Course Bibliography
©2002. PETER A. PICCIONE

Bibliographical entries are listed here first by subject-heading then by author. Click on any subject to access readings.
    Subject Headings:
  1. Reference Books and Encyclopedias
  2. History:
    a. General Histories
    b. Individual Historical Topics
    c. Prehistory and the Predynastic
    d. Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, and the Amarna Period
    e. Social History:
    1. Economy and Economic Institutions
    2. Law and Legal Institutions (incl. Crime and Punishment)
    3. Literacy and Education
    4. Social Institutions and Daily Life
    5. Women: Social Status and Position
  3. Anthologies and Translations of Texts
  4. Art, Architecture, and Archaeology:
    a. Architecture and Archaeology
    b. Art and Art History
  5. Calendar and Chronological Issues
  6. Ethnology and Ethnological Issues: Egypt and Nubia
  7. Geography, Land and Environment of the Nile Valley
  8. International Relations and Historiography:
    a. Greek and Aegean Relations
    b. Greek Contacts: Afrocentric Model
    c. Nubia and Kush
    d. Western Asia: Early Contacts and Influences
    e. Western Asia: Later Contacts and Relations
  9. Egyptian Languages and Writing
  10. Religion and Magic
  11. Science and Technology:
    a. Medicine and Palaeopathology
    b. Engineering and Technology


I. Reference Books and Encyclopedias

Baines, J. and Malek, J. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. New York: Facts on File, 1980.

Bard, K., editor. Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London and New York: Routledge, 199.

Cambridge Ancient History. Eight volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Volume 1, part 1, Prolegomena and Prehistory, ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al. 1970.
Volume 1, part 2, Early History of the Middle East, ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al. 1971.
Volume 2, part 1, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1800-1380 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al. 1973.
Volume 2, part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al. 1975.
Volume 3, part 1, The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eight centuries B.C., ed. J. Boardman et al. 1982.
Volume 3, part 2, The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C., ed. J. Boardman et al. 1991.

Cambridge History of Africa. Eight volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, ed. J. D. Clark. 1982.
Volume 2, From c. 500 BC to AD 1050, ed. J. D. Fage. 1978.

Dawson, W. R and E. P. Uphill. Who Was Who in Egyptology. Third edition, revised by M. L. Bierbrier. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1995.

Lexikon der Ägyptologie, eds. Helck, W., E. Otto and W. Westendorf. Seven volumes. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975-1989. (This is the professionals' encyclopedia of ancient Egypt. Some articles are in English, while others are in German or French. Use German and French dictionaries to look up foreign words. Even if you do not read German or French, all articles contain highly useful bibliographies.)

Manley, Bill. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt. London: Penguin Books, 1996.

Meyers, Eric M., editor. Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Ancient Near East. Five volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Redford, Donald B., editor. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Sasson, Jack M., editor. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Four volumes. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.


II. History

a. General Histories

Aldred, Cyril. Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1965.

Aldred, C. The Egyptians. Third edition, revised and updated by Aidan Dodson. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.

Bagnall, R. S. Egypt in Late Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Bowman, A. K. Egypt after the Pharaohs. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986.

Brewer, Douglas J. and Emily Teeter. Egypt and the Egyptians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Celenko, T. Egypt in Africa. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art and Indiana University Press, 1996.

David, R. Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Emery, W. B. Archaic Egypt. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961.

Grimal, N. A History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Paper edition, 1994.

Harris, J. R., editor. The Legacy of Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Hayes, W. C. The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two volumes. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom. 1953
Volume 2, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom. 1959.

Hoffman, M. Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Historical Foundations of Egyptian Civilization. Rev. ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Kemp, B. Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. London: Routledge, 1989.

Ki-Zerbo, J., editor General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 1, Methodology and African Prehistory. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Kitchen, K. A. The Egyptian Nineteenth Dynasty. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1977.

Kitchen, K. A. Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1982.

Kitchen, K. A. The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650 B.C.). 3rd. ed., rev. with new Preface and Supplement. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1995.

Mokhtar, G., editor. General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Methodology and African Prehistory. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Mysliwiec, K. The Twilight of Ancient Egypt: First Millennium B.C. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Quirke, S. and Spencer, J. The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

Taylor, J. Egypt and Nubia. London: The British Museum, 1991.

Thompson, D. J. Memphis under the Ptolemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988

Trigger, B. G., Kemp, B. J., O' Connor, D., Lloyd, A. B. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Winlock, H. E. The Rise and Fall of the Middle Kingdom in Thebes. New York: Macmillan Company, 1947.


b. Individual Historical Topics

Altenmüller, H. and Moussa A. "Die Inschrift Amenemhets II. aus dem Ptah-Tempel von Memphis: Ein Vorbericht." Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur 18 (1991): 1-48.

Bryan, Betsy M. The Reign of Thutmose IV. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Edgerton, W. F. and Wilson, J. A. The Historical Records of Ramses III: The Texts in Medinet Habu Volumes I and II. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 12. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936.

Gardiner, Alan H. The Royal Canon of Turin. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Griffith Institute, 1959.

Johnson, Janet. H., editor. Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1992.

Malek, Jaromir. "The Annals of Amenemhet II." Egyptian Archaeology 2 (1992): 18.

Murnane, W. The Road to Kadesh: An Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak. 2nd ed., rev. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 42. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1990.

Murnane, W. J. Ancient Egyptian Coregencies. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 40. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1977.

Nadoury, R. el-. "The Legacy of Pharaonic Egypt." In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Ancient Civilizations of Africa, ed. G. Mokhtar, 103-18. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

O'Connor, David B. and Cline, Eric H., editors. Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 1997.

Oren, E., editor. The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives. University Museum Monograph 96. University Museum Symposium Series 8. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1997.

Redford, D. B. Pharaonic Kinglists, Annals and Day-Books: A Contribution to the Study of the Egyptian Sense of History. Mississauga: Benben Publications, 1986.

Smith, H. S. and Smith A. "The Kamose Texts." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 103 (1976): 59-62.


c. Prehistory and the Predynastic

Adams, B. "Elite Graves at Hierakonpolis." In Aspects of Early Egypt, ed. Jeffrey Spencer, 1-15. London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Arkell, A. J. The Prehistory of the Nile Valley. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Volume 1, Der alte vordere Orient. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975.

Close, Angela. "Living on the Edge: Neolithic Herders in the Eastern Sahara." Antiquity 64 (1990): 79-96.

Close, Angela., Wendorf, F. and Schild, R. "Patterned Use of a Middle Palaeolithic Landscape: Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Eastern Sahara." Sahara 3 (1990): 21-34.

Connor, D. and Marks A. "The Terminal Pleistocene on the Nile: The Final Nilotic Adjustment." In End of the Palaeolithic in the Old World, ed. L. G. Straus, 171-98. BAR International Series, no. 284. 1986.

Debono, F. "The Prehistory of the Nile Valley." In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 1, Methodology and African Prehistory, ed. J. Ki-Zerbo, 274-83. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Guksch, C. "Ethnological Models and Processes of State Formation--Chiefdom Survivals in the Old Kingdom." Göttinger Miszellen 125 (1991): 37-46.

Hassan, F. "The Predynastic of Egypt." Journal of World Prehistory 2 (1988): 135-85.

Hays, T. R. "A Reappraisal of the Egyptian Predynastic." In From Hunters to Farmers, ed. J. D. Clarke and S. Brandt, 65-73. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Hendrickx, S. "The Relative Chronology of the Naqada Culture. Problems and Possibilities." In Aspects of Early Egypt, ed. Jeffrey Spencer, 36-69. London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Hoffman, M. Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Historical Foundations of Egyptian Civilization. Revised edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Hugot, H. J. "The Prehistory of the Sahara." In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 1, Methodology and African Prehistory, ed. J. Ki-Zerbo, 251-63. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Midant-Reynes, B. The Prehistory of Egypt: From the First Egyptians to the First Pharaohs, trans. I. Shaw. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 2000.

Spencer, A. J. Early Egypt: The Rise of Civilisation in the Nile Valley. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Spencer, A. J., ed. Aspects of Early Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Stanley, D. J. and Warne, A. G. "Sea Level and Initiation of Predynastic Culture in the Nile Delta." Nature 363 (3 June 1993): 435-38.

Wendorf, F. and Schild, R. "The Emergence of Food Production in the Egyptian Sahara." In From Hunters to Farmers, ed. J. D. Clarke and S. Brandt, 93-101. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Wendorf, F. et al. "The Prehistory of the Egyptian Sahara." Science 193, no. 4248 (9 July, 1976): 103-14.

Wilkinson, T. A. H. State Formation in Egypt: Chronology and Society. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 40. Biblical Archaeology Review International Series, 651. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1996.

Williams, B. and Logan, T. "The Metropolitan Museum Knife Handle and Aspects of Pharaonic Imagery Before Narmer." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 46 (1987): 245-85.


d. Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, and the Amarna Period

Aldred, C. Akhenaten, King of Egypt. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988.

Allen, J. P. "The Natural Philosophy of Akhenaten." In Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt, edited by J. P. Allen et al., pp. 89-101. Yale Egyptological Studies 3. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Davies, N. de G. The Rock Tombs of El Amarna. Six Volumes. Archaeological Survey of Egypt 13-18. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903-1908.

Foster, J. L. "The Hymn to the Aten: Akhenaten Worships the Sole God." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson, vol. 3, 1751-1762. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Gohary, J. Akhenaten's Sed-festival at Karnak. Studies in Egyptology. London: Kegan Paul International, 1992.

Griffiths, J. G. Triads and Trinity. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996.

Johnson, W. R. "Images of Amenhotep III in Thebes: Styles and Intentions." In The Art of Amenhotep III: Art Historical Analysis, ed. L. M. Berman, 26-46. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.

Johnson, W. R. "Monuments and Monumental Art under Amenhotep III: Evolution and Meaning." In Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, ed. D. O'Connor and E. H Cline, 63-94. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Johnson, W. R. "The Revolutionary Role of the Sun in the Reliefs and Statuary of Amenhotep III." The Oriental Institute News and Notes 151 (Fall, 1996): 1-7.

Kemp, B. J. and Garfi, S. A Survey of the Ancient City of El-Amarna. Occasional Publications 9. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1993.

Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy M. Bryan and Lawrence M. Berman, editors. Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992.

Martin, G. T. The Royal Tomb at El-Amarna. The Rock Tombs of El-Amarna 7. Two parts. Archaeological Survey of Egypt 35, 39. London: Egypt Exploration Society.
Part 1, The Objects. 1974
Part 2, The Reliefs, Inscriptions, and Architecture. 1994.

Moran, W. The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Murnane, W. J. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt. SBL Writings from The Ancient World 5. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Murnane, W. J. and Van Siclen III, C. C. The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten. Studies in Egyptology. London: Kegan Paul International, 1993.

O'Connor, David and Eric H. Cline, editors. Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Parkinson, R. and Schofield, L. "Akhenaten's Army?" Egyptian Archaeology 3 (1993): 34-35.

Redford, D. B. Akhenaten, the Heretic King. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Redford, D. B. The Akhenaten Temple Project. Volume 1, Initial Discoveries. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1976.

Redford, D. B. The Akhenaten Temple Project. Volume 2, Rwd-Mnw and Inscriptions. Toronto: Akhenaten Temple Project, 1988.

Strudwick, N. and Strudwick, H. Thebes in Egypt: A Guide to the Tombs and Temples of Ancient Luxor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Wilson, J. A. "Akh-en-aton and Nefertiti." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 23 (1973): 235.


e. Social History

1. Economy and Economic Institutions

Baer, Klaus. "A Deed of Endowment in a Letter of the Time of Ppjj I." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 93 (1966): 1-9.

Baer, Klaus. "An Eleventh Dynasty Farmer"s Letters to His Family." Journal of the American Oriental Society 83 (1963): 1-19.

Baer, Klaus. "The Low Price of Land in Ancient Egypt." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 1 (1962): 25-45.

Bleiberg, E. "The Economy of Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East3, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1373-85. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward

Bleiberg, Edward. The Official Gift in Ancient Egypt. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Bleiberg, E. "The Redistributive Economy in New Kingdom Egypt: An Examination of b3kw(t)." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 25 (1988): 157-68.

Caminos, R. A. Late Egyptian Miscellanies. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.

Edgerton, W. F. "The Nauri Decree of Seti I: A Translation and Analysis of the Legal Portion." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 6 (1947): 219-30.

Gardiner, A. H. "Ramesside Texts Relating to the Taxation and Transport of Corn." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 27 (1941): 19-73.

Gardiner, A. H. "Some Reflections on the Nauri Decree." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 38 (1952): 24-33.

Gardiner, A. H. The Wilbour Papyrus. Four volumes. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum.
Volume 1, Plates. 1941.
Volume 2, Commentary. 1948.
Volume 3, Translation. 1948.
Volume 4, Index, ed. R. O. Faulkner. 1952.

Goedicke, Hans, editor. Studies in the Hekanakhte Papers. Baltimore: Halgo, Inc., 1984.

Griffith, F. Ll. "The Abydos Decree of Seti I at Nauri." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 13 (1927): 193-206.

James, T. G. H. The Hekanakhte Papers and Other Early Middle Kingdom Documents. Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 29. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962.

Janssen, J. J. "Agrarian Administration in Egypt during the Twentieth Dynasty." Bibliotheca Orientalis 43 (1986): 351-66.

Janssen, J. J. Commodity Prices from the Ramessid Period, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975.

Janssen, J. J. "Prolegomena to the Study of Egypt's Economic History during the New Kingdom." Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 3 (1975): 127-85.

Janssen, J. J. "The Role of the Temple in the Egyptian Economy during the New Kingdom." In State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East, volume 2, ed. E. Lipinski, 505-15. Leuven, 1979.

Janssen, J. J. "Die Struktur der pharaonischen Wirtschaft." Göttinger Miszellen 48 (1981): 59-77.

Janssen, J. J. Two Ancient Egyptian Ship's Logs. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1961.

Kemp, B. "Temple and Town in Ancient Egypt." In Man, Settlement and Urbanism, eds. P. J. Ucko, R. Tringham and G. W. Dimbleby, 657-80. London: Duckworth & Co., 1972.

Spalinger, A. J. "Notes on the Day Summary Accounts of P. Bulaq 18 and the Intradepartmental Transfers." Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 12 (1985): 179-241.

Spalinger, A. J. "Some Revisions of Temple Endowments in the New Kingdom." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 28 (1991): 21-40.

Warburton, D. State and Economy in Ancient Egypt: Fiscal Vocabulary of the New Kingdom. Orbis Biblicus Orientalis 151. Fribourg: Editions Universitaires Fribourg, 1997.


2. Law and Legal Issues (incl. Crime and Punishment)

Allam, S. "Legal Aspects in the Contendings of Horus and Seth." In Studies in Pharaonic Religion and Society in Honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths, ed. A. B. Lloyd, 137-45. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1992.

Eyre, C. J. "Crime and Adultery in Ancient Egypt." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 70 (1984): 92-105.

Hayes, W. C. A Papyrus of the Late Middle Kingdom in the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1955. Reprinted 1972.

Lorton, D. "The Treatment of Criminals in Ancient Egypt." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 20 (1977): 2-64.

McDowell, A. G. Jurisdiction in the Workmen's Community of Deir el-Medina. Egyptologische Uitgaven 5. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1990.

Peet, T. E. The Great Tomb-robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty. Reprinted, Hildesheim: Olms, 1977.

Pestman, P. W. Marriage and Matrimonial Property in Ancient Egypt: A Contribution to Establishing the Legal Position of the Woman. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 9. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1961.

Théodoridés, A. "The Concept of Law in Ancient Egypt." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 291-322. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.


3. Literacy and Education

For a variety of essays on this topic, see Jack M.Sasson, editor, Civilizations of the Ancient Near East 4, pt. 9, "Language, Writing, and Literature," 2135-2264 passim.

Baines, J. "Literacy and Ancient Egyptian Society." Man n.s. 18 (1983): 572-99.

Baines, J. "Literacy, Social Organization, and the Archaeological Record: The Case of Early Egypt." In State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization. One World Archaeology 4. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Baines, J. and Eyre, C. "Four Notes on Literacy." Göttinger Miszellen 61 (1983): 65-96.

Bryan, B. "The Evidence for Female Literacy from Theban Tombs of the New Kingdom." Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 6 (1984): 17-32.

Williams, R. J. "Scribal Training in Ancient Egypt." Journal of the American Oriental Society 92 (1972): 214-21.


4. Social Institutions and Daily Life

For a variety of essays on this topic, see Jack M.Sasson, editor, Civilizations of the Ancient Near East 1, pt. 4, "Social Institutions," 273-383 passim.

Bleiberg, Edward. The Official Gift in Ancient Egypt. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Decker, Wolfgang. Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.

Guksch, C. "Ethnological Models and Processes of State Formation--Chiefdom Survivals in the Old Kingdom." Göttinger Miszellen 125 (1991): 37-46.

David, A. Rosalie. The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce. London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 1986.

Janssen, R. M. and J. J. Janssen. Getting Old in Ancient Egypt. London: The Rubicon Press, 1990.

Janssen, R. M. and J. J. Janssen. Growing Up in Ancient Egypt. London: The Rubicon Press, 1990.

Johnson, J. H., ed. Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 51. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1992.

Kadish, G. E. "Observations on Time and Work-Discipline in Ancient Egypt." In Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson. Two volumes. Edited by Peter Der Manuelian, 439-49. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1996.

Lesko, L. H., editor. Pharaoh's Workers: The Villagers of Deir el-Medina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Lichtheim, M. Moral Values in Ancient Egypt. Orbis Biblicus Orientalis 155. Fribourg: Editions Universitaires Fribourg, 1997.

Manniche, L. Music and Musicians in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1991.

Manniche, L. "Some Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Sexual Life." Acta Orientalia 38 (1977): 11-23.

Manniche, L. Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. New York and London: Kegan Paul International, 1987.

Montserrat, D. Sex and Society in Greco-Roman Egypt. New York and London: Kegan Paul International, 1996.

Murnane, W. J. The Road to Kadesh: An Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak. 2nd ed., rev. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 42. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1990.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558 B.C. - 1085 B.C. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.

Omlin, J. A. Der Papyrus 55001 und seine satirisch-erotischen Zeichnungen und Inschriften. Catalogo. Serie 1: Monumenti e Testi 3. Turin: Edizione d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, 1973.

Parkinson, R. B. "'Homosexual' Desire and Middle Kingdom Literature." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 81 (1995): 57-76.


5. Women: Social Status and Position

Allam, S. "Women as Owners of Immovables in Pharaonic Egypt." In Women's Earliest Records: From Ancient Egypt and Western Asia, ed. B. Lesko, 123-39. Brown Judaic Studies, no. 166. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Arnold, Dorothea. The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt. New York: H. Abrams, Inc. for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.

Baines, J. and Eyre, C. "Four Notes on Literacy." Göttinger Miszellen 61 (1983): 65-96.

Baines, J. and Malek, J. "Women in Society." Chapter in Atlas of Ancient Egypt, 204-208. New York: Facts on File, 1980.

Barker, D. "The Place of Residence of the Divorced Wife in Roman Egypt." In Akten des 21. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses Berlin, 13.-19.8.1995, eds., B. Kramer, et al, 59-66.

Bryan, B. "The Evidence for Female Literacy from Theban Tombs of the New Kingdom." Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 6 (1984): 17-32.

Fischer, H. G. "Women in the Old Kingdom and the Heracleopolitan Period." In Women's Earliest Records: From Ancient Egypt and Western Asia, ed. B. Lesko, 5-24. Brown Judaic Studies, no. 166. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Hopkins, K. "Brother-Sister Marriage in Roman Egypt." Comparative Studies in Society and History 22 (1980): 303-354.

Johnson, J. H. Bibliography for "Women in Ancient Egypt." Located on the World Wide Web (Internet) on the pages of Diotìma: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World, catalogued under "Ancient Near East"; URL: https://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/biblio/ane.html (click to open).

Lesko, B. The Remarkable Women of Ancient Egypt. Third edition, revised. Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, 1996.

Lesko, B., editor. Women's Earliest Records: From Ancient Egypt and Western Asia. Brown Judaic Studies, no. 166. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Lesko, B. "Women's Monumental Mark on Ancient Egypt." Biblical Archaeologist 54/1 (March, 1991): 4-15.

Menu, B. "Women and Business Life in the First Millennium B.C." In Women's Earliest Records: From Ancient Egypt and Western Asia, ed. B. Lesko, 193-205. Brown Judaic Studies, no. 166. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Pestman, P. W. Marriage and Matrimonial Property in Ancient Egypt: A Contribution to Establishing the Legal Position of the Woman. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 9. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1961.

Pomeroy, S. Women in Hellenistic Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.

Robins, G. "The God's Wife of Amun in the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt." In Image of Women in Antiquity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983

Robins, G. "Some Images of Women in New Kingdom Art and Literature." In Women's Earliest Records: From Ancient Egypt and Western Asia, ed. B. Lesko, 105-116. Brown Judaic Studies, no. 166. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Robins, G. Women in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Tyldesley, J. A. Daughter of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt. London: Viking Press, 1994.

Ward, W. "The Case of Mrs. Tchat and Her Sons at Beni Hasan." Göttinger Miszellen 71 (1984): 51-59.

Ward, W. "The Egyptian Economy and Non-royal Women: Their Status in Public Life" (1996). Essay located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: https://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/wardlect.html.(click to open).

Watterson, B. Women in Ancient Egypt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Wilfong, T. Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt from Prehistory to Late Antiquity: An Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 14 March-15 June 1997. Ann Arbor, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1997.

Wilfong, T. "Women in the Ancient Near East: A Select Bibliography of Recent Sources in The Oriental Institute Research Archives." (1995). Located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: https://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/WOMEN.HTM. (click to open).


III. Anthologies and Translations of Texts

Breasted, James H. Ancient Records of Egypt. Five volumes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906-1907. Reprinted. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001:
Volume 1, The First through Seventeenth Dynasties. Introduction by Peter A. Piccione.
Volume 2, The Eighteenth Dynasty.
Volume 3, The Nineteenth Dynasty.
Volume 4, The Twentieth through Twenty-sixth Dynasties.
Volume 5, Supplementary Bibliographies and Indices. Suppementary Bibliographies by Peter A. Piccione.

Caminos, R. A. Late Egyptian Miscellanies. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.

Cummings, B. Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty: From the Original Hieroglyphic Text as Translated by W. Helck, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie, Hefte 17-19. Three fasciicles. Warminster: Aris and Phillips Ltd., 1982-1984. Fascicle 1, 1982. Fascicles 2-3, 1984.

Davies, Benedict G. Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty: Translated from W. Helck, Urkunden der 18. Warminster: Aris and Phillips Ltd., 1992-1995. Three fascicles. Fascicle 4, Heft 20, 1992. Fascicle 5, Heft 21, 1994. Fascicle 6, Heft 22, 1995.

Edgerton, W. F. and Wilson, J. A. The Historical Records of Ramses III: The Texts in Medinet Habu Volumes I and II. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 12. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936.

Erman, A. The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their Writings. Translated by A. Blackman. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966.

Gardiner, A. H. The Kadesh Inscriptions of Ramesses II. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1960.

Foster, J. L. Echoes of Egyptian Voices: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Poetry. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

Foster, J. L. Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Egyptian Lyric Poetry. SBL Writings from the Ancient World Series. Volume 8. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Hallo, W., editor. The Context of Scripture: Canonical Compositions, Monumental Inscriptions, and Archival Documents from the Biblical World. Four volumes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977-. Volume 1, Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World. 1977.

Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated. Series A: Translations. Three volumes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 1994 and continuing. Volume 1, Ramesses I, Sethos I and Contemporaries, 1994. Volume 2, Ramesses II, Royal Inscriptions, 1996. Volume 3, Ramesses II, His Contemporaries, 2000.

Kuentz, C. La Bataille de Qadech. Memoires de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale. Volume 55. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1928-1934.

Lichtheim, M. Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. Three volumes. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Volume 1, The Old and Middle Kingdoms. 1975.
Volume 2, The New Kingdom. 1976.
Volume 3, The Late Period. 1980.

Moran, W. The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Murnane, W. J. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt. SBL Writings from The Ancient World 5. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Parkinson, R. B. The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Parkinson, R. B. Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Pritchard, J. B., editor. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, 1955.

Simpson, W. K., editor. The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry. New Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.

Smith, H. S. and Smith A. "The Kamose Texts." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 103 (1976): 59-62.

Wente, E. F. Letters from Ancient Egypt. SBL Writings from the Ancient World Series. Volume 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.


IV. Art, Architecture and Archaeology

a. Architecture and Archaeology

Arnold, Dieter. Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Badawy, Alexandre. A History of Egyptian Architecture. Three volumes.
Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Old Kingdom. Giza: [by the author], 1954. Reprinted London: Histories & Mysteries of Man, Ltd., 1990.
Volume 2, The First Intermediate Period, the Middle Kingdom, and the Second Intermediate Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
Volume 3, The Empire (The New Kingdom: From the Eighteenth Dynasty to the End of the Twentieth Dynasty). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

Edwards, I. E. S. The Pyramids of Egypt. 2d ed., rev. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1961.

Hawass, Z. and Lehner, M. "The Passage under the Sphinx." In Hommages à Jean Leclant. Volume 1, ed. C. Berger, G. Clerc and N. Grimal, 201-15. Bibliothèque d'Etude 106/1. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994.

Hawass, Z. and Lehner, M. "The Sphinx: Who Built It and Why?" Archaeology (September/October 1994): 30-47.

Lehner, M. The Complete Pyramids. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Wenke, Robert. Patterns in Prehistory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.


b. Art and Art History

Aldred, C. Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs. World of Art Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Reprinted, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985.

Aldred, C. Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian Jewellery of the Dynastic Period. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971.

Arnold, Dorothea. When the Pyramids were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1999.

Cooney, J. D. Amarna Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1965.

Gronewegen Frankfort, H. A. Arrest and Movement: An Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.

Iversen, E. Canon and Proportion in Egyptian Art. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1975.

Iversen, E. "The Canonical Tradition." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 55-82. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Johnson, W. R. "Images of Amenhotep III in Thebes: Styles and Intentions." In The Art of Amenhotep III: Art Historical Analysis, ed. L. M. Berman, 26-46. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.

[Metropolitan Museum of Art]. Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.

Peck, W. H. and Ross, J. G. Egyptian Drawings. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978.

Robins, G. The Art of Ancient Egypt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Robins, G. Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

Russmann, E. R. Egyptian Sculpture: Cairo and Luxor. Photographs by David Finn. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.

Schäfer, H. Principles of Egyptian Art, ed. E Brunner-Traut, transl. John Baines. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

Smith, W. S. and Simpson, W. K. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, 2nd ed. rev. Pelican History of Art. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981.

Wilkinson, R. H. Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.


V. Calendar and Chronological Issues

Beckerath, J. von. Chronologie des pharaonischens Ägyptens: Die Zeit bestimmung der ägyptischen Geschichte von der Vorzeit bis 332 v. Christ. Münchener Ägyptologische Studien 46. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1997.

Depuydt, L. Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt. Orientalia Lovaniensa Analecta 77. Leuven: Vitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 1997.

Hornung, E. Untersuchungen zur Chronologie und Geschichte des Neuen Reiches. Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 2. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1964.

Haas, H. and M. E. Lehner. "A Radiocarbon Chronology for the Egyptian Pyramids." Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 72 (1992-1993): 181-90.

Kitchen, K. A. "Egypt, History of: Chronology." In The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Volume 2, D-G, ed. Freedman, D. N., 322-31. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Kitchen, K. A. "The Chronology of Ancient Egypt." World Archaeology 23/2 (October 1991): 201-208.

Krauss, R. "The Length of Sneferu’s Reign and How Long it Took to Build the Red Pyramid." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 82 (1996), 43-50.

Parker, R. "The Calendars and Chronology." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 13-26. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Parker, R. The Calendars of Egypt. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 26. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1950.

Parker, R. "Sothic Dates and Calendar 'Adjustment.'" Revue d'Egyptologie 9 (1952): 101-08.

Parker, R. "The Sothic Dating of the Twelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties." In Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 39, pp. 177-190. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1977.

Wente, E. F. and Van Siclen III, C. C. "A Chronology of the New Kingdom." In Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 39, pp. 217-262. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1977.


VI. Ethnology and Ethnological Issues: Egypt and Nubia

Batrawi, A. "The Racial History of Egypt and Nubia, Part I." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 75 (1945): 81-101.

Batrawi, A. "The Racial History of Egypt and Nubia, Part II." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 76 (1946): 131-56.

Berry, A. C. and Berry, R. J. "Origins and Relations of the Ancient Egyptians Based on a Study of Non-metrical Variations in the Skull." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed., D. R. Brothwell and B. A. Chiarelli, 199-208. New York, 1973.

Berry, A. C., Berry, R. J. and Ucko, P. J. "Genetical Changes in Ancient Egypt." Man n.s. 2 (1967): 551-68.

Brace, C. L., Tracer, D. B., Yaroch, L. A., Robb, J., Brandt, K. and Nelson, A. R. "Clines and Clusters Versus 'Race': A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36 (1993): 1-31. Reprinted in Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 129-64. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Bard, K. "Ancient Egyptians and the Issue of Race." In Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 103-11. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Brothwell, D. R. and Chiarelli, B. A., editors. Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians. New York, 1973.

[Devisse, J.] "Report on the Symposium on 'The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Meroitic Script.'" In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Ancient Civilizations of Africa, ed. G. Mokhtar, 33-61. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Johnson, Andrew L. and Lovell, Nancy C. "Biological Differentiation at Predynastic Naqada, Egypt: An Analysis of Dental Morphological Traits." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 93/4 (April 1994): 427-33.

Johnson, Andrew L. and Lovell, Nancy C. "Dental Morphological Evidence for Biological Continuity between the A-Group and C-Group Periods in Lower Nubia," International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 5 (1995): 368-76.

Leahy, A. "Ethnic Diversity in Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 225-34. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Nielsen, O. V. "Population Movements and Changes in Ancient Nubia with Special Reference to the Relationship Between C-group, New Kingdom and Kerma." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed., D. R. Brothwell and B. A. Chiarelli, 31-46. New York, 1973.

Prowse, Tracy L. and Lovell, Nancy C., "Biological Continuity between the A- and C-Groups in Lower Nubia: Evidence from Cranial Non-metrical Traits." International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 5 (June, 1995): 103-14.

Snowden, Jr., F. M. Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Snowden, Jr., F. M. "Bernal's 'Blacks and the Afrocentrists." In Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 112-28. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Snowden, Jr., F. M. "Bernal's 'Blacks,' Herodotus and Other Classical Evidence." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of Black Athena (Fall, 1989): 97-109.

Snowden, Jr., F. M. Blacks in Antiquity; Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1970.

Trigger, B. "Nubian, Negro, Black, Nilotic?" In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 26-35. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

Vercoutter, J. "The Iconography of the Black in Ancient Egypt from the Beginnings to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty." In The Image of the Black in Western Art. Volume 1, From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J. Vercoutter, J. Leclant, F. M. Snowden and J. Desanges, 32-88, 291-92. New York: William Morrow, 1976.

Yurco, F. "Were the Ancient Egyptians Black or White?" Biblical Archaeology Review (Sept/Oct., 1989): 24-29, 58.


VII. Geography, Land and Environment of the Nile Valley

Baer, K. "Land and Water in Ancient Egypt." Paper presented to the 28th International Congress of Orientalists. Special Congress Seminar A: Irrigation Civilizations, January 1971, Canberra. International Congress of Orientalists, 1971.

Baines, J. and Malek, J. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. New York: Facts on File, 1980.

Baz, F. el-. The Geology of Egypt. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1984.

Bell, B. "Climate and the History of Egypt: The Middle Kingdom." American Journal of Archaeology 79 (1975): 224-269.

Bell, B. "The Dark Ages in Ancient History: The First Dark Age in Egypt." American Journal of Archaeology 75 (1971): 1-26

Bell, B. "The Oldest Records of the Nile Floods." The Geographical Journal 136 (1970): 569-573.

Butzer, K. Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology. Prehistoric Archaeology and Ecology Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Butzer, K. "Environmental Change in the Near East." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 123-152. Volume 1. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Butzer, K. "Long-Term Nile Flood Variation and Political Discontinuities in Pharaonic Egypt." In From Hunters to Farmers, ed. J. D. Clarke and S. Brandt, 102-12. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Clarke, J. D. and Brandt, S, eds. From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Close, Angela. "Living on the Edge: Neolithic Herders in the Eastern Sahara." Antiquity 64 (1990): 79-96.

Close, Angela, Wendorf, Fred and Schild, Romuald. "Patterned Use of a Middle Palaeolithic Landscape: Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Eastern Sahara." Sahara 3 (1990): 21-34.

Collins, R. O. The Waters of the Nile: An Annotated Bibliography. London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1991.

Connor, D. and Marks A. "The Terminal Pleistocene on the Nile: The Final Nilotic Adjustment." In End of the Palaeolithic in the Old World, ed. L. G. Straus, 171-98. BAR Int'l. Series, no. 284. 1986.

Eyre, C. "Agricultural Cycle, Farming, and Water Management." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 175-190. Volume 1. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Foster, K. P. and R. K. Ritner. "Texts, Storms, and the Thera Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996): 1-14.

Grove, A. T. "Geomorphic Evolution of the Sahara and the Nile." In The Sahara and the Nile: Quarternary Environments and Prehistoric Occupation in Northern Africa, ed. M. A. J. Williams and H. Faure, 7-16. Rotterdam: Balkema, 1980.

Harrell, James A. and Brown, V. Max. "The Oldest Topographical Map from Ancient Egypt (Turin papyri 1879, 1899, and 1869)." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 29 (1992): 81-106.

Harrell, James A. and Brown, V. Max. "The World's Oldest Surviving Geological Map: The 1150 B.C. Turin Papyrus from Egypt." Journal of Geology 100 (1992): 3-18.

Hassan, F. "Environment and Subsistence in Predynastic Egypt." In From Hunters to Farmers, ed. J. D. Clarke and S. Brandt, 57-64. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Hassan, F. "Historical Nile Floods and Their Implications for Climatic Change." Science 212 (5 June, 1991): 1142-45.

Hoffman, M. "The Two Lands: An Ecological Perspective." Chapter in Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Historical Foundations of Egyptian Civilization, 23-32. Rev. ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Issar, A. S. Water Shall Flow from the Rock: Hydrology and Climate in the Lands of the Bible. Berlin: Springerverlag, 1990.

Janssen, J. J. "The Water Supply of a Desert Village." Bulletin Medelhavsmuseet 14 (1979): 9-15.

Kees, H. "The Countryside." Chapter Two in Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Sects. A-B, including: "The Nile and the Seasons." "Irrigation and Soil." 47-61.

O'Connor, D. "The Geography of Settlement in Ancient Egypt." In Man, Settlement and Urbanism, eds. P. J. Ucko, R. Tringham and G. W. Dimbleby, 681-98. London: Duckworth & Co., 1972.

Rossi, G. A. and Rodenbeck, M. Egypt, Gift of the Nile: An Aerial Portrait. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1992. (A sumptuous feast for the eyes, probably the best photographic study of the Nile Valley published).

Said, Rushdi. The Geology of Egypt. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1962.

Said, Rushdi, ed. The Geology of Egypt. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1990.

Smith, H. S. "Society and Settlement in Ancient Egypt." In Man, Settlement and Urbanism, eds. P. J. Ucko, R. Tringham and G. W. Dimbleby, 705-20. London: Duckworth & Co., 1972.

Stanley, D. J. and Warne, A. G. "Sea Level and Initiation of Predynastic Culture in the Nile Delta." Nature 363 (3 June 1993): 435-38.

Williams, M. A. J. and Williams, F. M. "Evolution of the Nile Basin." In The Sahara and the Nile: Quarternary Environments and Prehistoric Occupation in Northern Africa, ed. M. A. J. Williams and H. Faure, 207-24. Rotterdam: Balkema, 1980.


VIII. International Relations and Historiography

a. Greek and Aegean Relations

Bietak, M. "Connections Between Egypt and the Minoan World: New Results from Tell el-Dab'a/Avaris." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 19-28. London: British Museum, 1995.

Bietak, Manfred. "Minoan Wall-Paintings Unearthed at Ancient Avaris." Egyptian Archaeology 2 (1992): 26-28.

Bietak, Manfred and Marinatos, Nannó. "The Minoan Wall Paintings from Avaris." Ägypten und Levante 5 (1995): 49-62.

Burkert, W. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Burstein, Stanley M. "Images of Egypt in Greek Historiography." In Ancient Egyptian Literature: History and Forms. Probleme der Ägyptologie, 10. Edited by Antonio Loprieno, 591-604. Leiden-New York-Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996.

Cline, E. H. "Amenhotep III and the Aegean: A Reassessment of Egypto-Aegean Relations in the 14th Century B.C." Orientalia, N.S. 56 (1987): 1-36.

Cline, E. H. "Egyptian and Near Eastern Imports at Late Bronze Age Mycenae." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 91-115. London: British Museum, 1995.

Cline, E. H. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994.

Davies, W. V. and Schofield, L., editors. Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC. London: British Museum, 1995.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus On Egypt, translated by E. Murphy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1985.

Fowden, G. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Hankey, V. "Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant." Egyptian Archaeology 3 (1993): 27-29.

Hankey, V. "Stirrup Jars at El-Amarna." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 116-124. London: British Museum, 1995.

Isserlin, B. "The Transfer of the Alphabet to the Greeks: The State of the Documentation." In Phoinikea Grammata: Actes du Colloque de Liége 15-18 Novembre 1989, ed. Cl. Baurain et al., 283-91. Collections d'études classiques, vol. 6. Namur: Societé des Études Classiques, 1991.

Kantor, H. J. The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium B.C. The Archaeological Institute of America Monograph 1. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 1947. Reprinted 1997.

Macguire, L. C. "Tell el-Dab'a: The Cypriot Connection." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 54-65. London: British Museum, 1995.

Marinatos, Nannó. "The 'Export' Significance of Minoan Bull Hunting and Bull Leaping Scenes." Ägypten und Levante 4 (1994): 89-93.

Millard, A. R. "The Infancy of the Alphabet." World Archaeology 17 (1986): 390-98.

Morgan, L. "Minoan Painting and Egypt: The Case of Tell el-Dab'a." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 29-53. London: British Museum, 1995.

O'Connor, D. "Egypt and Greece: The Bronze Age Evidence." Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 49-61. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Parkinson, R. and Schofield, L. "Akhenaten's Army?" Egyptian Archaeology 3 (1993): 34-35.

Parkinson, R. and Schofield, L. "Images of Mycenaeans: A Recently Acquired Painted Papyrus from El-Amarna." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 125-26. London: British Museum, 1995.

Philip, G. "Tell el-Dab'a Metalwork: Patterns and Purpose." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 66-83. London: British Museum, 1995.

Powell, B. "Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2/1 (1991): 116-126.

Préaux, C. "Graeco-Roman Egypt." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 323-54. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Riad, H. "Egyptian Influence on Daily Life in Ancient Alexandria." In Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by The J. Paul Getty Museum and The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and Held at the Museum April 22-25, 1993. Pages 29-39. Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996.

Ritner, R. "Implicit Models of Cross-Cultural Interaction: A Question of Noses, Soap, and Prejudice." In Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond, ed. J. H. Johnson, 283-90. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 51. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1992.

Roberts, C. H. "The Greek Papyri." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 355-89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Shaw, Maria C. "Bull Leaping Frescoes at Knossos and their Influence on the Tell el-Dab'a Murals." Ägypten und Levante 5 (1995): 91-120.

Stos-Gale, Z, Gale, N. and Houghton, J. "The Origins of Egyptian Copper: Lead-Isotope Analysis of Metals from El-Amarna." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 127-35. London: British Museum, 1995.

Tubb, J. "An Aegean Presence in Egypto-Canaan." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 136-45. London: British Museum, 1995.

Verbrugghe, G. P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Wachsmann, S. Aegeans in the Theban Tombs. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 20. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 1987.

Warren, P. "Minoan Crete and Pharaonic Egypt." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 1-18. London: British Museum, 1995.

Weinstein, J. M. "Reflections on the Chronology of Tell el-Dab'a." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 84-90. London: British Museum, 1995.


b. Greek Contacts: Afrocentric Model

Bernal, M. "Black Athena and the American Philological Association." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 17-38.

Bernal, M. Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Volume 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985. Volume 2, The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987, 1991.

Bernal, M. Cadmean Letters. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1990.

Bernal, M. "On The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean Before 1400 B.C." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 267 (1987): 1-19.

Bernal, M. "Response to Jonathan Hall, 'Black Athena: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?'" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 275-79.

Bernal, M. "Response to Stuart Manning, 'Frames of Reference for the Past: Some Thoughts on Bernal, Truth and Reality,'" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 280-82.

Bernal, M. "Responses to Critical Reviews of Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Vol. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 111-37.

Bernal, M. Review of Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, by M. R. Lefkowitz (1996). Located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: gopher://gopher.lib.virginia.edu:70/00/alpha/bmcr/v96/96-4-5.

Bikai, P. M. "Black Athena and the Phoenicians." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 67-75.

Brace, C. L., Tracer, D. B., Yaroch, L. A., Robb, J., Brandt, K. and Nelson, A. R. "Clines and Clusters Versus 'Race': A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36 (1993): 1-31.

Coleman, John E. "Did Egypt Shape the Glory that was Greece?" In Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 280-302. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Diop, Cheikh Anta. "Origin of the Ancient Egyptians." In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Ancient Civilizations of Africa, ed. G. Mokhtar, 15-32. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Green, T. "Black Athena and Classical Historiography: Other Approaches, Other Views." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 55-66.

Hall, J. "Black Athena: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 247-54.

Lefkowitz, M. R. Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. New York: BasicBooks, 1996.

Lefkowitz, M. R. "Not Out of Africa: The Origins of Greece and the Illusions of Afrocentrists." The New Republic 206/6 (February 10, 1992): 29-36.

Lefkowitz, M. R. "The Origins of the 'Stolen Legacy.'" In Alternatives to Afrocentrism, ed. J. J. Miller, 22-25. Second edition. Washington, D.C.: Center for Equal Opportunity, 1996.

Lefkowitz, M. R. "Response to M. Bernal, Review of Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History" (1996). Located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: gopher://gopher.lib.virginia.edu:70/00/alpha/bmcr/v96/96-4-19.

Lefkowitz, M. and Rogers, G. M., eds. Black Athena Revisited. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Levine, M. "The Challenge of Black Athena to Classics Today." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 7-16.

Manning, S. "Frames of Reference for the Past: Some Thoughts on Bernal, Truth and Reality." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 255-74.

Miller, J. Review of Cadmean Letters, by M. Bernal. In Andrews University Seminary Studies 29/2 (Summer, 1991): 167-68.

Morris, S. "Daidalos and Kadmos: Classicism and 'Orientalism'." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 39-54.

Morris, S. "Greece and the Levant." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 57-66.

Muhly, J. D. "Black Athena Versus Traditional Scholarship." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 83-110.

Piccione, P. A. "Report and Comments on the Black Athena Session at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association" (1995). Located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: ftp://newton.newton.cam.ac.uk/pub/ancient/egypt/athena.txt

Ray, J. D. "An Egyptian Perspective." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 77-81.

Rendsburg, G. "Black Athena: An Etymological Response." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 67-82.

Roth, A. M. "Building Bridges to Afrocentrism: A Letter to My Egyptological Colleagues." Located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Articles_Gen/afrocent_roth.html

Snowden, Jr., F. M. "Bernal's 'Blacks and the Afrocentrists." In Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 112-28. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Snowden, Jr., F. "Bernal's 'Blacks,' Herodotus and Other Classical Evidence." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of Black Athena (Fall, 1989): 97-109.

Turner, F. "Martin Bernal's Black Athena: A Dissent." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 97-109.

Weinstein, J. Review of Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization by M. Bernal. In American Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992): 381- 83.

Yurco, F. "Black Athena: An Egyptological Review." In Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 62-100. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Yurco, F. "Were the Ancient Egyptians Black or White?" Biblical Archaeology Review (Sept/Oct., 1989): 24-29, 58.


c. Nubia and Kush

Adam, Shehata. "The Importance of Nubia: A Link Between Central Africa and the Mediterranean." In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Ancient Civilizations of Africa, ed. G. Mokhtar, 141-47. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Adams, W. Y. "Geography and the Population of the Nile Valley." In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 16-25. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

Adams, W. Y. "The Kingdom and Civilization of Kush in Northeast Africa." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 775-90. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward

Adams, W. Y. Nubia, Corridor to Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Arkell, A. J. A History of the Sudan to A.D. 1821. Second edition. London: Athlone Press, 1961.

Batrawi, A. "The Racial History of Egypt and Nubia, Part I." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 75 (1945): 81-101.

Batrawi, A. "The Racial History of Egypt and Nubia, Part II." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 76 (1946): 131-56.

Bonnet, C. "Upper Nubia from 3000 BC to 1000 BC." In Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam, ed. W. V. Davies. London: British Museum Publications, 1991.

Bourriau, J. "Relations Between Egypt and Kerma During the Middle and New Kingdoms." In Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam, ed. W. V. Davies. London: British Museum Publications, 1991.

Bradbury, L. "Following Tuthmosis I on His Campaign to Kush." KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 3/3 (Fall 1992): 51-59, 76-77.

Davies, W. V., editor. Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam. London: British Museum Publications, 1991.

Edel, E. "Die Ländernamen und die Ausbreitung der C-Gruppe nach den Reisenberichten des rw-wjf." Orientalia 36 (1967): 133-58.

Edwards, D. N. The Archaeology of the Meroitic State. New Perspectives on Its Social and Political Organisation. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 38. BAR International Series 640. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1996.

Fontes Historiae Nubiorum. Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region between the Eighth Century BC and the Sixth century AD. Two volumes. Edited by Tormod Eide et al. Bergen: University of Bergen, 1994, 1996. Volume 1, From the Eighth to the Mid-fifth Century BC. Volume 2, From the Mid-fifth to the First Century BC.

Gratien, B. Les cultures Kerma: Essai de classification. Lille, 1978.

Hintze, F. "The Kingdom of Kush: The Meroitic Period." In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 89-105. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

Horton, M. "Africa in Egypt: New Evidence from Qasr Ibrim." In Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam, ed. W. V. Davies, 264-77. London: British Museum Publications, 1991.

Kemp, B. "Fortified Towns in Nubia." In Man, Settlement and Urbanism, eds. P. J. Ucko, R. Tringham and G. W. Dimbleby, 651-56. London: Duckworth & Co., 1972.

Kemp, B. "The Nubian Forts." Extracts from Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, 166-80. London: Routledge, 1989.

Leclant, J. "Egypt in Nubia During the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms." In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 62-73. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

Mokhtar, G., editor. General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Ancient Civilizations of Africa. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Morkot, R. G. The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers. London: David Brown Book Company, 2000.

Morkot, R. G. "The Economy of Nubia in the New Kingdom." Cahier de Recherches de l'Institut de Papyrologie et d'Égyptologie de Lille 17 (1995): 175-18

Morkot, R. G. "Nubia in the New Kingdom: The Limits of Egyptian Control." InEgypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam, ed. W. V. Davies, 294-301. London: British Museum Publications, 1991.

Nielsen, O. V. "Population Movements and Changes in Ancient Nubia with Special Reference to the Relationship Between C-group, New Kingdom and Kerma." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed. D. Brothwell & B. Chiarelli, 31-46. New York, 1973.

Nordstrom, H.-A. Neolithic and A-Group Sites. Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia 3. Uppsala, 1972.

O' Connor, D. "Early States Along the Nubian Nile." In Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam, ed. W. V. Davies, 145-65. London: British Museum Publications, 1991.

O' Connor, D. "Nubia Before the New Kingdom." In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 46-61. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

O' Connor, D. Nubia: Egypt's Rival In Africa. Philadelphia: University Museum, 1993.

Priese, K. "The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan Period." In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 74-88. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

Säve-Söderbergh, T. Aegypten un Nubien: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte altaegyptischer Aussenpolitik. Lund, 1941.

Säve-Söderbergh, T. "The Nubian Kingdom of the Second Intermediate Period." Kush 4 (1956): 54-61.

Säve-Söderbergh, T. Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia. London: Thames & Hudson, 1987.

Shinnie, P. L. Ancient Nubia. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996.

Shinnie, P. L. "The Legacy to Africa." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 434-55. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Snowden, Jr., F. "Bernal's 'Blacks,' Herodotus and Other Classical Evidence." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of Black Athena (Fall, 1989): 97-109.

Taylor, J. Egypt and Nubia. London: The British Museum, 1991.

Török, L. The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten 31. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Török, L. "To the History of the Dodekaschoenos between ca. 250 B.C and 298 A.D." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 107 (1980): 76-86.

Trigger, B. G. History and Settlement in Lower Nubia. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 69. New Haven: Yale University, 1965.

Trigger, B. "Nubian, Negro, Black, Nilotic?" In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 26-35. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

Welsby, D. The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires. London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Wenig, S. editor. Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

Williams, B. B. Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 7: Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and Napatan Remains at Qustul: Cemeteries W and V. Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 7. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1990.

Williams, B. B. Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 1: The A-Group Royal Cemetery at Qustul, Cemetery L. Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 3. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1986.

Williams, B. B. Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Parts 2, 3, and 4: Neolithic, A-Group, and Post A-Group Remains from Cemeteries W, V, S, Q, T, and a Cave East of Cemetery K. Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 4. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1989.

Williams, B. B. Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 5: C-Group, Pan Grave, and Kerma Remains at Adindan Cemeteries T, K, U, and J. Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 5. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1983.

Williams, B. B. Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 8: Meroitic Rema¡ns from Qustul Cemetery Q, Ballana Cemetery B, and a Ballana Settlement, with a contribution by N. B. Millet. Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 8. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1991.

Williams, B. B. Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 9: Noubadian X-Group Remains from Royal Complexes in Cemeteries Q and 219 and Private Cemeteries Q, R, V, W, B, J, and M at Qustul and Ballana. Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 9. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1991

Williams, B. "The Forebears of Menes in Nubia: Myth or Reality." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 46 (1987): 15-26.

Williams, B. "The Lost Pharaohs of Nubia." Archaeology 33/5 (Sept/Oct., 1980): 14-21.

Zayed, A. H. "Egypt's Relations with the Rest of Africa." In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Ancient Civilizations of Africa, ed. G. Mokhtar, 90-102. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.


d. Western Asia: Early Contacts and Influences

Amiet, P. "Glyptique susienne archaïque." Revue d'Assyriologie 51 (1957): 121-29.

Frankfort, H. "The Origin of Monumental Architecture in Egypt." American Journal of Semitic Languages 58 (1941): 329-58.

Kantor, H. J. "The Early Relations of Egypt with Asia." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1 (1942): 174-213.

Kantor, H. J. "Further Evidence for Early Mesopotamian Relations with Egypt." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 11 (1952): 239-50.

Kantor, H. J. "The Relative Chronology of Egypt and Its Foreign Correlations before the Late Bronze Age." In Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, ed. R. W. Ehrich, 1-46. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Kantor, H. J. "The Relative Chronology of Egypt and Its Foreign Correlations before the First Intermediate Period." In Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, 2d edition, revised, 3-22. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kelley, A. L. "Cylinder Seals in Predynastic Egypt." Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 4/2 (1973): 5-8.

Kelley, A. L. "The Evidence for Mesopotamian Influence in Predynastic Egypt." Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 4/3 (1974): 2-11.

Mark, S. From Egypt to Mesopotamia: A Study of Predynastic Trade Routes. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press; London: Chatham, 1997.

Needler, W. Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1984.

Pittman, H. "Constructing Context: The Gebel el-Arak Knife. Greater Mesopotamian and Egyptian Interaction in the Late Fourth Millennium B.C.E." In: The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-First Century. The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference. Edited by Jerrold S. Cooper and Glenn M. Schwartz, 9-32. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1996

Ward, W. A. "Relations between Egypt and Mesopotamia from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 7 (1964): 1-45, 121-35.


e. Western Asia: Later Contacts and Relations

Ahituv, S. "Sources for the Study of the Egyptian-Canaanite Border Administration." Israel Exploration Journal 46 (1996): 219-24.

Ben-Tor, A. "New Light on the Relations between Egypt and Southern Palestine during the Early Bronze Age." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 3-10.

Bietak, M. "Egypt and Canaan during the Middle Bronze Age." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 27-72.

Dever, W. G. "Tell el-Daba` and Levantine Middle Bronze Age Chronology: A Rejoinder to Manfred Bietak." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 73-79.

Frerichs, E. and Lesko, L. H., editors. Exodus: The Egyptian Evidence. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1977.

Hoffmeier, J. K. Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hoffmeier, J. K. "James Weinstein's 'Egypt and the Middle Bronze IIC/Late Bronze IA Transition': A Rejoinder." Levant 23 (1991): 117-24.

Hoffmeier, James K. "Reconsidering Egypt's Part in the Termination of the Middle Bronze Age in Palestine." Levant 21 (1989): 181-93.

Lipinski, E. "Egypto-Canaanite Iconography of Reshef, Ba'al, Horon, and Anat." Chronique d'Égypte 71 (1996): 254-62.

Redford, D. B. Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Ward, W. A. "Early Contacts between Egypt, Canaan and Sinai: Remarks on the Paper by Amnon Ben-Tor." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 11-26.

Weinstein, J. "Egypt and the Middle Bronze IIC/Late Bronze IA Transition in Palestine." Levant 23 (1991): 105-15.

Williams, R. A. "Egypt and Israel." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 257-90. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Wood, B. G. "The Philistines Enter Canaan." Biblical Archaeology Review 17/6 (Nov/Dec., 1991): 44-52.


IX. Egyptian Languages and Writing

Caminos, R. A. Late Egyptian Miscellanies. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.

Cerný, J. "Language and Writing." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 197-219. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Davies, W. V. Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Reading the Past, vol. 6. Berkeley: University of California Press and the British Museum, 1987.

Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th edition, 1974. S.v. "Hamito-Semitic Languages." by I. M. Diakonoff.

Encyclopedia Britannica. 16th edition, 1991. S.v. "Languages of the World: Hamito-Semitic Languages." by I. M. Diakonoff.

Fischer, H. G., "Archaeological Aspects of Epigraphy and Palaeography." In Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography. 2d ed., rev., 29-50. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gardiner, A. H. Introduction to Egyptian Grammar, 3rd ed., rev. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. 5-10.

Iversen, E. "The Hieroglyphic Tradition." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 170-96. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Posener, G. "Literature." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 220-56. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Ray, J. D. "The Emergence of Writing in Egypt." World Archaeology 17 (1986): 307-16.


X. Religion and Magic

For a variety of essays on this topic, see Jack M.Sasson, editor, Civilizations of the Ancient Near East 3, pt. 8, "Religion and Science," 1697-1786 passim.

Allen, James. P. "Funerary Texts and Their Meaning." Chapter in Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, ed. S. D'Auria et al., 38-49. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988.

Allen, James. P. Genesis in Ancient Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts. Yale Egyptological Studies 2. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Allen, James. P. et al. Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt. Yale Egyptological Studies 3. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Allen, Thomas. G. The Book of the Dead or Going Forth By Day. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 37. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Assmann, Jan. Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom: Re, Amun and the Crisis of Polytheism. London: Kegan Paul, 1995.

Assman, Jan. Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1997.

Assman, Jan. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt. Translated by David Lorton. Cornell University Press, 2001.

Barb, A. A. "Mystery, Myth, and Magic." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 138-69. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Bleeker, C. J. Egyptian Festivals: Enactments of Religious Renewal. Studies in the History of Religions 13. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1967.

Bleeker, C. J. Hathor and Thoth. Studies in the History of Religion 26. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973.

Borghouts, J. F. Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts. Nisaba 9. Leiden: Brill, 1978.

Borghouts, J. F. "Witchcraft, Magic and Divination in Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson, vol. 3, 1775-1786. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Fairman, H. W., ed., trans. The Triumph of Horus: An Ancient Egyptian Sacred Drama. London: B. T. Batsford, 1974.

Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. Three volumes. Warminster: Aris & Philips, 1973, 1977, 1978.

Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Frankfort, H. Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society ad Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.

Frankfort, H., Frankfort, H. A., Wilson, J. A. and Jacobsen, T. The Intellectual Adventure of Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. Reprinted as Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Man. Baltimore: Pelican (Penguin Books), 1949.

Griffiths, J. G. Triads and Trinity. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996.

Hornung, E. The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Hornung, E. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt. Translated by J. Baines. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.

Hornung, E. "The Discovery of the Unconscious in Ancient Egypt." Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought 1986 (1986): 16-28.

Lesko, L. H. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Two Ways. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Reprinted 1977.

Morenz, S. Egyptian Religion. Boston: Methuen & Co., 1973.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: MFA, 1988.

Piankoff, A. The Litany of Re. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 4. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.

Piankoff, A. Mythological Papyri. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 3. New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1957

Piankoff, A. The Pyramid of Unas. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 5. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968.

Piankoff, A. The Shrines of Tutankhamun. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 2. New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1955.

Piankoff, A. The Wandering of the Soul. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 6. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972.

Piankoff, A. and Rambova, N. The Tomb of Ramesses VI. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 1. New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1954.

Plutarch De Iside et Osiride. Edited and translated by J. Gwyn Griffiths. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1970.

Quirke, S. Ancient Egyptian Religion. London: British Museum, 1992.

Quirke, S. The Cult of Ra: Sun Worship in Ancient Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson, 2001.

Quirke, S., ed. The Temple in Ancient Egypt: New Discoveries and Recent Research. London: British Museum Press, 1997.

Ritner, R. K. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 54. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1993.

Schafer, B. E. Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths and Personal Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Schafer, B. E., ed. Temples of Ancient Egypt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Teeter, E. The Presentation of Maat: Ritual and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 57. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1997.

Wente, E. F. "Funerary Beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians: An Interpretation of the Burials and the Texts." Expedition (Winter, 1982): 17-26.


XI. Science and Technology

a. Medicine and Palaeopathology:

Balout, L., ed. La momie de Ramses II: Contribution scientifique à l'Égyptologie sous la direction de Lionel Balout et C. Roubet, avec la participation de Ch. Desroches-Noblecourt, etc. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1985.

Bardinet, T. Les papyrus médicaux de l'Egypte pharaonique: Traduction intégrale et commentaire. Penser la Médecine. Paris: Librarie Arthème Fayard, 1995.

Brothwell, D. R. and Sandison, A. T., eds. Diseases in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diseases, Injuries and Surgery of Early Populations. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1967.

David, A. R., ed. The Manchester Museum Mummy Project: Multidisciplinary Research on Ancient Egyptian Mummified Remains. Manchester: Manchester Museum, 1979.

David, A. R. and Tapp, E., eds. Evidence Embalmed: Modern Medicine and the Mummies of Ancient Egypt. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984.

Davies, W.V. and Walker, R., eds. Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Drenkhahn, R. and Germer, R. Mumie und Computer: Ein multidisziplinares Forschungsproject in Hannover. Sonderausstellung des Kestner-Museums Hannover vom 26 September 1991 bis 19 Januar 1992. Hannover: Kestner-Museum, 1991.

Engelmann, H. and Hallof, J. "Zur medizinischen Nothilfe und Unfallversorgung auf staatlichen Arbeitsplätzen im alten Ägypten [On Emergency Medical Assistance and Accident Provision on State Jobs in Ancient Egypt]." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 122 (1995): 104-37.

Estes, J. W. The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt. Rev. ed. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1993.

Filer, J. Disease. Egyptian Bookshelf Series. London: British Museum, 1995.

Ghalioungui, P. The House of Life, Per Ankh: Medicine and Magic in Ancient Egypt. 2nd ed., rev. Amsterdam: B. M. Israel Boekhandel, 1973.

Ghalioungui, P. "Medicine in Ancient Egypt." In An X-Ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies, ed. J. E. Harris and E. F. Wente, 52-98. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Ghalioungui, P. The Physicians of Pharaonic Egypt. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo Sonderschrift 10. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1983.

Harris, J. E. and Wente, E. F., editors. An X-Ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Harris, J. R. "Medicine." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 112-37. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Nickol, T., Germer, R., et al. "An Examination of the Dental State of an Egyptian Mummy by Means of Computer Temography: A Contribution to 'Dentistry in Ancient Egypt.'" Bulletin of the History of Dentistry 43 (November, 1995): 105-12.

Nunn, J. F. Ancient Egyptian Medicine. London: British Museum, 1996; Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Rose, J. C., ed. Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Bibliography. British Museum. Occasional Paper 112. London: British Museum, 1996.

Steuer, R. O. and Saunders, J. B. Ancient Egyptian and Cnidian Medicine, The Relationship of Their Aetiological Concepts of Disease. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959.

Walker, J. "Egyptian Medicine and the Gods." Bulletin of the Australian Centre of Egyptology 4 (1993): 83-101.

Walker, J. "The Place of Magic in the Practice of Medicine in Ancient Egypt." Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 1 (1990): 85-95.

Walker, J. Studies in Ancient Egyptian Anatomical Terminology. The Australian Centre for Egyptology Studies 4. Warminster, Aris and Phillips Ltd, 1996.

Weeks, K. R. "Ancient Egyptian Dentistry." In An X-Ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies, ed. J. E. Harris and E. F. Wente, 99-121. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Westendorf, W. Erwachen der Heilkunst Die Medizin im Alten Ägypten. Zurich: Artemis & Winkler, 1992.


b. Engineering and Technology:

Arnold, D. Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991.

Clagett, M. Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Vol. 1, Knowledge and Order. Vol. 2, Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society,1989.

Forbes, R. J. Studies in Ancient Technology. Four volumes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955-1956.

Harrell, J. A. and Brown, V. M., "The Oldest Surviving Topographical Map from Ancient Egypt (Turin Papyri 1879, 1899 and 1969)." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 29 (1992): 81-106.

Harrell, J. A. and Brown, V. M., "The World's Oldest Surviving Geological Map: The 1150 B.C. Turin Papyrus from Egypt." Journal of Geology 100 (1992): 3-18.

Harris, J. R. Lexicographical Studies in Ancient Egyptian Minerals. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1961.

Harris, J. R. "Technology and Materials." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 83-111. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Hodges, Henry. Technology in the Ancient World. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1992.

Lucas, A. Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries, 4th ed., rev. by J. R. Harris. London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1962. Reprinted London: Histories and Mysteries of Man Ltd., 1989.

Nicholson, P. T. and Shaw, I., eds. Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology. Three parts. Part 1, Inorganic Materials. Part 2, Organic Materials. Part 3, Food Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Partridge, R. B. Transport in Ancient Egypt. London: Rubicon Press, 1996.

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