The following is a suggested reading list of Egyptian stud-
ies and histories. The selected books are in English or
English translation.Adams, Barbara. Egyptian Mummies. Ayelsbury: Shire
Publications, 1984.
Adkins, Lesley and Roy.The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to
Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs. New York: Harper
Collins, 2000.
Aldred, Cyril. Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom.London:
Thames and Hudson, 1965.
———. The Egyptians.London: Thames and Hudson, 1961;
2nd ed., 1984.
———. Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs, 3100–320
B.C.New York: Thames & Hudson, 1985.
Allen, James P. Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the
Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs.Cambridge, Eng.:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
———. Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt. New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989.
Allen, Thomas G. The Egyptian Book of the Dead:
Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the
University of Chicago.Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1960.
Andrews, Carol. Egyptian Mummies. London: British
Museum Press, 1984.
Antelme, Ruth, and Stephane Rossini. Becoming Osiris: The
Ancient Egyptian Death Experience.Rochester, Vt.: Inner
Traditions International Ltd., 1998.
Armour, Robert. Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt.Cairo:
American University in Cairo Press, 1986.
Arnold, Dieter. Temples of Ancient Egypt. Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press, 1997.
———. Temples of the Last Pharaohs.Oxford, U.K.: Oxford
University Press, 1999.
Arnold, Dorothea, Christiane Ziegler, and James P. Allen,
eds. Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids.New Haven,
Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.
Ashby, Muata Abhaya. The Hymns of Amun: Ancient Egyptian
Mystical Psychology.New York: Cruzian Mystic, 1997.
Assman, Jan, and Anthony Alcock, transl. Egyptian Solar
Religion in the New Kingdom: RE, Amun and the Crisis of
Polytheism.New York: Routledge, 1995.
Baines, John, and Jaromír Málek. Atlas of Ancient Egypt.
Oxford, U.K.: Phaidon, 1980.
Bennett, James, and Vivianne Crowley. Magic and Mysteries
of Ancient Egypt.New York: Sterling Publishing, 2001.Berbrier, Morris. Tomb Builders of the Pharaohs.New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984.
Bertro, Maria Carmelo. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient
Egypt.New York: Abbeville, 1996.
Blackman, Aylward M. Gods, Priests and Men: Studies in the
Religion of Pharaonic Egypt.2d ed. London: Kegan Paul
International, 1995.
Bowman, Alan. Egypt after the Pharaohs, 332 BC–AD 642.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Borghouts, Joris F., “Akhu and Hekau: Two Basic Notions of
Ancient Egyptian Magic, and the Concept of Divine
Creative Word,” in Alessandro Roccati and Alberto
Siliotti, eds., Magic in Egypt in the Time of the Pharaohs:
International Study Conference, Milan 29–31 October
1985.Milan: Rassegna Internazionale di Cinematografia
Archeologica Arte e Natura Libri, 1987, pp. 29–46.
———, “The Edition of Magical Papyri in Turin: A Progress
Report,” in Alessandro Roccati and Alberto Siliotti, eds.,
Magic in Egypt in the Time of the Pharaohs: International
Study Conference, Milan 29–31 October 1985. Milan:
Rassegna Internazionale di Cinematografia Archeologica
Arte e Natura Libri, 1987, pp. 257–269.
Bowman, Alan K. Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 B.C.–A.D.
642 from Alexander to the Arab Conquest. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1996.
Breasted, James H. Ancient Records of Egypt,4 vols. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1906.
———. The Dawn of Conscience.New York: Scribner’s, 1933;
repr. 1968.
———. Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient
Egypt: Lectures Delivered on the Morse Foundation at
Union Theological Seminary.New York: Scribner’s, 1912;
repr., Harpers & Brothers, 1959.
———. AHistory of Egypt: From the Earliest Times to the
Persian Conquest.New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Brier, Bob. Ancient Egyptian Magic.New York: Morrow, 1980.
Brown, Dale, ed. Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs.Alexandria,
Va.: Time-Life Books, 1992.
Budge, E. A. Wallis. From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt.
London: Oxford University Press, 1934; repr. 1972.
———. The Mummy: Handbook of Egyptian Funerary
Archaeology.1893. Reprint, London: KPI, 1987.
———. Egyptian Magic.New York: University Books, 1958.
———. The Egyptian Sudan: Its History and Monuments, 2
vols. 1907. Reprint, London: Kegan Paul, 1986.
Caminos, Ricardo A., “Magic for the Dead,” in A. Roccati
and A. Siliotti, eds., Magic in Egypt in the Time of theSUGGESTED READINGS