Book list of Ancient Egypt: Now with 100% more Ancient Egypt

Feb 16, 2011 01:10

I've been meaning to compile this for a while. For my own reference and anyone who might be interested. WIP for now; eventually I hope to have small reviews of everything I own in case you wandered here for suggestions.


Organized alphabetically by author. For the most part. After that it's pretty much at my discretion.

Own:

Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt By John Baines and Jaromir Malek

Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity By Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson

Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt By T. G. H. James ***

Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs A. G. McDowell ***

Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt By Barbara Mertz

Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt By Barbara Mertz

Transport in Ancient Egypt By Robert E. Partridge

Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times By Donald B. Redford

Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice Edited by Byron Shafer

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Ian Shaw

The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry Edited by William Kelley Simpson ***

The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt By William Stevenson Smith

Ancient Egypt: A Social History By B. G. Trigger, B. J. Kemp, D. O'Connor and A. B. Lloyd

Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt By Joyce Tyldesley

Ancient Egyptians Their Life and Customs Vol 1 by J Gardiner Wilkinson

Ancient Egyptians Their Life and Customs Vol 2 by J Gardiner Wilkinson

Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization by Barry Kemp

100 Heiroglyphs: Think like an Egyptian by Barry Kemp

Ancient Egyptian Literature:
Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms ***
Volume II: The New Kingdom ***
Volume III: The Late Period ***
By Miriam Lichtheim

Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian By Raymond Faulkner

Egyptian Grammar By Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner

Napoleon in Egypt by Paul Strathern (not Ancient obviously)

Egyptian Textiles by Rosalind Hall ***

Egyptian Food and Drink by Hilary Wilson ***

Egyptian Medicine by Carole Reeves ***

Last three are part of the Shire Egyptology series from the British Museum and honestly I'd be interested in copies of any part the series

Other: (aka free on google books)

A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest By James Henry Breasted

Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt By James Henry Breasted

Ancient Records of Egypt:
The First to the Seventeenth Dynasties
The Eighteenth Dynasty
The Nineteenth Dynasty
The Twentieth to the Twenty Sixth Dynasties
By James Henry Breasted
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