History 270
Course Textbooks
and Reading Sources
Required Texts
- Shaw, Ian, ed. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. New edition. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.
- Meskell, Lynn. Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt. Princeton University Press, 2005.
- Spalinger, Anthony J. War in Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom. Ancient World at War. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
- Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature. Three volumes combined. 1st edition. University of California Press, 2019.
Web Sources and Readings
A variety of primary-source readings, monographic extracts, and journal articles are also required reading for this course. They are available for download and printing from the course Web pages. The location of each reading is noted in the Syllabus and the "Reading Assignments"-schedule in the course's Web Pages and OAKS "Contents," which is updated regularly. Please consult the Web pages on a regular basis.