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• Author(s): Joyce Tyldesley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 was perhaps the world's most important archaeological find. The only near-intact royal...

• Author(s): Serge Sauneron | David Lorton | Jean-Pierre Corteggiani • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe gods were everywhere in Ancient Egypt. Represented by statues, ba...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptFrom our vantage point ancient Egyptian civilization, with its strictly hierarchic organization, ...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologyAkhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dyna...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptFrom our vantage point ancient Egyptian civilization, with its strictly hierarchic organization, ...

• Author(s): John Romer • Publisher: St. Martin's Press • Publisher Imprint: St. Martin's Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers t...

• Author(s): Nigel Strudwick | Helen Strudwick • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - EgyptThe remains of ancient Thebes constitute one of the largest and most remarkable archaeo...

• Author(s): Thomas Schneider • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptHow well do we really know ancient Egypt? The world of the Egyptians seems strangely familiar to us: exhibit...

• Author(s): Francoise Dunand • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptIn their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Françoise Dunand and Christiane Zivi...

• Author(s): Serge Sauneron | David Lorton | Jean-Pierre Corteggiani • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe gods were everywhere in Ancient Egypt. Represented by statues, ba...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung | John Baines • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptAn excellent historical overview of the gods... It is a recommended necessary reading for those st...

• Author(s): Bob Brier • Publisher: Berkley / Nal • Publisher Imprint: Berkley / Nal • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptA respected Egyptologist, the author of Tutankhamen and the Tomb that Changed the World, examines the compelling mystery behind the death...

• Author(s): Robert P. Winston • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologyA unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the 15th to the 4th century BC Consisting of spel...

• Author(s): Siegfried Morenz | Ann E. Keep • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt

• Author(s): David Huckvale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General Ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in Western popular culture. Movies such as The Mummy (193...

• Author(s): Robert M. Schoch • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: CivilizationIs it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces ...

• Author(s): Jan Assmann | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live ...

• Author(s): Françoise Dunand | Christiane Zivie-Coche | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptIn their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egyp...

• Author(s): Matthew Coniam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism "Egyptomania," the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has...

• Author(s): Françoise Dunand | Roger Lichtenberg | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Today, a good century after the first X-rays of mummies, Egyptology has ...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptAkhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigne...

• Author(s): Jan Assmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This cl...

• Author(s): Christiane Zivie-Coche | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a st...

• Author(s): Jan Assmann | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the...

• Author(s): Leonard H. Lesko • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptPharaoh's Workers focuses on the archaeological site at Deir el Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor...

• Author(s): Dimitri Meeks | Christine Favard-Meeks | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThis is the first English translation of a highly appealing v...

• Author(s): Joan Grant • Publisher: Overlook Duckworth • Publisher Imprint: Overlook Duckworth • BISAC: Channeling & MediumshipWinged Pharoah is "a book of fine idealism, deep compassion, and a spiritual quality pure and bright as flame" (Ne...

• Author(s): Christiane Zivie-Coche | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a st...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptAncient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were ...

• Author(s): Brian A. Curran • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )The many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries, from Ancient Egypt (which invented them) to twentieth-...

• Author(s): Susan Redford • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HistoricalFor more than three thousand years, the mysterious events surrounding the death of Ramesses III ...

• Author(s): Arthur C. Hulse | Ellen Censky | C. J. McCoy • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Animals - Reptiles & AmphibiansUntil now, no detailed treatment of the Pennsylvania herpetofauna has ...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): Robin Cook • Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons • Publisher Imprint: G.P. Putnam's Sons • BISAC: MedicalNew York Times bestselling author mines the mysteries of Egypt's magnificent past to deliver a one-of-a-kind thriller packed with comp...

• Author(s): Three Initiates • Publisher: Tarcherperigee • Publisher Imprint: Tarcherperigee • BISAC: OccultismWho wrote this mysterious guide to esoteric psychology and wordly success? History has kept us guessing. Discover for yourself an occul...