A work in progress.
To make this easier and more affordable for interested students, I have cited and linked to recent reissues whenever possible, but I note dates of first publication parenthetically, e.g. “(orig. 1923)” for Carter’s The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen.
Books marked with the “warning” emoji (⚠️) are likely to be very expensive, sometimes only available used, etc. (I paid over $250 for at least one such book on this list.) This tends to be true of many less “popular” works of a more scholarly nature. They are usually not for the Egyptological “beginner”, but if you’re getting pretty serious about the pursuit, they may be of interest.
All links are to WorldCat. You can find links to several popular onilne booksellers from each entry.
I am old-fashioned in my bibliophilia: wherever possible, citations and links are for print books. If you want eBook editions, the WorldCat entry for a given book may have eBook editions linked.
General
Aldred, Cyril. The Egyptians. Edited by Aidan Dodson, Revised and updated ed., Reprinted, Thames and Hudson, 2002.
Art and Architecture
Robins, Gay. Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art. 1. ed, Univ. of Texas Press, 1994.
Funerary Practices and Sites
See also Religion and Philosophy.
Coffins
Niwinski, Andrzej. 21st Dynasty Coffins from Thebes : Chronological and Typological Studies. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988.
Sousa, Rogério, editor. “Yellow” Coffins from Thebes : Recording and Decoding Complexity in Egyptian Funerary Arts (21st-22nd Dynasties). BAR Publishing, 2020.
Tutankhamun’s Tomb (KV62)
Carter and Mace. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, in three volumes, orig. 1923.
- Carter, Howard, and Arthur Cruttenden Mace. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen : Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Carter, Howard. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen : Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Carter, Howard. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen : Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Valley of the Kings
⚠️ Reeves, Nicholas. Valley of the Kings : The Decline of a Royal Necropolis. K. Paul International ; Distributed by Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990.
History and Biography
See also Women’s and Gender Studies.
New Kingdom
Reeves, Nicholas. Akhenaten : Egypt’s False Prophet. Thames & Hudson, 2001.
Romer, John. Ancient Lives : Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs. Henry Holt and Co., 1984.
Third Intermediate Period
Dodson, Aidan. Afterglow of Empire : Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance. American University in Cairo Press, 2012.
Kitchen, Kenneth A. The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650 B.C.). 2nd ed. with suppl., repr, Aris & Phillips, 2004.
Language
Allen, James P. Middle Egyptian : An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. Third edition, rev. and reorganized, with a new analysis of the verbal system, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Reprint edition, Griffith Institute, 2019. Orig. 1962.
Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar : Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs. Third edition, Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 2012. This ed. orig. 1957.
Literature
(forthcoming)
Magic
(forthcoming)
Religion and Philosophy
See also Funerary Practices and Sites.
Essays
Assmann, Jan. The Mind of Egypt : History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs. Harvard University Press, 2003.
Assmann, Jan, et al. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt. Cornell University Press, 2001.
Hornung, Erik, et al. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt : The One and the Many. Cornell University Press, 1996.
Texts and Interpretations
Faulkner, Raymond O., editor. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts : Spells 1-1185 & Indexes. Aris & Phillips, 2015. Orig. 1973.
Faulkner, Raymond O. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. [Reprint], Clarendon Press, 2000. Orig. 1969.
Faulkner, Raymond O., and Ogden Goelet. The Egyptian Book of the Dead. 20th Anniversary edition. Third revised and expanded edition, Chronicle Books, 2015.
Schweizer, Andreas, and David Lorton. The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld : Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat. Cornell University Press, 2010.
Women’s and Gender Studies
Cooney, Kara. When Women Ruled the World : Six Queens of Egypt. National Geographic, 2020.