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This index lists books and texts related to ancient Egypt. See also Portal:Ancient cultures.
Works written during the Egyptian era
[edit]Historical accounts
[edit]- An Account of the Battle of Megiddo
- The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita, (1326 BCE)
- Account of Egypt (5th century BCE), by Herodotus, translated by G. C. Macaulay
Ritual texts
[edit]- Hymn to Osiris-Sokar
- Hymn to the Nile
- The Laments of Isis and Nephthys
- Charm for the Protection of a Child
- The Book of the Dead[1]
- Hymns to Isis[2]
Stories
[edit]- The Shipwrecked Sailor
- Tale of the Doomed Prince
- The Magic Book, ~1130 BCE by Princess Ahura
Other
[edit]- Papyrus of Ani
- Text from the Rosetta Stone
- The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep
- Ancient Egyptian Love Poems ~2000-1100 BCE
- The Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Own Soul
Modern Works about Ancient Egypt
[edit]Books
[edit]- Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson (with Arthur Gilman)
- Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman (please add this text to Wikisource!)
- The Tombs of Ancient Egypt by Walter L. Nash IA
- The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt, 2nd ed., 1910 by W. M. F. Petrie IA
- New Light on Ancient Egypt by Gaston Maspero
- Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes, 1910 by Gaston Maspero
- Ancient Egypt, Her Testimony to the Truth of the Bible by William Osburn, 1846
Articles
[edit]- "An Account of a Mummy, inspected at London 1763" as it appeared in Philosophical Transactions, volume 54
- "Glass-Making in Ancient Egypt" in Littell's Living Age, 5 (57) 1845
- "Egypt under the Pharaohs" as it appeared in The International Magazine 1851
- "Cleopatra's Needle" as it appeared in The International Magazine
- "Egyptian Monuments" in Littell's Living Age, 66 (842) 1860
- "The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians" in Littell's Living Age, 140 (1803) 1879
- "Ancient Egypt" in Littell's Living Age
- "Ancient Egypt - Part I" in Littell's Living Age, 140 (1810) 1879
- "Ancient Egypt - Part II" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1819)
- "Destruction of Egyptian Monuments" in Littell's Living Age, 153 (1972) as it appeared in Littell's Living Age
- "The Pyramid of Cheops" in The North American Review 1883
- "Two Ancient Races," in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (December 1891)
Reference works
[edit]- "Egypt," in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
- "Egypt," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Egypt," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Egypt," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
Poems
[edit]- “Egypt,” poem by Richard Watson Gilder