EGYPTIAN BOOK LIST

ADULT NON-FICTION

EGYPT: ANTIQUITIES FROM ABOVE
by Marilyn Bridges (932 Br)
Aerial photographs document the architectural achievements of Egyptian civilization with photographs of pyramids, temples, and tombs.

EGYPT, GREECE, AND ROME: CIVILIZATION FROM ANCIENT MEDITERREAN
by Charles Freeman (930 Fr)
Explores the political events, religious movements, and societies of the ancient Mediterranean.

EGYPTIAN ART
by Eleni Vassilika (709.32 Va)
This lavishly illustrated volume brings together a selection of ancient Egyptian works of art of outstanding quality and interest. Their significance, style, material, and mode of manufacture are explained within the framework of the lives and beliefs of those for whom they were made.

MADE IN ANCIENT EGYPT
by Christine Price (709.32 Pr)
Text and photographs recreate the life, art, and customs of the people who lived during Egypt's 1500 year peak civilization period.

ANCIENT EGYPT: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON
by William Stevenson Smith (709.32 Bo)
This book is the history of the growth of Egyptian culture and art from pre-dynastic times through the fourth century A.D.

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM IN CAIRO: A WALK THROUGH THE VALLEYS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
by Abeer el-Shahawy (709.32 la)
The book informs the reader of many of the masterpieces of ancient art present in the museum, and is a valuable guide for anyone wishing to explore its treasures.

TUTANKHAMEN: HIS TOMB AND IT’S TREASURES
by I.E.S. Edwards 709.32 ED
Black-and-white on-the-scene photographs and full-color plates record the great art treasures discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamen, and a British Egyptologist comments extensively on individual items.

MONUMENTS OF EGYPT
by Eliot Porter (709.32 PO)
Photographs of the great temples, tombs, and pyramids of both the Old and New Kingdoms are beautifully displayed.

PHARAOHS OF THE SUN: AKHENATIN*NEFERTIT*TUTANKHAMEN
by Rita Freed (709.32 PH)
A visual tour of this magnificent and baffling civilization focuses on more than 250 works of sculpture, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, clothing, tools, and furniture, revealing what these objects can tell us about the art, culture, politics, and religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians.

ROUGH GUIDE TO EGYPT
(916.2 Ro)
Brings the best of this intriguing, often-misunderstood country to travelers; includes helpful information on culture, etiquette, history, and politics.

EGYPT AND THE SUDAN, A TRAVEL SURVIVAL KIT
by Scott Wayne (916.2 Wa)
Covers: Cairo and its surrounding areas, the Nile Valley, Sinai, the Red Sea Coast, the Delta, the North Coast, and the Western Desert region.

EGYPT: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
by Georgiana G. Stevens (916.2 ST)
Lithographs of historic Egypt and the mosques of Cairo are accompanied by current photographs.

TRAVELER’S KEY TO ANCIENT EGYPT: A GUIDE TO SACRED PLACES OF ANCIENT EGYPT
by John Anthony West (916.2 We)
Detailed information to the art and architecture of the sacred sites of ancient Egypt--including the pyramids, the sphinx, tombs, and temples--and of items in the Cairo and Luxor museums also provides in-depth coverage of modern Egyptology.

TRAVELING THROUGH EGYPT: FROM 450 B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Edited by Deborah Manley (916.2 Tr)
This book offer travelers observation on many faces of Egypt. The collection includes extracts from the writing of Herodotus, Strabo, Florence Nightingale and many more.

EGYPT: IMAGES OF ADVENTURE…
by National Institute for Exploration (916.2 EG)
Shows and describes Cairo, ancient Egyptian ruins, the Nile, the Red Sea, and the Egyptian people.

ADULT FICTION

MUMMY CASE
by Elizabeth Peters (Fiction- Pe)
Amelia Peabody, accompanied by her irascible archaeologist husband and their precocious son, Ramses, returns to Egypt and finds herself caught up in murder, danger, intrigue, and archaeological mystery.

TOMB OF THE GOLDEN BIRD
by Elizabeth Peters (Mystery Peters)
The 1922 Egyptian archaeology season starts on a very bad note. Radcliffe Emerson's attempt to trick his rivals into handing over digging rights in the Valley of the Kings backfires, raising the worst suspicions of Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon.

RUTHLESS
by L.G. Burbank (Fiction- Burbank)
Mordred Soulis is a half-born vampyre, a bloodthirsty creature driven to madness if deprived of his salty elixir, but he is also an extraordinary man. The long-prophesized Chosen One, Mordred's destiny is to save humankind -- or bear witness to its extinction.

SALT ROADS
by Nalo Hopkinson (Black Life/Fiction- Hopkinson)
Brought into being by the lamentations of three Caribbean slave women, a powerful deity begins a desperate search to discover herself and inhabits the minds of such women as a the seductive mistress of nineteenth-century poet Charles Baudelaire and a Nubian prostitute on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 300 A.D.

EGYPTOLOGIST
by Arthur Phillips (Fiction- Phillips)
Obsessed Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush risks his professional reputation and his fiancâee's fortune on a search for the tomb of an apocryphal pharaoh, while an Australian detective embarks on a global search for a murderer.

THIRD TRANSLATION
by Matt Bondurant (Fiction- Bondurant)
When Walter Rothschild, an American Egyptologist, is entrusted by the British Museum with the task of deciphering the real-life mystery of the Stela of Paser, an ancient funerary stone, he finds himself stepping into a world of conspiracy, cults, and danger.

MURDER AT THE GOD’S GATE
by Lynda Suzanne Robinson (UNC/PBK-Robinson)
In ancient Egypt, a story of intrigue and espionage at the court of Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The novel follows Lord Meren, the pharaoh's security chief, as he combats priests scheming within the walls of the court.

NON-FICTION VIDEO/DVD

EGYPT,GIFT OF THE NILE (VT 916.2/Eg)
Tour Egypt's pyramids, the sphinx, Luxor and Karnak. Visit great museums, the desert, a Coptic monastery, great mosques, and farms.

EGYPT (VT 916.2 Eg)
Discover the country where the sun was once a god and water and is still king.

EGYPT QUEST FOR ETERNITY (VT 932 Eg)
Explores ancient Egypt through the relics it left behind. The camera follows several Egyptologists as they walk through the temples as Luxor and Karnak, exploring several different royal burial chambers and tombs.

JOSEPH IN EGYPT (VT 221.92 Jo)
An anthology of famous events of the Old Testament. Many of the Old Testament's most famous and spiritual tales are dramatized in this four-part miniseries, including the stories of David & Goliath, Samson & Delilah, Solomon & Bathsheba, Noah's ark, and Joshua at Jericho.

HERMITAGE MUSEUM (VT 708.7 He/ pt.1-6)
After a brief history of the founding of St. Petersburg and a biographical sketch of Peter the Great, the viewer is taken on a tour of the galleries of the Hermitage Museum housing masterpieces from ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the 20th Century.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT EGYPT

THE 5000 YEAR OLD PUZZLE: SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF ANCIENT EGYPT
by Claudia Logan (J932/ Lo)
Join the archaeological expedition led by Howard Carter as he discovers a secret tomb at the site called Giza.

ANCIENT EGYPT
by Andrew Haslam (J 932 /Ha)
From the Make It Work! Series, this book offers information about the social life of ancient Egyptians and presents ideas for making objects that reflect everyday life in Ancient Egypt.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN WOMEN
by Ruth Manning (J 932/ Ma)
Examines the artifacts and research that describes the social life and customs of Egyptian women during the time of the pharaohs.

CLEOPATRA
by Rose Blue & Corrine J. Naden (JB/ CLEOPATRA/ Bl)
Describes the struggles that Cleopatra endured to ascend the Egyptian throne and keep her country out of Roman control.

THE CRAFTS AND CULTURE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
by Joann Jovinelly, and Jason Netelkos (J 932/ Jo)
Shares information about the skills and craftsmanship of the ancient Egyptians that are illustrated by the artifacts uncovered by modern-day archeologists.

CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS: MY ADVENTURES WITH MUMMIES.
by Zahi A. Hawass (J 932 /Ha)
Describes the events around Howard Carter’s initial discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen.

EGYPTIAN DIARY: THE JOURNAL OF NAKHT
by Richard Platt (J/ Platt)
In Ancient Egypt, Nekhet moves to the big city with his father and begins to study to become a scribe.

EGYPTOLOGY: SEARCH FOR THE TOMB OF OSIRIS : BEING THE JOURNAL OF MISS EMILY SANDS, NOVEMBER 1926
by Emily Sands (J 932/ Sa) .
Written as an amateur Egyptologist's travel journal from 1926, each spread covers a distinct area of antiquity and is mainly factual in content.

FOR ALL TIME
by Caroline B. Cooney (J/ Cooney)
Angie, a teenager in 1999, tries to travel through time to join her lost friend in 1899, but ends up in Ancient Egypt.

THE GREAT PYRAMID
by Hazel M. Martell (J 932/ Ma)
Discusses pyramid construction in Egypt with a focus on the Great Pyramid, the tomb of the Pharaoh Cheops.

HATSHEPSUT, HIS MAJESTY, HERSELF
by Catherine M Andronik (JB/ HATSHEPSUT/ An)
Places this Egyptian Queen in relationship to other pharaohs and describes her life, her leadership and the efforts of archeologists to discover her true identity.

I AM THE MUMMY HEB-NEFERT
by Eve Bunting (E/ Bunting)
A mummy recalls her life in ancient Egypt as the beautiful wife of the pharaoh’s brother.

MOSES IN EGYPT
by Lynne Reid Banks (J/ Banks)
To save her son, a Hebrew mother places her baby in a basket and sets him adrift on the Nile.

MUMMY
by Kathleen Duey (J/Reader/ Duey)
The Time Soldiers travel through a time portal and find themselves in ancient Egypt.

MUMMY
by James Putnam (J 393/ Pu)
Examines the methods used to preserve bodies after death, with an emphasis on Egyptian practices.

PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER: A NOVEL OF ANCIENT EGYPT
by Julius Lester (Young Adult Fiction / Lester)
An Egyptian princess rescues a baby from the Nile River who grows up to be a prophet.

PYRAMIDS
by Caroline Bingham,. (J932/ Bi])
A look at pyramids and how they were constructed and what they were used for.

ROTTEN RALPH HELPS OUT
by Jack Gantos (Easy Reader/Level 3/ Gantos)
Sarah’s cat, Rotten Ralph, tries to help her create a school project about Egypt.

SECRETS OF THE SPHINX
by James Giblin (J 932/ Gi)
Discusses Egypt’s most famous artifacts and monuments, and describes their history.

TECHNOLOGY IN THE TIME OF ANCIENT EGYPT
by Judith Crosher (J 932/ Cr)
Illustrates how Egyptians provided for their every day needs such as food, clothing, and travel.

TUTANKHAMEN, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A PHARAOH
by David Murdoch (JB/TUTANKHAMUN/ Mu)
Describes how Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon explored the Valley of the Kings in Egypt and discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922.

TUT, TUT
by Jon Scieszka (J/ Scieszka)
The Time Warp Trio is up to hieroglyphic high jinks while dodging crocodiles on the Nile and searching for an escape route from the mummy-making chamber.