Recommended Reading

[Above - Baboon statue resembling the God, Djehuty, from the British Museum, UK]

Abt, Theodor & Hornung, Erik Knowledge for the Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat - A Quest for Immortality

Brier, Bob Egyptian Mummies: Unravelling the Secrets of an Ancient Art

Brier, Bob [The Teaching Company] A History of Ancient Egypt

Carter, Howard The Tomb of Tutankhamen

Černý, Jaroslav Hieratic Inscriptons from Tut'ankhamun's Tomb

Chittock, Lorraine & Schimmel, Annemarie Cairo Cats: Egypt's Enduring Legacy

Clutton-Brock, Juliet The British Museum Book of Cats

David, Rosalie Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt

David, Rosalie The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce

Dodson, Aidan Ancient Egypt: Pyramids and Hieroglyphs - Enduring Symbols of a Great Civilisation

Dodson, Aidan & Ikram, Salima The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: Royal and Private Sepulchres from the Early Dynastic Period to the Romans

Drower, Margaret S. Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology

Edwards, I. E. S. The Pyramids of Egypt: Revised Edition

El-Shahawy, Abeer The Funerary Art of Ancient Egypt: A Bridge to the Realm of the Hereafter

Faulkner, Raymond O. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

Geyer, Georgie Anne When Cats Reigned Like Kings

Hornung, Erik The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife

Hornung, Erik Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many

Houdin, Jean-Pierre Khufu: The Secrets Behind the Building of the Great Pyramid

Janssen, Jac J. Donkeys at Deir el-Medina

Janssen, Jac J. Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum VIII - Grain Transport in the Ramesside Period: Papyrus Baldwin (BM EA 10061) and Papyrus Amiens

Janssen, Rosalind & Jack Egyptian Household Animals

Johnson, Paul The Civilization of Ancient Egypt

Lehner, Mark The Complete Pyramids

Lesko, Leonard H. Pharaoh's Workers: The Village of Deir el-Medina

Malek, Jaromir The Cat in Ancient Egypt
Manley, Bill The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

Martin, Geoffrey T. The Hidden Tombs of Memphis: New Discoveries from the Time of Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great

Morkot, Robert G. The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers

Nunn, John F. Ancient Egyptian Medicine

Quirke, Stephen The Cult of Ra: Sun-Worship in Ancient Egypt
Reeves, Nicholas Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries - A Year-by-Year Chronicle

Reeves, Nicholas & Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs

Renfrew, Colin & Bahn, Paul Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice
Romer, John Ancient Lives: Story Of The Pharaohs' Tombmakers

Romer, John Valley of the Kings

Romer, John The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited

Sharratt, Andrew The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology

Siliotti, Alberto Guide to the Valley of the Kings

Smith, Craig B. How the Great Pyramid was Built

Spencer, Neal British Museum Objects in Focus: The Gayer-Anderson Cat

Teeter, Emily Ancient Egypt: Treasures from the Collection of the Oriental Institute

Vandiver, Elizabeth [The Teaching Company] Herodotus: The Father of History

Verner, Miroslav The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments

Weeks, Kent The Lost Tomb

Weeks, Kent R. KV5: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Tomb of the Sons of Rameses II in the Valley of the Kings

Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Yurco, Frank J. Egypt: A Companion to the Exhibit "Inside Ancient Egypt"

Good sites to find Egyptian literature:
Readerfind Book Search To get out-of-print or hard to find books.
Oxbow Books Sell archaeology and history books at really fair prices.

Egyptology Online Has Homestudy Egyptology Courses available.

An introduction to the history and culture of Pharaonic Egypt - Contains many resources for Ancient Egyptian literature.

Pyramid Texts Online - Explores the pyramid of Unis.

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