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Huw Twiston Davies
The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or …

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Highlights of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo

A superbly illustrated full-color selection of 200 of the museum's most beautiful and important objects The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is the first museum of its kind in Egypt, or an…

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Robert Morkot
A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt

Expertly taking readers through one of the most transformative periods in Ancient Egypt, Robert Morkot demonstrates how, under the pharaohs of the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 BCE), Egypt rose to be the larg…

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Nicky Nielsen
Subsistence Strategies and Craft Production at the Ancient Egyptian Ramesside Fort of Zawiyet Umm El-Rakham

"Drawing on more than 20 years of archaeological study and investigation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, this book paints a nuanced picture of daily life not only at this liminal military site, but also in Rame…

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Paul Faraday
Om Seti: Guardian of the Ancient Mysteries

Dorothy Eady's life is one of the most extraordinary tales of the 20th century-a story that blurs the line between history, spirituality, and reincarnation. Known to the world as Om Seti, she claimed to b…

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Paul Faraday
Om Seti: Guardian of the Ancient Mysteries

Dorothy Eady's life is one of the most extraordinary tales of the 20th century-a story that blurs the line between history, spirituality, and reincarnation. Known to the world as Om Seti, she claimed to b…

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Sam Kean
Dinner with King Tut

From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding …

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Michael Haag
Luxor Illustrated, Revised and Updated

""Luxor stands on the site of ancient Thebes, Egypt's opulent New Kingdom capital. It encompasses the spectacular temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the Nile, and on the west bank the vast ne…

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Bettany Hughes
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

"For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens…

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Zahi Hawass
Discovering Tutankhamun

A thorough and absorbing account of the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, Tutankhamun, from the discovery of his tomb to the CT-scans of the twenty-first century, now fully updated and expanded …

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Irene Vallejo,
Papyrus

A "masterly" (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world "Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to convey…

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Maria Golia
A Short History of Tomb-Raiding

A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves. To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a pra…

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Kathleen Sheppard
Women in the Valley of the Kings

The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the sto…

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Omar Youssef Cheta
How Commerce Became Legal

"When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting c…

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Roberta Mazza
Stolen Fragments

"In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact - a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from …

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Guy D Stiebel
Arms, Men and Society in Roman Judaea

Guy D. Stiebel provides an in-depth study of Roman weaponry as used in Judaea from the arrival of the Romans in the area in around 63 BCE until the time of the Bar Kochba Revolt (135/136 CE). The work is…

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John David Hawkins,
Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group. Luwian is written in two scripts: Cuneiform and its own Hieroglyphic, which survives mostly on stone monum…

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Zahi Hawass
Mountains of the Pharaohs

""Nearly five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom reigned over a highly advanced civilization. Believed to be gods, the royal family lived amid colossal palaces and temples built…

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Susanna Ferguson
Labors of Love

"How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around c…

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Yasmin Moll
The Revolution Within

"The New Preachers of Egypt--so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help--came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television…

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