Egyptian Archaeology/Egyptology

The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are alm...

This book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2650...

The royal tombs of ancient Egypt include some of the most stupendous monuments of all time, containing some of the greatest treasures to survive fr...

In the 660s BC Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of ...

This edited collection considers representations of ancient Egypt in the literature of the nineteenth-century. It addresses themes such as reanimat...

Rameses III-often dubbed the last great pharaoh -lived and ruled during the first half of the 12th-century bc, a tumultuous time that saw the almo...

This new volume offers insight into the burial practices of the ancient Egyptians. It looks in detail at architecture and construction techniques a...

Now available in paperback, Egyptomania takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination, a land of strange gods, mysteriou...

This book presents a concise account of the lives and times of some of the more significant occupants of the Egyptian throne, from the unification ...

''Impeccably researched and beautifully written'' David Wengrow''Utterly original'' Paul StrathernWhen it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tom...

In 1922, as Egypt became an independent nation, the tomb of the young king Tutankhamun was discovered at Luxor, the first known intact royal burial...

Caroline Louise Ransom Williams (1872-1952) is remembered as the first American university-trained female Egyptologist, but she is not widely-known...

The Tomb in question was built for a Chief of Police and his wife in the city of Thebes (modern Luxor) at the height of the ancient Egyptian empire...

Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt - the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the p...

The Pyramid Texts were carved onto the walls of burial chambers in royal pyramids 4,000 years ago. They have intrigued scholars, mystics and histor...

When Roger H. Guichard Jr. discovered a French translation of the works of Carsten Niebuhr, sole survivor of the 1761-1767 Royal Danish Expedition ...

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Os...

Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-Francois Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the Fr...

Ancient human bodies, melted from their glacial time-capsules, present unique sources of highly detailed information of lives spent long ago. One e...

The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enem...

For more than 1500 years the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt defied interpretation but were thought to conceal ancient wisdom and religious secrets. W...

Self-presentation is the oldest and most common component of ancient Egyptian high culture. It arose in the context of private tomb records, where ...

Grafton Elliot Smith rose from a colonial Australian background to dizzying heights in the British scientific establishment. He became a world auth...

The Curse of the Pharaoh's Tombs is the definitive book on Ancient Egyptian tomb curses, providing new information and data never before published ...

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

A gorgeous volume celebrating the eternal splendour of the boy pharaoh. On November 4th, 1922, after months of unsuccessful expeditions and excavat...

The royal tombs of ancient Egypt include some of the most stupendous monuments of all time, containing some of the greatest treasures to survive fr...

In the 660s BC Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of ...

From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over Egypt, unique marks that reveal craftsmanshi...