A site dedicated to the peoples of Ancient Egypt. They did not call their home 'Egypt' (that name is based on the Greek pronunciation of the name of Ptah's temple in Memphis - 'Hwt-ka-Ptah'), instead they referred to it as Kemet (or Kem - the black land) or Ta Mery the beautiful land).
The Egypt Exploration Society was founded in 1882, as the Egypt Exploration Fund in order to explore, survey, and excavate at ancient sites in Egypt and Sudan, and to publish the results of this work. Today it is one of the leading such archaeological organisations.