroom and Institution subscribers. To access this, contact us with your school or institution name, the curriculum specification you are teaching to, and the topic area you are most likely to use first. We will provide access to one complete topic pack — the full lesson pack, worksheets and answer keys for that topic — for you to evaluate against your lesson plans before committing to a subscription. No payment is required during the review period, and there is no obligation to subscribe at the end of it, though we hope the materials speak for themselves.
Our current partner schools
The Ancient Egypt Education Trust currently has 38 partner schools and colleges using the Institution plan, spread across Egypt, the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. Partner schools gain access to the full study guide library, the custom topic pack request (one per year), a named account manager from the editorial team, and eligibility to contribute reader questions that shape what we research and publish next.
Several of our partner schools have used the materials across multiple academic years, adapting them as their curricula evolve. The Classroom plan's editable DOCX format means teachers routinely cut, extend or reorder sections to fit the specific progression of their scheme of work — and the Trust updates the originals whenever scholarship changes, so the source material stays current even when individual adaptations do not.
The study guides have been used to support units on ancient Egypt in the context of broader world history courses, as the primary teaching resource for dedicated ancient history options, and as supplementary material for classical studies and religious education units covering Egyptian religion and mythology. If you want to understand how another school has integrated the materials before committing, ask us — we can put you in touch with a relevant partner school willing to discuss their experience.
The reference articles — the dynasties, pharaohs, daily life and religion sections in particular — are also widely used by students independently of any teacher direction. We regularly receive emails from students who discovered the site while researching an essay and want to know how to cite specific articles correctly. The citation blocks on each article are there precisely for that use.
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