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BOOKS
The Complete Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
Richard H Wilkinson (Author)
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (May 2003)
- ISBN-10: 0500051208 / ISBN-13: 978-0500051207
A comprehensive catalogue and the first fully illustrated and systematic survey of all the Egyptian deities. This volume is more than just the definitive reference work of the subject, it is beautifully produced and is a ‘must have’ addition to any Ancient Egyptian bookshelf
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The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Richard H Wilkinson (Author)
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (May 2000)
- ISBN-10: 0500051003 / ISBN-13: 978-0500051009
Another volume in the Thames and Hudson ‘Complete’ series that is an invaluable addition to the library of both serious scholars and those with just a casual interest in Ancient Egypt. With maps, plans, factfiles and specially commissioned reconstructions it is an authoritative sourcebook and a beautifully revealing guide to the places of worship.
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The Complete Pyramids
Mark Lehner (Author)
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (Oct 1997)
- ISBN-10: 0500050848 / ISBN-13: 978-0500050842
Mark Lehner brings his extensive knowledge to this fully illustrated compendium of every major pyramid of Ancient Egypt. As well as ‘The Whole Pyramid Catalogue’ there are sections on ritual and mythology including the Pyramid Texts, explorers, scientists and others involved with the pyramids throughout history and an exploration of the building of pyramids and the communities and cultures connected with them. An invaluable aid to any study of this area of Egyptology.
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The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt
Aiden Dodson and Dyan Hilton (Authors)
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (Sep 2004)
- ISBN-10: 0500051283 / ISBN-13: 978-0500051283
An indispensable reference work on the 1,300 known members of the Egyptian royal houses over 3,000 years from the first dynasty to the house of Ptolemy. This volume contains over 300 illustrations, many of rarely seen figures, and features 27 specially conceived genealogical tables that show the interconnections between members of various dynasties. A biographical history that belongs on the bookshelf of anyone with a passion for Ancient Egypt.
Aiden Dodson has lectured a number of times for the SES
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The Complete Tutankhamun
Nicholas Reeves (Author)
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (Feb 2007)
- ISBN-10: 0500051461 / ISBN-13: 978-0500051467
An excellent value book in the ’Complete’ series from Thames and Hudson. The reader is taken systematically through the family history, the finding of the tomb and the treasures found within. It is extremely well written by a knowledgeable expert in the field and lavishly illustrated. If you are only ever likely to have one Tutankhamun volume on the bookshelf than perhaps this should be the one.
Nicholas Reeves has given SES members exclusive tour and question opportunities on a visit to Chiddingstone Castle.
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The Complete Valley of the Kings:
Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs
C N Reeves and Richard H Wilkinson (Authors)
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (Nov 1996)
- ISBN-10: 0500050805 / ISBN-13: 978-0500050804
An essential sourcebook and an entertaining guide for scholars, students, tourists and all armchair travellers. This volume is, perhaps, the definitive account of the Valley of the Kings, visited by millions of tourists and famous throughout the world as the burial place of the great New Kingdom pharaohs. Reeves and Wilkinson both acknowledged authorities on the valley bring together the archaeology, art, and history in one exciting account.
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Atlas of the Valley of the Kings (The Theban Mapping Project)
Kent R Weeks (Editor)
- Spiral-bound: 144 pages
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press; Student Ed edition (1 Mar 2004)
- ISBN-10: 9774248201 / ISBN-13: 978-9774248207
This spiral bound volume by our Honorary President is the result of 20 years of work; it provides detailed surveyed maps and plans produced from one of the most famous World Heritage sites. From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II, all of the significant and accessible tombs in the valley are included. In this one-volume study edition, the atlas gives 1:125 plans, sections and three-dimensional isometric drawings of each tomb, along with larger-scale maps of the entire Valley and background information of the Theban Mapping Project and its surveying techniques.
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The Cairo Museum: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art
Francesco Tiradritti (Editor)
- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (Sep 1999)
- ISBN-10: 0500019304 / ISBN-13: 978-0500019306
A large format book with 664 dazzling colour illustrations of objects from The Egyptian Museum in Cairo all newly photographed by Araldo de Luca. A refreshing change from the repetitive stock photographs found in many other books on Egyptology, this volume is not only a comprehensive record of the beautiful artefacts housed in the museum but also a testament to the art of the photographer. Essentially a ‘coffee table book’ but also a valuable source of reference to the items featured.
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Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-reign Records of the Rulers and
Dynasties of Ancient Egypt
Peter A Clayton (Author)
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd; New Ed edition (Aug 2006)
- ISBN-10: 0500286280 / ISBN-13: 978-0500286289
Contains excellent biographical accounts of all the known pharaohs set down in narrative form with timelines and other visual aids making it an essential work of reference as well as a book to be enjoyed as popular history.
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Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt: From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra
Joyce Tyldesley (Author)
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (Oct 2006)
- ISBN-10: 0500051453 / ISBN-13: 978-0500051450
Vivid biographies cover 3,000 years of Egyptian queenship from early Dynastic times to the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 BC. This volume contains stories of famous queens such as Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Nefertari, as well as lesser-known consort queens, it reveals the variety of roles a queen could play, from supportive wife and mother, to husband’s deputy in time of crisis, and pharaoh in her own right.
Joyce Tyldesly has lectured recently for the SES.
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Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt
John Baines and Jaromir Malek (Authors)
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Facts on File Inc; Rev Ed edition (31 Oct 2000)
- ISBN-10: 0816040362 / ISBN-13: 978-0816040360
A great ‘starter’ book for anyone with an interest in Ancient Egypt. As well as being a comprehensive atlas, detailing and describing all known ancient sites, it provides an excellent overview of Ancient Egyptian culture with sections on religion, the pantheon, the army, women, everyday life etc. etc. with an especially useful guide to museums across the world with Egyptian collections.
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Egyptian Arabic Phrasebook
Scott Wayne (Author) Siona Jenkins (Editor)
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 2Rev Ed edition (1 Aug 2001)
- ISBN-10: 1864501839 / ISBN-13: 978-1864501834
Lots of feedback from friends and acquaintances says this is the best! Egyptian culture, etiquette and cuisine are extensively covered; key words and phrases: sightseeing and shopping with ease; easy pronunciation guide throughout; a useful two-way dictionary; and includes a fascinating section on understanding hieroglyphics.
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Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture
Dieter Arnold (Author), Nigel Strudwick (Editor), Helen M Strudwick (Editor, Translator), Sabine Gardiner (Translator)
- Hardcover
- Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd (Nov 2002)
- ISBN-10: 1860644651 / ISBN-13: 978-1860644658
The Egyptians' massive stone monuments were built over a period of three millennia and yet a common architectural tradition links them all. This book documents that tradition and provides a single-volume reference on one of the most remarkable architectures of the ancient world. Separate entries are provided for each of the most important sites, covering monuments as diverse as the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri and the great Ptolemaic temples that line the Upper Nile. With more than 600 entries and 350 illustrations, this encyclopaedia provides a comprehensive perspective on ancient Egyptian architecture.
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The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited
John Romer (Author)
- Hardcover: 586 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (1 April 2007)
- ISBN-10: 0521871662 / ISBN-13: 978-0521871662
The book behind the lecture that John gave to the SES recently. The Great pyramid’s eerily precise architecture has for centuries both astounded and puzzled archaeologists and has given rise to numerous modern fantasies concerning the so-called ‘Mystery of the Pyramids’. Sweeping away centuries of myth and confusion, John Romer describes for the first time exactly how the Great pyramid was designed and built. By placing this awesome monument in its genuine contemporary context this book underlines the extraordinary talents and the originality of the ancient Egyptians at the time of King Khufu.
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How to read Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Mark Collier and Bill Manley (Authors)
- Hardcover: 179 pages
- Publisher: British Museum Press (Mar 1998)
- ISBN-10: 0714119105 / ISBN-13: 978-0714119106
A practical step-by-step guide suitable for complete beginners or anyone who would like to improve their knowledge of the language of ancient Egypt. The exercises are based on genuine hieroglyphic texts with full supporting explanations and study aids. A well thought through book whose authors have many years’ experience of teaching the subject.
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The Lost Tomb: The Most Extraordinary Archaeological Discovery of Our Time - The Burial Site of the Sons of Rameses II
Kent Weeks (Author)
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ); New edition (Jul 1999)
- ISBN-10: 0753806819 / ISBN-13: 978-0753806814
Written by our esteemed Honorary President and eminent Egyptologist it is an account in which we share Kent’s excitement on discovering that KV5 was the burial place for what now seems to be most of Ramasses’s thirty-two sons and realising that he was the first person to enter its labyrinthine corridors in over 3,000 years. KV5 is the largest tomb in Egypt, unique in its maze-like plan, and the first example of a royal family mausoleum ever found. It is probably the greatest discovery at the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun.
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
Ian Shaw (Editor)
- Paperback: 552 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; New edition (23 Oct 2003)
- ISBN-10: 0192804588 / ISBN-13: 978-0192804587
A single-volume history covering 700,000 years of life and death in ancient Egypt written by a team of pioneering archaeologists and acknowledged experts working at the cutting edge of Egyptology. Of particular note is the detailed examination of the three so-called ‘Intermediate Periods’ previously regarded as the dark ages. The contributors also examine cultural and social patterns including stylistic developments in art and literature. An essential volume for serious study of the subject.
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Realm of the Pharaohs
Zahi Hawass (Author)
- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: White Star; Slipcase edition (Oct 2006)
- ISBN-10: 8854401617 / ISBN-13: 978-8854401617
Another large format, beautifully produced, White Star coffee table edition in a slipcase. Because Egypt and Egyptology is all about visual splendour, tagging such a book as ‘coffee table’ does not demean or devalue it in any way as the term can only serve to tell the reader that the experience in opening it is going to be one of extreme pleasure and this certainly lives up to that premise. It is also a valuable reference work for casual and serious students of ancient Egypt due to the quality of the photographs and illustrations.
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The Rough Guide to Egypt
Dan Richardson (Author)
- Paperback: 888 pages
- Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd; 6th Ed edition (24 Nov 2005)
- ISBN-10: 1843534630 / ISBN-13: 978-1843534631
The really useful guidebook, free from pretty pictures and packed with information! Covers all the basics of getting to and then getting around the country. The detail in the area guides is superb with lots of maps, covering travel, accommodation, eating, etc., etc.
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Stories from Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Myths and Legends for Children
Joyce Tyldesley (Author), Julian Heath (Illustrator)
- Paperback: 107 pages
- Publisher: Rutherford Press Limited (5 Sep 2005)
- ISBN-10: 0954762215 / ISBN-13: 978-0954762216
This delightful book is aimed at children between the ages of 7-11, but it is an entertaining and informative introduction to the literature of Ancient Egypt for all ages. Some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from Ancient Egypt are given a lively re-telling by Joyce Tyldesley. These include stories about the gods, such as ‘The Creation of the World’, ‘Hathor and the Red Beer’, and the myths about Osiris, Isis and Horus. Fairy stories and incredible adventures are represented by ‘The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor’, ‘The Adventures of Sinuhe’ and ‘The Prince, the Dog, the Snake and the Crocodile’, while good and bad behaviour are to be found in ‘Three Magical Stories’ and ‘The Story of Truth and Falsehood’. King Ramesses II himself tells us about ‘The Battle of Kadesh’. The book is illustrated with imaginative and amusing line-drawings by Julian Heath, and each of the stories has a question and answer section for budding young Egyptologists.
Joyce Tyldesly has lectured recently for the SES
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The Murder of Tutankhamen: A True Story
Bob Brier (Author)
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group (20 May 2005)
- ISBN-10: 0425206904 / ISBN-13: 978-0425206904
Bob Briers theories on the death of the boy king act as an ideal vehicle to bring a whole overview of ancient Egyptian culture and history to those who are looking for a ripping yarn rather than a scholarly dissertation! It is only after reading this fascinating account that you realise with hindsight how much information on the subject you have absorbed!
Bob Briers gave the SES an incredible lecture on mummification in 1996.
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The Treasures of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings
Kent Weeks (Author)
- Paperback: 564 pages
- Publisher: White Star (Mar 2005)
- ISBN-10: 8854400335 / ISBN-13: 978-8854400337
The definitive art guide to the valley written by our Honorary President. It comprehensively details everything worth seeing and is enriched by spectacular photographs, location plans and practical information. As well as the valley and Luxor it also covers the ancient sites at Dendara, Esna, Abydos, Edfu and Kom Ombo. This is much more than a guide book to take on a visit; it is an extremely valuable reference work.
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The Treasures of Tutankhamun
Jaromir Malek (Author)
- Hardcover: 64 pages
- Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd (16 Oct 2006)
- ISBN-10: 0233001972 / ISBN-13: 978-0233001975
One of many books that seem to be published to coincide with the Tutankhamun exhibition at the O2 arena this year. But this one is really different! Jaromir Malek has used the resources housed at the Griffith Institute, where he is Keeper of the Archives, to produce the ultimate ancient Egyptian ‘activity/pop-up’ book for adults! The story of the pharaoh and the discovery of his tomb is supplemented by many carefully and beautifully reproduced facsimile documents placed in pockets and sleeves throughout. There are pages from Carter’s letters, file cards, water colours and diaries, reproductions of some of Harry Burton’s original photographs as well as documents pertaining to Champollion. The first impression of the format of the book being a gimmick is quickly dispelled when one realises the difference that handling the actual documents makes to the understanding of their context (Even if they are facsimiles!)
Jaromir hosted a visit for SES members to the Griffith Institute a few years back and has lectured for us in the past.
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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Zahi Hawass (Author)
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: National Geographic Books (1 Sep 2005)
- ISBN-10: 0792238737 / ISBN-13: 978-0792238737
This is the official companion book to the 2007 Tutankhamun exhibition. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun - the most spectacular royal tomb ever found - is one of the most famous events in the history of archaeology. The treasures of this tomb surpass all others and the 50 Tutankhamun artefacts featured in this book illustrate many uses of gold and other precious materials in ancient Egypt, providing us with a glimpse into the extraordinary richness of this ancient civilization. The book also includes cutting-edge forensic data that may provide tantalizing clues to Tutankhamun's mysterious life and death.
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Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum
Stephanie Moser (Author)
- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (13 Dec 2006)
- ISBN-10: 0226542092 / ISBN-13: 978-0226542096
This is basically the story of the evolution of the Egyptian exhibits and galleries from the very beginning up to the 1880’s. It gives the reader a graphic insight as to how attitudes changed during the period covered. This well written and well researched book is a must for all those who know and love the British Museum and an interesting read for those who have never had the opportunity to visit up to now.
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CDs
Experience Egypt
Various Artists
- Audio CD (May 2007)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Nascente
- ASIN: B000M06H28
A 2 CD Compilation of various Egyptian styles and artistes. 30 tracks in all.
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Immortal Egypt
Phil Thornton (Artist)
- Audio CD (May 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: New World
- ASIN: B00000DLWF
British multi-instrumentalist Thornton and Egyptian percussionist Ramzy explore Egyptian and Middle Eastern dance music in a contemporary setting. Recording the basic tracks in the U.K., they went to Cairo and invited some of the top local musicians to collaborate. Flute, violin, ney, aud, rebala, and accordion flesh out these extended, ambient grooves in an evocative, textural tapestry aimed as much at the mind as at the feet.
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Rough Guide - Egypt
Various artists
- Audio CD (Oct 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: World Music Network
- ASIN: B0000CNXD8
A compilation of 13 tracks from various artistes typical of the music from Cairo to Nubia.
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DVDs
Ancient Egypt
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (see Amazon DVD format guidellines)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Exempt
- Studio: Pinnacle Vision
- DVD Release Date: April 2007
- Run Time: 150 minutes
- ASIN: B000NJM2EU
A triple DVD collection from the Discovery Channel: 1) Tutankhamun; 2) Ramesses the Great; 3) The Real Cleopatra. Excellent value package of well produced documentaries
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Egypt : Rediscovering A Lost World
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (see Amazon DVD format guidellines)
- Number of discs: 3
- Classification: 12
- Studio: 2 Entertain Video
- DVD Release Date: 6 Feb 2006
- Run Time: 360 minutes
BBC 3-disc boxed set featuring Howard Carter and the tomb of Tutankhamun, the Great Bellzoni and Francoise Champollion.
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