Reeder’s Egypt Page does not try to explain all of ancient Egypt before lunch. It goes straight for subjects obscure enough that even the homepage calls one of them suitable for “Egyptomaniacs only.”
The site belongs to Greg Reeder and describes itself as a place for examining the art, archaeology, religion and history of Egypt. Its front page is essentially a set of gateways into deep specialist topics rather than a general-purpose encyclopedia.
One major section concerns the Fifth Dynasty tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep at Saqqara, two royal manicurists whose joint burial and iconography have generated extensive scholarly discussion. Another examines the tekenu, the mysterious shrouded figure appearing in Egyptian funerary scenes. A third looks at the muu and their ritual dance.
There is also an Egyptian gallery of paintings and photographs plus links to other Egyptology material.
This is what specialist publishing looked like before everything became a wiki
The value of a page like this is not that it settles disputed interpretations. It does something simpler and more durable: it preserves a researcher’s chosen trail through difficult material.
That distinction matters. A general encyclopedia tends to compress a subject toward consensus and summary. A specialist personal site can linger on the awkward bits—the tomb scene nobody agrees about, the ritual figure that resists a clean explanation, the obscure terminology that disappears from simplified histories.
The page also reflects a recognizable old-Web research style. Instead of hiding the subject hierarchy behind a database interface, the homepage announces exactly what the author finds interesting and lets the visitor descend from there. The site’s personality comes from selection.
For modern researchers, exact names such as Niankhkhnum, Khnumhotep, Saqqara, tekenu and muu are also search anchors. This is precisely the sort of long-tail terminology that gives CacheRat’s 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list value beyond nostalgia. Old specialist pages often preserve vocabulary that larger contemporary sites mention only in passing.
Reeder’s page is a reminder that the Web became useful partly because experts and enthusiasts could publish before anyone granted them a content slot.
You did not need to propose an Egyptology vertical.
You needed some HTML and a subject weird enough to keep thinking about.