Selected Bibliography for Ancient Egypt

The following bibliography is by no means complete and 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. Books intended especially for children have been marked with an asterisk (*), but parents and teachers are encouraged to review these titles to insure that the level of difficulty and the content are appropriate for their young readers. General information on many of these topics can also be found in encyclopedias. Teachers, parents and students who can suggest additional books which they have found helpful are encouraged to contact the Department of Egyptology. Consultation of the bibliographies within each book will lead the reader to still more information available in the ever-expanding research field of Egyptology.

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.
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.
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 Egyptology 22.
Vinson, Steve (1994) Egyptian Boats and Ships. Shire Egyptology 20.

Egypt and its Neighbors

Frerich, Ernest S. and Leonard H. Lesko, editors (1997) Exodus: The Egyptian Evidence.
Kendall, Timothy (1997) Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500-1500 B.C.: The Archaeological Discovery of an Ancient Nubian Empire.
Modrzejewski, Joseph Mélèze (1995) The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian.
Redford, Donald B. (1992) Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times.
Sasson, J. (1995) Civilization of the Ancient Near East , 4 Vols.
Shinnie, P.L. (1996) Ancient Nubia.
Taylor, John H. (1991) Egypt and Nubia.
Torok, Laszlo (1995) The Birth of an Ancient African Kingdom: Kush and Her Myth of the State in the First Millennium BC.
Warburton, David A. (2001) Egypt and the Near East: Politics in the Bronze Age.
Ward, William A. (1971) Egypt and the East Mediterranean World, 2200-1900 B.C.
Welsby, Derek (1998) The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires.
Wildung, Dietrich, editorial direction (1997) Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile. trans. by Peter der Manuelian and Kathleen Guillaume.

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.
Englund, Gertrude (1988) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction.
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.
Junge, Friderich (2001) Late 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.
Pope, Maurice (1975) The Story of Archaeological Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Linear B.
Watterson, Barbara (1981) Introducing Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
Watterson, Barbara (1985) More About 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.

History

Adams, Barbara (1988) Predynastic Egypt. Shire Egyptology 7.
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) Egypt Uncovered.
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 and 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. Volumes 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.
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.
Silverman, David P., editor (1997) Ancient Egypt.
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. (1978) The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts.
Faulkner, R. O. (1996) The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Foster, John L. and Lyla Pinch Brock (1998) The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor.
Lichtheim, Miriam (1975, 1976, 1980) Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. Volumes 1 through 3.
Parkinson, Richard B. (1991) Voices from Ancient Egypt.
Parkinson, Richard B. and S, Quirke (1995) Papyrus.
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.
Taylor, John H. (1989) Egyptian Coffins. Shire Egyptology 11.

People and Daily Life

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.
Lepre, J. P. (1990) The Egyptian Pyramids: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference.
*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.
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.

Religion

Allen, James P. (1989) Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt.
Assman, Jan (1995) Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom.
Assman, Jan The Search for God in Ancient Egypt.
Brier, Bob (1981) Ancient Egyptian Magic.
Cerný, Jaroslav (1979) Ancient Egyptian Religion.
Faulkner, R. O. and O. Goelet (1994) The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Hornung, Erik (1982) Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt.
Ions, Veronica (1982) Egyptian Mythology.
Lesko, Barbara S. (1999) The Great Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.
Morenz, Siegfried (1973) Egyptian Religion.
Pinch, Geraldine (1994) Magic in Ancient Egypt.
Quirke, Stephen (1992) Ancient Egyptian Religion.
Ritner, Robert (1987) The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice.
Roberts, Alison (1995) Hathor Rising: Serpent Power of Ancient Egypt.
Sauneron, Serge (reprint 2000) Priests of Ancient Egypt.
Shafer, Byron E., editor (1991) Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice. By John Baines, Leonard H. Lesko and David P. Silverman.
Stewart, Harry M. (1995) Egyptian Shabtis. Shire Egyptology 23.
Thomas, Angela (1986) Egyptian Gods and Myths. Shire Egyptology 2.
Vernus, Pascal, with photographs by Erich Lessing (1998) The Gods of Ancient Egypt.
Zabkar, Louis V. (1988) Hymns to Isis in Her Temple at Philae.

Science and Technology

Arnold, Dieter (1991) Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry.
Clagett, Marshall (1989-) Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, 3 Vols.
Depuydt, Leo (1997) Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt.
Hodges, Peter (1989) How the Pyramids were Built.
Nicholson, Paul T. and Ian Shaw (1999) Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology.
Nunn, John F. (1996) Ancient Egyptian Medicine.
Partridge, Robert (1996) Transport in Ancient Egypt.
Reeves, Carole (1992) Egyptian Medicine. Shire Egyptology 15.
Scheel, Bernd. (1989) Egyptian Metalworking Tools.
Shaw, Ian (1991) Egyptian Warfare and Weapons. Shire Egyptology 16.
Vinson, Steve (1994) Egyptian Boats and Ships.

Tutankhamun

*Aldred, Cyril (1995) Tut-ankh-amen & His Friends.
Brier, Bob (1998) The Murder of Tutankhamen: A True Story.
British Museum (1973) The Treasures of Tutankhamun.
Edwards, I. E. S. (1976) Tutankhamun: His Tomb and its Treasures.
James, T. G. H. (1992) Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun.
*Reeves, C. N. (1992) Into the Mummy's Tomb.
Reeves, C. N. (1995) The Complete Tutankhamun: The King, the Tomb, the Royal Treasure.
Reeves, N. (1987) Tutankhamun: A Pocket Guide.
Welsh, Frances (1993) Tutankhamun's Egypt. Shire Egyptology 19.

Women in Ancient Egypt

Capel, Anne and G. E. Markoe, eds. (1996) Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt.
Fischer, Henry G. (2nd ed. 2000) Egyptian Women of the Old Kingdom and the Heracleopolitan Period.
Grant, Michael (1972) Cleopatra.
Hawass, Zahi (2000) Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt.
Lesko, Barbara S., editor (1989) Women's Earliest Records: From Ancient Egypt and Western Asia.
Lesko, Barbara S. (1996) The Remarkable Women of Ancient Egypt.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. (1990) Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra.
Robins, Gay (1993) Women in Ancient Egypt.
Samson, Julia (1985) Nefertiti and Cleopatra: Queen Monarchs of Ancient Egypt.
*Stanley, Diane (1997) Cleopatra. Illustrated by author.
Tyldesley, Joyce (1994) Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt.
Tyldesley, Joyce (1996) Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh.
Tyldesley, Joyce (1999) Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen.
Watterson, Barbara (1991) Women in Ancient Egypt.
Whitehorne, John (1994) Cleopatras.