Selected Bibliography for Ancient Egypt Compiled by Margery Gordon The following bibliography includes useful books only in English, mainly appearing in the last twenty years. It is meant to provide a "starting point" for those interested in researching Ancient Egyptian topics. The books included on this list are on a variety of different reading levels and are likely to appear in school or local public libraries. General information on many of these topics can also be found in encyclopedias. Arts and Crafts

• Aldred, Cyril (1980) Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs. • Andrews, Carol (1991) Ancient Egyptian Jewelry. • Arnold, Dorothea (1999) When the Pyramids were Built. • British Museum (1983). Egyptian Sculpture. By T.G.H. James and W.V. Davies. • Friedman, Florence Dunn (1989) Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A.D. • Friedman, Florence Dunn, editor (1998) Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience. • Hall, Rosalind (1986) Egyptian Textiles. Shire Egyptology 4. • Hope, Colin A. (1987) Egyptian Pottery. Shire Egyptology 5. Arts and Crafts

• James, T.G.H. (1986) Egyptian Painting and Drawing in the British Museum. • Killen, Geoffrey (1994) Egyptian Woodworkers and Furniture. • Killen, Geoffrey (1994) Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture. Shire Egyptology 21. • Lesko, Barbara S. with Diana Wolfe Larkin and Leonard H. Lesko (1998) Joseph Lindon Smith: Paintings from Egypt. An Exhibition: Brown Univeristy, October 8 - November 21, 1998. • Malek, Jaromir (1999) Egyptian Art. • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1999) Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. • Michalowski, Kazimierz (1978) Great Sculpture of Ancient Egypt.

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• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1982) Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C. By Edward Brovarski, S. K. Doll and Rita E. Freed. • Nicholson, Paul T. (1993) Egyptian Faience and Glass. Shire Egyptology 18. • Robins, Gay (1986) Egyptian Painting and Reliefs. Shire Egyptology 3. • Robins, Gay (1997) The Art of Ancient Egypt. • Russmann, Edna R. (text) and David Finn (photographs) (1989) Egyptian Sculpture: Cairo and Luxor. • Russmann, Edna R. (2001) Eternal Egypt: Masterpieces of Ancient Art from the British Museum. • Scheel, Bernd (1989) Egyptian Metalworking and Tools. Shire Egyptology 13. • Silverman, David P., editor (1997) Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts. • Smith, W. Stevenson (1998) The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt. 3rd edition. Revised by William Kelly Simpson. • Tooley, Angela M. (1995) Egyptian Models and Scenes. Shire Egy 22 • Vinson, Steve (1994) Egyptian Boats and Ships. Shire Egyptology 20. Hieroglyphs and Egyptian Grammar

• Allen, James P. (2000) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. • Davies, W. V. (1987) Egyptian Hieroglyphs. • Depuydt, Leo (2000) Fundamentals of Egyptian Grammar, Part 1: Elements • Faulkner, Raymond O. (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. • Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs. • Hoch, James (1996) Introduction to Middle Egyptian Grammar. • Lesko, Leonard (2002) Dictionary of Late Egyptian, 2 Vols. • Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction. • Malek, Jaromir (1994) ABC of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. • Ockinga, Boyo G. (1998) A Concise Grammar of Middle Egyptian. • Watterson, Barbara (1981) Introducing Egyptian Hieroglyphs. • Wilkinson, Richard H. (1992) Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide • to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture. • Zauzich, Karl-Theodor (1994) Hieroglyphs Without Mystery Adams, Barbara (1988) Predynastic Egypt. Shire Egyptolo History

• Adams, Barbara and Krzysztof Cialowicz (1997) Protodynastic Egypt. Shire Egyptology 25. • Andreu, Guillemette (1997) Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids . Translated by David Lorton. • Assman, Jan (1996) The Mind of Egypt: History and Memory in the Time of the Pharaohs. • Bagnall, Roger S. (1993) Egypt in Late Antiquity. • Bowman, Alan K. (1986) Egypt after the Pharaohs, 332 B.C. - A.D. 642. • *Chisholm, Jane and Anne Millard (1991) The Usborne Illustrated World History: Early Civilizations. Illustrated by Ian Jackson.Davies, Vivian and R. Friedman (1998) • Ellis, Simon P. (1992) Graeco-Roman Egypt. Shire Egyptology 17. • Empereur, Jean-Yves (1998) Alexandria Rediscovered. • Gardiner, Sir Alan (1961) Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction. • Grimal, Nicolas (1993) A History of Ancient Egypt. • Hallo, William W. and William Kelly Simpson (1971) The Ancient Near East: A History. • *Harrast, Tracy (1990) Discover Ancient Egypt: Activity Book. • Hayes, William C. (1978) The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Parts 1 & 2. • Hornung, Erik (1999) History of Ancient Egypt: An Introduction. • James, T. G. H. (1990) Ancient Egypt: The Land and its Legacy. • Kamil, Jill (1984) The Ancient Egyptians: A Popular Introduction to Life in the Pyramid Age. • Kemp, Barry (1993) Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. • Kuhrt, Amélie (1995) The Ancient Near East, c. 3000-330 BC. Vol 1 and 2. • Málek, Jaromír, general editor (1993) Cradles of Civilization: Egypt. • *Moloney, Norah (1995) The Young Oxford Book of Archaeology. • Murnane, William (1983) The Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt. • O'Connor, David and D. P. Silverman (1995) Ancient Egyptian Kingship. • Oakes, Lorna and Gahlin Lucia (2002) Ancient Egypt, Hermes Publ. • Quirke, Stephen and Jeffrey Spencer, editors (1992) The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt. • Redford, Donald B. (1967) History and Chronology of the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt. • Redford, Donald B. (1986) Pharaonic King-Lists, Annals and Day-books. A Contribution to the Study of the Egyptian Sense of History. • Ruffle, John (1977) The Egyptians: An Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology. History

• Siliotti, Alberto.Egypt, (1994) Splendors of an Ancient Civilization. Thames and Hudson Publ. • Shaw, Ian ed. (2000) The Oxford History of Egypt. • Spencer, A. J. (1993) Early Egypt: The Rise of Civilisation in the Nile Valley. • Thompson, Dorothy J. (1988) Memphis under the Ptolemies. • Trigger, Bruce (1993) Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt in Context. • Trigger, Bruce, Barry J. Kemp, David O'Connor, and Alan B. Lloyd (1983) Ancient Egypt: A Social History. • Uphill, Eric (1988) Egyptian Towns and Cities. Shire Egyptology 8. • Wilson, John A. (1951) The Culture of Ancient Egypt History of Egyptology

• Beaaucour, F. et al (1990) The Discovery of Egypt. • Bierbrier, Morris Who Was Who in Egyptology. • Drower, Margaret (1995) Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology. • Edwards, I.E.S. (2000) From the Pyramids to Tutankhamun. • Fagan, Brian (1975) The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt. • Greener, Leslie (1966) The Discovery of Egypt. • James, T.G.H. (1992) Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun. • James, T.G.H. and Jaromir Malek, editors (1990) A Dedicated Life: Tributes Offered in Memory of Rosalind Moss. • Rees, Joan (1998) Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Novelist & Egyptologist. • Reeves, Nicholas and John H. Taylor (1993) Howard Carter: Before Tutankhamun. Papyri and Literature

• Faulkner, R. O. (1969) The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. • Faulkner, R. O. (1996) The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. • Lichtheim, Miriam (1975, 1976, 1980) Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. Volumes 1 through 3. • Parkinson, Richard B. (1991) Voices from Ancient Egypt • Pritchard, J. B., editor (1969) Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. • Simpson, Wm. K. (1972) The Literature of Ancient Egypt, an Anthology. • Wente, Edward (1990) Letters from Ancient Egypt. Mummies

• Adams, Barbara (1984) Egyptian Mummies. Shire Egyptology 1. • *Aliki (1979) Mummies Made in Egypt. • Andrews, Carol (1984) Egyptian Mummies. • Brier, Bob (1994) Egyptian Mummies: Unraveling the Secret of an Ancient Art. • D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig (1988) Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. • Fleming, Stuart (1980) The Egyptian Mummy: Secrets and Science. • Ikram, Salima and Aidan Dodson (1998) The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity. • *Milton, Joyce (1996) Mummies. Illustrated by Susan Suran • Smithsonian’s material on mummies and life in Ancient Egypt online. • Taylor, John H. (1989) Egyptian Coffins. Shire Egyptology 11. People and Daily Life

• Bierbrier, Morris (1982) Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs Colonnade Books . • Bleiberg, E. (2002) Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt. • Brewer, D., J. D. B. Redford, and S. Redford (1994) Domestic Plants and Animals: The Ancient Egyptian Origns. • Brewer, Douglas J. and Emily Teeter (1999) Egypt and the Egyptians. • James, T. G. H. (1984) Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt. • Janssen, Rosalind and Jack (1989) Egyptian Household Animals. Shire Egyptology 12. • Janssen, Rosalind M. and Jac. J. (1990) Growing Up in Ancient Egypt. • Janssen, Rosalind M. and Jac. J. (1996) Getting Old in Ancient Egypt. • Lesko, Leonard H., editor (1994) Pharaoh's Workers: The Villagers of Deir el Medina. • Malek, Jaromir (1986) In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt under the Old Kingdom. • McDowell, A. G. (1999) Village Life in Ancient Egypt. • Mertz, Barbara (1978) Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. • Romer, John (1982) People of the Nile: Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt. • Strouhal, Eugen (1992) Life of the Ancient Egyptians. • Warburton, David A. (1997) State and Economy: Fiscal Vocabulary of the New Kingdom. • Wilson, Hilary (1988) Egyptian Food and Drink. Shire Egyptology 9 Pharaohs

• Aldred, Cyril (1988) Akhenaten, King of Egypt. • Clayton, Peter A. (1994) Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Complete Reign- by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. • Freed, Rita et al (1999) Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. • Freed, Rita (1987) Ramesses the Great. • Kitchen, K. A. (1982) Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II. • Kozloff, A. and B. M. Bryan (1992) Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. • Monserrat, Dominic (2000) Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt. • O'Connor, David and David Silverman, editors (1995) Ancient Egyptian Kingship. • Quirke, Stephen (1990) Who Were the Pharaohs?: A History of their Names with a List of Cartouches. • Redford, Donald (1987) Akhenaten. The Heretic King. • Samson, Julia (1978) Amarna: City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. • Thomas, Angela P. (1988) Akhenaten's Egypt. Shire Egyptology 10. • *Van Duyn, Janet (1974) The Egyptians: Pharaohs and Craftsmen. Pyramids, Tombs, and Temples

• Badawy, Alexander (1968) A History of Egyptian Architecture: The Empire. • Dodson, Aidan (1991) Egyptian Rock-cut Tombs. Shire Egyptology 14. • Edwards, I. E. S. (1993) The Pyramids of Egypt. • Fakhry, Ahmed (1961) The Pyramids. • Habachi, Labib (1977) The Obelisks of Egypt: Skyscrapers of the Past. • Hawass, Zahi (1990) The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt. • Hodel-Hoenes, S. (2000) Life and Death in Ancient Egypt. • Hornung, Erik (1990) The Valley of the Kings: Horizon of Eternity. • Lehner, Mark (1997) The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries. • *Macaulay, David (1975) Pyramid. • Martin, Geoffrey T. (1991) The Hidden Tombs of Memphis. • Quirke, Stephen, editor (1997) The Temple in Ancient Egypt: New Discoveries and Recent Research. • Reeves, C. N. (1996) The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs. • Romer, John (1981) Valley of the Kings. Pyramids, Tombs, and Temples

• Shafer, Byron E., editor (1997) Temples in Egypt: Function, Rituals, and Meaning. • Shafer, Byron E., editor (1997) Temples of Ancient Egypt. By Byron Shafer, Dieter Arnold, Gerhard Haeny, Lanny Bell, and Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad. • Snape, Steven (1997) Egyptian Temples. Shire Egyptology 24. • Strudwick, Nigel and Helen (1999) Thebes in Egypt: A Guide to the Tombs and Temples of Ancient Luxor. • Watson, Philip (1987) Egyptian Pyramids and Mastaba Tombs. Shire Egyptology 6. Reference Works

• Baines, John and Jaromír Málek (1980) Atlas of Ancient Egypt. • Bard, Kathryn (1999) Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. • Bierbrier, Morris, Warren Dawson and Eric P. Uphill (1995) Who was Who in Egyptology. • Bunson, Margaret (1991) The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. • Lesko, Leonard H. and B. Lesko, eds. (2002) Dictionary of Late Egyptian. • The Cambridge Ancient History (1970- ) 3rd edition. • Meyers, Eric M., editor (1997) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Volumes 1 through 5. • Porter, Bertha and Rosalind L. B. Moss (1927--) Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. • Quirke, S. and J. Spencer, eds. (1992) The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt. • Redford, D. B. (2001) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. • Sasson, Jack M., editor (1995) Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Volumes 1 through 4.