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: 6

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 Grammar

Author: Sir Alan Gardiner Although the first edition of the study appeared over seventy years ago, Gardiner’s Egyptian Grammar remains the most comprehensive presentation of Middle Egyptian available, and is still an essential reference tool for all advanced work in the language. The latest, third, edition, appeared in 1957 and is now in its tenth […]

Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglphs

Author: Bob Brier 24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture Join popular Egyptologist Bob Brier for a 24-lecture guide to reading, writing, and translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Four CDs. Views: 8