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Recommended Books

The following list of books is by no means exhaustive of the topic. These are books which have been recommended by members of the Egyptian Study Society as reliable factual sources on various aspects of ancient Egypt, its people, and its culture. (ESS members -- if you wish to add something to this growing bibliography, be sure to contact the Web Scribe and give her the information!)


AuthorDateTitle/ISBN
Brier, Bob 2021 Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Ancent Egypt. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN:978-1350198722.
Brier, Bob 2000Egyptian Mummies: Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Art. Brockhampton Press. ISBN:978-1860199202
Brier, Bob and Hobbs, H 1999 Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians. Greenwood. ISBN:978-0313303135.
Clayton, Peter A.1994Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. ISBN: 0-500-05074-0.
Collier, Mark and Manley, Bill.1998How to Read Egyptian: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself. Rev. Ed. University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-23949-0.
Cooney, Kara 2018When Women Ruled The World: Six Queens of Egypt.National Geographic. ISBN: 978-1-4262-1977-1
Davies, Vivian and Friedman, Renee 1998Egypt Uncovered. Stewart, Tabori and Chang, ISBN:978-1556708183
Dodson, Aidan2001The Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt.Barnes and Noble. ISBN:0-7607-2664-7
Fletcher, Joann2017The Story of Egypt: The Civilization that Shaped the World Pegasus Books, 2017. ISBN:978-1-6817-7456-5
Gardiner, Sir Alan 1961Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction.Oxford University Press, ISBN:0-19-500267-9
Grimal, Nicolas1991/1992A History of Ancient Egypt. Blackwell. Trans. Ian Shaw. ISBN:0-631-17472-9.
Hagen, Rose-Marie and Rainer1991/1992Egypt: People, Gods, Pharaohs. Barnes & Noble. ISBN:0-7607-4876-4.
Hoffman, Michael A. 1979Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization.Knopf. ISBN: 0-394-410491
Ikram, Salima2009. Ancient Egypt: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN:978-0521675987.
James. T.G.H. 1996.A Short History of Ancient Egypt. ISBN:978-0304347117.
James. T.G.H. 2003.Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt.Knopf. ISBN: 0-394-410491
Kemp, Barry J.1989, 1991Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. Routledge. ISBN: 0-415-06346-9.
Mertz, Barbara2009 (rev.) Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. William Morrow (2nd ed.). ISBN: 978-0061252754.
Mertz, Barbara2007 (rev)Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt, 2nd ed. Harper Collins. ISBN:978-0-06-125276-8.
Robins, Gay2003The Art of Ancient Egypt.Harvard University Press. ISBN:0-674-00376-4
Romer, John2000Valley of the Kings.Henry Holt and Co. ISBN:0-8050-0993-0.
Shaw, Ian, ed..2000Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.Oxford University Press. ISBN:0-19-815034-2.
Silverman, David, ed.2003 Ancient EgyptOxford University Press. ISBN:978-0195219524
Smith, W. Stevenson.1965, 1981Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt.Yale University Press. ISBN:0-300-05328-2
Teeter, Emily2011Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:978-0521613002
Tyldesley, Joyce 1998Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh.Penguin. 0-14-024464-6
Wilkinson, Richard H. 2017The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson. ISBN: 978-0500284247.
Wilkinson, Toby2013 The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt Random House. ISBN: 978-0553384901