Information about next year's courses available November 2010
Archive (courses July 2010)
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Summer School 2010 - suggested reading
Several titles on these lists can be ordered from the Petrie Museum, with a 10% discount for Friends of the Petrie Museum.
LIVING IN LAHUN: Private life in ancient Egypt
David, R. (1986) The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce. Routledge.
Grajetzki, W. (2005) Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: history, archaeology and society. Gerald Duckworth & Co.
Quirke, S. (2006) Lahun: A town in Egypt 1800 BC, and the history of its landscape. Golden House Publications.
Richards, J. E. (2005) Society & Death in Ancient Egypt: Mortuary Landscapes of the Middle Kingdom. Cambridge University Press.
Szpakowska, K. (2008) Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Recreating Lahun. Blackwell Publishing.
HIEROGLYPHS: The next step
Collier, M. & Manley, B. (2003) How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Revised Edition, British Museum Press.
Students need to attend the course with a copy of this book
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION: Myths, beliefs and rituals
Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C. (2004) Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE. Cornell University Press
Hart, G. (204) Egyptian Myths. British Museum Press
Hart, G. (2005) Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Routledge
Hornung, E. (1983) Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many. Routledge & Kegan Paul
Sauneron, S. (2000) The Priests of Ancient Egypt. Cornell University Press
Wilkinson, R.H. (2003) The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson
Wilkinson, R.H. (2000) The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE: Expressing an ordered world
Lichtheim, M. (1973-80) Ancient Egyptian Literature: a book of readings. Vol.1 – 3. University of California Press
Parkinson, R. (1997) The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems. 1940-1640 BC. Oxford Paperbacks
Parkinson, R.B. (2001) Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt. A Dark Side to Perfection. Athlone
Simpson, W.K., Faulkner, R. & Wente, E. (1972) The Literature of Ancient Egypt: an anthology of stories, instructions and poetry. Yale University
Press.
EXPLORING THE PETRIE MUSEUM III: Technology and the presentation of the individual in ancient Egypt
Drower, M.S. (2004) Letters from the Desert: the Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie. Aris & Phillips
Drower, M.S. (1985) Flinders Petrie: a Life in Archaeology.Wisconsin
Picton, J., Quirke, S. & Roberts, P.C. (2007) Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum. Left Coast Press
Picton, J. & Pridden, I. (2008) Unseen Images: Archive Photographs in the Petrie Museum I.Golden House Publications
Trope, B.T., Quirke, S. & Lacovara, P. (2005) Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. MCCM.
DIGGING UP EGYPT’S PAST: Archaeologists and our understanding of ancient Egypt
Bard, K. (Ed.) (1999) Encyclopaedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge
Bard, K. (Ed.) (2008) An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Blackwell Publishers Ltd
James, T. G. H. (Ed.) (1982) Excavating in Egypt. The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. British Museum Publications
Reeves, C. N. (2000) Ancient Egypt - The Great Discoveries. Thames and Hudson
Wilkinson, R. (Ed.) (2008) Egyptology Today. Cambridge University Press
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN ANCIENT EGYPT
van den Boorn, G. (1988) The Duties of the Vizier: Civil Administration in the early New Kingdom. Kegan Paul
Romer, J. (2003) Ancient Lives. The Story of the Pharaoh’s Tombmakers. Phoenix Press
Theodorides, A. (1971) The Concept of Law in Ancient Egypt. In J. Harris (ed.), The Legacy of Egypt. 2nd ed. Clarendon Press. pp. 291-322
Tyldesley, J. (2004) Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt. Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Vernus, P. (2003) Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt. Cornell University Press. Translated by David Lorton
ENTREPRENEURS AND EMPIRES: Cyprus in the late Bronze Age
Tatton-Brown, V. (1997) Ancient Cyprus (2nd edition). British Museum
Karageorghis, V. (2002) Early Cyprus. Crossroads of the Mediterranean. J. Paul Getty Museum
Steel, L. (2004) Cyprus before History. From the Earliest Settlers to the End of the Bronze Age. Duckworth
Knapp, A.B. (2008) Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus. Identity, insularity, and connectivity. Oxford University Press
Karageorghis, V. et al. (2008) Ancient Art from Cyprus. The Cesnola Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art
“THIS IS HOW ONE LIVES AT THEBES!”
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE THEBAN ROYAL TOMB MAKERS (BSS in Egypt)
Assmann, J. (2001) The Search for God in Ancient Egypt. Cornell University Press.
Hornung, E. (1999) Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Cornell University Press.
Kemp, B.J. (2005) Ancient Egypt; anatomy of a civilisation. Routledge.
McDowell, A.G. (1999) Village Life in Ancient Egypt. Clarendon Press.
Nims, C. (1965) Thebes of the Pharaohs. Elek (Paul) (Scientific Books) Ltd.
Piankoff, A. (1954) The Tomb of Ramesses VI. Pantheon Books.
Wente, E.F. (1990) Letters from Ancient Egypt. Scholars Press.
