A History of Ancient Egypt
Author: John Romer How, over a thousand years, did a culture of semi-itinerant farmers create the rich, vivid, world of ancient Egypt, culminating with the Great Pyramid? In this extraordinary book John Romer draws on a lifetime of research to tell one of the greatest human stories. Showing how archaeological evidence has allowed this long-vanished […]
The Story of Egypt
Author: Joann Fletcher The story of the world’s greatest civilisation spans more than 4000 years of history that has shaped the world. It is full of spectacular sites and epic stories, an evolving society rich in heroes and villains, inventors and intellectuals, artisans and pioneers. Now TV historian Professor Joann Fletcher pulls together the complete […]
The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt
Author: Joyce Tyldesley The civilization we know as Ancient Egypt stretched over three thousand years. What was life like for ancient Egyptians? What were their beliefs – and how different were they from ours? The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt uses Egypt’s vivid narratives to create a panorama of its history, […]
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Author: Toby Wilkinson This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten’s religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexander the Great’s invasion and Cleopatra’s fatal entanglement […]
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Author: Chris Naunton Egypt boasts some of the most spectacular ancient ruins in the world. Over the past two centuries, archaeologists have unearthed the burials of many of Egypt’s celebrated pharaohs, from the chambers deep within the famed pyramids at Giza to the royal tombs hidden among the rocky hills of the Valley of the […]
Nefertiti Lived Here
Author: Mary Chubb Mary Chubb was born in 1903. In 1928 she joined the staff of the Egypt Exploration Society in London as an under secretary, and two years later was sent out to dig at Tell el Amarna – an experience which inspired a lifelong, if unschol-arly, enthusiasm for archaeology in general and Egyptology […]
Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary
Author: E A Wallis Budge Reprint of the 1911 ed. published by K. Paul, Trench, Trèubner, London, which was issued as v. 31 of Books on Egypt and Chaldaea. Views: 10
A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead
Author: E A Wallis Budge Containing a comprehensive dictionary of hieroglyphs to all the texts of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead, and also to most of the supplementary Chapters of the Saïte and Graeco-Roman period that are usually appended to it, this volume will prove to be a staple part of a […]
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
Authors: Various The Letter to Nebetitef on Her First Intermediate Period Stela in the Michael C. Carlos Museum The Letter to Nebetitef on Her First Intermediate Period Stela in the Michael C. Carlos Museum The Shabtis of the God’s Father, Yuya A Painter’s Version: Amenhotep, Son of Amunnakhte and Pictorial Tradition The Palermo Stone and […]
Egyptian Archaeology – Issue 58 Spring 2021
Authors: Various Views: 11