Reading list

General Works and Reference Sources

Aldred, C., The Egyptians (2nd ed.). Thames and Hudson, London 1984.

Assmann, J., Ägypten: eine Sinngeschichte. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1996.

Atiya, A. S., The Coptic Encyclopedia (8 vols). Macmillan, New York 1991.

Baines, J. and Málek, J., Atlas of Ancient Egypt. Phaidon, Oxford 1980.

Davies, W. V. and Friedman, R., Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1998

Harris, J. R. (ed.)., The Legacy of Egypt (2nd ed.). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971.

Hayes, W. C., The Scepter of Egypt. Vol. I: Harper and Brothers, New York 1953; vol. II: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1959.

Helck, W. and Otto, E., Lexikon der Ägyptologie (7 vols). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1972-1992.

Kees, H., Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography. Faber and Faber, London 1961.

Malek, J. (ed.), Egypt: Ancient Culture, ModernLand (Cradles of Civilization). Weldon Russell, Sydney, and University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma 1993.

Posener, G., S. Sauneron, and J. Yoyotte, A Dictionary of Egyptian Civilisation. Methuen, London 1962.

Sasson, J. M. (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (4 vols). Scribner's, New York 1995.

Schulz, R. and Seidel, M. (ed.), Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs. Könemann, Cologne 1998.

Spencer, A. J. and Quirke, S. (eds.), The BritishMuseumBook of Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1992

Bibliographies

Janssen, J. M. A., et al., Annual Egyptological Bibliography. E. J. Brill, Leiden 1947-1976; Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1977-81; International Association of Egyptologists, [Leiden] 1982-.

Pratt, I. A., Ancient Egypt (Sources for Information in the New York Public Library; 2 vols). The New York Public Library, New York 1925-1942.

Porter, B. and Moss, R. L. B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings (7 vols). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1927-1951. New edition in progress 1960- ; from 1974 edited by Jaromir Málek.

Archaeology

Assmann, J., et al. (eds.), Problems and Priorities in Egyptian Archaeology. KPI, London 1987.

Badawy, A., Coptic Art and Archaeology: The Art of the Christian Egyptians from the Late Antique to the Middle Ages. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1978.

Bard, K. A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London and New York 1999.

Butzer, K. W., Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1976.

Emery, W. B., Archaic Egypt. Penguin Books, London 1961.
James, T. G. H. (ed.), Excavating in Egypt: The EgyptExploration Society 1882-1982. British Museum Publications, London 1982.

Lauer, J.-P., Saqqara: The Royal Cemeteryof Memphis, Excavations and Discoveries since 1850. Thames and Hudson, London 1976.

Martin, G. T., The Hidden Tombs of Memphis: New Discoveries from the Time of Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great. Thames and Hudson, London 1991.

Nims, C. F., Thebesof the Pharaohs. Elek Books, London 1965.

Reeves, C. N., Valley of the Kings: The Decline of a Royal Necropolis. Kegan Paul International, London and New York, 1990.

Reeves, N. and Taylor, J. H., Howard Carter: Before Tutankhamun. British Museum Press, London 1992.

Strudwick, N & HThebes in Egypt. BritishMuseum Publications, London 1999.

Vandier, J., Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne (6 vols). A. et J. Picard, Paris 1952-1978.

Art and Architecture

Aldred, C., Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs, 3100-320 BC. Thames and Hudson, London 1980.

Arnold, Di., Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. Oxford University Press, New York 1991.

Badawy, A., A History of Egyptian Architecture (3 vols). University of California Press; Berkeley and Los Angeles 1966-1968.

Bothmer, B. V., Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period 700 BC to AD 100. Arno Press, New York 1969 (corrected reprint).

Davies, N. M. and Gardiner, A. H., Ancient Egyptian Painting (3 vols). University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1936.

Doxiadis, E., The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London 1996.

James, T. G. H., Egyptian Painting and Drawing in the BritishMuseum. British Museum Publications, London 1985.

James, T. G. H. and Davies, W. V., Egyptian Sculpture. British Museum Publications, London 1983.

Kischkewitz, H., and Forman, W., Egyptian Art: Drawings and Paintings. Hamlyn, London 1989.

Lange, K. and Hirmer, M., Egypt: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting in Three Thousand Years. Phaidon, London and New York 1956.

Mekhitarian, A., Egyptian Painting. Skira, Geneva 1954.

Michalowski, K., The Art of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London 1969.

Peck, W. H. and Ross, J. G., Drawings from Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London 1978.

Robins, G., Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art. Thames and Hudson, London 1994.

Robins, G., The Art of Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1997.

Russmann, E. R., Egyptian Sculpture: Cairoand Luxor. University of Texas Press, Austin 1989.

Schäfer, H., Principles of Egyptian Art (ed. Emma Brunner-Traut; trans. and ed. John Baines). Revised reprint, Griffith Institute, Oxford 1986.

Shore, A. F., Portrait Painting from Roman Egypt. British Museum Publications, London 1972.

Smith, W. S., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt (revised ed. W. K. Simpson). Pelcian History of Art; Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1998.

Classical Sources

Burton, A., Diodorus Siculus. Book I: A Commentary. E. J. Brill, Leiden 1972.

Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History, Book I (trans. C. H. Oldfather; Loeb Classical Library). William Heinemann, London 1933.

Griffiths, J. G., Apuleius of Madauros: The IsisBook, Metamorphoses Book XI. E. J. Brill, Leiden 1975.

Griffiths, J. G., Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1970.

Herodotus, Histories, Book II (trans. A. D. Godley; Loeb Classical Library). William Heinemann, London 1921.

Horapollo, The Hieroglyphics (trans. George Boas; Bollinger Series XXIII) Pantheon Books, New York 1950.

Lloyd, A. B., Herodotus Book II: Introduction and Commentary (3 vols). E. J. Brill, Leiden 1975-88.

Manetho, Aegyptiaca (trans. W. G. Waddell; Loeb Classical Library). William Heinemann, London 1940.

Strabo, The Geography of Strabo VIII, Book 17 (trans. H. L. Jones; Loeb Classical library). William Heinemann, London 1982.

Daily Life

Baker, H. S., Furniture in the Ancient World: Origins and Evolution. 3100-475 B.C. The Connoisseur, London 1966.

Bierbrier, M., The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs. British Museum Publications, London 1982.

Brovarski, E., et al. (eds.), Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1982.

Donadoni, S. (ed.), The Egyptians. Chicago and London, Chicago University Press 1997.

Erman, A., Life in Ancient Egypt. Dover, New York 1971 (reprint of 1894 ed.).

Filer, J., Disease (Egyptian Bookshelf). British Museum Press, London 1995.

Hall, R., Egyptian Textiles. Shire Publications, Aylesbury 1986.

Hepper, F. N., Pharaoh's Flowers: The Botanical Treasures of Tutankhamun. hmso, London 1990.

James, T. G. H., Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt. The Bodley Head, London 1984.

Janssen, R. M. and J. J., Egyptian Household Animals. Shire Publications, Aylesbury 1989.

Janssen, R. M. and J. J., Growing Up in Ancient Egypt. The Rubicon Press, London 1990.

Janssen, R. M. and J. J., Growing Old in Ancient Egypt. The Rubicon Press, London 1996.

Killen, G., Ancient Egyptian Furniture (2 vols). Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1980, 1994.

Lewis, N., Life in Egyptunder Roman Rule. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1984.

Malek, J., The Cat in Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1993.

Manniche, L., An Ancient Egyptian Herbal. British Museum Publications, London 1989.

Manniche, L., Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. KPI, London and New York 1987.

McDowell, A., Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999.

Meskell, L., Archeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class et cetera in Ancient Egypt. Blackwell, Oxford 1999.

Monserrat, D., Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Kegan Paul International 1996.

Nunn, J., Ancient Egyptian Medicine. British Museum Press, London 1996.

Petrie, W. M. F., Objects of Daily Use. Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1974 (reprint of 1927 ed.).

Robins, G., Women in Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1993.

Strouhal, E., Life in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992.

Winlock, H., Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: from the Tomb of Meket-Re' at Thebes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1955.

Early Egyptology and Travellers to Egypt

Champollion, J.-F., Monuments de l'Egypte et de la Nubie. Editions de Belles-Lettres, Geneva 1972 (2 vols, reprint of 1835 ed.).

Clayton, P. A., The Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London 1984.

Curl, J. S., The Egyptian Revival. George Allen and Unwin London 1982.

Dawson, W. R. and Uphill, E. P., Who was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed., revised, M. Bierbrier). Egypt Exploration Society, London 1995 (in press).

Dewachter, M. and Gillispie, C. C., Monuments of Egypt: The Napoleonic Expedition. Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1987.

James, T. G. H., EgyptRevealed: Artist-Travellers in an Antique land. London, The Folio Society 1997

Lepsius, C. R., Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Editions de Belles-Lettres, Geneva 1975 (3 vols, reprint of 1849-59 ed.).

Hieroglyphs - Introductions

W. V. Davies, Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Reading the Past series).
British Museum Publications, London 1987.

Jaromir Malek, A B C of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1994.

Karl-Th. Zauzich, Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide. Thames & Hudson, London 1992.

R. Parkinson, Cracking Codes. The Rosetta Stone and decipherment. British Museum Press, London 1999

Mark Collier and Bill Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Museum Press, London 1998.

Reference Works in English

R. O. Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian.
Griffith Institute, Oxford 1962.

A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphics (3rd ed.).
Oxford University Press, Oxford 1957.

A. Loprieno, Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995.

Basic Grammars in English

James P. Allen, Middle Egyptian. Cambridge 1999.

Hellmut Brunner, An Outline of Middle Egyptian Grammar.
Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz (Austria) 1979.

Gertie Englund, Middle Egyptian: an Introduction.
Uppsala University Press, Uppsala (Sweden) 1988.

Collections of translations of texts in English

Barbara Cummings et al., Egyptian Historical Records of Later Eighteenth Dynasty.
Aris & Phillips, Warminster 1982-.

K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated.
Blackwell, Oxford 1993-

Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings (3 vols). University of California Press, Berkeley, 1973-1980.

Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies Chiefly of the Middle Kingdom: A Study and an Anthology. University of Fribourg Press, Fribourg 1988.

W.J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt.
Scholars Press, Atlanta 1995

R. B. Parkinson, Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings. British Museum Press, London 1991.

R.B. Parkinson, The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 BC. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997

A. J. Peden, Egyptian Historical Inscriptions of the Twentieth Dynasty. Paul Astrøm, Jonsered 1994.

W. K. Simpson et al., The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry (2nd ed.).
Yale University Press, New Haven & London 1973.

Edward F. Wente, Letters from Ancient Egypt. Scholars Press, Atlanta 1990.

History

Aldred, C., Egyptto the End of the Old Kingdom. London 1965.

Bagnall, R. S., Egyptin Late Antiquity. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1993.

Bagnall, R. S., Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History. Routledge, London and New York 1995.

Beckerath, J. von, Chronologie des pharaonischen Aegypten. Von Zabern, Mainz 1997

Bianchi, R. et al., Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn 1989.

Bietak, M., Avaris, Capital of the Hyksos: Recent Excavations. British Museum Press, London, 1996.

Bourriau, J., Pharaohs and Mortals: Egyptian Art in the Middle Kingdom. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1988.

Bowman, A. K., Egyptafter the Pharaohs 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest. British Museum Publications, London 1986.

Cummings, B., et al., Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty. Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1982 -.

Davies, W. V. and Schofield, L. (ed.), Egypt, the Aegeanand the Levant: Interconnections in the Second MillenniumBC. London, British Museum press 1995.

Edwards, I. E. S. (ed.), Cambridge Ancient History (2 vols, 3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981.

Gardiner, A. H., Egyptof the Pharaohs. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1961.

Hoffman, M. A., Egyptbefore the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Ancient Egypt. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1980.

Hornung, E., History of Ancient Egypt: An Introduction. Cornell University Press, Ithaca New York 1999

Kemp, B. J., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. Routledge, London 1989.

Kitchen, K. A., The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (2nd ed.). Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1986.

Kitchen, K. A., Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt. Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1982.

Kozloff, A. P. and Bryan, B. M., Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep IIIand His World. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1992.

Malek, J. and Forman, W., In the Shadow of the Pyramids: EgyptDuring the Old Kingdom. Orbis, London 1986.

O'Connor, D. and Silverman, D. P. (ed.), Ancient Egyptian Kingship. E. J. Brill, Leiden 1995.

O'Connor, D. and Cline, E. (ed.), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1998.

Redford, D. B., History and Chronology of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt: Seven Studies. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1967.

Spencer, A. J., Early Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1993.

Thompson, D. J., Memphisunder the Ptolemies. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1988.

Trigger, B. G. et al., Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983.

History: the Amarna Period

Aldred, C., Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Thames and Hudson, London 1973.

Aldred, C., Akhenaten, King of Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London 1988.

Arnold, D. et al., The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1996.

Davies, N. de G., The Rock Tombs of El-Amarna (7 vols). Gilbert and Rivington, London 1903-8.

Gabolde, M., D'Akhenaton a Toutankhamon. Collection de l'Institut d'Archéologie et d'histoire de l'antiquité 2; Boccard, Paris 1998

Kemp, B. J. and Garfi, S., A Survey of the Ancient City of el-`Amarna. Egypt Exploration Society, London 1993.

Peet, T. E. and Woolley, C. L., The City of Akhenaten (3 vols). Egypt Exploration Society, London 1923-51.

Martin, G. T., A Bibliography of the Amarna Period and its Aftermath: The Reigns of Akhenaten, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun and Ay (c. 1350-1321 BC). Kegan Paul International, London and New York 1991.

Moran, W. L., The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1992.

Redford, D. B., Akhenaten, the Heretic King. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1984.

History: the Bible and Egypt

Assmann, J., Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egyptin Western Monotheism. Cambridge, Massachusetts 1997.

Freedman, D. N. (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols). Doubleday, New York 1992.

Kurth, A., The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 BC (2 vols). Routledge, London and New York 1995.

Mitchell, T. C., The Bible in the British Museum. British Museum Publications, London 1988.

Pritchard, J. B., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press, Princeton 1955.

Pritchard, J. B., The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (3rd ed.). Princeton University Press, Princeton 1974.

Redford, D. B., Egypt, Canaan, and Israelin Ancient Times. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1992.

Tubb, J. and Chapman, R. L., Archaeology and the Bible. British Museum Publications, London 1990.

Jewellery and Glass

Aldred, C., Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian Jewellery of the Dynastic Period. Thames and Hudson, London 1971.

Andrews, C. A. R., Ancient Egyptian Jewellery. British Museum Publications, London 1996.

Grose, D. F., The ToledoMuseumof Art: Early Ancient Glass. Hudson Hills Press, New York 1989.

Ogden, J., Jewellery of the Ancient World. Trefoil Books, London 1982.

Tait, H. (ed.), Five Thousand Years of Glass. British Museum Press, London 1991.

Tait, H. (ed.), Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery . British Museum Publications, London 1986.

Wilkinson, A., Ancient Egyptian Jewellery. Methuen and Co, London 1971. Publications, London 1982.

Language and Literature

Andrews, C., The Rosetta Stone. British Museum

Andrews, C. and Quirke, S., The Rosetta Stone: Facsimile Drawing. British Museum Publications, London 1988.

erný, J., Paper and Books in Ancient Egypt. Ares Publishers, Chicago 1977 (reprint of 1952 ed.).

Collier, M. and Manley, B. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Museum Press, London 1998.

Davies, W. V., Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Museum Publications, London 1987.

Englund, G., Middle Egyptian: an Introduction. Uppsala University Press, Uppsala (Sweden) 1988.

Faulkner, R. O., A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, Oxford 1962.

Fischer, H. G., Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Hieroglyphics. Metropolitan Museum, New York 1979; (2nd ed.) 1983.

Gardiner, A. H., Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press, Oxford 1957.

Hare, T. ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1999.

Lewis, N., Papyrus in Classical Antiquity. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1974.

Lichtheim, M., Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings (3 vols). University of California Press, Berkeley, 1973-1980.

Lichtheim, M., Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies chiefly of the Middle Kingdom: A Study and an Anthology (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 84). Universitätsverlag, Fribourg 1988.

Loprieno, A., Ancient Egyptian: a Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995.

Loprieno, A. (ed.), Ancient Egyptian Literature: History and Forms. E. J. Brill, Leiden 1996.

Malek, J., A B C of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1994.

Parkinson, R. B., Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings. British Museum Press, London 1991.

Parkinson, R. B., The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 BC. Oxford's World Classics; Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999.

Parkinson, R., Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. British Museum Press, London 1999.

Parkinson, R., and Quirke, S., Papyrus (Egyptian Bookshelf). British Museum Press, London 1995.

Peden, A. J., Egyptian Historical Inscriptions of the Twentieth Dynasty. Paul Åströms, Jonsered 1994.

Simpson, W. K. et al., The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry (2nd ed.). Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1973.

Turner, E., Greek Papyri: An Introduction. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968.

Wente, E. F., Letters from Ancient Egypt. Scholars Press, Atlanta 1990.

Zauzich, K.-Th., Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide. Thames and Hudson, London 1992.

Mathematics and Astronomy

Chace, A. B., The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Reston, Virginia 1979 (reprint of 1927-1929 ed.).

Gillings, R. J., Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972.

Neugebauer, O., The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. Harper and Brothers, New York 1962 (reprint of 2nd ed. 1957)

Neugebauer, O. and Parker, R. A., Egyptian Astronomical Texts (3 vols). Brown University Press, London 1960-1969.

Parker, R. A., The Calendars of Ancient Egypt (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilisation 26). University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1950.

Robins, G. and Shute, C., The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: An Ancient Egyptian Text. British Museum Publications, London 1987.

Mummification, Shabtis and Funerary Practices

Andrews, C., Egyptian Mummies. British Museum Publications, London 1998.

Aubert, J.-F. and L. Statuettes égyptiennes: chaouabtis, ouchebtis. Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris 1974.

Budge, E. A. T. W. The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1925.

Cockburn, A. and E. (eds.), Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980.

Dodson, A. and Ikram, S. The Mummy in Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, London 1998.

Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1969.

Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (3 vols). Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1973-1978.

Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (revised ed. C. A. R. Andrews). British Museum Publications, London 1985.

Faulkner, R. O. and Goelet, O., The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994.

Forman, W. and Quirke, S., Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1996.

Harris, J. E. and Wente, E. F., An X-Ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies. University of Chicago Press, London 1980.

Harris, J. E and Weeks, K. R., X-Raying the Pharaohs. Macdonald and Co, London 1973.

Hornung, E., The Valley of the Kings: Horizon of Eternity (trans. David Warburton). Timken Publishers, New York 1990.

Hornung, E., The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Cornell University Press, Ithaca anmd London 1999.

Petrie, W. M. F., Shabtis. Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1974 (reprint of 1935 ed., London).

Reeves, C. N., The Complete Valley of the Kings. Thames and Hudson, London 1996.

Schneider, H. D., Shabtis (3 vols). Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden 1977.

Smith, G. E. and Dawson, W. R., Egyptian Mummies. Kegan Paul International, London 1991 (reprint of 1924 ed.).

Spencer, A. J., Death in Ancient Egypt. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1982.

Taylor, J. H., Egyptian Coffins. Shire Publications, Aylesbury 1989.

Taylor, J. H., Unwrapping a Mummy (Egyptian Bookshelf). British Museum Press, London 1995.

Music

Anderson, R. D., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum III: Musical Instruments. British Museum Publications, London 1976.

Manniche, L., Ancient Egyptian Musical Instruments (Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 34). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1975.

Manniche, L., Music and Musicians in Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1991.

Nubia

Adams, W. Y., Nubia, Corridor to Africa. Allen Lane, London 1977.

Brooklyn Museum, Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan (2 vols). The Brooklyn Museum, New York 1978.

Säve-Söderbergh, T., Templesand Tombs of Ancient Nubia: The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philaeand other Sites. Thames and Hudson, London 1987.

Shinnie, P. L., Ancient Nubia. Kegan Paul International, London and New York 1996.

Taylor, J. H., Egyptand Nubia. British Museum Press, London 1991.

Trigger, B. C., Nubiaunder the Pharaohs. Thames and Hudson, London 1976.

Welsby, D., The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires. British Museum Press, London 1996.

Wildung, D. (ed), Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile. Flammarion, Paris and New York 1997.

Pyramids and Obelisks

Edwards, I. E. S., The Pyramids of Egypt. Penguin, London 1993.

Fakhry, A., The Pyramids (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1969.

Habachi, L., The Obelisks of Egypt: Skyscrapers of the Past. Charles Scribners, New York 1977.

Jenkins, N., The Boat Beneath the Pyramid: King Cheops' Royal Ship. Thames and Hudson, London 1980.

Iversen, E., Obelisks in Exile (2 vols). G. E. C. Gad, Copenhagen 1968-1972.

Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids. Thames and Hudson, London 1998.

Stadelmann, R., Die ägyptischen Pyramiden: Vom Ziegelbau zum Weltwunder. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1985.

Religion

(See also Mummification, Shabtis and Funerary Practices)

Allen, J. P., Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (Yale Egyptological Studies 2). Yale Egyptological Seminar, New Haven 1988.

Assmann, J., Ägypten: Theologie und Frömmigkeit einer frühen Hochkultur. Stuttgart 1984.

Assmann, J., Ma'at: Gerechtigkeit und Unsterblichkeit im Alten Ägypten. C. H. Beck, Munich, 1990.

Assmann, J., Egyptian Solar Religion in The New Kingdom: Re, Amun and The Crises of Polytheismus (trans. A. Alcock). KPI, London and New York 1995.

Frankfurter, D., Religion in Roman Egypt : Assimilation and Resistance. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1998.

Hart, G., A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. British Museum Press, London 1986.

Hart, G., Egyptian Myths. British Museum Press, London 1990.

Hornung, E., Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and The Many (trans. John Baines). Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1983.

Morenz, S., Egyptian Religion (trans. Ann E. Keep). Methuen and Co, London 1973.

Otto, E., Egyptian Art and The Cults of Osiris and Amon. Thames and Hudson, London 1968.

Pinch, G., Magic in Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London 1994.

Quirke, S., Ancient Egyptian Religion. British Museum Press, London 1992.

Sauneron, S., The Priests of Ancient Egypt (trans. Ann Morrissett). Evergreen Books, London 1960.

Shafer, B. E. (ed.), Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods Myths and Personal Practice. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London 1991.

Schafer, B. E. (ed.), Templesof Ancient Egypt. I.B. Tauris, London and New York 1998.

Scarabs and Amulets

Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt. London, British Museum Press, London 1994.

Hornung, E. and Staehelin, E. (eds.), Skarabäen und andere Siegelamulette aus Basler Sammlungen. Philipp Von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1976.

Müller-Winkler, C., Die ägyptischen Objekt-Amulette. Freiburg and Göttingen, Schweiz 1987.

Petrie, W. M. F., Scarabs and Cylinders with Names. Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1974 (reprint of 1925 ed.).

Petrie, W. M. F., Buttons and Design Scarabs. Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1974 (reprint).

Tufnell, O. and Ward, W. A., Studies on Scarab Seals (2 vols). Aris and Phillips, Warminster 1978-84.

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Science and Technology

Bowman, S., Radiocarbon Dating. British Museum Publications, London 1990.

David, A. R. (ed.), Science in Egyptology. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1986.

Hope, C., Egyptian Pottery. Shire Publications, Aylesbury 1993.

Lucas, A., Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries (4th ed., revised, J. R. Harris). Edward Arnold, London 1962.

Nicholson, P. T., Egyptian Faience and Glass. Shire Publications, Aylesbury 1993.

Nicholson, P. T. & Shaw, I., Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000
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Singer, C. et al., A History of Technology I. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1954.

Ships

Glanville, S. R. K. and Faulkner, R. O., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in The British Museum II: Wooden Model Boats. Trustees of The British Museum, London 1972.

Jones, D., Boats (Egyptian Bookshelf). British Museum Press, London 1995.

Landstrøm, Bjørn, Ships of the Pharaohs: 4000 Years of Egyptian Shipbuilding. Allen and Unwin, London 1970.

Travel

Brunner-Traut, E., Ägypten (6th ed., revised). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1988.

Kamil, Jill, Luxor: A Guide to Ancient Thebes. Longman, London 1973; (2nd ed.) 1977.

Kamil, Jill, Sakkara: A Guide to the Necropolis of Sakkaraand the Site of Memphis. Longman, London 1978.

Kamil, Jill, Upper Egypt: Historical Outline and Descriptive Guide to the Ancient Sites. Longman, London 1983.

Murnane, W.J., The Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1983.

Seton-Williams, V. and Stocks, Peter, Blue Guide to Egypt. A. and C. Black, London 1984.

Tutankhamun

Carter, H. and Mace, A. C., The Tomb of Tutankhamen (3 vols). Cassell and Company, London 1923.

Edwards, I. E. S., Treasures of Tutankhamun. Trustees of The British Museum, London 1972.

Edwards, I. E. S., Tutankhamun: His Tomb and its Treasures. Victor Gollancz, London 1979.

Harris, J. R. (ed.), Tutankhamun's Tomb Series. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1963-.

el-Mallakh, K. and Brackman, A. C., The Gold of Tutankhamen. Newsweek Books, New York 1978.

Desroches-Noblecourt, C., Life and Death of a Pharaoh: Tutankhamen (trans. Claude). The Connoisseur and Michael Joseph, London 1963.

Reeves, N., The Complete Tutankhamun: The King, The Tomb, The Royal Treasure. Thames and Hudson, London 1990.

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Catalogues

Some of the earlier volumes (*) are no longer in print.

Dawson, W.R. and Gray, P.H.K., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the BritishMuseum, I.Mummies and Human Remains (1968).*

James, T.G.H., Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae etc. in the British Museum, part 9 (1970).

Faulkner, R.O., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the BritishMuseum, II. Wooden Model Boats (1972).*

Anderson, R., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the BritishMuseum, III. Musical Instruments (1976).

Cooney, J.D., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the BritishMuseum, IV. Glass. (1976).

Spencer, A.J., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the BritishMuseum, V. Early Dynastic Objects (1980).

Andrews, C.A.R., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the BritishMuseum, VI. JewelleryPartI. (1981).

Bierbrier, M.L., Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae etc. in the BritishMuseum, part 10 (1982).

Davies, W.V., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the BritishMuseum, VI. Tools and Weapons, I: Axes (1987).

Bierbrier, M.L., Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae etc. in the BritishMuseum, part 11 (1987).

Smith, M., Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the BritishMuseum, III: the Mortuary Texts of Papyrus BM 10507 (1987).

Janssen, J., Catalogue of Late Ramesside Letters and Communications (1990).

Andrews, C.A.R., Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the BritishMuseum, IV: Ptolemaic Legal Texts from the Theban Area (1990).

Bierbrier, M.L., Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae etc. in the BritishMuseum, part 12 (1993).

Lapp, G., The Papyrus of Nu. Catalogue of Books of the Dead in the BritishMuseum, vol. I (1997).

Children's books on Egypt

Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt (London, Puffin 1970)

Geraldine Harris, Gods and Pharaohs from Egyptian Mythology (London, Peter Lowe 1982).

Geraldine Harris, Ancient Egypt: Cultural Atlas for Young people (new York and London, Facts on File 1990).

Geraldine Harris, Isis and Osiris (Looking at Egyptian Myths and Legends; London, British Museum Press 1996).

George Hart, Ancient Egypt: Eyewitness Guide (London, Dorling Kindersley 1990).

George Hart, Ancient Egypt (London, Hamlyn 1992).

Meredith Hooper, The Tomb of Nebamun (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1997)

Meredith Hooper, Hunting in the Marshes: A Painting [Elementary Reading] (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1996).

David Macaulay, Pyramid (London Collins 1976)

J. Malek, ABC of Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1998)

Lise Manniche, The Ancient Egyptian Activity Book (London, British Museum Press 1997)

James Mason, The Tomb of Tutankhamun (Sense of History; Harlow, Longman 1991)

James Mason, Ancient Egypt: Research Pack (Harlow, Longman 1991)

E. J. McGraw, The Golden Goblet [a novel] (London, Puffin Books 1968)

Anne Millard, Ancient Egypt: Pocket Guide (London, Usborne 1981)

Jacqueline Morley, An Egyptian Pyramid: Inside Story (Simon and Shuster 1991)

Richard Parkinson, Ancient Egypt Colouring Book (London, British Museum Press 1994)

N. Reeves, and N. Froman, Into The Mummy's Tomb (London, Scholastic Children's Books 1992)

N. Reeves, and N. Froman, Tuttut: The Game of Egyptian hieroglyphs (London, British Museum Co. 1996)

R. J. Unstead, See Inside an Egyptian Town (London, Hutchiman 1977)

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