Ancient Egyptian Games: Online
For the final post in the series on Ancient Egyptian Games I’ve collected a bunch of games that can be played online and put them all together here on one page.
Looking for more games? I’ve started a blog called Ancient Egyptian Games that features many games with an Ancient Egyptian theme including a selection of iPhone apps.
Both Talking Pyramids and Ancient Egyptian Games were built and hosted by Vintuitive.
Senet:
You can read all about the ancient Egyptian game of Senet or you can just jump straight in and play a game of Senet by clicking on the game board below:
An alternative game of Senet can be played at Paleoglot.
Have an iPhone, iPod Touch or an iPad? Check out Senet on the iPhone.
Build a Pyramid
The BBC has a fun and educational game for children to learn about the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and how they were built. It’s really quite authentic. The picture below, for example, shows the stage where you select the angle for your pyramid and the accompanying hieroglyphic writing is from plate 16 of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.
Build another Pyramid
This game is similar to the game Pharaoh but is a bit more simple.
Explore the Tomb of Perneb
Explore the Tomb of Perneb at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Enigma
The game consists of four challenges found at locations on the map. After successfully completing each challenge you will be rewarded with a part of a hieroglyphics chart, which will be fully completed once you have met the four challenges. If you can answer all questions you will receive a screensaver as a prize!
Egyptian Pyramids Jigsaw puzzle
A fun Jigsaw puzzle with an Egyptian photograph. Just choose the yellow “Play as Guest” button.
The Challenge – ‘Lost and Found’
When Jane opened her eyes, the room was dark. She realised that she must have been asleep for hours. She tried to find her way out of the museum but all of the doors were locked. She realised that she was locked in the museum- all alone in the dark…
To get Jane out of the museum you must ask the gods and goddesses for help. They may ask you to bring them something before they give you any advice. Wake up Hathor first and remember Jane is counting on you…
Egyptian Tomb Adventure
Looking for a new challenge? Not afraid of snakes and scorpions? Explore an anceint Egyptian tomb:
The Challenge – ‘The Underworld’
The ancient Egyptians believed that before a person could get to the afterlife, that they had to pass through the underworld. The underworld was a place that was full of terrifying monsters and dangerous animals. A person would need magic to successfully overcome these threats.
The ancient Egyptians chose spells to take with them on their journey. The spells were chosen from a group of spells known as the Book of the Dead. The spells were then written on a papyrus scroll which was buried with them in their tomb
The Nile File
Join Nakht-Amun as he shows you the world of Ancient Egypt. He’ll tell you all about hieroglyphs, pharaohs, temples, pyramids and more. At the end you will be given a quiz about what you’ve learned.
Escape from the Mummy’s Tomb
Discover and collect the artifacts as you move through the tomb but watch out for the Mummy!
Tomb of the Unknown Mummy
The Mummy Maker
This is where things start to get a bit messy. Not for the squeamish, in this game you get to scoop the brains out of Seneb’s nose as one of the stages of preparing the body for mummification. Its OK though, we made sure that Seneb was dead first.
The Birmingham Museum of Arts for Kids has an educational walk-through. Guess the questions correctly and you get to see inside the mummy’s sarcophagus:
Museum of Civilization
Mummification: Click on any of four mummification stages to play a fun game in which you will learn about the steps involved in making a mummy. Canopic Jars: Learn which ancient Egyptian god protected which organ in the Canopic Jars game. Weighing of the Heart: In the last of the three games you get to weigh your heart to see if you are worthy to enter the afterlife. The goal is to make your way to the sarcophagus chamber by winning all three games.
Pharaoh’s Secret
Bricks of Egypt
Bricks of Egypt takes you on a fantastic journey through an Egyptian world of traps, lasers, fire-balls, gems and hieroglyphs. Classic brick-breaking action and three difficulty settings makes Bricks of Egypt fun for all ages:
Pharoah’s Tomb
Pharoah’s Treasure
Hangaroo
Play Hangaroo, a variation on Hangman. You can also play Hangaroo with a Tutankamon theme.
Immortal Cities: Nile Online
Nile Online is a persistent browser-based empire building game set in ancient Egypt. Play with thousands of other players as you construct cities and monuments worthy of your legacy as Pharaoh! Nile Online is casually paced; it’s something you can play throughout the day, minutes at a time.
The game is free to play and there is nothing to download or install – within seconds you’re commanding, tweaking and growing your empire from anywhere that you have access to the internet.
Death in Sakkara
Osiris
Pyramids Puzzle
Train your brain with this Pyramids puzzle.
Ancient Egyptian Tetrix
Ology World
Amenra
Explore the lost tomb of Amenra. Collect all the treasure while avoiding the creatures of Ancient Egypt. Fire a rope and hoist yourself to the platforms above.
Mysteries of Horus
Enter the Mysteries of Horus. Put the hieroglyphs in the appropriate slots to appease the Gods.
Pyramid Solitaire
Pyramid Solitaire requires players to match cards so their face values equal thirteen. Kings are thirteen by themselves, Queens are twelve, Jacks are eleven and Aces are one. All other cards are the value on the cards.
Free Downloadable Games:
Mehen
20 Squares
Egypt Ball
Ancient Quest of Saqqarah 1.12 (25.6mb – one hour Demo)
Arrow Antics
Tomb of Giza 1.0 (1mb)
Scepter of Ra (17.12mb – one hour demo)
Rise of the Nile
Pharoah’s Feast (1mb)
Empire of the Gods (17mb)
Luxor (Mac OS X)
Luxor 3 (Mac OS X)
Ancient Quest of Saqqarah (Mac OS X – one hour demo)
Amazing Adventures – The Lost Tomb
This one requires that you first download and install the game before you can play. The site offers both a free download and a paid version.
A piece of an ancient map was discovered and is believed to reveal the location of the Lost Tomb of Egypt. Under the direction of the Museum, begin your adventure to locate the Lost Tomb and the treasures locked within!
More Ancient Egyptian Games articles:
Ancient Egyptian Games: Senet
Ancient Egyptian Games: Hounds and Jackals
Ancient Egyptian Games: Mehen
Ancient Egyptian Games: Aseb
Extra Links:
Mary Harrsch’s blog Ancient Games
The Cleveland Museum of Art ‘Egypt Activity’ page.
A stack of Egyptian-themed board games and here.
JOCAR – French reference site about games and toys
epochs of ancient, medieval and Renaissance
from scientific research
Talking Pyramids was built by Vintuitive
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The games of yours were very nice for me to play.They are all related to Egypt and that’s the first reason I liked them. They also give us knowledge which is much important.
THANKS
Thanks for you comment Aditi. I am glad that you enjoyed them and learned something about ancient Egypt while playing.
i really liked that shooting game it was really fun
i like the mummyficatian game a lot
Awesome games. i love that nile online game. love the site can’t wait to see more new games
I LIKE MOST OF YOUR GAMES ON YOUR WEBSITE!!! – YOU SHOULD HAVE MORE PUZZLES.
cool games. like the pyramid challenge best.
I love all the games They educate me on Ancient Egypt. I especially like the mummification ones. I am going to be an Egyptianologists when I get old enough. MOST of these games educate me in eygypt. Thanks for posting these games
Hey thanks for your thoughtful comment. It’s always nice to hear from people who’ve enjoyed the site. Feel free to explore the other areas of the website.
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i especially love hounds and jackels it’s quite difficult
i always play on it. Senet at the british museum it’s easy so is hangaroo!!!
thnx 4 all these wiked games, they halped with a history assignment. I loved the shooting 1, that was Aws. Keep up da good work
THESE GAMES MERE MINT. tHEY GAVE ME A LOT OF INFORMATION ON MUMMIES AND HOW THEY WERE TREATED AFTER THEY DIED.
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they are really fun and they are all about EGYPT!!
thanks again for the fun games
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these games are so cool my favorite is called the mummy maker
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Wow, I am learning about egypt right now, OMG, this is fun and educational!
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Amazing games you have. This game educates me about Ancient Egypt. I enjoy playing this game and learned a lot of things about Egypt.
As Egyptian / Candian….thank you so much for your effort to have a great site like this……
Thanx again and keep up the good work…Cheers
Ehab AbdelSalam
Thanks for your kind comment Ehab.
these games is soooo fun!!!!
i love the game where you take out the brain.
this website is great for my little sister who is learning a bout this so great jod on that but my problem is that it could be ALOT more educational so please do something about that.Thank you.
Thank you for your comment Demitria. I’ve been thinking about this a bit recently actually, considering removing some that aren’t very educational. I should perhaps make more obvious the links to the informative posts I wrote on Ancient Egyptian games. Here they are in case you haven’t read them yet:
Ancient Egyptian Games: Aseb
Ancient Egyptian Games: Senet
Ancient Egyptian Games: Mehen
Ancient Egyptian Games: Hounds & Foxs
Vincent.
hi i love all of the games they are so cool xd) plz put more games on to this web plz ((thx
I’m an elementary computer lab teacher in No. Idaho, and taking an archaeology unit out to classes while they do testing. Your website is just the BEST as far as great links to Egyptian games. Sweet look to it also!! Thanks so much, Lindy Flynn, Sandpoint, ID
.. i really like studying about ancient Egypt,, and this game really help me to learn more about ancient Egypt ..
– THANK YOU VERY MUCH (fOr this games )
cool games u have
Hello! I’m at work surfing around your blog from my new iphone 4! Just wanted to say I love reading your blog and look forward to all your posts! Carry on the excellent work!
My son loves egyptian stuff so he’s going to love these games.
hey i like your games but still think they should be filled with a little more info so my teach could se it this term dont mean to be crititcal
thanks
cheyenne cottam
also can u have them a little faster wen loading
thanks
cheyenne cottam
Thank you Cheyenne for your suggestions, you make some good points. This page has become a bit too big and bloated as it has slowly grown and as a result loads a bit slow. I’d like to make this page load faster and had planned to cut it right down. Considering that a lot of people refer to this page, I decided to leave it as is and instead build a whole new website dedicated to the topic of ancient Egyptian games. You can find it here:
http://games.talkingpyramids.com/
This website is a lot more informative and loads faster than this page as each game has it’s own page. Please feel free to explore and show your teacher.