Recommended Egyptology Reading
- Introduction and Reference
- Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt by John Baines & Jaromir Malek
- The Egyptians by Cyril Aldred
- Egypt of the Pharaohs by Alan Gardiner
- Language and Hieroglyphs
- Middle Egyptian by James P. Allen
- How To Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Mark Collier & Bill Manley
- Hieroglyphs Without Mystery by Karl Theodor-Zauzich
- Art and Architecture
- Reading Egyptian Art by Richard H. Wilkinson
- The Art of Ancient Egypt by Gay Robins
- Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art by Gay Robins
- The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner
- Religion
- Conceptions Of God in Ancient Egypt by Erik Hornung
- The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife by Erik Hornung
- Ancient Egyptian Religion by Henri Frankfort
- The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity by Salima Ikram & Aidan Dodson
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Books by Our Speakers
Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies In Ancient Egypt (2005) by Salima Ikram, Editor
The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt: A Genealogical Sourcebook of the Pharaohs (2004) by Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13 Century Bc (2004) by Colleen Manassa
Painting and Society in Ancient Thebes: 1419-1372 B.C. (2004) by Melinda Hartwig
Society and Death in Ancient Egypt : Mortuary Landscapes of the Middle Kingdom (2005) by Janet Richards
ARCE Related Web Sites
American Research Center In Egypt Homepage
ARCE Northern California Chapter
Egyptology Resources
(Extensive directories to other Egyptology sites and lists of Egyptologists)
KMT Magazine & Reeder’s Egyptology Homepage
Directory of North American Egyptologists
Egyptology Resources, Newton Institute, University of Cambridge
Annual Egyptological Bibliography
Other Egyptology sites of interest
TT99 – Nigel Strudwick’s site for his project at the Tomb of Senneferi
The Animal Mummy Project, the Cairo MuseumThe Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago
The Website of the Supreme Council of Antiquities The Website of Dr. Zahi Hawass
Eternal EgyptKV-63 – Newly discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings
- And now for something completely different…
- Neferchichi’s Egyptian Graphics – Check it out.
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