History

General References

A History of Ancient Egypt, Nicolas Grimal, Ian Shaw (transl.) (1992).

Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, Barry J. Kemp (1991).

Egypt and the Egyptians, Douglas Brewer and Emily Teeter (1999).

Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography, Herman Kees (1961).

Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa, David B. O'Connor (1993).

Kingdoms of Kush: Napatan and Meroitic Empires, Derek A. Welsby (1996).


Specialized and Period Studies:

Egypt Before the Pharaohs, Michael Hoffman (1979).

Aspects of Early Egypt, Jeffrey Spencer (ed.)  (1996).

Egypt's Making, Michael Rice (1990).

Pharaohs and Pyramids, George Hart (1991).

Egypt in the Old Kingdom, Gae Callender (1998).

Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramses the Great, Pierre Montet (1981, rept edition).

The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (Third Edition), Kenneth Kitchen (1998).

Ancient Egypt: A Social History, Bruce G. Trigger, B.J. Kemp (1983).

Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt, Rosalie David (1999).

Egyptian Art

General:

Art and Architecture in Ancient Egypt, William Stevenson Smith (Rev. by William Kelly Simpson) (1981).

Reading Egyptian Art,  Richard Wilkinson (1992).

Principles of Egyptian Art, Heinrich Schafer (ed. By Emma Brunner-Traut, John Baines, transl.). (1986, rept/retransl. of 1963 German Edition).

Egyptian Art, Jaromir Malek (1999).

Art in Ancient Egypt, Gay Robins (1987).

The Canonical Tradition in Egyptian Art, Whitney Davis (1989).

Arrest and Movement: Space and Time in the Art of the Ancient Near East, H.A. Groenewegen-Frankfort (1982, rept of 1951 ed.).

Proportion and Style in Egyptian Art, Gay Robins (1994).

Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art, Richard Wilkinson (1994).

Art in the Ancient World: A Handbook of Styles and Forms, Pierrre Amiet, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, et. al. (1981).

Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Wolfhart Westendorf (1968).

The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt, Stephen Quirke and Jeffrey Spencer (ed.), (1992).

Specialized Studies:

Egyptian Sculpture, Edna R. Russman (1989).

Jewels of the Pharaohs, Cyril Aldred (1971).

Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries,  (Fourth Edition), A. Lucas and J.R. Harris (1999, rept of 1962 ed.).

Ancient Egyptian Jewelry,  Carol Andrews (1990).

Woman in Egyptian Art, Steffen Wenig (1969).

Egyptian Drawings,  William H. Peck and John G. Ross (1978).

Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Sue Daura, Peter Lacovara and Catherine Roehrig (1988).

Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt,  Anne K. Capel and Glenn Markoe (ed.) (1996).

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

The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt, Dorothea Arnold (1996).







Essential Art Catalogues

Art Compendiums:

Egypt: World of the Pharaohs,  Regine Schulz and Matthias Seidel (ed.), (1997).

Art of Ancient Egypt, Kazmierz Michalowski (1968).

Museum Collections

Treasures of the Egyptian Museum, Francesco Tiraditti (ed.), (1999).

The Egyptian Museum: Cairo, Mohamed Saleh and Hourig Sourouzian (1987).

The Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art: Catalogue, American University Cairo (1979).

Art for Eternity: Masterworks from Ancient Egypt (Brooklyn Museum of Art), Richard Fazzini, James F. Romano, et. al.(1999).

Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Metropolitan Museum of Art (1987).

Catalogue of Egyptian Art: Cleveland Museum of Art, Lawrence Berman and Kenneth Bohac (1999).

Searching for Ancient Egypt : Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology , David Silverman (ed.) (1997).

Ancient Egypt at the Louvre, Guillemette Andreu, Marie Hélène Rutschowscaya, and Christiane Ziegler (1997).

Egyptian Museum: Berlin, Biri Fay (1990).

Das Ägyptische Museum: Berlin, Caries Arnst (1991).

Associated Reference Materials:

Religion

Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Erik Hornung (John Baines, transl). (1982).

Idea Into Image: Essays in Ancient Egyptian Thought, Erik Hornung (1992).

A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, George Hart (1986).

Magic in Ancient Egypt, Geraldine Pinch (1994).

Amulets of Ancient Egypt, Carol Andrews (1994).




Funerary 

The Mummy in Ancient Egypt, Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson (1999).

The Book of the Dead or Going Forth By Day: Ideas of the Ancient Egyptians Concerning the Hereafter as Expressed in Their Own Terms,  Thomas George Allen (SAOC 57, Oriental Institute: Chicago) (1974).

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth By Day, R. O. Faulkner, Ogden Goelet  (1994).

The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, Erik Hornung (1999).