Selected Bibliography

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Bibliographical entries are listed here first by general subject areas then by author. Click on any subject area in the list.

    Subject Areas:
  1. Egyptology Databases, Web-based Bibliographies and Lists of Downloadable Publications
  2. Ancient Egypt: General References and Encyclopedias

  3. General Egyptian Histories
  4. Historiography of Ancient Egypt
  5. Individual Historical Topics
  6. Translations and Anthologies of Texts and Literature

  7. Geography and Environment of the Nile Valley
    a. The Nile, Water, Hydrology and Irrigation
    b. Geography, Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology
    c. Cities, Towns, and Urban Planning
    d. Landscapes, Places and Locations
    e. Climate, Climate Change, and Weather Patterns
    f. Catastrophes, Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
    g. Miscellaneous Environmental Issues, Histories, etc.

  8. Land, Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Economy
  9. Astronomy, Calendars and Time-Keeping
  10. Art, Architecture and Environment
  11. Science, Technology, and Materials
  12. Transport, Transportation, Ships and Shipping (Ships, Boats, Chariots, etc.)

  13. Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush
  14. Ethnology and Ethnological Issues: Egypt and Nubia

  15. Religion: General and Topical Studies
  16. Translations of Religious Texts
  17. Magic and Magical Practices
  18. Funerary Beliefs and Practices
  19. Temples, Priesthoods, Cult Practices and Temple Economy
  20. Kingship and the Royal Theology
  21. Akhenaten, Amarna and the Aten Religion

  22. Ethics, Morality and Wisdom Literature
  23. Games, Sports and Athletics
  24. Law and Legal Issues (incl. Crime and Punishment)
  25. Literacy, Writing and Education

  26. Society and Social Institutions
  27. Women: Social Status and Position
  28. Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
  29. Slaves and Slavery

  30. Medicine and Medical Magic
    a. Primary Sources: Medical Papyri and Texts

  31. Warfare and Military History

For a variety of essays on the topic of Egyptian history, society, culture, and archaeology, see Jack M. Sasson, editor, Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, four volumes (New York, Scribner, 1995-); (located on the reference shelves of the campus Library).

Egyptology Databases, Web-based Bibliographies and Lists of Downloadable Publications

College of Charleston Libraries. A-Z Databases. Includes, e.g.: Academic OneFile, Academic Search Complete, JStor, Project Muse, Oxford Reference, Proquest, etc. (College of Charleston login required).

Cambridge University Fitzwilliam Museum. Egyptology Books and Articles in PDF Online . (Free download or links to web pages of over 5,137 books and articles available online).

Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. Digitized Collections of Ancient Egyptian Source Texts. Free download from compilation of Egyptological publications of primary sources and inscriptions on line.

Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. E-Journals and Digitized Paper Periodicals (Egyptology). (Free download from digital journals and periodicals with Egyptological content).

Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. Egyptological Book Series Online. (Free download from compilation of Egyptological books and series on line).

Giza Archives. Giza Digital Library: Complete Giza Publications List. (Free download of publications from comprehensive online library for the Giza Necropolis).

Griffith Institute. The Digital Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings. Global search of all volumes. (Free download of individual volumes):
I/1. Theban Necropolis. Private Tombs (1960)
I/2. Theban Necropolis. Royal Tombs & Smaller Cemeteries (1964)
II. Theban Temples (1972)
III/1. Memphis. Abu Rawash to Abusir (1974)
III/2. Memphis. Saqqara to Dahshur (1981)
IV. Lower and Middle Egypt (1934)
V. Upper Egypt. Sites (1937)
VI. Upper Egypt. Chief Temples
VII. Nubia, The Deserts and Outside Egypt (1952)
VIII. Objects of Provenance Unknown (in progress)

Meretseger Books. Digitized Treasures (free eBooks). (Free download of older collectible Egyptological publications, many from 19th and early 20th centuries, or rare collectors' items).

Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB). The largest searchable database of publications, references, and citations in Egyptological literature from 1822-present. Includes download of citations and most abstracts in English, French or German, but not full text! (College of Charleston login required).

The Oriental Institute. "Catalog of Publications: Egyptian Civilization." The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/egypt.html. Accessed November 3013. (Free download of all Oriental Institute publications on Egypt since 1922).

The Oriental Institute. "Catalog of Publications: Nubian Civilization." The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/nubia.html. Accessed November 3013. (Free download of all Oriental Institute publications on ancient Nubia since 1967).

Proquest. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (Free download of doctoral dissertations and theses from U.S. and international universities. Full text, pdf-files. College of Charleston login required).

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. https://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee.



Ancient Egypt: General References 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 B.C., ed. J. D. Clark. 1982.
Volume 2, From c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 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.

Gauthier, H. Dictionnaire des noms géographiques contenus dans les textes hiéroglyphiques. Seven volumes. Cairo: Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte, 1925-1931.

Gardiner, A. H. Ancient Egyptian Onomastica. Three volumes. London: Oxford University Press, 1947. Reprinted 1968.

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. Also available online (College of Charleston login required).

Montet, P. Géographie de l'Égypte ancienne. Two volumes. Paris, Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1957, 1961.

The Oriental Institute. "Catalog of Publications: Egyptian Civilization." The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/egypt.html. Accessed November 3013. (Free download of all Oriental Institute publications on Egypt since 1922).

The Oriental Institute. "Catalog of Publications: Nubian Civilization." The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/nubia.html. Accessed November 3013. (Free download of all Oriental Institute publications on ancient Nubia since 1967).

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

Redford, Donald B., editor. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Also available online (College of Charleston login required).

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

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. https://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee (click to open).



General Histories

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. Second edition, revised. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. First edition, 1999.

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

Grajetzki, W. The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology and Society. Duckworth Egyptology Series. London: Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2006.

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

Harris, J. R., editor. The Legacy of Egypt. Second edition, revised. 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. Revised edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Ikram, S. Ancient Egypt; An Introfuction. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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

Kemp, B. J. "Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period in Egypt." In The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, ed. J. D. Clark, 658-769. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

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.). Third edition, revised with new Preface and Supplement. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1995.

O'Connor, D. "Egypt, 1552-664 BC." In The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, ed. J. D. Clark, 830-939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

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

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

Trigger, B. G. "The Rise of Civilization in Egypt." In The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, ed. J. D. Clark, 478-547. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Trigger, B. G., Kemp, B. J., O' Connor, D., Lloyd, A. B. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Reprinted 2006.

Van der Mieroop, M. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.



Historiography of Ancient Egypt

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

Jeffreys, D. ed. Views of Ancient Egypt Since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism, Colonialism and Modern Appropriation. Encounters with Ancient Egypt Series. London: University College London Press, 2003.

MacDonald, S. and Michael Rice, M., eds. Consuming Ancient Egypt. Encounters with Ancient Egypt Series. London: University College London Press, 2003.

Matthews, R. and Roemer, C. eds. Ancient Perspectives on Egypt. Encounters with Ancient Egypt Series. London: University College London Press, 2003.

Piccione, P. A. "Introduction," Ancient Records of Egypt, by James Henry Beasted 1, The First through the Seventeenth Dynasties. Pp. xxix-xliii. Reprint. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Tait, J., ed. 'Never Had the Like Occurred': Egypt's View of its Past. Encounters with Ancient Egypt Series. London: University College London Press, 2003.

Ucko, P. and Champion, T., eds. The Wisdom of Ancient Egypt: Changing Visions Through the Ages. Encounters with Ancient Egypt Series. London: University College London Press, 2003.



Individual Historical Topics

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

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

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

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.

Cohen, R. and Westbrook, R., eds. Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnnigs of International Relations. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

de Bono, P. "The Prehistory of the Nile Valley." In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Ancient Civilizations of Africa, ed. G. Mokhtar, 274-283. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

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

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.

Lehner M., et al. "Dating the Pyramids." Archaeology 52/5 (1999): 26-33.

Matić, U. Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt. Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality Series. Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2021.

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

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.

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.

Roehrig, C., R. Dreyfus and C. A. Keller, eds. Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. Metropolitan Museum of Art Series. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.

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

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



Translations and Anthologies of Texts and Literature

Breasted, J. H. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Tiimes to the Persian Conquest. Introduction by Peter A. Piccione. Five volumes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906-1907. Reprinted, Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Volume 1, The First through the Seventeenth Dynasties.
Volume 2, The Eighteenth Dynasty.
Volume 3, The Nineteenth Dynasty.
Volume 4, The Twentieth through the Twenty-sixth Dynasties.
Volume 5, Supplementary Bibliographies and Indices. Supplementary Bibliographies by Peter A. Piccione. Previously titled, Indices (1907).
Caminos, R. A. Late Egyptian Miscellanies. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.

Collier, M and Quirke, S. The UCL Lahun Papyri: Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical and Medical. BAR International Series 1209. London: Archaeopress, 2004.

Cummings, B. Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, Ltd., 1982, 1984, 1984.
Fascicle 1, Helck, Urkunden 4, Heft 17-19, #365-407, §§1227-1368.
Fascicle 2, Helck, Urkunden 4, Heft 17-19, #408-485, §§1369-1539.
Fascicle 3, Helck, Urkunden 4, Heft 17-19, #486-561, §§1539a-1645.

Davies, B. G. Egyptian Historical Inscriptions of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Documenta Mundi, Aegyptiaca 2. Coronet Books, 1997.

Davies, B. G. Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, Ltd., 1992, 1994, 1995.
Fascicle 4, Helck, Urkunden 4, Heft 20, #562-633, §§1646-1775.
Fascicle 5, Helck, Urkunden 4, Heft 21, #634-736, §§1776-1954.
Fascicle 6, Helck, Urkunden 4, Heft 22, #737-853, §§1955-2179.

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.

Foster, J. L. Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.

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. Volume 8. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Frood, E. Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt, ed. J. Baines. SBL Writings from the Ancient World. Volume 26. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2007.

Gardiner, A. H. Ancient Egyptian Onomastica. Three volumes. London: Oxford University Press, 1947. Reprinted 1968.

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

Hallo, W., editor. The Context of Scripture: Canonical Compositions, Monumental Inscriptions, and Archival Documents from the Biblical World. Three volumes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977-2002.
Volume 1, Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, 1977.
Volume 2, Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World, 2000.
Volume 3, Archival Documents from the Biblical World, 2002.

Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations. 7 Volumes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993-2014.
Volume 1, Ramesses I, Sethos I and Contemporaries. 1993. Redesigned and republished. Wallasey: Abercrombie Press, 2017.
Volume 2, Ramesses II, Royal Inscriptions. 1996.
Volume 3, Ramesses II, His Contemporaries. 2000.
Volume 4, Merenptah & the Late Nineteenth Dynasty. 2003.
Volume 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III, and Contemporaries. 2008.
Volume 6, Ramesses IV to XI, and Contemporaries. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Volume 7, Addenda to 1-6. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

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

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

McDowell, A. G. Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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. Volume 5. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Murnane, W. J. and C. C. Van Siclen III. The Boundaty Stelae of Akhenaten. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1993.

Parkinson, R. B. Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A Dark Side to Perfection. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002.

Parkinson, R. B. Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Parkinson, R. B. The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C. Oxford World's Classics. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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

Peden, A. J. Egyptian Historical Inscriptions of the Twentieth Dynasty. Documenta Mundi, Aegyptiaca 3. Paul Aströms, 1994.

Peden, A. J. The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt: Scope and Roles of Informal Writings (c.3100-332 BC). Probleme der Ägyptologie 17. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001.

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

Quirke, S. Egyptian Literature 1800BC: Questions and Readings. Rev ed. GHP Egyptology. Golden House Publications, 2004.

Ritner, R. K. The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, ed. Edward Wente. SBL Writings from the Ancient World. Volume 21. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2009.

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

Simpson, W. K., R. K. Ritner and V. A. Tobin, editors. The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry. Third Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

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

Strudwick, N.C. Texts from the Pyramid Age, ed. R. Leprohon. SBL Writings from the Ancient World. Volume 16. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2005.

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

Wilkinson, T. Writings from Ancient Egypt. Penguin Classics. Milton Keynes, UK: Penguin Books, 2016.



Geography and Environment of the Nile Valley

a. The Nile, Water, Hydrology and Irrigation

Atzler, M. "Some Remarks on Interrelating Environmental Changes and Ecological, Socio-economic Problems in the Gradual Development of the Early Egyptian Inundation Culture." Archéo-Nil 5 (1995): 7-65.

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. (click to open).

Baines, J. "The Inundation Stela of Sebekhotpe VIII." Acta Orientalia 36 (1974): 39-54.

Baines, J. "The Sebekhotpe VIII Inundation Stela: An Additional Fragment." Acta Orientalia 37 (1976): 11-20.

Baumann, S. "Die Beschreibung der Nilflut in der Nilkammer von Edfu." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 139/1 (2012): 1-18.

Beckerath, J. von. "The Nile Level Records at Karnak and Their Importance for the History of the Libyan Period (Dynasties XXII and XXIII)." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 5 (1966): 49-55.

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.

Bellinger, J. "How the Success of the Ancient Egyptians Depended on Plants." In Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Conferences Held in Cairo (2007) and Manchester (2008), ed. J. Cockitt and R. David, 11-14. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010.

Bickel, S. "The Inundation Inscription in Luxor Temple." In The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st-24th Dynasties. Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007, ed. G. P. F. Broekman, R. J. Demarée, and O. E. Kaper, 51-55. Leiden and Leuven: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten; Peeters, 2009.

Bunbury, J. M., A. Graham and M. A. Hunter. "Stratigraphic Landscape Analysis: of the Nile at Karnak through Ancient Egyptian Time." Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 23, no. 3 (2008); 351-373.

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

Butzer, K. W. "Geoarchaeological Implications of Recent Research in the Nile Delta." In Egypt and the Levant: Interrelations from the 4th Through the Early 3rd Millennium BCE, ed. E. C. M. van den Brink, and T. E. Levy 83-97. London and New York: Leicester University Press, 2002.

Butzer, K. W. "Irrigation." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Volume 2, ed. D. Redford, 183-188. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Butzer, K. W. "Late Quaternary Problems of the Egyptian Nile: Stratigraphy, Environments, Prehistory." Paléorient 23, no. 2 (1997): 151-173.

Butzer, K. W. "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.

Butzer, K. W. "Nil" [in English]. Lexikon der Ägyptologie 1, eds. W. Helck, E. Otto and W. Westendorf, 480-484. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.

Butzer, K. W. "The Nile." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Volume 2, ed. D. Redford, 543-551. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Butzer, K. W. "Perspectives on Irrigation Civilization in Pharaonic Egypt." In Immortal Egypt, ed. D. Schmandt-Besserat, 13-18. Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1978.

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.

Dégardin, J.-Cl. "Khonsou et l'eau dans son temple de Karnak." In Les problèmes institutionnels de l'eau en Égypte ancienne et dans l'antiquité méditerranéenne: colloque AIDEA Vogüé 1992, ed. B. Menu, 131-139. Bibliothèque d'Étude 110. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994.

Delvaux, L. "Hatshepsout et le Gebel es-Silsileh: les carrières d'une reine dangereuse." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge 3-9 September 1995, ed. C. J. Eyre, 317-324. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 82. Leuven: Peeters, 1998.

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.

el-Gamili, M. M. et al. "Defunct Nile Branches Inferred from a Geoelectric Resistivity Survey on Samannud Area, Nile Delta, Egypt." Journal of Archaeological Science (2001): 28,1339-1348.

Gabolde, M. "L'inondation sous les pieds d'Amon." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 95 (1995): 235-258.

Garbrecht, G. "Sadd-el-Kafara: The World's Oldest Large Dam." International Water Power and Dam Construction 37 (July 1985): 71-76.

Ghilardi, M. and M. Boraik. "Reconstructing the Holocene Depositional Environments in the Western Part of Ancient Karnak Temples Complex (Egypt): A Geoarchaeological Approach." Journal of Archaeological Science 38/12 (December 2011): 3204-3216.

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.

Habachi, L. "A High Inundation in the Temple of Amenre at Karnak in the Thirteenth Dynasty." Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 1 (1974): 207-214.

Hassan, F. "Climate Change, Nile Floods and Riparia." In Riparia dans l'empire romain: Pour la définition du concept. Proceedings of the Quebec Seminar, 29 - 31 October 2009, ed. E. Hermon, 131-150. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010.

Hassan, F. "The Dynamics of a Riverine Civilization: A Geoarchaeological Perspective on the Nile Valley." World Archaeology 29, no. 1 (1997): 51-74.

Hassan, F. "Historical Nile Floods and Their Implications for Climatic Change." Science 212 (5 June, 1991): 1142-1145.

Hassan, F. "Nile Floods and Political Disorder in Early Egypt." In Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse, ed. H. N. Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss, 1-23. Heidelberg: Springer, 1997.

Haynes, C. V. and H. Haas, "Radiocarbon Evidence for Holocene Recharge of Groundwater, Western Desert, Egypt." Radiocarbon 22 (1980): 705-717.

Hillier, J. K., J. M. Bunbury and A. Graham. "Monuments on a Migrating Nile." Journal of Archaeological Science 34 (2007): 1011-1015.

Huddlestun, J. R. "'Who Is This That Rises Like the Nile?' Some Egyptian Texts on the Inundation and a Prophetic Trope." In Fortunate the Eyes That See: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday, ed. A. B. Beck et al., 338-363. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995

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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.

Ludwig, E. The Nile: The Life-Story of a River Translated by Mary H. Lindsay. New York: The Viking Press, 1937.

Oestigaard, T. Horus' Eye and Osiris' Efflux: the Egyptian Civilisation of Inundation c. 3000-2000 BCE. BAR International Series 2228. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011.

Quintanar, J. et al. "Remote Sensing, Planform, and Facies Analysis of the Plain of Tineh, Egypt for the Remains of the Defunct Pelusiac River." Sedimentary Geology 297 (2013): 16-30.

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Said, R. The River Nile: Geology, Hydrology and Utilization, Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1993.

Schenkel, W. Die Bewässerungsrevolution im Alten Ägypten. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo. Mainz/Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1978.

Schnitter, N. J. "The Ancient Civilizations: The Nile Valley." Extract of chapter in A History of Dams: The Useful Pyramids, 1-7. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1994.

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

Stanley, J.-D., M. D. Krom, R. A. Cliff and J. C. Woodward. "Short Contribution: Nile Flow Failure at the End of the Old Kingdom, Egypt: Strontium Isotopic and Petrologic Evidence." Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 18/3 (2003): 395-402.

Thompson, D. J. "Irrigation and Drainage in the Early Ptolemaic Fayyum." In Agriculture in Egypt: From Pharaonic to Modern Times, ed. A. K. Bowman and E. Rogan, 107-122. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Traunecker, Cl. "Les rites de l'eau à Karnak d'après les textes de la rampe de Taharqa." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 72 (1972): 195-236.

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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, 207-224. Rotterdam: Balkema, 1980.

Zaghloul, E. A. et al. "Detection of Ancient Irrigation Canals of Deir el-Hagar Playa, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt, Using Egyptsat-1 Data." The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (2013): __.


b. Geography, Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology

Barta, M. and J. Janak, eds. Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces: Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant: New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2020.

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

Baz, F. el-. "Geoarchaeological Evidence of the Relationships Between the Terminal Drought in North Africa and the Rise of Ancient Egypt.." In Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000. Volume 1, ed. Z. Hawass and L. P. Brock, 64-72. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2003..

Butzer, K. W. "Archaeology and Geology in Ancient Egypt." In New Roads to Yesterday: Essays in Archaeology. Articles from Science, ed. J. R. Caldwell, 210-227. New York: Basic Books; London: Thames and Hudson, 1966.

Butzer, K. W. "Contributions to the Pleistocene Geology of the Nile Valley." Erdkunde: Archiv für Wissenschaftliche Geographie 13 (1959): 46-67.

Butzer, K. W. "Delta." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie 1, eds. W. Helck, E. Otto and W. Westendorf, 1043-52. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.

Butzer, K. W. Environment and Archeology: An Introduction to Pleistocene Geography. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1954.

Butzer, K. W. "Geographie." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie 2, eds. W. Helck, E. Otto and W. Westendorf, 525-530. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1977.

Butzer, K. W. "Pleistocene History of the Nile Valley in Egypt and Lower Nubia." In The Sahara and the Nile: Quaternary Environments and Prehistoric Occupation in Northern Africa, ed. M. A. J. Williams and H. Faure, 253-280. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1980.

Butzer, K. W. "Some Recent Geological Deposits in the Egyptian Nile Valley." The Geographical Journal 125 (1959): 75-79.

Butzer, K. W. and C. L. Hansen. Desert and River in Nubia: Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments at the Aswan Reservoir. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.

Cílek, V. et al. "Diachronic Development of the Lake of Abusir During the Third Millennium BC, Cairo, Egypt." Quaternary International 266 (2012): 14-24.

Dupuis, C. et al. "Genesis and Geometry of Tilted Blocks in the Theban Hills Near Luxor (Upper Egypt)." Journal of African Earth Sciences 61 (2011): 245-267.

Fenwick, H. "Ancient Roads and GPS Survey: Modelling the Amarna Plain." Antiquity 302 (2004): 880-885.

Ghilardi, M. and Y. Tristant. "Geoarchaeology of Egypt and the Mediterranean: Reconstructing Holocene Landscapes and Human Occupation History." Quaternary International 266 (2012): 1-3.

Haas, H. et al. "Radiocarbon Chronology and the Historical Calendar in Egypt." In Chronologies du Proche Orient [Chronologies in the Near East]. Relative Chronologies and Absolute Chronology, 16,000-4,000 B.P. C.N.R.S. International Symposium, Lyon (France), 24-28 November 1986. Part 2, ed. O. Aurenche, J. Evin, F. Hours, 585-606. BAR International Series 379 (Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen, Archaeological Series 3). Oxford: Archaeopress, 1987.

Hassan F. A. and S. W. Robinson. "High-precision Radiocarbon Chronometry of Ancient Egypt, and Comparisons with Nubia, Palestine and Mesopotamia." Antiquity 61 (1987): 119-135.

Herbich, T. "Geophysical Methods and Landscape Archaeology." Egyptian Archaeology 41 (2012): 11-14.

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.

Kemp, B. "An Ancient Nile Harbor: University Museum Excavations at the "Birket Habu'." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 3, no. 1 (1974): 101-136.

Kees, H. Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Love, S. "Stones, Ancestors, and Pyramids: Investigating the Pre-pyramid Landscape of Memphis." In The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Prague, May 31 - June 4, 2004, ed. M. Bárta,. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2006.

Moshier, O. and A. el-Kalani. "Late Bronze Age Paleogeography Along the Ancient Ways of Horus in Northwest Sinai, Egypt." Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 23, no. 4 (2008): 450-473.

Moulin, B. and H. Béatrice Huber. "Kôm el-Ahmar/Saruna (Vallée du Nil, Moyenne-Égypte): Les rapports de la géoarchéologie à la compréhension du site. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 65 (2009): 271-302.

Nicoll, K. "Recent Environmental Change and Prehistoric Human Activity in Egypt and Northern Sudan." Quaternary Science Reviews 23, nos. 5-6 (2004), 561-580.

Ramisch, A. W. Bebermeier, K. Hartmann, B. Schütta and N. Alexanian. "Fractals in Topography: Application to Geoarchaeological Studies in the Surroundings of the Necropolis of Dahshur, Egypt." Quaternary International 266 (2012): 34-46.

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 yet published!).

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

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

Sampsell, B. M. A Traveler's Guide to the Geology of Egypt. Cairo. The American University in Cairo Press, 2003.

van Wesemael, B. and Pieter Dirksz. The Relation Between the Natural Landscape and the Spatial Distribution of Archaeological Remains: A Geo-archaeological Survey in an Area North of Faqus, Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt. Rapport. Fysisch-Geografisch en Bodemkundig Laboratorium Universiteit van Amsterdam 24. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, Department of Physical Geography and Soil Science, 1986.


c. Cities, Towns, and Urban Planning (See also Art, Architecture and Environment.)

Barta, M. and J. Janak, eds. Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces: Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant: New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2020.

Bietak, M. "Urban Archaeology and the Town Problem in Ancient Egypt." In Egyptology and the Social Sciences: Five Studies, ed. K. Weeks, 95-144. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1979.

Butzer, K. W., E. Butzer and S. Love. "Urban Geoarchaeology and Environmental History at the Lost City of the Pyramids, Giza: Synthesis and Review." Journal of Archaeological Science 40/8 (August 2013): 3340-3366.

Hassan, F. A. "Town and Village in Ancient Egypt: Ecology, Society and Urbanization." In The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals, and Towns, ed. T. Shaw et al., 551-569. London, New York: Routledge, 1993.

Kemp, B. J. . "The Character of the South Suburb at Tell el-'Amarna." Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin 113 (1981): 81-97.

Kemp, B. J. The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People. London: Thames & Hudson, 2012.

Kemp, B. J. "Model Communities." Chapter in Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. London, New York: Routledge, 1989. Pp. 137-180.

Kemp, B. J. "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.

Kemp, B. J. and S. Garfi A Survey of the Ancient City of el-'Amarna. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1993.

Lehner, M. "Capital Zone Walk-about 2006: Spot Height on the Third Millennium Landscape." In Giza Plateau Mapping Project, Seasons 2006-2007: Preliminary Report, ed., M. Lehner, M. Kamel, and A. Tavares, 97-152. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates, 2009.

Nims, C. F. Thebes of the Pharaohs: Pattern for Every City. London, Elek Books and Toronto: The Ryersen Press, 1965.

O'Connor, David. "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.

Quirke, S. Lahun: a Town in Egypt 1800 BC, and the History of Its Landscape. Egyptian Sites. London: Golden House, 2005.

Ramisch, A., W. Bebermeier, K. Hartmann, B. Schütta and N. Alexanian. "Fractals in Topography: Application to Geoarchaeological Studies in the Surroundings of the Necropolis of Dahshur, Egypt." Quaternary International 266 (2012): 34-46.

Riefstahl, E. Thebes in the Time of Amunhotep III. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.

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, J.-D., R. W. Carlson, G. Van Beek, T. F. Jorstad and E. A. Landau. "Alexandria, Egypt, Before Alexander the Great: A Multidisciplinary Approach Yields Rich Discoveries." GSA Today 17, no. 8 (August 2007): 4-10.


d. Landscapes, Places and Locations

Bianchi, R. S. "The Theban Landscape of Rameses II." In Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell. Volume 1, ed., J. Phillips, 87-94. San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1997.

Fakhry, A. The Oases of Egypt. Two volumes: Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1973-1974.
Volume 1, Siwa Oasis (1973).
Volume 2, Bahriya and Farafra Oases (1974).

Garbrecht, G. "Sadd-el-Kafara: The World's Oldest Large Dam." International Water Power and Dam Construction 37 (July 1985): 71-76.

Gardiner, A. H. Ancient Egyptian Onomastica. Three volumes. London: Oxford University Press, 1947. Reprinted 1968.

Gauthier, H. Dictionnaire des noms géographiques contenus dans les textes hiéroglyphiques. Seven volumes. Cairo: Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte, 1925-1931.

Hassanein, A. The Lost Oases. London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1925. Reprinted, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2006.

Montet, P. Géographie de l'Égypte ancienne. Two volumes. Paris, Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1957, 1961.

Nims, C. F. "Another Geographical List from Medinet Habu." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 38 (1952): 34-45.

Nims, C. F. "Places about Thebes." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 14 (1955): 110-123.

Patch, D. C. "From Land to Landscape." In Dawn of Egyptian Art, ed. D. C. Patch, 20-81. New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2011.

Ramisch, A. W. Bebermeier, K. Hartmann, B. Schütta and N. Alexanian. "Fractals in Topography: Application to Geoarchaeological Studies in the Surroundings of the Necropolis of Dahshur, Egypt." Quaternary International 266 (2012): 34-46.

Riefstahl, E. Thebes in the Time of Amunhotep III. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.

Robinson, P. "The Ritual Landscapes of the Field of Hetep." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 34 (2007): 131-148.

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

Trampier, J. "Reconstructing the Desert and Sown Landscape of Abydos." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 42 (2005-2006): 73-80.

Vivian, C. Islands of the Blest: A Guide to the Oases and Western Desert of Egypt. Maadi, Egypt: International Publications Ltd. and Trade Routes Enterprises, 1990.

Vivian, C. The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer's Handbook. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000.

Willems, H. "The Physical and Cultic Landscape of the Northern Nile Delta According to Pyramid Texts Utterance 625." In "Parcourir l'éternité": Hommages à Jean Yoyotte. Volume 2, ed. C. Zivie-Coche and I. Guermeur, 1097-1107. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.

Wilson, P. "The Ancient Landscape Around Lake Burullus." Egyptian Archaeology 41 (2012): 18-20.

Wuest, R. A. J. and C. Schluechter. "The Origin of Soluble Salts in Rocks of the Thebes Mountains, Egypt: The Damage Potential to Ancient Egyptian Wall Art." Journal of Archaeological Science 27 (2000): 1161-1172.


e. Climate, Climate Change, and Weather Patterns

Bubenzer, O. and R. Riemer. "Holocene Climatic Change and Human Settlement Between the Central Sahara and the Nile Valley: Archaeological and Geomorphological Results." Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 22, no. 6 (2007): 607-620.

Burn, J. "Climate Change, Fishing and the Nile: Changes in Fishing Techniques and Technologies at the End of the Old Kingdom." In Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces: Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant: New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology, ed. M. Barta and J. Janak, 1-17. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2020.

Butzer, K. W. "Environmental Change in the Near East and Human Impact on the Land." In Civilizations of the Ancient near East. Volume 1, ed. J. Sasson, 123-151. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1995.

Butzer, K. W. "Klima." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie 3, eds. W. Helck, E. Otto and W. Westendorf, 455-457. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 198_.

Butzer, K. W. "Long-Term Nile Flood Variation and Political Discontinuities in Pharaonic Egypt." In From Hunters to Farmers, ed. J. D. Clarke and S. Brandt, 102-112. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Butzer, K. W. "Sociopolitical Discontinuity in the Near East C. 2200 B.C.E.: Scenarios from Palestine and Egypt." In Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse, ed. H. N. Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss, 245-296. Heidelberg: Springer, 1997.

Dalfes, H. N., G. Kukla, and H. Weiss, eds. Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse. Heidelberg: Springer, 1997.

Hassan, F. "Historical Nile Floods and Their Implications for Climatic Change." Science 212 (5 June, 1991): 1142-1145.

Hassan, F. "Nile Floods and Political Disorder in Early Egypt." In Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse, ed. H. N. Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss, 1-23. Heidelberg: Springer, 1997.

Haynes, C. V. et al. "Pluvial Lakes of North-Western Sudan." The Geographical Journal 145/3 (Nov., 1979),: 437-445.

Phillipps, R. et al. "Mid-Holocene Occupation of Egypt and Global Climatic Change." Quaternary International 251 (2012): 64-76.

Welc, F. and L. Marks. "Climate Change at the End of the Old Kingdom in Egypt Around 4200 BP: New Geoarchaeological Evidence." Quaternary International (2013): 1-10.


f. Catastrophes, Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions

Abdel-Haliem, M. E. F. et al. "Characterization of Streptomyces Isolates Causing Colour Changes of Mural Paintings in Ancient Egyptian Tombs." Microbiological Research 168 (2013): 428- 437.

Abdelnaby, A. E. and A. S. Elnashai. "Integrity Assessment of the Pharos of Alexandria During the AD 1303 Earthquake." Engineering Failure Analysis 33 (2013): 119-138.

Ambraseys, N. N., P. Melville and R. D. Adam. The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A Historical Review. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005.

Bigelow, R. C. "Time Trials: Implications of the Thera Volcano and Tel el-Dab'a for Egypt, Part 1." The Ostracon: The Journal of the Egyptian Study Society 16/1 (Winter 2004-2005): 15-20.

Davis, E. N. "A Storm in Egypt during the Reign of Ahmose." In Thera and the Aegean World III. Volume 3, Chronology, ed. D. A. Hardy and A. C. Renfrew, 232-35. London, 1990.

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

Foster, K. P. et al. "The Thera Eruption and Egypt: Pumice, Texts, and Chronology." In Time's up! Dating the Minoan Eruption of Santorini: Acts of the Minoan Eruption Chronology Workshop, Sandbjerg, November 2007, ed. W. A. Warburton, 171-180. Arhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009.

Goedicke, H. "The Chronology of the Thera/Santorin Explosion," in High, Middle or Low? Acts of the Second International Colloquium on Absolute Chronology, Schloß Haindorf/Langenlois, 12.-15. August 1990. Agypten und Levante 3 (1992): 57-62.

Liritzis I., C. Michael and R. B. Galloway. "A Significant Aegean Volcanic Eruption during the Second Millennium B.C. Revealed by Thermoluminescence Dating." Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 11, no. 4 (1996): 361-371.

McCoy, F. W. and G. Heiken. "The Late Bronze Age Explosive Eruption of Thera (Santorini), Greece: Regional and Local Effects." Geographical Society of America Special Paper 345 (2000): 43-70.

McCoy, F. W. and G. Heiken. "Tsunami Generated by the Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera (Santorini), Greece." Pure and Applied Geophysics 157 (2000): 1227-1256.

MacGillivray, J. A. "Thera, Hatshepsut, and the Keftiu: Crisis and Response in Egypt and the Aegean in the Mid-second Millennium BC." In Time's up! Dating the Minoan Eruption of Santorini: Acts of the Minoan Eruption Chronology Workshop, Sandbjerg, November 2007, ed. D. A. Warburton, 154-170. Arhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009.

Meltzer, E. S. "Earthquakes in Ancient Egypt With Emphasis on Upper Egypt." In Earthquake Activity and Dam Stability Evaluations for the Aswan High Dam, Egypt for the High and Aswan Dams Authority Ministry of Irrigation Arab Republic of Egypt. December 1985, Seismicity Studies of the Aswan Region. Volume 2, 251-273. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Woodward-Clyde Consultants, 1985.

Shaaban, A. el-A. "Ion Beam Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Wall Paintings." Vacuum 83 (2009): S4-S8.

Stanley, J.-D. and H. Sheng, "Volcanic Shards from Santorini (Upper Minoan Ash) in the Nile Delta, Egypt." Nature 320, no. 6064 (April 24-30, 1986): 733-735.

Sterba, J. H. "New Light on Old Pumice: the Origins of Mediterranean Volcanic Material from Ancient Egypt." Journal of Archaeological Science 36 (2009): 1738-1744.

Vandersleyen, C. "Une tempête sous le regne d'Amosis," Revue d'Egyptologie 19 (1967): 123- 59.

Vandersleyen, C. "Deux nouveaux fragments de la stele d'Amosis relatant une tempête," Revue d'Egyptologie 20 (1968): 127-34.

Wiener, M. H. and J. P. Allen. "Separate Lives: The Ahmose Tempest Stela and the Theran Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 1-28.

Yurco, F. J. "End of the Late Bronze Age and Other Crisis Periods: a Volcanic Cause?" In Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, ed. E. Teeter and J. A. Larson, 455-463. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Volume 58. Chicago: Oriental lnstitute, 199


g. Miscellaneous Environmental Issues, Histories, etc.

Asensi Amorós, V. Geb: Geobotanical Bibliography of Egypt and Adjacent Countries for the Egyptologist. Triade Exploration, 2000.

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

Butzer, K. W. "Environmental Change in the Near East and Human Impact on the Land." In Civilizations of the Ancient near East. Volume 1, ed. J. Sasson, 123-151. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1995.

Evans, L. "Ancient Egyptian Response to the Natural World." In Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces: Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant: New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology, ed. M. Barta and J. Janak, 71-88. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2020.

Guo Dantong. "The Inscription of Amenemhet II from Memphis: Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary." Journal of Ancient Civilizations 14 (1999): 45-66.

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.

Kees, H. Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Robinson, P. "The Ritual Landscapes of the Field of Hetep." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 34 (2007): 131-148.



Land, Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Economy

Allen, J. P. The Heqanakht Papyri. Publications of the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition 27. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.

Antoine, J.-C. "The Wilbour Papyrus Revisited: The Land and Its Localisation. An Analysis of the Places of Measurement." Studien zur AltÄgyptischen Kultur 40 (2011): 9-27.

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

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

Baer, K. "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 East. Volume 3, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1373-85. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward

Bleiberg, E. 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.

Bowman, A. K. and E. Rogan. "Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times." In Agriculture in Egypt: From Pharaonic to Modern Times, ed. A. K. Bowman and E. Rogan, 1-32. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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

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

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

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

Darby, W. J, P. Ghalioungui and L. Grivetti. Food: The Gift of Osiris. Two volumes. New York and London: Academic Press, 1977.

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.

Eyre, C. J. "The Village Economy im Pharaonic Egypt." In Agriculture in Egypt: From Pharaonic to Modern Times, ed. A. K. Bowman and E. Rogan, 33-60. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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.
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Volume 2, Commentary. 1948.
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Volume 4, Index, ed. R. O. Faulkner. 1952.

Goedicke, H., 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.

Haaland, R. "Sedentism, Cultivation, and Plant Domestication in the Holocene Middle Nile Region." Journal of Field Archaeology 22/2 (Summer, 1995): 157-174.

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.

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

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. Grain Transport in the Ramesside Period: Papyrus Baldwin and Papyrus Amiens. London: British Museum Press 2004.

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.

Katary, S. L. D. "Land Tenure in the New Kingdom: The Role of Women, Smallholders and the Military." In Agriculture in Egypt: From Pharaonic to Modern Times, ed. A. K. Bowman and E. Rogan, 61-82. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Kees, H. Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Leprohon, R. J. "Royal Ideology and State Administration in Pharaonic Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 273-288. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Manning, J. G. "The Land Tenure Regime in Ptolemaic Upper Egypt." In Agriculture in Egypt: From Pharaonic to Modern Times, ed. A. K. Bowman and E. Rogan, 83-105. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Manning, J. G. and Morris, I., eds. The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models. Social Science History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

O'Connor, D. "The Social and Economic Organization of Ancient Egyptian Temples." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 1, 319-330. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Panagiotakopulua, E., P. Buckland and B. Kemp. "Underneath Ranefer's Floors: Urban Environments on the Desert Edge." Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010): 474-481.

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.

Wilkinson, A. The Garden in Ancient Egypt. London: The Rubicon Press, 1998.

Wilson, H. Egyptian Food and Drink. Shire Egyptology Series 9. Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, 1988.



Astronomy, Calendars and Time-keeping

Applegate, A. and N. Zedeño. "Site E-92-9: A Possible Late Neolithic Solar Calendar." In Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara. Volume 1, The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, ed. F. Wendorf and R. Schild, 463-467. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum 2001.

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

Belmonte, J. A. "The Egyptian Calendar: Keeping Ma'at on Earth." In Search of Cosmic Order: Selected Essays on Egyptian Archaeoastronomy, ed. J. A. Belmonte and M. Shaltout, 77-131. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities Press, 2009.

Belmonte, J. A. and M. Shaltout, eds. In Search of Cosmic Order: Selected Essays on Egyptian Archaeoastronomy. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities Press, 2009.

Belmonte, J. A. and M. Shaltout. "On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples 2: New Experiments at the Oases of the Western Desert." Journal for the History of Astronomy 37 (2006): 173-192.

Belmonte, J. A., M. Shaltout, and M. Fekri. "The Ancient Egyptian Monuments and Their Relation with the Position of the Sun, Stars and Planets II: New Experiments at the Oases of the Western Desert." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 80 (2006): 67-83.

Belmonte, J. A., M. Shaltout, and M. Fekri. "Astronomy and Landscape in Ancient Egypt: Challenging the Enigma of the Minor Step Pyramids." Trabajos de Egiptología - Papers on Ancient Egypt 4 (2005): 7-18.

Brophy, T. G. and P. A. Rosen. "Satellite Imagery Measures of the Astronomically Aligned Megaliths at Nabta Playa." Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 5/1 (2005): 15-24.

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

Depuydt, L. "From Twice Helix to Double Helix: a Comprehensive Model for Egyptian Calendar History." Journal of Egyptian History 2, nos. 1-2 (2009): 115-147.

Depuydt, L. "Sothic Chronology and the Old Kingdom." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 37 (2000): 167-186.

Fermor, J. "Timing the Sun in Egypt and Mesopotamia." Vistas in Astronomy 41, no. 1 (1991): 151-167.

Gautschy, R. "Der Stern Sirius im Alten Ägypten." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 138 (2011): 116-131.

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.

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

Hornung, E., R. Krauss, and D. A. Warburton. "Methods of Dating and the Egyptian Calendar." In Ancient Egyptian Chronology, ed. E. Hornung, R. Krauss, and D. A. Warburton, 45-51. Handbuch der Orientalistik, erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten 83. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

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

Krauss, R. "Egyptian Sirius/Sothic Dates and the Question of the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar." In Ancient Egyptian Chronology, ed. E. Hornung, R. Krauss, and D. A. Warburton, 439-457. Handbuch der Orientalistik, erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten 83. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Krauss, R. "The Eye of Horus and the Planet Venus: Astronomical and Mythological References. In Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Steele and A. Imhausen, 193-208. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 297. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002.

Krauss, R. "Lunar Days, Lunar Months, and the Question of the 'Civil Based' Lunar Calendar." In Ancient Egyptian Chronology, ed. E. Hornung, R. Krauss, and D. A. Warburton, 386-391. Handbuch der Orientalistik, erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten 83. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Malville, J. M., R. Schild, F. Wendorf. and R. Brenmer. "The Astronomy of Nabta Playa." African Cultural Astronomy (2008): 131-144.

Malville, J. M., F. Wendorf, A. A. Mazar and R. Schild. "Megaliths and Neolithic Astronomy in Southern Egypt." Nature 392 (2 April 1998): 488-491.

Meza, A. I. "The Sun's Rays and the Divine Image of Ramesses II." In En quête de la lumière / In Quest of Light: Mélanges in honorem Ashraf A. Sadek, ed. A.-A Maravelia, 109-20. BAR International Series. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009.

Neugebauer, O. and Parker, R. Egyptian Astronomical Texts. Three volumes. Brown Egyptological Studies. Providence and London: Brown University Press and Lund Humphries.
Vol. 1, The Early Decans. Brown Egyptological Studies 3. 1960.
Vol. 2, The Ramesside Star Clocks. Brown Egyptological Studies 5. 1964.
Vol. 3, Decans, Planets, Constellations and Zodiacs. Pt. 1, Text. Pt. 2, Plates. Brown Egyptological Studies 6. 1969.
Nolan, J. S. "Lunar Intercalations and 'Cattle Counts' During the Old Kingdom: The Hebsed in Context." In Chronology and Archaeology in Ancient Egypt (the Third Millennium B.C.), ed. H. Vymazalová and M. Bárta, 44-60. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2008.

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'Égyptologie 9 (1952): 101-108.

Parker, R. "The Sothic Dating of the Twelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties." In Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Volume 39, ed. J. H. Johnson and E. F. Wente, 177-190. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1977.

Reese, R. L. "Midwinter Sunrise at Karnak." Sky and Telescope (March, 1992): 276-278.

Robins, G. "Mathematics, Astronomy, and Calendars in Pharaonic Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 3, 1799-1814. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

el-Sabban, S. Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.

Spalinger, A. "The Beginning of the Civil Calendar." In Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010. Volume 2, M. Bárta et al., 723-735. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2011.

Spalinger, A. "Egyptian Festival Dating and the Moon." In Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Steele and A. Imhausen, 379-403. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 297. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002.

Spence, K. "Establishing Direction in Early Egyptian Burials and Monumental Architecture: Measurement and the Spatial Link with the 'Other'." In The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies, ed. I. Morley and C. Renfrew, 170-179. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Symons, S. "A Star's Year: the Annual Cycle in the Ancient Egyptian Sky." In Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Steele, 1-33. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007.

Toomer, G. J. "Mathematics and Astronomy." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 27-55. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Walsem, R. van. "Month-Names and Feasts at Deir el-Medina." In Gleanings from Deir el-Medina, ed. R. Demarée and Jac. Janssen, 215-44. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut, 1982.

Wells, R. A. "The Role of Astronomical Techniques in Ancient Egyptian Chronology: The Use of Lunar Month Lengths in Absolute Dating." In Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Steele and A. Imhausen, 459-472. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 297. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002.

Wendorf, F. and R. Schild. "Implications of Incipient Social Complexity in the Late Neolithic in the Egyptian Sahara." In Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert, ed R. Friedman, 13-20. London: British Museum Press, 2002.

Wente, E. F. and Van Siclen III, C. C. "A Chronology of the New Kingdom." In Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Volume 39, ed. J. H. Johnson and E. F. Wente, 217-262. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1977.



Art, Architecture and Environment

Abdel-Haliem, M. E. F. et al. "Characterization of Streptomyces Isolates Causing Colour Changes of Mural Paintings in Ancient Egyptian Tombs." Microbiological Research 168 (2013): 428- 437.

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.

Arnold, D. 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.

Bianchi, R. S. "The Theban Landscape of Rameses II." In Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell. Volume 1, ed., J. Phillips, 87-94. San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1997.

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

Emery, V. L. "Mud Brick Architecture." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4983w678. (click to open).

Exell, K. "Ancestor Bust." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59k7832w. (click to open).

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

Garbrecht, G. "Sadd-el-Kafara: The World's Oldest Large Dam." International Water Power and Dam Construction 37 (July 1985): 71-76.

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.

Haeny, G. "New Kingdom Architecture." In Egyptology and the Social Sciences: Five Studies, ed. K. Weeks, 85-94. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1979.

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.

Hornung, E. "Ancient Egyptian Religious Iconography." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 3, 1711-1730. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Huyge, D. "Rock Art." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4qx7k7pz. (click to open).

Laboury, D. "Portrait versus Ideal Image." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9370v0rz. (click to open).

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

Lehmann, M. "Tower Houses." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6c57f675. (click to open).

Mendoza, B. "Reserve Head." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g46r4fv. (click to open).

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

Patch, D. C. "From Land to Landscape." In Dawn of Egyptian Art, ed. D. C. Patch, 20-81. New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2011.

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

Robinson, P. "The Ritual Landscapes of the Field of Hetep." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 34 (2007): 131-148.

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.

Shaaban, A. el-A. "Ion Beam Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Wall Paintings." Vacuum 83 (2009): S4-S8.

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.

Wuest, R. A. J. and C. Schluechter. "The Origin of Soluble Salts in Rocks of the Thebes Mountains, Egypt: The Damage Potential to Ancient Egyptian Wall Art." Journal of Archaeological Science 27 (2000): 1161-1172.



Science, Technology, and Materials

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

Bloxam, E. "New Directions in Identifying the Significance of Ancient Quarry Landscapes: Four Concepts of Landscape." In Quarryscapes: Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geological Survey of Norway, Special Publication 12, ed. N. Abu-Jaber et al., 165-183. Oslo: Norges Geologiske Undersokelse, 2009.

Bloxam, E. "Quarrying and Mining (Stone)." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. 2010. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bb918sd. (click to open).

Botros, N. S. "A New Classification of the Gold Deposits of Egypt." Ore Geology Reviews 25 (2004): 1-37.

Castiglioni, A., A. Castiglioni, and C. Bonnet. "The Gold Mines of the Kingdom of Kerma." In Between the Cataracts: Proceedings of the 11th Conference for Nubian Studies, Warsaw University, 27 August-2 September 2006. Part 2. Session Papers 1, eds. W. Godlewski and A. Latjar, 263-270. Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2010

Clagett, M. Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book 1, Knowledge and Order 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.

Garbrecht, G. "Sadd-el-Kafara: The World's Oldest Large Dam." International Water Power and Dam Construction 37 (July 1985): 71-76.

Hall, R. Egyptian Textiles. Shire Egyptology Series 4. Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, 1986.

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.

Hatton, G. D., A. J. Shortland, and M. S. Tite. "The Production Technology of Egyptian Blue and Green Frits from Second Millennium BC Egypt and Mesopotamia." Journal of Archaeological Science 35 (2008): 1591-1604.

Heldal, T. "Constructing a Quarry Landscape from Empirical Data: General Perspectives and a Case Study at the Aswan West Bank, Egypt." In Quarryscapes: Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geological Survey of Norway, Special Publication 12, ed. N. Abu-Jaber et al., 125-153. Oslo: Norges Geologiske Undersokelse, 2009.

Heldal, T. et. al. "Gypsum Quarries in the Northern Faiyum Quarry Landscape, Egypt: A Geo-archaeological Case Study." In Quarryscapes: Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geological Survey of Norway, Special Publication 12, ed. N. Abu-Jaber et al., 51-66. Oslo: Norges Geologiske Undersokelse, 2009.

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

Klemm, D. and R. Klemm. "The Building Stones of Ancient Egypt: A Gift of its Geology." African Earth Sciences 33 (2001) 631-642.

Klemm, D., R. Klemm and A. Murr. "Gold of the Pharaohs-6000 Years of Gold Mining in Egypt and Nubia." African Earth Sciences 33 (2001): 643-659.

Klemm, R. and Klemm, D. Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Geoarchaeology of the Ancient Gold Mining Sites in the Egyptian and Sudanese Eastern Deserts. Translated by Paul Larsen. Natural Science in Archaeology. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2013.

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.

Mallory-Greenough, L. M., J. D. Greenough and J. V. Owen "The Origin and Use of Basalt in Old Kingdom Funerary Temples." Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 15, no. 4 (2000): 315-330.

Mallory-Greenough, L. M., J. D. Greenough and J. V. Owen. "The Stone Source of Predynastic Basalt Vessels: Mineralogical Evidence for Quarries in Northern Egypt." Journal of Archaeological Science 26 (1999): 1261-1272.

Malville, J. M., R. Schild, F. Wendorf and R. Brenmer. "The Astronomy of Nabta Playa." African Cultural Astronomy - Current Archaeoastronomy anid Ethnoastronomy Research in Africa (2008): 131-144.

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.

Ritter, J. "Measure for Measure: Mathematics in Egypt and Mesopotamia." In A History of Scientific Thought: Elements of a History of Science. Edited by Michel Serres, 44-72. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.

Robins, G. and Shute, C. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: An Ancient Egyptian Text. London: British Museum Press, 1987, 1998.

Schnitter, N. J. "The Ancient Civilizations: The Nile Valley." Extract of chapter in A History of Dams: The Useful Pyramids, 1-7. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1994.

Shaw, I., Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation: Transformations in Pharaonic Material Culture. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Toomer, G. J. "Mathematics and Astronomy." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 27-55. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Uda, M. et al. "'Amarna Blue' Painted on Ancient Egyptian Pottery." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B189 (2002): 382-386.



Transport, Transportation, Ships and Shipping (Ships, Boats, Chariots, etc.)

Bard, K. A. and R. Fattovich. Seafaring Expeditions to Punt in the Middle Kingdom: Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Belov, A. Ship 17: A Baris from Thonis-Heracleion. Ships and Boats of the Canopic Region in Egypt. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, 2019.

Glanville, S. R. K. "Records of a Royal Dockyard of the Time of Thutmose III: Papyrus British Museum 10056." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 66 (1931-1932): 105-121, and 68 (1932): 7-41.

Jones, D. Boats. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Jones, D. Model Boats from the Tomb of Tut'ankhamun. Tutankhamun's Tomb Series 9. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1990.

Landström, B. Ships of the Pharaohs; 4000 Years of Egyptian Shipbuilding. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1970.

Lipke, P. The Royal Ship of Cheops. BAR International Series. No. 225. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Littauer, M. A. and J. H. Crouwel. Chariots and Related Equipment from the Tomb of Tut'ankhamun. Tutankhamun's Tomb Series 8. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1985.

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

Sandor, B. I. "The Rise and Decline of The Tutankhamun-class Chariot." Oxford Journal of Archaeology 23, no. 2 (2004): 153-175.

Schulman, A. R. "Chariots, Chariotry and the Hyksos." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 10/2 (1980): 105-153.

Schulman, A. R. "The Egyptian Chariotry: a Reexamination." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 2 (1963): 75-98.

Shaw, I., Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation: Transformations in Pharaonic Material Culture. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Veldmeijer, A. J. and S. Ikram, eds. Chariots in Ancient Egypt: The Tano Chariot, A Case Study. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2018. Available as Ebook from campus library. (click to open).

Vinson, S. Egyptian Boats and Ships. Shire Egyptology Series 20. Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, UK: Shire Publications, 1994.

Vinson, S. "Seafaring." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. 2009. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d93885v. (click to open).

Wachsmann, S. The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context: An Archaeological Find and Its Mediterranean Context. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013.

Ward, C. A. "Boatbuilding in Ancient Egypt." In The Philosophy of Shipbuilding: Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Wooden Ships, eds. F. M. Hocker and C. A. Ward, 13-24. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

Ward, C. A. Sacred and Secular: Ancient Egyptian Ships and Boats. Archaeological Institute of America Monographs, New Series. No. 5. Philadelphia, University Museum for the Archaeological Institute of America, 2000.

Winlock, H. E. Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt from the Tomb of Meket-Re' at Thebes. Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 18. Cambridge: Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harvard University Press, 1955.



Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush

Adam, S. "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. "Doubts About the Lost Pharaohs." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44 (1985): 185-192.

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Ethnology and Ethnological Issues: Egypt and Nubia

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

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

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.

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

Buzon, M. R. "Biological and Ethnic Identity in New Kingdom Nubia: A Case Study from Tombos." Current Anthropology, 47, no. 4 (August 2006): 683-695.

[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.

Diagne, P. "History, Linguistics and Theories on 'Races' and History of Africa." In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Methodology and African Prehistory, ed. Joseph Ki-Zerbo , _-103. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Ehret, C., Keita, S. O. Y., and Newman, P. "The Origins of Afroasiatic." Science 306 (3 December 2004): 1680-1681.

Fadhlaoui-Zid, K. et al. "Mitochondrial DNA Structure in North Africa Reveals a Genetic Discontinuity in the Nile Valley." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145 (2011): 107-117.

Jablonski, N. G. "The Evolution of Human Skin Colouration and Its Relevance to Health in the Modern World." Journal of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh 42 (2012): 58-63.

Jablonski N. G. and G. Chaplin G. "The Colours of Humanity: The Evolution of Pigmentation in the Human Lineage." Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B 372 (2017): 20160349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0349.

Jablonski N. G. and G. Chaplin G. "The Evolution of Human Skin Coloration." Journal of Human Evolution 39, no. 1 (July 2000): 57-106.

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.

Keita, S. O. Y. "Explanation of the Pattern of P49a,f TaqI RFLP Y-Chromosome Variation in Egypt." African Archaeological Review 22/2 (June 2005): 61-75.

Keita, S. O. Y. "The Persistence of Racial Thinking, and the Myth of Racial Divergence." American Anthropologist 99 (1997): 534-544.

Keita, S. O. Y. "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships." History in Africa 20 (1993): 129-154.

Keita, S. O. Y. and A. J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians." In Egypt in Africa, ed., T. Celenko, 23-24. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Keita, S. O. Y. and A. J. Boyce, "Variation in Porotic Hyperostosis in the Royal Cemetery Complex at Abydos, Upper Egypt: A Social Interpretation." Antiquity 80 (2006): 64-73.

Keita, S. O. Y., Kittles, R. A., Royal, C. D. M. et al. "Conceptualizing Human Variation." Nature Genetics Supplement 36/11 (November 2004): S17-S20.

Leahy, A. "Ethnic Diversity in Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 225-234. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Livingstone, F. B. and T. Dobzhansky. "On the Non-Existence of Human Races." Current Anthropology 3, no. 3 (June 1962): 279-281.

Lovell, N. "Egyptians, Physical Anthropology of." In Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. K. A. Bard, 328-332. Oxford and New York, Routledge, 1999.

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): 103-114.

Riggs, C. and J. Baines. "Ethnicity." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/32r9x0jr. (click to open).

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, 112-128. 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.

Valbelle, D. and Bonnet, C. The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings on the Nile. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2006.

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Religion: General and Topical Studies

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Davis, W. "The Ascension-Myth in the Pyramid Texts." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 36 (1977): 161-79.

Derchain, Ph. "Symbols and Metaphors in Literature and Representations of Private Life." Royal Anthropological Institute Newsletter 15 (1976): 7-10

van Dijk, Jac. "Myth and Mythmaking in Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 3, 1697-1710. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Enmarch, R. "Theodicy." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tz9v6jt. (click to open).

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.

Germond, Philippe. Sekhmet et la protection du monde. Aegyptiaca Helvetica 9. Geneva: Editions de Belles-Lettres, 1981.

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

Guilhou, N. "Myth of the Heavenly Cow." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vh551hn. (click to open).

Guilmot, M. Les initiés et les rites initiatiques en Égypte ancienne. Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1977.

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.

Janák, J. "Akh." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7255p86v. (click to open).

Janák, J. "Ba." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tf6x6xp#main. (click to open).

Lieven von, A. "Deified Humans." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kk97509. (click to open).

Lorton, D. "The Theology of Cult Statues in Ancient Egypt." In Born in Heaven, Made on Earth: The Making of the Cult Image in the Ancient Near East, ed. M. B. Dick, 123-210. Winona Lake: Eisenbraun's, 1999.

Lucarelli, R. "Demons (Benevolent and Malevolent)." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r72q9vv. (click to open).

Luiselli, M. "Personal Piety (modern theories related to)." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49q0397q. (click to open).

McClain, J. B. "Cosmogony (Late to Ptolemaic and Roman Periods)." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tf3j2qq. (click to open).

McClain, J. B. "The Terminology of Sacred Space in Ptolemaic Inscriptions from Thebes." In Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes, ed. P. F. Dorman and B. M. Bryan, 85-95. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 61. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2007. Available for download on the SAOC web page. (click to open).

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

Pinch, G. Votive Offerings to Hathor. Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1993.

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.

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Ritner, R. "The Origin of Evil in Egyptian Theological Speculation." In Essays for the Library of Seshat: Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday, ed. R. Ritner, 281-290. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 70 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2018). Available for download on the SAOC web page. (click to open).

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

Servajean, F. "Duality." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95b9b2db. (click to open).

Stadler, M. A. "Thoth." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xj8c3qg. (click to open).

Sweeney D. "Gender and Oracular Practice in Deir el-Medina." Zeitschrift fuer Aegyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 135 (2008): 154-164.

Szpakowska, K. M. "The Perception of Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt: Old Kingdom to Third Intermediate Period." Doctoral thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.

Szpakowska, K. M., ed. Through A Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Eygpt. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2006.

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. "Hathor at the Jubilee." In Studies in Honor of John A. Wilson, 83-91. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 35. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Wente, E. "Mysticism in Pharaonic Egypt?" Journal of Near Eastern Studies 41 (1982): 161-79.

Wiener, M. and J. P. Allen. "Separate Lives: The Ahmose Tempest Stela and the Theran Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 1-28.

Wilkinson, R. "Anthropomorphic Deities." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5s54w4tc. (click to open).

Zabkar, L. V. A Study of the Ba Concept in Ancient Egyptian Texts. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 34. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. Available for download on the SAOC web page. (click to open).

Zivie-Coche, C. "Foreign Deities in Egypt." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tr1814c. (click to open).



Translations of Religious Texts

Allen, T. 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. Liturgische Lieder an den Sonnengott. Untersuchungen zur altägyptischen Hymnik I. Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 19. Berlin: Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1969.

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

Borghouts, J. F. The Magical Texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348 (= Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 51 [1970]). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971.

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.

Edwards, I. E. S. Oracular Amuletic Decrees of the Late New Kingdom. 2 vols. Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum, 4th ser. London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1960.

Eyre, C. The Cannibal Hymn: A Cultural and Literary Study. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2002.

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.

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

Griffith, F. LI. and Thompson, Herbert. The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden. 3 vols. London: H. Grevel and Co, 1904-09.

Jasnow, R. and Zauzich, K. Th. The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: A Demotic Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the Classical Hermetica. 2 volumes. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2005.

Klotz, D. Adoration of the Ram: Five Hymns to Amun-Re from Hibis Temple. Yale Egyptological Studies 6. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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

Parker, Richard. A Saite Oracle Papyrus from Thebes in the Brooklyn Museum [Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.31. Brown Egyptological Studies 4. Providence: Brown University Press, 1962.

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

Posener, Georges. Le Papyrus Vandier. Bibliothèque Générale 7. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1985.

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



Magic and Magical Practices

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

Betz, H. D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation Including the Demotic Spells. Second edition. Volume One, Texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Borghouts, J. F. "Magical Practices among the Villagers." In Pharaoh's Workers: The Villagers of Deir el Medina, ed. Leonard H. Lesko, 119-130, 182-185. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

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

Lloyd, A. B. "Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Egyptian Narrative Literature." In Through A Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Eygpt, ed. K. Szpakowska. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2006.

Pinch, G. Magic in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1994.

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



Funerary Beliefs and Practices

Adams, B. Egyptian Mummies. Shire Egyptology Series. Volume 1. Aylesbury: Shire Publications, Ltd., 1984.

Allen, J. 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.

Hays, H. "Funerary Rituals (Pharaonic Period)." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r32g9zn. (click to open).

Ikram, S. "Mummification." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0gn7x3ff. (click to open).

Ikram, S. and A. Dodson. The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1998.

Iskander, Z. "Mummification in Ancient Egypt: Development, History and Techniques." In An X-Ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies, ed. J. E. Harris and E. F. Wente, 1-51. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Lesko, L. H. "Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egptian Thought." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 3, 1763-1774. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Manassa, C. "The Judgment Hall of Osiris in the Book of Gates." Revue d'Égyptologie 57 (2006): 109-150.

Mendoza, B. "Reserve Head." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g46r4fv#main. (click to open).

Milde, H. "Ushabtis." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cx744kk. (click to open).

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

Piccione, P. A. "The Egyptian Game of Senet and the Migration of the Soul." In Board Games in Perspective: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Board Games of the Ancient World, ed. I. Finkel, 54-63. London: British Museum Publications, 2007.

Piccione, P. A. "Mehen, Mysteries and Resurrection from the Coiled Serpent." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 27 (1990): 43-52.

Piccione, P. A. "The Gaming Episode in the Tale of Setne Khamwas As Religious Metaphor." In For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer, edited by D. Silverman, 197-204. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 55. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1994. Available for download on the SAOC web page. (click to open).

Smith, M. "Democratization of the Afterlife." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70g428wj#author. (click to open).

Smith, M. "Osiris and the Deceased." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29r70244. (click to open).

Stadler, M. A. "Judgment after Death (Negative Confession)." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07s1t6kj. (click to open).

Stevenson, A. "Predynastic Burials." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2m3463b2. (click to open).

Troche, J. "Letters to the Dead." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bh8w50t. (click to open).

Wente, E. F. "Egyptian 'Make Merry' Songs Reconsidered." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 21 (1962): 118-28.

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

Zandee, J. Death As an Enemy According to Ancient Egyptian Conceptions. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1960.



Temples, Priesthoods, Cult Practices, and Temple Economy

Baines, J. "Palaces and Temples of Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 1, 303-318. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Blackman, A. M. and Fairman, H. W. "The Consecration of an Egyptian Temple According to the Use of Edfu." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 32 (1946): 75-91.

Borghouts, J. F. "The Evil Eye of Apopis." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 59 (1973): 114-50.

Darnell, J. "Opet Festival." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4739r3fr. (click to open).

David, A. R. Religious Ritual at Abydos (c. 1300 B.C.). Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1973.

DeVries, C. "A Ritual Ball Game?" In Studies in Honor of John A. Wilson, 25-35. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 35. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1969. Available for download on the SAOC web page. (click to open).

Dorman, P. F. and B. M. Bryan, eds. Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 61. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2007. Available for download on the SAOC web page. (click to open).

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.

Exell, K. "Ancestor Bust." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59k7832w. (click to open).

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.
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Gillam, R. "Drama." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tv88003. (click to open).

Gillam, R. Performance and Drama in Ancient Egypt. Duckworth Egyptology series. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2006.

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

Hallof, J. "Esna." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k78t4w9. (click to open).

Haring, B. J. J. Divine Households: Administrative and Economic Aspects of the New Kingdom Royal Memorial Temples in Western Thebes. Leiden: Netherlands Insituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1997.

Janssen, J. J. Grain Transport in the Ramesside Period: Papyrus Baldwin and Papyrus Amiens. London: British Museum Press 2004.

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. 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.

Kockelmann, H. "Philae." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1456t8bn#main. (click to open).

Muhlestein, K. "Execration Ritual." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3f6268zf. (click to open).

O'Connor, D. 'The Social and Economic Organization of Ancient Egyptian Temples." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 1, 319-330. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Piccione, P. A. "Sportive Fencing as a Ritual for Destroying the Enemies of Horus." In Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, edited by E. Teeter and J. Larson, 335-49. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 58. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2000. Available for download on the SAOC web page. (click to open).

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

Raue, D. "Sanctuary of Heqaib." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dp6m9bt. (click to open).

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.

Roth, A. Egyptian Phyles of the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 48. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1991. Available for download on the SAOC web page. (click to open).

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

Sauneron, S. The Priests of Ancient Egypt. Translated by A. Morrisett. New York: Grove Press, 1980.

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

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

Spence, N. "Shrine." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5t48n007. (click to open).

Spencer, P. The Egyptian Temple: A Lexicographical Study. London: Kegan Paul International, 1984.

Stadler, M. "Procession." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/679146w5. (click to open).

Stevens, A. "Domestic Religious Practices." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7s07628w. (click to open).

Sweeney D. "Gender and Oracular Practice in Deir el-Medina." Zeitschrift fuer Aegyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 135 (2008): 154-164.

te Velde, H., "Theology, Priests and Worship in Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 3, 1731-1750. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

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



Kingship and the Royal Theology

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.

Gardiner, A. H. The Royal Canon of Turin. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1959. Reprinted Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1987. Reissued 1997.

Goyon, Jean-Claude. Confirmation du pouvoir royal au nouvel an [Brooklyn Museum Papyrus 47.218.50]. 2 vols. Bibliothèque d'Étude 52 and Wilbour Monographs 7. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale; New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1972-74.

Griffiths, J. Gwyn. The Conflict of Horus and Seth from Egyptian and Classical Sources. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1960.

Leprohon, R. J. "Royal Ideology and State Administration in Pharaonic Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 1, 273-288. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

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

Roth, S. "Queen." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/content/qt3416c82m/qt3416c82m.pdf. (click to open).

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



Akhenaten, Amarna and the Aten Religion

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

Arp-Neumann, J. "Amarna: Private and Royal Tombs." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0227n3wp. (click to open).

Cohen, R. and Westbrook, R., eds. Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnnigs of International Relations. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

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

Cruz-Uribe, E. "Atum, Shu, and the Gods during the Amarna Period." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 25 (1995): 15-21.

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 3, 1751-1762. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

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

Gräzer Ohara, A. "Le palais des monts sur un bloc de remploi de Karnak: marou d'Amon et/ou complexe jubilaire d'Amenhotep III à Malqata?" Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 112 (2012): 191-213.

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. "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.

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

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.

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.



Ethics, Morality and Wisdom Literature

Assmann, Jan."Weisheit, Loyalismus und Froemmigkeit." In Studien zu altägyptischen Lebenslehren, edited by Erik Hornung and Othmar Keel, 11-72. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 28. Freiburg: Universitätsverlag; Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1979.

Barns, John. "A New Wisdom Text from a Writing-board in Oxford." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 54 (1968): 71-76.

Buccellati, G. "Ethics and Piety in the Ancient Near East." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson 3, 1685-1696. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Fox, Michael V. "Two Decades of Research in Egyptian Wisdom Literature." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 107 (1980): 120-35.

Jasnow, R. A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135). Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 52. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1992.

Lichtheim, Miriam. Late Egyptian Wisdom Literature in the International Context. A Study of Demotic Instructions. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 52. Freiburg: Universitiitsverlag; Gbttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1983.

Lichtheim, Miriam. "Demotic Proverbs." In Grammata Demotika: Festschrift für Erich Lüddeckens zum 15. Juni 1983, edited by Heinz-J. Thissen and Karl-Tb. Zauzich, 125-40. Würzburg: Gisela Zauzich Veriag, 1984.

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

Matić, U. Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt. Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality Series. Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2021.

Posener, Georges. L'Enseignement loyaliste: sagesse égyptienne du Moyen Empire. Centre de recherches d'histoire et de philologie de la IVe section de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études. Hautes Études Orientales 5. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1976.

Posener, Georges and Saint Fare Garnot, Jean. "Sur une sagesse égyptienne de basse époque (Papyrus Brooklyn No. 47.218.135)." In Les Sagesses du Proche-Orient Ancien. Colloque de Strasbourg 17-19 Mai 1962, 153-57. Travaux du Centre Études Supérieures. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1963.

Smith, Mark. "Weisheit, demotische" [in English]. In Lexikon der Aegyptologie, Vol. 6, cols. 1192-1204. Edited by Wolfgang Helck and Wolfhart Westendorf. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986.



Games, Sports and Athletics

Bolshakov, A. O. "The Scene of the Boatmen Jousting in Old Kingdom Tomb Representations.' Bulletin de la Société d'Égyptologie de Genève 17 (1993): 29-39.

Borghouts, J. F. "The Evil Eye of Apopis." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 59 (1973): 114-50.

Borghouts, J. F. "Rethinking the Papremis Ritual (Herodotus II 63)." In Hermes Aegyptiacus: Egyptological Studies for B. H. Stricker on his 85th Birthday. DE Special Number 2, edited by Terence DuQuesne, 43-52. Oxford: DE Publications, 1995.

Crist, W., A.-E. Dunn-Vaturi, and A. de Voogt. Ancient Egyptians at Play: Board Games Across Borders. Bloomsbury Egyptology. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.

Decker, W. and M. Herb. Bildatlas zum Sport im alten Ägypten: Corpus der bildlichen Quellen zu Leibesübungen, Spiel, Jagd, Tanz und verwandten Themen. Vol. 1, Text. Vol. 2, Illustrations. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Abteilung 1. Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten 14. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993.

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

DeVries, C. E. "Attitudes of the Ancient Egyptians Toward Physical Recreative Activities." Ph.D. diss. University of Chicago, 1960. (Available through Proquest Dissertations).

DeVries, C. "A Ritual Ball Game?" In Studies in Honor of John A. Wilson Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 35, ed. E. Hauser, 25-35. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1969.

Goyon, Jean-Claude. "Textes mythologiques II: Les Révélations du mystère des quatre boules." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 75 (1975): 349-99.

Hoerth, A. J. "The Game of Hounds and Jackals." In Board Games in Perspective: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Board Games of the Ancient World, ed. I. Finkel, 64-68. London: British Museum Publications, 2007.

Kendall, T. "Mehen: The Ancient Egyptian Game of the Serpent." In Board Games in Perspective: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Board Games of the Ancient World, ed. I. Finkel, 33-45. London: British Museum Publications, 2007.

Kendall, T. Passing Through the Netherworld: The Meaning and Play of Senet, an Ancient Egyptian Funerary Game. Boston: By the Author, 1978.

Kendall, T. "Senet an Ancient Egyptian Game of Passing Through the Netherworld." Games (May/June, 1978): 10-15.

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

Milde, H. "It's All in the Game." In Funerary Symbols and Religion: Essays Dedicated to Professor M. S. H. G. Heerma van Voss on the Occasion of his Retirement from the Chair of the History of Ancient Religions at the University of Amsterdam, edited by J. H. Kamstra, H. Milde, and K. Wagtendonk, 89-95. Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1988.

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.

Piccione, P. A. "The Egyptian Game of Senet and the Migration of the Soul." In Board Games in Perspective: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Board Games of the Ancient World, ed. I. Finkel, 54-63. London: British Museum Publications, 2007.

Piccione, P. A. "Further Considerations on Das Senet-Brettspiel im alten Ägypten." Serapis 8 (1985): 47-52.

Piccione, P. A. "Games, Pharaonic, Egypt," and "Sports and Games, Pharaonic Egypt." In Wiley-Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History, edited by R. S. Bagnall et al. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Piccione, P. A. "The Gaming Episode in the Tale of Setne Khamwas As Religious Metaphor." In For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer, edited by D. Silverman, 197-204. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 55. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1994.

Piccione, P. A. "In Search of the Meaning of Senet." Archaeology Magazine 33/4 (July/August l980): 55-58.

Piccione, P. A. "Mehen, Mysteries and Resurrection from the Coiled Serpent." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 27 (1990): 43-52.

Piccione, P. A. "Sportive Fencing as a Ritual for Destroying the Enemies of Horus." In Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, edited by E. Teeter and J. Larson, 335-49. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 58. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2000.

Piccione, P. A. Review of Bildatlas zum Sport im alten Ägypten: Corpus der bildlichen Quellen zu Leibesübungen, Spiel, Jagd, Tanz und verwandten Themen. Teil 1. Text. Teil 2. Abbildungen, by W. Decker and M. Herb. In JNES 58, no. 2 (April, 1999): 117-125.

Piccione, P. A. Review of Egyptian Games and Sports, by J. Tyldesley. In AJA 114.2 (April, 2010): 1-3.

Piccione, P. A. Review of Das Senet-Brettspiel im alten Ägypten. MÄS 38, by E. Pusch. In JEA 70 (1984): 172-80.

Pusch, E. B. "The Egyptian 'Game of Twenty Squares': Is it Related to 'Marbles' and the Game of the Snake?" In Board Games in Perspective: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Board Games of the Ancient World, ed. I. Finkel, 69-86. London: British Museum Publications, 2007.

Tait, W. J. Game-Boxes and Accessories from the Tomb of Tut'ankhamun. Tutankhamun's Tomb Series 7. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1982.

Tait, W. J. "Were There Gamesters in Pharaonic Egypt?" In Board Games in Perspective: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Board Games of the Ancient World, ed. I. Finkel, 46-53. London: British Museum Publications, 2007.

Tyldesley, J. Egyptian Games and Sports. Shire Egyptology Series 29. Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, 2007.

Wilson, J. "Ceremonial Games of the New Kingdom." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 17 (1931): 211-20.



Law and Legal Issues

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.

Boorn, G. P. F. van den. The Duties of the Vizier: Civil Administration in the Early New Kingdom. London: Kegan Paul International, 1988.

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. "Legal and Social Institutions of Pharaonic Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 345-362. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

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.

McDowell, A. G. Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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.

Sweeney D. "Gender and Oracular Practice in Deir el-Medina." Zeitschrift fuer Aegyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 135 (2008): 154-164.

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.

Tyldesley, J. Judgement of the Pharaoh: Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000.



Literacy, Writing 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.

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

Caminos, R. A. "The Recording of Inscriptions and Scenes in Tombs and Temples." In Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography. Second edition, 3-25. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979.

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

Cruz-Uribe, E. "Graffiti (Figural)." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2008, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7v92z43m. (click to open).

Darnell, J. C. "Die frühalphabetischen Inschriften im Wadi el-Hol." In Der Turmbau zu Babel: Ursprung und Vielfalt von Sprache und Schrift: eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien für die Europäische Kulturhauptstadt Graz 2003: Schloss Eggenberg, Graz 5. April bis 5. Oktober 2003, ed. W. Seipel, 165-172. Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums 3a. Vienna; Kunsthistorisches Museum and Milan: Skira, 2003.

Darnell, J. C. and D. Darnell. Theban Desert Road Survey in the Egyptian Western Desert. Volume 1, Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions 1-45 and Wadi El-Hol Rock Inscriptions 1-45. Oriental Institute Publications 119. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2002.

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

Davies, W. V. "Egyptian Hieroglyphs". In Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet. London: The British Museum Press, 1990.

Fischer, H. G. "Archaeological Aspects of Epigraphy and Palaeography." In Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography. Second edition. 29-50. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979.

Fischer, H. G. The Orientation of Hieroglyphs. Part 1, Reversals. Egyptian Studies 2. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977.

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

Gelb, I. J. A Study of Writing. Second edition, revised. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.

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

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

Jay, J. E. "Orality and Literacy in Ancient Egypt." In The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology, ed. I. Shaw and E. Bloxam, 959-970. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Jurjens, J. "The Teaching of Khety Twice: A New Reading of oBM EA 65597 as a School Exercise." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 105 (2019): 127-134.

Lazaridis, N. "Education and Apprenticeship." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4983w678. (click to open).

McDowell, A. G. Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Millard, A. R. "The Infancy of the Alphabet." World Archaeology 17 (1986): 390-398.

Parkinson, R. Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Parkinson, R. and S. Quirke. Papyrus. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Peden, A. The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt: Scope and Roles of Informal Writings (c. 3100 - 332 B.C.). Probleme der Ägyptologie 17. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2001.

Posener, G. "Literature." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 220-256. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Ray, J. D. "The Emergence of Writing in Egypt." World Archaeology 17 (1986): 307-316.

Shupak, N. "Straightening the Crooked Stick: The Boundaries of Education in the Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Tradition. Maarav 21, 1-2 (2014): 251-270.

Williams, R. J. "Scribal Training in Ancient Egypt." Journal of the American Oriental Society 92 (1972): 214-221.



Society and Social Institutions

Boorn, G. P. F. van den. The Duties of the Vizier: Civil Administration in the Early New Kingdom. London: Kegan Paul International, 1988.

Bourriau, J. and Jacke Phillips, eds. Invention and Innovation: The Social Context of Technological Change II: Egypt, the Aegean and the Near East, 1650-1150 B.C. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004.

Demarée, R. and J. J. Janssen, eds. Gleanings from Deir el-Medina. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut, 1982.

Gillam, R. Performance and Drama in Ancient Egypt. Duckworth Egyptology series. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2006.

Janssen, J. J. and P. W. Pestman. "Burial and Inheritance in the Community of the Necropolis Workmen at Thebes (Pap. Bulaq Xand O. Petrie 16)." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 11 (1968): 137-170.

Janssen, R. M. and J. J. Janssen. Getting Old in Ancient Egypt. London: Rubicon Press, 1990. Reprinted 1996.

Janssen, R. M. and J. J. Janssen. Growing Up in Ancient Egypt. London: Rubicon Press, 1990. Reprinted 1996.

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

Matić, U. Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt. Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality Series. Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2021.

McDowell, A. G. Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Meskell, L. Archaeologies of Social Life. London: Blackwell Publishing, 1999.

Meskell, L. "Cycles of Life and Death: Narrative Homology and Archaeological Realities." World Archaeology 31, no. 3, Human Lifecycles (Feb., 2000): 423-441.

Meskell, L. Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt. Materliazing Culture Series. Berg Publications, 2004.

Meskell, L. Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt. Princeton University Press, 2004.

Roth, A. "Initiation: Phyle Membership and Circumcision." In Egyptian Phyles of the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization, 62-72. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 48. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1991.

Shortland, A., ed. The Social Context of Technological Change in Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001.



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.

Capel, A. and G. Markoe, eds. Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996.

Černy, J. "The Will of Naunakhte and the Related Documents." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 31 (1945): 29-53.

Cooney, K. "The Problem of Female Rebirth in New Kingdom Egypt: The Fragmentation of the Female Individual in her Funerary Equipment." In Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your Wig for a Joyful Hour', ed. C. Graves-Brown, 1-26. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2008.

Eyre, C. "The Market Women of Pharaonic Egypt." In Le commerce en Égypte ancienne. Bibliothèque d'étude 121, ed. N. Grimal and B. Menu, 173-191. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1998.

Fischer, H. G. Egyptian Women of the Old Kingdom and the Heracleopolitan Period, 2nd ed., rev. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.

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.

Graves-Brown, C., ed. Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don Your Wig for a Joyful Hour.' Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2008.

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

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Onstine, S. The Role of the Chantress (Šmʻyt) in Ancient Egypt. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1401. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005.

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.

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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. "While the Woman Looks On: Gender Inequalities in New Kingdom Egypt." KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 1/3 (1990): 18-21, 64-65.

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

Roehrig, C., R. Dreyfus and C. A. Keller, eds. Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. Metropolitan Museum of Art Series. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.

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Sweeney D. "Women Growing Older in Deir el-Medina." In Living and Writing in Deir el-Medina: Socio-historical Embodiment of Deir el-Medina Texts, ed. A. Dorn, and T. Hofmann, 135-154. Basel: Schwabe AG Verlag, 2006.

Toivari-Viitala, J. Women at Deir el-Medina: A Study of the Status and Roles of the Female Inhabitants in the Workmen's Community during the Ramesside Period. Egyptologische Uitgaven 15. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2001.

Troy, L. Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Boreas 14. Uppsala and Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell International, 1986.

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." In Diotima. 1995. URL: https://diotima-doctafemina.org/translations/egyptian/the-egyptian-economy-and-non-royal-women-their-status-in-public-life/.(click to open).

Ward, W. (Translation of sources). In "The Egyptian Economy and Non-royal Women: Their Status in Public Life." In Diotima. 1995. URL: https://diotima-doctafemina.org/translations/egyptian/.(click to open).

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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: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/WOMEN.HTML. (click to open).



Sex, Sexuality, and Gender

Androutsos, G. and Marketos, S. "La sexualité dans l'ancienne Égypte." Progrès en Urologie 4 (October, 1994): 715-25.

van Dijk, Jac. "The Nocturnal Wanderings of King Neferkare." In Hommages à Jean Leclant. Volume 4, Varia, ed. Catherine Berger, Gisele Clerc and Nicolas Grimal, 387-394. Bibliothèque d'Etude 106. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994.

DuQuesne, T. "Power on their Own: Gender and Social Roles in Provincial New Kingdom Egypt." In Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your Wig for a Joyful Hour', ed. C. Graves-Brown, 47-62. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2008.

Graves-Brown, C., ed. Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don Your Wig for a Joyful Hour.' Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2008.

Jonckheere, F. "Subincisions et excision? Mutilations sexuelles pharaoniques?" Histoire de la Médecine: Revue Technique et Historique Destinée au Corps Médicale 1/9 (December 1951): 3-7.

McDowell, A. G. Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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.

Matić, U. Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt. Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality Series. Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2021.

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

Mysliwiec, K. Eros on the Nile. Translated by G. L. Packer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.

O'Connor, D. "The Eastern High Gate: Sexualized Architecture at Medinet Habu?" In Structure and Significance: Thoughts on Ancient Egyptian Architecture, ed. P. Jánosi, 439-454. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005.

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.

Reeder, G. "Same-sex Desire, Conjugal Constructs and the Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep." World Archaeology 3/2 (2000): 193-208.

Reeder, G. "Queer Egyptologies of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep." In Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your Wig for a Joyful Hour', ed. C. Graves-Brown, 143-155. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2008.

Robins, G. "Male Bodies and the Construction of Masculinity in New Kingdom Egyptian Art." In Servant of Mut: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Fazzini, Probleme der Ägyptologie 28, ed. S. D'Auria, 208-215. Leiden: Brill.

Sweeney, D. "Sex and Gender." In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. eScholarship, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rv0t4np. (click to open).

Wilfong, T. "Gender and Sexuality." In The Egyptian World, ed. T. Wilkinson, 205-217. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

Wilfong, T. "Gender in Ancient Egypt." In Egyptian Archaeology. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology 13, ed. W. Wendrich, 164-179. Chichester, UK, and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.



Slaves and Slavery

Allam, S. "Ein Erbstreit um Sklaven (Papyrus BM 10568) [An Inheritance Dispute over Slaves]." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 128 (2001): 89-96.

Allam, S. "Slaves" in Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Volume 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 293-296.

Bakir, A. M. Slavery in Pharaonic Egypt. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte. Cahier 18. Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1952. Reprinted Cairo: L'Organisation Égyptienne Générale du Livre, 1978.

Cruz-Uribe, E. "Slavery in Egypt during the Saite and Persian Periods." Revue Internationale des Droits de l'Antiquité 29 (1982): 47-71.

Gundlach, R. Die Zwangsumsiedlung auswärtiger Bevölkerung als Mittel ägyptischer Politik bis zum Ende des Mittleren Reiches [The Forced Resettlement of the Foreign Population as a Means & Egyptian Policy until the End of the Middle Kingdom]. Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei 26. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994.

Leahy, A. "Ethnic Diversity in Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson, 225-234. Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.

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Menu, B. "Les rapports de dépendance en Égypte à l'époque saïte et perse." Revue Historique de Droit Français et Étranger 55 (1977): 391-401.

Menu, B. "Les rapports de dépendance en Égypte à l'époque saïte et perse." In Acts. First International Congress of Egyptology, Cairo, October 2-10, 1976. Edited by Walter F. Reineke, 477-482. Schriften zur Geschichte and Kultur des Alten Orients 14. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1979.



Medicine and Medical Magic

Austin, A. "Contending with Illness in Ancient Egypt: A Textual and Osteological Study of Health Care at Deir el-Medina." PhD diss. University of California, Los Angeles, 2014. UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rw1m0cz). (click to open).

Borghouts, J. F. "Magie" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 1137-51. Vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1979.

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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.

Buikstra, J. E., Baker, B. J. and Cook, D. C. "What Diseases Plagued Ancient Egyptians? A Century of Controversy Considered." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 24-53. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

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

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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.

Germer, R. Die Heilpflanzen der Ägypter. Artemis and Winkler, 2002.

Ghalioungui, P. "Early Specialization in Ancient Egyptian Medicine and Its Possible Relation to the Archetypal Image of the Human Organism." Medical History 13 (1969): 383-86.

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 Persistence and Spread of Some Obstetric Concepts Held in Ancient Egypt." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte Ancienne 62 (1977): 141-54.

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

Ghalioungui, P. and Guindi, S. "The Persistence of the Use of Catamenial and Uterine Blood in Folk Medicine." Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte 47 (1966): 65-68.

Ghalioungui, P., Khalil, S. and Ammar, A. R. "On an Ancient Egyptian Method of Diagnosing Pregnancy and Determining Foetal Sex." Medical History 7 (1963): 241-46.

Halioua, B. Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Harer, W. B. "Health in Pharaonic Egypt." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 19-23. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

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

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

Kákosy, L. "Ouroboros on Magical Healing Statues." In Hermes Aegyptiacus: Egyptological Studies for B. H. Stricker on His 85th Birthday, ed. T. DuQuesne, 123-29. Discussions in Egyptology Special No. 2. Oxford: DE Publications, 1995.

Kákosy, L. "Some Problems of the Magical Healing Statues." In La magia in Egitto ai tempi dei faraoni. Atti Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Milano 29-31 Ottobre 1985, ed. A. Roccati and A. Siliotti, 171-80. Milan: Rassegna Internazionale Cinematografia Archeologica Arte e Natura Libri, 1987.

Nicholson, P. T., et al., eds. Mummies, Magic and Medicine in Ancient Egypt: Multidisciplinary Essays for Rosalie David. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.

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

Pinch, G. "Childbirth and Female Figurines at Deir el-Medina and el-Amarna." Orientalia 52 (1983): 405-414.

Quirke, S. "Surviving Life: Protection of the Body." Chap. in Ancient Egyptian Religion, 105-39. London: British Museum Press, 1992.

Reeves, C. Egyptian Medicine. Shire Egyptology Series 15. Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 1992.

Ritner, R. K. "The Cardiovascular System in Ancient Egyptian Thought. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65/2 (2006): 99-110.

Ritner, R. K. "Horus on the Crocodiles: A Juncture of Religion and Magic in Late Dynastic Egypt." In Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt, by J. P. Allen, J. Assmann. A. B. Lloyd, R. K. Ritner and D. P. Silverman, 103-16. Yale Egyptological Studies 3. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Ritner, R. K. "Innovations and Adaptations in Ancient Egyptian Medicine." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 59/2 (2000): 107-117.

Ritner, "Magic in Medicine," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 2, ed. D. B. Redford, 326-329. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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

Ritner, R. K. "Medicine." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 2, ed. D. B. Redford, 353-356. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Ritner, R. "Religion vs. Magic. The Evidence of the Magical Statue Bases." In The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt: Studies Presented to László Kákosy by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, ed. U. Luft, 495-501. Studia Aegyptiaca 14. Budapest: Innova Press, 1992.

Ritner, R. "A Uterine Amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43 (1984): 209-221.

Robins, G. "Women and Children in Peril: Pregnancy, Birth and Infant Mortality in Ancient Egypt." KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 5/4 (1994-1995): 24-35.

Sandison, A. T. "Empfängnisverhutung" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 1, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 1227-28. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.

Sandison, A. T. "Frauenheilkunde und -sterblichkeit" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 2, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 295-97. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1977.

Schulman, A. R. "A Birth Scene(?) from Memphis." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 22 (1985): 97-103.

Shaw, I., Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation: Transformations in Pharaonic Material Culture. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Strouhal, E. Life in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Strouhal, E. "Maternity in Ancient Egypt." In Anthropology of Maternity, ed. J. Doleal and J. Gutvirt, 281-92. Prague: Charles University, 1977.

Strouhal, E. The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians. Part 1, Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014.

Strouhal, E. "Revealing the Sufferings of the Ancient Egyptians." Egyptian Archaeology: The Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society 6 (1995): 11-13.

Walker, C. "Rx--the Eye of Horus." Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 26/1 (January 1992): 102.

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.

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a. Primary Sources: Medical Papyri and Texts

Allen, J. P. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2005. (Note: with full translation of Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus)

Bardinet, T. Médecins et magiciens à la cour du pharaon: une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847. Paris: Louvre; Khéops, 2018.

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

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

Borghouts, J. F. The Magical Texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348. In Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (OMRO) 51 (1970). Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Breasted, J. H. The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus. Two volumes. Oriental Institute Publications 3-4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930.

Ghalioungui, P. The Ebers Papyrus: A New English Translation, Commentaries and Glossaries. Cairo: Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, 1987.

Griffith, F. Ll. The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1898.

Guilhou, N. "Un texte de guérison." Chronique d'Égypte 70 (1995): 52-64.

Iversen, E. Papyrus Carlsberg No. VIII with Some Remarks on the Egyptian Origin of Some Popular Birth Prognoses. Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser. Volume. 26, no. 5. København: E. Munksgaard, 1939.

Leitz, C. Magical and Medical Papyri of the New Kingdom. Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. Volume 7. London: The British Museum Press, 1999.

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. The UCL Lahun Papyri: Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical, and Medical. BAR International Series, 1209. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004.

Reymond, E. A. E. From the Contents of the Libraries of the Suchos Temples in the Fayyum. Part 1, A Medical Book from Crocodilopolis: P. Vindob. D.6257. Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek 10. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 1976.

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Sijpesteijn, P. J. Gynaecologische aspecten van de Papyrus Ebers. Amsterdam: Philips-Duphar, 1972.

Stevens, J. M. "Gynaecology from Ancient Egypt: The Papyrus Kahun: A Translation of the Oldest Treatise on Gynaecology that has Survived the Ancient World." Medical Journal of Australia 21 (December 1975): 949-52.

Tait, W. J. "P. Carlsberg 230: Eleven Fragments from a Demotic Herbal." In The Carlsberg Papyri 1: Demotic Texts from the Collection, ed. P. J. Frandsen, 47-92. Carstan Niebuhr Institute Publications 15. Copenhagen: The Carstan Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Museum Tusculanem Press, 1991.

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Van Houten, T. The Edwin Smith Papyrus: II. Surgical Management in Cases of Uncertain or Dubious Prognosis." MASCA Journal 1/6 (1980): 182-84.

Walker, R. E. "The Veterinary Papyrus of Kahun: A Revised Translation and Interpretation of the Ancient Egyptian Treatise Known as the Veterinary Papyrus of Kahun." Veterinary Record 75 (1964): 198-200.



Warfare and Military History

Darnell, J. C. and C. Manassa. Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest During Ancient Egypt's Late 18th Dynasty. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2007.

Gnirs, A. M. "Ancient Egypt." In War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe and Mesoamerica, eds. K. Raaflaub and N. Rosenstein, 71-104. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies and Harvard University, 1999.

Hamblin, W. J. Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC: Holy Warrior at the Dawn of History. Warfare and History Series. Routledge, 2006.

Hasel, M. G. Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998.

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Kadry, A. Officers and Officials in the New Kingdom. Studia Aegyptiaca 8. Budapest: Université Loránd Eötvös, 1982.

Kadry, A. "The Social Status and Education of Military Scribes in Egypt During the 18th Dynasty." Oikumene 5 (1986): 155-162.

Littauer, M. A. and J. H. Crouwel. Chariots and Related Equipment from the Tomb of Tut'ankhamun. Tutankhamun's Tomb Series 8. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1985.

Lundh, P. Actor and Event: Military Activity in Ancient Egyptian Narrative Texts from Tuthmosis II to Merneptah. Doctoral thesis. Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2002.

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Morris, E. F. The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt's New Kingdom. Probleme der Ägyptologie 22. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005.

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

Partridge, R. B. Fighting Pharaoh's Weapons and Warfare in Ancient Egypt.. Manchester: Peartree Publishing, 2002.

Schulman, A. R. "The Battle Scenes of the Middle Kingdom." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 12/4 (1982): 165-183.

Schulman, A. R. "Chariots, Chariotry and the Hyksos." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 10/2 (1980): 105-153.

Schulman, A. R. "The Egyptian Chariotry: a Reexamination." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 2 (1963): 75-98.

Schulman, A. R. "Kings, Chronicles and Egyptian Mercenaries." Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 5 (1983): 117-134.

Schulman, A. R. "Military Organization in Pharaonic Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson, 273-288. Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.

Schulman, A. R. Military Rank, Title and Organization in the Egyptian New Kingdom. Munchner Ägyptologische Studien 6. Berlin: Bruno Hessling, 1964.

Schulman, A. R. "The N'RN at Kadesh Once Again." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 11 (1981): 7-19.

Schulman, A. R. "The N'rn at the Battle of Kadesh." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 1 (1962): 25-47.

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