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This index lists books and texts related to ancient Egypt. See also Portal:Ancient cultures.

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Horus Scorpion torso.JPG — Torso of a man with the Horus name of King Scorpion below the left breast. Anorthositic gneiss, Protodynastic period, circa 3200 BCE.

BCE Egyptian works

Historical accounts

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
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

Ritual texts

Stories

Tale of the Doomed Prince
The Magic Book, ~1130 BCE by Princess Ahura

Modern Works about Ancient Egypt

Books

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
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt/Volume 1 by Georges Perrot
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

"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

"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

“Egypt,” poem by Richard Watson Gilder

See also

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