WEBSITES AND BOOKS ON ANCIENT EGYPT
Websites on Ancient Egypt
National Museum of Natural History. Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/eternal-life/
The British Museum. Ancient Egypt. http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Rigby's World of Egypt. http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~ancient/museum.htm
Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston. The Giza Archives. http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp
National Geographic Classics. At the Tomb of Tutankhamen.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/98/egypt/
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Digital Egypt for Universities.
http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Egyptian Section.
http://www.penn.museum/about-our-collections/224-egyptian-section.html
Oriental Institute Research Archives, Chicago. Sites for students and teachers.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/YOUTH_RESOURCES.HTML
Egyptology News (blog). http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
General Information
Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten: King of Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 1991, 1991.
________. The Egyptians. 3rd rev. ed. Thames & Hudson. 1998.
________. Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom. Thames & Hudson 1982.
Allen P. James, Susan J. Allen, Diana Craig Patch, and David T. Mininberg, M.D. The Art of Medicine in
Ancient Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
Ancient Egypt. Dorling Kindersley, 1996
Andrews, Carol. Amulets of Ancient Egypt. University of Texas Press, 1994. (These ornaments were believed
to have symbolic and protective powers for the wearer, whether living or dead.)
Bierbrier, Morris L. Tomb Builders of the Pharaohs. Columbia University Press, 1993.
Bourbon, Fabio. Egypt (Explorers and Artists). White Star Publishers, 2004.
Volume of the lithographs of David Roberts, who in 1838 set out for Egypt where he made countless sketches of the
most remarkable sites and monuments.
Bowman, Alan K. Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 B.C. - A.D. 642 from Alexander to the Arab Conquest.
Rev. ed. University of California Press, 1996.
Brier, Bob. The Murder of Tutankhamen. Berkley Books, 1998.
Brown, Dale, ed. Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs. Time-Life, 1999.
Budge, E. Wallis. The Dwellers on the Nile. Kessinger Publishing, 2010.
Bunson, Margaret. A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Carnegie Series on Egypt. 9 vols. Carnegie Museum, 1990.
Carter, Howard, and Mace, A. C. The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Peter Smith, 1990.
Casson, Lionel. Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt. Rev. and enlarged. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Clark, Somers and R. Englebach. Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture. Dover Publications, 1990.
David, A. Rosalie. Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
________. Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt. Rev. ed. (Facts on File Library of World History), 2003.
________. The Experience of Ancient Egypt: Routledge, 2000.
Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane. Tutankhamen: Life and Death of a Pharaoh. Viking Penguin, 1990.
Dodson, Aidan, and Salima Ikram. The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity. Thames &
Hudson, 1998.
Donadoni, Sergio, ed. The Egyptians. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Edwards, I. E. The Pyramids of Egypt. Penguin, 1993.
El Mahdy, Christine. Tutankhamen: The life and Death of a Boy-King. St. Martin’s Griffin. 2001.
________. Mummies, Myth and Magic. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Fagan, Brian. Discovery!: Unearthing the New Treasures of Archaeology. Thames & Hudson, 2007.
Includes ancient Egyptian history.
Fagan, Brian. Kenneth Garrett, photog. Egypt of the Pharaohs. National Geographic Society, 2001.
Fagan, Brian. The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt. Rev. & updated.
Basic Books, 2004.
Gore, Rick, and Rick Garrett. APharaohs of the Sun.@ National Geographic (April 2001).
Hart, George. Egyptian Myths. (Legendary Past Ser.) University of Texas Press, 1991.
Hawass, Zahi. King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb. Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Hayes, William C., and Seele, Keith C., ed. Most Ancient Egypt. (Midway Reprint Series.) Books on
Demand UMI, 1977.
Hayes, William C. The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of Egyptian Artifacts in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Vol. I: From Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom; Vol II: The Hyksos Period and
the New Kingdom. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990.
Houlihan, Patrick F. The Animal World of the Pharaohs. Thames and Hudson, 1996.
Ikram, Salima. Ancient Egypt: An Introduction. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
_______. Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press,
2005.
James, T. G. Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamum. Rev. ed. Tauris Park Paperbacks, 2012.
James, T. G. The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt. University of Michigan Press, 2005.
James, T. G. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society, 1882-1982. University of Chicago Press,
1984.
Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C., and Sabloff, Jeremy A. Ancient Civilizations; The Near East and Mesoamerica.
2nd ed. Waveland Press, 1995.
Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature, a Book of Readings. Vol. 1: Old and Middle Kingdoms, 2nd
ed., 2006. Vol. 2: The New Kingdom, 2nd ed., 2006. Vol. 3: The Late Period, 2nd ed., 2006. University of
California Press.
Malek, Jaromir. The Treasures of Tutankhamun. Whitman Publishing, 2006.
________. The Cat in Ancient Egypt. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
________. In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Ancient Egypt During the Old Kingdom. University of Oklahoma
Press, 1992.
Mertz, Barbara. Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. 2nd ed. William Morrow Paperbacks,
2009.
________. Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt. William Morrow
Paperbacks, 2009.
Meyerson, Daniel. In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun’s Tomb.
Ballantine Books, 2009.
Nunn, John F. Ancient Egyptian Medicine. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Parkinson, R. B., ed. & transl. Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings. British
Museum Press, 2006.
Petrie, William M. A History of Egypt. 4 vols. Cornell University Library, 2009.
Quirke, Stephen and Jeffrey Spencer, eds. British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt. British Museum, 1996.
Ray, John. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. Reprint ed. Harvard University Press, 2012.
Reeves, Nicholas. The Complete Tutankhamun: The King, The Tomb, The Royal Treasure. Thames and
Hudson, 1995.
Robins, Gay. Women in Ancient Egypt. Harvard University Press, 1993.
Silverman, David P, Josef W. Wegner, and Jennifer Houser Wegner. Akhenaten and Tutankhamun: Revolution
and Restoration. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2006.
Silverman, David P. Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Silverman, David P., ed. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Dallas Museum of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Museum, and Cornell University Press, 1997.
Stead, Miriam. Egyptian Life. (British Museum Paperback Ser.) British Museum, 1986.
Treasures of Tutankhamun. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976.
Religion
Budge, E. A. From Fetis to God in Ancient Egypt. Kessinger Publishing, 2010.
________. Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life. Dodo Press, 2008.
________. Egyptian Book of the Dead. CreateSpace, 2012.
David, A. Rosalie. The Ancient Egyptians: Beliefs and Practices. 2nd. Ed. Sussex Academic Press, 1997.
Frankfort, Henri. Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation. Dover, 2011.
Hart, George. Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Routledge, 1986.
Petrie, William F. The Religion of Ancient Egypt. Classic Reprint. Forgotten Books, 2010.
Von Dassow, Eva, ed. Raymond Faulkner, translator. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going
Forth by Day. The Complete Papyrus of Ani Featuring Integrated Text and Full-Color Images. Chronicle
Books, 2008.
Art
Aldred Cyril. Egyptian Art. (World of Art Series.) Thames and Hudson, 1985.
Berman, Lawrence M. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 1st ed. Hudson Hills Press.
1999.
Pharaohs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Louvre. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Fazzini, Richard, Robert S. Bianchi, James F. Romano, and Donald B. Spanel. Ancient Egyptian Art: In the
Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn Museum, 1989.
James, T. G. Egyptian Painting. Harvard University Press, 1986.
James, T. G. and W. V. Davies. Egyptian Sculpture. Harvard University Press, 1986.
Hill, Marsha, ed. Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.
Malek, Jaromir. Egypt: 4000 Years of Art. Phaidon Press, 2003.
Payne, Joan and Ashmolean Museum. Catalog of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection. Oxford University
Press, 1994.
Smith, W. Stevenson. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt. Rev. ed. Yale University Press, 1999.
Wilkinson, Richard H. Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art. Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Hieroglyphics
Betrò, Marla Carmela. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt. 1st ed. Abbeville Press Publications,
1996.
Budge, E. A. Wallis. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Reading Book for Beginners. Reprint ed. Dover, 2011.
________. The Rosetta Stone. Nabu Press, 2010.
________. The Egyptian Language. Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics with a Sign List. Ares, 1983.
Fischer, Henry G. Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1999.
Malek, Jaromir. The ABC of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Reprint ed. Ashmolan Museum, 2011.
Shaw, Ian and Paul Nicholson. The Princeton Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. Princeton University Press, 2008.
Wilkinson, Richard H. Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and
Sculpture. Thames and Hudson, 1994.
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor. Hieroglyphs Without Mystery: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Writing. 1st ed.
University of Texas Press, 1992.
For Young Readers (Grades 5-9)
Cline, Eric H., and Jill Rubalcaba. The Ancient Egyptian World. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Hart, George. Ancient Egypt. DK Children, 2008.
Haslam, Andrew. Ancient Egypt. Make it Work Science Series. Cooper Square Publishing, 2000. (A project
book)
Hawass, Zahi. Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Boy King. National Geographic. 2005. (Written by the
director of excavations at the Giza Pyramids and head of Egypt=s Supreme Council of Antiquities.)
Macaulay, David. Pyramid. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1975. *DVD by Derek Jacobi and David
Macaulay, 2006.
Payne, Elizabeth. The Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt. Random House Books for Young Readers, 1981.
Putnam, James. Pyramid. Knoph Books for Young Readers, 1994.
Roehrig, Catharine. Fun with Hieroglyphs. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.
Includes stamp, ink pad, and guidebook.
Rossini, Stéphane. Egyptian Hieroglyphics: How to Read and Write Them. Dover Publications, 1989.
Scott, Joseph, and Scott, Lenore. Hieroglyphs for Everyone: An Introduction to the Writing of Ancient Egypt.
Barnes & Noble, 1993.
Smith, Stuart Tyson, and Nancy Stone Bernard. Valley of the Kings. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Steele, Philip. Step Into Ancient Egypt. Anness, 2008.
Winters, Kay. Voices of Ancient Egypt. Reprint ed. National Geographic, 2009.
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