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Bibliography for Ancient Egypt 
HST 597 - Spring 2004

All of the following books are available in Meyer Library. This list is a selection of books suitable for review. Students may choose other works for review in consultation with the instructor.

 

Aldred , Cyril

Egypt to the end of the Old Kingdom

Aldred, Cyril

Akhenaten, Pharaoh of Egypt; a new study

Arnett, William

The predynastic origin of Egyptian hieroglyphs: evidence for the development of rudimentary forms of hieroglyphs in Upper Egypt in the fourth millenium B.C.

Arnold, D.

The royal women of Amarna: images of beauty from ancient Egypt

Baer, Klaus

Rank and title in the Old Kingdom ; the structure of the Egyptian administration in the fifth and sixth dynasties

Bernal, Martin

Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization

Bierbrier, M. L.

The late New Kingdom in Egypt (c. 1300-664 B.C.): a genealogical and chronological investigation

Bietak, Manfred Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos: recent excavations at Tell el-Dab`a

Bleeker, Claas Jouco

Egyptian festivals. Enactments of religious renewal

Bourriau, Janine           

Pharaohs and mortals: Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom

Breasted, James Henry

Development of religion and thought in ancient Egypt

Bryan, Betsy Morrell           

The reign of Thutmose IV

Butzer, Karl

Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt

Capel, A & Markoe, M., eds.

Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: women in ancient Egypt

Cerny, Jaroslav           

Ancient Egyptian religion

Clagett, Marshall

Ancient Egyptian science: a source book

Clark, Robert T.

Myth and symbol in ancient Egypt

Cohen, R. and Westbrook, R., eds. Amarna diplomacy: the beginnings of international relations

David, A. Rosalie

The Pyramid builders of ancient Egypt: a modern investigation of Pharaoh's workforce

Decker, Wolfgang

Sports and games of ancient Egypt

Desroches-Noblecourt, C.

Tutankhamen; life and death of a pharaoh

Edwards, I. E. S.

The Pyramids of Egypt

Edwards, I. E. S.

Tutankhamun, his tomb and its treasures

Emory, W.

Archaic Egypt

Englund, Gertie ed.

The Religion of the ancient Egyptians: cognitive structures and popular expressions: proceedings of symposia in Uppsala and Bergen, 1987 and 1988

Erman, Adolf  

A handbook of Egyptian religion

Fagan, Brian   

The Rape of the Nile: tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologist in Egypt

Frankfort, Henri

Ancient Egyptian religion: an interpretation

Ghalioungui, Paul

The house of life; Per ankh. Magic and medical science in ancient Egypt.

Giles, Frederick John

Ikhnaton: legend and history

Goedicke, Hans

The report of Wenamun

Hall, Rosalind

Egyptian textiles

Hayes, William           

Most ancient Egypt

Hamilton-Paterson, J      

Mummies, death and life in ancient Egypt

Hoffman, Michael A

Egypt before the pharaohs: the prehistoric foundations of Egyptian civilization

Hornung, Erik Akhenaten and the religion of light

Hornung, Erik

Conceptions of God in ancient Egypt: the one and the many

Jenkins, Nancy

The boat beneath the pyramid: King Cheops' royal ship

Kanawati, Naguib

The Egyptian administration in the Old Kingdom: evidence on its economic decline

Kees, Hermann

Ancient Egypt; A cultural topography

Lefkowitz & Guy, eds.

Black Athena Revisited

Lesko, Barbara  S., ed.

Women's earliest records: from ancient Egypt and western Asia

Lesko, Leonard H., ed.

Pharaoh's workers: the villagers of Deir el Medina

Martin, Geoffrey Thorndike

Egyptian administrative and private-name seals, principally of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period

Mertz, Barbara

Temples, tombs, and hieroglyphs; the story of Egyptology

Meyers, Elizabeth

A program of political theology in Amarna tomb art: imagery as metaphor

Michalowski, K.           

Art of ancient Egypt

Murnane, William J.

Ancient Egyptian coregencies

Murnane, William J.

The road to Kadesh: a historical interpretation of the battle reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak

Murnane, William J. Texts from the Amarna period in Egypt

O'Connor and Silverman       

Ancient Egyptian kingship

Petrie, W. M. Flinders

Religion and conscience in ancient Egypt : lectures delivered at University College, London

Petrie, W. M. Flinders

Arts and crafts of ancient Egypt

Petrie, W. M. Flinders

Social life in ancient Egypt.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders

Religious life in ancient Egypt

Quirke, Stephen           

Middle Kingdom studies

Rainey, Anson ed.

Egypt, Israel, Sinai: archaeological and historical relationships in the Biblical period 

Redford, Donald B.

Pharaonic king-lists, annals, and day-books: a contribution to the study of the Egyptian sense of history

Redford, Donald B.

Akhenaten, the heretic king

Redford, Donald B.

Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in ancient times

Rice, Michael

Egypt's making: the origins of ancient Egypt, 5000-2000 BC

Robins, Gay

Proportion and style in ancient Egyptian art

Robins, Gay

Women in Ancient Egypt

Romer, John

Ancient lives: daily life in Egypt of the pharaohs

Romer, John

Ancient lives: the story of the Pharaoh's tombmakers

Sayce, A. H.

The religions of ancient Egypt and Babylonia: the Gifford lectures on the ancient Egyptian and Babylonian conception of the divine, delivered in Aberdeen

Schmidt, John D.

Ramesses II; a chronological structure for his reign

Sellers, Jane B.

The death of gods in ancient Egypt : an essay on Egyption religion and the frame of time

Shafer, ed.

Religion in ancient Egypt: gods, myths, and personal practice

Shinnie, P. L.

Ancient Nubia

Smith, William           

The art and architecture of ancient Egypt

Smith, William

A history of Egyptian sculpture and painting in the Old Kingdom

Spencer, A. Jeffrey

Death in ancient Egypt

Steindorff and Seeley

When Egypt ruled the East

Strudwick, Nigel

The administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom: the highest titles and their holders

Trigger, B.ed.

Ancient Egypt: a social history

Trigger, B.

Early civilizations: ancient Egypt in context 

Van Seters, John

The Hyksos; a new investigation

Wente and Meltzer, ed.

Letters from ancient Egypt

West, John Anthony

Serpent in the sky : the high wisdom of Ancient Egypt

White, Jon

Ancient Egypt; its culture and history

Wildung, Dietrich

Egyptian saints: deification in Pharaonic Egypt

Wilson, John Albert

The culture of ancient Egypt.

Wilson, John Albert

Signs & wonders upon Pharaoh; a history of American Egyptology