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Summer School 2012 - Recommended Reading
WARFARE UNDER THE PHARAOHS: FROM NARMER TO AUGUSTUS
Drews, R. (1993) The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 BC. Princeton University Press.
Kitchen, K.A. (1985) Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II. Aris and Phillips.
Mysliwiec, K. (2000) The Twilight of Ancient Egypt: First Millennium B.C.E. Cornell University Press.
Partridge, R.B. (2002) Fighting Pharaohs: Weapons and Warfare in Ancient Egypt. Peartree Publishing.
Redford, D.B. (1993) Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton University Press.
Spalinger, A.J. (2005) War in Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom. Blackwell Publishing.
VOICES FROM ANCIENT IRAQ: LIFE IN MESOPOTAMIA
(AS REVEALED BY THE TEXTS)
Black, J., Cunningham, G., Robson, R., Zólyomi, G. (eds.) (2004) The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Foster, B. (1995) From Distant Days: myths, tales, and poetry of ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press.
van de Mieroop, M. (2007) A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 B.C.
Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Nissen, H., Damerow, P., Englund, R. (eds.) (1993) Archaic Bookkeeping: early writing and techniques of economic administration in the ancient Near East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Pritchard, J. (ed.) (2011) The Ancient Near East: an anthology of texts and pictures. Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock: Princeton University Press.
Radner, K. & Robson, E. (eds.) (2011) The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DAILY LIFE RITUALS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Assmann, J. (2003) The Mind of Egypt: history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs. Harvard University Press.
Kemp, B.J. (1995) “How Religious were the Ancient Egyptians?” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5 : pp 25-54
Pinch, G. (1995) Magic in Ancient Egypt. University of Texas Press.
Quirke, S. & Spencer, J. (1992) The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson (Chs 3-4)
Wilkinson, R. H. (2003) The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson.
HIEROGLYPHS FOR BEGINNERS
It is essential that students attending this course bring along a copy of:
Collier, M. & Manley, B. (2003 (Revised Edition) How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Museum Press.
AKHENATEN, NEFERTITI AND THE PEOPLE THEY RULED
Arnold, D. (1996) The Royal Women of Amarna; Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Freed, R.E., Markowitz, Y.J. and D’Auria, S.H (eds.) (1999) Pharaohs of the Sun; Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts
Gabolde, M. (2005) Akhenaton; Du mystère à la lumière. Paris: Gallimard.
de G. Davies, N. (2004) The Rock Tombs of El Amarna. 6 vols. London, Egypt Exploration Fund 1903–08, reprinted as 2 vols.
Kemp, B.J. (Spring 2012) The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti; Amarna and its People. London: Thames and Hudson.
Murnane, W.J. (1995) Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press.
READING HIEROGLYPHS: A JOURNEY WITH SINUHE
It is essential that students attending this course bring along a copy of:
Collier, M. & Manley, B. (2003 (Revised Edition) How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. British Museum Press.
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