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shrink, the barriers of language, color, and nationality go down; we look into the mind of a man three millennia dead and call him “brother.”

Additional Reading

GENERAL

Arkell, A. J. History of the Sudan. Athlone Press, 1961.

Breasted, J. H. History of Egypt. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948.

Dodson, A. Monarchs of the Nile. Rubicon, 1995.

Forbes, D. Tombs. Treasures. Mummies. KMT Communications Inc., 1998.

Gardiner, Sir A. H. Egypt of the Pharaohs, 3rd rev. ed. Oxford University Press, 2006.

James, T. G. H. A Short History of Ancient Egypt. Cassell, 1995.

O’Connor, D. Ancient Nubia: Egypt’s Rival in Africa. University of Pennsylvania, 1993.

Shaw, I., ed. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Wilson, J. A. The Burden of Ancient Egypt. University of Chicago Press. Also in University of Chicago paperbacks under the title The Culture of Ancient Egypt, 1956.

———. Signs and Wonders upon Pharaoh. University of Chicago Press, 1964.

TEXTS

Lichtheim, M. Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. I, The Old and Middle Kingdoms. vol. II, The New Kingdom, vol. III, The Late Period. University of California, 1973, 1976, 1980.

Simpson, W. K., ed. The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 3rd ed. Yale University Press, 2003.

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

Aldred, C. Akhenaten, Pharaoh of Egypt. Thames and Hudson, 1968.

Arnold, D. The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt. Catalog with articles by J. P. Allen and L. Green. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.

Clayton, P. Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, 1994.

Dodson, A., and D. Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson, 2004.

Forbes, D. Imperial Lives: Illustrated Biographies of Significant New Kingdom Egyptians, vol. I, The Eighteenth Dynasty Through Thutmose IV. KMT Communications, 2005. (Volumes II and III in preparation.)

Freed, R., Y. J. Markowitz, and S. H. D’Auria, eds. Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999.

Kitchen, K. Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramses II, Pharaoh of Egypt. Benben-SSEA, 1992.

Montserrat, D. Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt. Routledge, 2000.

Redford, D. Akhenaten: The Heretic King. Princeton University Press, 1984.

Tyldesley, J. Chronicles of the Queens of Egypt. Thames and Hudson, 2006.

———. Hatchepsut: the Female Pharaoh. Viking, 1996.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND THEIR WORK

Breasted, C. Pioneer to the Past: The Story of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist. Told by his son. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943.

Chubb, M. Nefertiti Lived Here. Thomas J. Crowell, 1954.

Drower, M. S. Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology. Victor Gollancz, 1985.

James, T. G. H. Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamon. Kegan Paul Int., 1992.

Reeves, N., and J. H. Taylor. Howard Carter before Tutankhamun. British Museum Press, 1992.

Sources of Quotes

Quotations from Egyptian and other ancient texts have been made more accessible to nonscholars by omitting symbols such as brackets and parentheses, and by a certain freedom of rendering, when the meaning of the literal translation is not immediately apparent to a modern reader. I believe I can claim, however, that I have not altered the basic sense of the texts. Those who want to check up on me can refer to the following sources.

The indispensable three-volume work of Miriam Lichtheim (see Additional Reading) has translations of many of the texts I have cited, including the Annals of Thutmose III and the Kadesh battle text of Ramses II. The new, revised edition of The Literature of Ancient Egypt, edited by W. K. Simpson, includes much of the same material.

Unfortunately, there is no equivalent up-to-date source for historical texts. James H. Breasted’s Ancient Records of Egypt, in five volumes, has never been supplanted, and although individual texts have been studied and revised it remains a basic reference work. It was reprinted by the University