Hi /u/icyecold,

This is a great question and when it comes to looking for online suggestions in general it is important to not trust everything you find and even some good(ish) sites need to be taken with a grain of salt.

The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne is a good introduction to the archaeology and rediscovery of ancient Egyptian history that is also a fun read.

A Companion to Ancient Egypt edited by Alan B. Lloyd covers different aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion and culture. I would definitely pick this if you were to go for a single volume.

The Ancient History Encyclopedia is a fantastic online resource. There are articles on a variety of subjects and the bibliography is also very good to look at because sometimes there are books or articles that might interest you further. Overall I can not overstate the utility of this site as beginning resource, you can trust it because it maintains academic standards and it has a wide range of literature on ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures.

Tour Egypt also has a lot of useful information and a high amount of integrity, so this is a good site to find articles on ancient Egypt for.

For an example of a site you can use and a site to take with a grain of salt, reshafim is an interesting one because it has a lot of useful, if basic, articles and pages, and even includes some really great bibliographies and some partial translations and images. For this reason I have even seen lower level courses mention or suggest it. However some pages have specific biases or personal opinions that leak through, I was reading this article to see if it was appropriate to send someone who was probably about your age and on the whole it was quite thorough in its discussion of procreation and childbirth in ancient Egypt except that the last paragraph breaks from this to go on a bizarre tirade:

The story describes childbirth and the relationship men have typically had with it until the emasculation and feminization of Western males in the recent decades. Ancient Egyptian men must have felt inadequate and helpless in the face of imminent childbirth just as modern men still mostly do, and they were excluded from attending, but they knew what happened behind the closed door–the facts of childbirth were not a secret which women kept to themselves.

This is unfounded, incorrect and seems based out of some personal issue that the author has about his own life but has nothing to do with the subject matter. Beyond this, there were many cultures in ancient and premodern Western and non-Western societies where men were not involved with childbirth, so he is pretty much barking at the moon. This does provide us with an important example of the litmus test you can use to easily know if a source is biased, misleading or trying to push an agenda at the price of accuracy. If it starts talking about modern social issues and how a certain ancient society had it right all along, STOP and check another source (like a different article). If it broadly uses subjective examples of the modern world to try and compare it to ancient cultures or to prove a point about politics or social norms, find another article that does not. There are a lot of other places you can get information and there is no harm in not trying to sift through fact and fiction to find the truth, instead just find something more generally reliable.

Usually most sites with a bias or an article that rings an alarm bell will not be like reshafim even, most will turn out to be a blog with a political agenda that wraps miscellaneous facts around a mostly functional narrative. Avoiding these if possible is always a good move even though websites can be helpful.

Hi there -- there are only a couple titles listed for ancient Egypt on our Books and Resources list, but they look to be fairly comprehensive. Hopefully that will get you started while you wait for some flaired users to chime in!