Egyptian Archaeology/Egyptology

The royal necropolis of New Kingdom Egypt, known as the Valley of the Kings (KV), is one of the most important--and celebrated--archaeological site...

A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching ...

Has the ancient Egyptian cult of immortality resurfaced in Brighton?When a freshly-mummified body is discovered at the Brighton Museum of Natural H...

Bir Umm Fawakhir is a fifth-sixth century AD Coptic/Byzantine gold-mining town located in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Bir Umm Fawakhir...

This volume incorporates all of the inscribed material associated with more than one hundred burial chambers and graves found at Lisht North and Li...

Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest E...

The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis presents for the first time one of the largest collections of Demotic ostraca to have been discovered i...

Ritual Landscape and Performance contains the Egyptological contributions from a conference held at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civil...

Have you ever wished that you could read the beautiful hieroglyphic script of ancient Egypt for yourself? Now you can, with the help of this practi...

Drawing on more than 20 years of archaeological study and investigation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham by a team from the University of Liverpool (led by...

Mut was an important deity perhaps best known as the consort of Amun-Re and the mother of Khonsu, but her earlier and far more independent role was...

Gloriously illustrated and impressive in scope, this book represents a comprehensive overview of ancient Nubia. It opens with a thematic survey wit...

This special guest-edited fascicle of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections focuses on Nubia. Professor Stuart Tyson Smith (University o...

The Sinai Peninsula is a vast region encompassing some 60,000 square kilometers with hundreds if not thousands of archaeological sites, only a rel...

The publication of the Eastern Desert Roads Surveys brings together the research of two survey projects, the Michigan-Assiut Koptos-Eastern Desert ...

In this richly illustrated book, renowned archaeologist Donald Redford draws on the latest discoveries--including many of his own--to tell the stor...

From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just...

This book is a comprehensive treatment of the development of Thebes as documented by archaeological and historical evidence and the literary tradit...

Did the Exodus occur? This question has been asked in biblical scholarship since its origin as a modern science. The desire to resolve the question...

This is the second volume on fourth century Coptic documents written on papyri and boards, found in the ruins of houses at Kellis, the Roman predec...

Ninety-two documents of varied interest, all throwing light on the social and economic conditions of Roman Egypt. Each text is provided with ample ...

The human body serves as a symbolic bridge between communities of the living and the divine. This is clearly evident in mythological stories that r...

Ninety-two documents of varied interest, all throwing light on the social and economic conditions of Roman Egypt. Each text is provided with ample ...

This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 ...

This memorial volume honours the life and work of Professor Lanny David Bell (April 30, 1941-August 26, 2019), a leading scholar in Egyptology and ...

This book presents the first detailed study of Tebtunis, a village in Egypt within the Roman Empire, in the first century AD. It is founded on the ...

2nd edition (2017) revised and enlarged, updated to include new historical and archaeological research and new photographic material from the many ...