100 Best Egyptian History Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

Ian Shaw

5.0

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Egyptians' prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans, this book resurrects a fascinating society replete with remarkable historical information. It investigates such subjects as the changing nature of life and death in the Ni

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Complete Papyrus of Ani

Ogden Goelet, Raymond Faulkner, et al.

4.9

Maybe the most stunning presentation of this book in 3300 years: For the first time in 3,300 years, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Papyrus of Ani is showcased in its entirety in seventy-four magnificent color pages.

Egyptian mythology: Upon death it was the practice for some Egyptians to produce a papyrus manuscript called the Book of Going Forth by Day or the Bo

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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition

Ibn Ibn Khaldûn, N. J. Dawood, Franz Rosenthal, Bruce B. Lawrence

4.8

"The Muqaddimah," often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English transl

Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Robert Irwin, and 2 others.

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder/Facebook

It's a history of the world written by an intellectual who lived in the 1300s. It focuses on how society and culture flow, including the creation of cities, politics, commerce and science. While much of what was believed then is now disproven after 700 more years of progress, it's still very interesting to see what was understood at this time and the overall worldview when it's all considered together. [source]

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The reason I chose this book is that it’s the first work of global history that has what we might now qualify as a social scientific theory, instead of just representing history as providential—although Ibn Khaldun is a fatalist: he does believe that everything is in the hands of God. But he sees God as working in history through what we might call social mechanisms, in particular through the antipathy, the struggle, the dialectic, if you like, between settled and pastoral peoples. [source]

Robert Irwin

He spends about two and a half years writing the first draught of the Muqaddimah, which he will work on for the rest of his life. It’s one hell of a great work. It’s intended as a prolegomenon – an introduction to what he is going to write – and the complexity starts there, really, because he started out with one idea of what he was going to write about…. And then he broadens and broadens [source]

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Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt

Geraldine Pinch

4.8

From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian Mythology, Geraldine Pinch offers a comprehensive introduction that untangles the mystery of Egyptian Myth.

Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture--from 3200 BC to AD 400--Pinch opens a

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

Lucette Lagnado

4.7

“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”

—Miami Herald

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sha

Recommended by The Big Pharaoh.

The Big Pharaoh

Just knew Egyptian American and Jewish author Lucette Lagnado has passed away. Author of one of the best book I’ve read: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit. I remember an email she sent me after reading one of my blogs. I was thrilled to read her name in my inbox. May she RIP [source]

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The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

Richard H. Wilkinson

4.7

Worshipped for over three-fifths of recorded history, Egypt’s gods and goddesses are among the most fascinating of human civilization. The lives of pharaohs and commoners alike were dominated by the need to honor, worship, and pacify the huge pantheon of deities, from the benevolent to the malevolent. The richness and complexity of their mythology is reflected in countless tributes throughout Egyp

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The Arabs: A History

Eugene Rogan

4.7

To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by religious zealotry and political chaos. Years of tone-deaf US policies have left the region powerless to control its own destiny—playing into a longstanding sense of shame and impotence for a once-mighty people. In this definitive account, preeminent historian Eugene Rogan traces five centuri

Recommended by Issandr El Amrani.

Issandr El Amrani

I chose this book because I think the weight of history and the historical context is really important. There have been a number of general histories of the Arab world. What Eugene Rogan does in this book is to provide a very well written, comprehensive and general history of the Arab world in modern times. What he does well is to highlight how much interaction there has been in the Arab world with outside forces, especially the West, and how so much of the modern region has come out of that experience – imperialism, colonisation and so on. [source]

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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra

Toby Wilkinson

4.7

Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, to reveal ancient Egypt in all its complexity. We see the relentless propaganda, the cut-throat politics, the brutality and repression that lay behind the appearance of unchanging monarchy.

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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

Susan Wise Bauer

4.7

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country.

Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.

Dozens of ma

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When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations

Robin Walker

4.6

When We Ruled is by far the best general work on the ancient and medieval history of Black people there has ever been.

This landmark publication, which is superbly illustrated with high quality photographs, maps and drawings, provides an extraordinary and cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeological data, the documentary evidence, and the historical linguistic research. It recounts the fascinating

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Footnotes in Gaza

Joe Sacco

4.6

From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places

Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. On the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble. Rafah is tod

Recommended by Hillary Chute and Raja Shehadeh.

Hillary Chute

Joe Sacco is the foremost figure in what he calls ‘comics journalism’ – he really established this category. [source]

Raja Shehadeh

This is an amazing, graphic and emotional book about the massacres carried out by the Israelis in the Gaza Strip in 1956. [source]

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The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Richard H. Wilkinson

4.6

The temples of ancient Egypt include the largest and perhaps most impressive religious monuments the world has ever known. Mansions of the gods, models of Egypt and of the universe, focal points of worship, great treasure houses and islands of order in a cosmic sea of chaos—the temples were all these things and more.

Now available for the first time in paperback, The Complete Temples of Ancient Egy

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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Amanda H. Podany

4.6

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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Amin Maalouf

4.6

The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses, and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

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The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World

Ptahhotep and Battiscombe George Gunn

4.6

2016 Reprint of 1909 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published as "The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep" and also as "The Maxims of Ptahhotep," the work is believed by some scholars to be the oldest book in the world. Authorship is attributed to Ptahhotep, a vizier under King Isesi of the Egyptian Fifth Dynasty (ca. 2414-2375 B

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A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid

John Romer

4.5

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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra

Toby Wilkinson

4.5

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Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming

Abdelrahman ElGendy

4.5

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance by a student protestor–turned–political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt.“I will never be the same after reading Huna.”—Javier Zamora“A beautifully written portrait of a radical political awakening.”—Hanif Abdurraqib“The work of a truly liberated writer.”—Fady JoudahOne of Publishers Week

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Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners

Bill Manley

4.5

This is the first guide to reading hieroglyphs that begins with Egyptian monuments themselves. Assuming no knowledge on the part of the reader, it shows how to interpret the information on the inscriptions in a step-by-step journey through the script and language of ancient Egypt.

We enter the world of the ancient Egyptians and explore their views on life and death, Egypt and the outside world, hum

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River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)

Wilbur Smith

4.5

For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shared halves. But Tanus will have to defy the same gods to attain the reward they have forbidden him, an object more prized than battle's glory: possession of the Lady Lostris, a rare beauty with skin the color of oiled ceder--destined for the adorati

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God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades

Rodney Stark

4.5

In God’s Battalions, distinguished scholar Rodney Stark puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression. Stark, the author of The Rise of Christianity, reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095-1291 in this fascinating work of religious revisionist history.

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Ancient Egypt

David P. Silverman

4.5

In "Ancient Egypt, " eminent Egyptologist Silverman and a team of leading scholars explore the cultural wealth of this civilization in a series of intriguing and authoritative essays based on the latest theories and discoveries. 200+ color photos, maps, and charts.

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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Michael B. Oren

4.5

Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. Michael B. Oren’s magnificent Six Days of War, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the first comprehensive acco

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Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America!

Ronald Dalton Jr.

4.5

The book "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America" touches on subjects too controversial for most authors to reveal to the people. This book will expose the truths that have been hidden by the powers that be in America. Since the European and Arab slave traders stepped foot into Africa, blacks have been told lies about their heritage. This was all by Satan's design for he is the father of lies.

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A History of the Arab Peoples

Albert Hourani

4.5

Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, political, and cultural institutions of Arab history through 13 centuries.

No region in the world today is more important than the Middle East: no people more misunderstood than the Arabs. In this definitive masterwork, distinguished Oxford historian Albert Hourani offers the most lucid, enlightening histo

Recommended by Eugene Rogan and Tarek Osman.

Eugene Rogan

Hourani picked up on Khaldun’s cyclical notion of the rise and fall of Arab empires, and these almost Weberian notions of loyalty, as the key themes with which to weave a history of the Arab peoples. [source]

Tarek Osman

The key illuminating point is how the culture that has emerged in that part of the world has gathered those people and really united them by a common thread. [source]

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Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohs

Lorna Oakes, Lucia Gahlin

4.5

Discover the world's first civilization! This beautiful volume is a fascinating guide to the myths, religions, pyramids, temples, and more that make up the allure of ancient Egypt.

Readers will gain a unique understanding of this captivating culture through breathtaking, full-color illustrations, in-depth text, detailed maps, and comprehensive chronologies. You'll read about:
- Famous burial site

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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Jimmy Carter

4.5

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The White Nile

Alan Moorehead

4.5

Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and many others, Th

Recommended by Dan Morrison.

Dan Morrison

Because it’s fun, rollicking and, at times, hilarious – it’s a wonderful read. It is the prose of someone who was educated before Marxism entered the campuses and before any whiff of political correctness existed. It has no influence on him, and the book takes some heat for that. But both the The White Nile and its companion, The Blue Nile, have the best qualities of history. [source]

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A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present

Jason Thompson

4.4

In A History of Egypt, Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation.

No country's past can match Egypt's in antiquity, richness, and variety. However, it is rarely presented as a comprehensive panorama because scholars te

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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

Lynne Olson

4.4

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War “A female version of the Indiana Jones story . . . [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] was a daredevil whose real-life anti

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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

Eugene Rogan

4.4

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even the Middle East could escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. The Great War spelled the

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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution

Peter Hessler

4.4

From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change

Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of

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Selections from the Husia: Sacred Wisdom from Ancient Egypt

Maulana Karenga

4.4

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The Art of Ancient Egypt: Revised Edition

Gay Robins

4.4

From the awesome grandeur of the Great Pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the spellbinding power of ancient Egyptian art persists to this day. Spanning three thousand years, this beautifully illustrated history offers a thorough and delightfully readable introduction to the artwork even as it provides insight into questions that have long engaged experts and amateurs alike. In

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Ancient Egypt (History Pockets series)

Marc Tyler Nobleman

4.4

Bring history alive as students make interactive projects -- exploring the fascinating past. The projects are stored in labeled construction paper pockets with decorative covers. With History Pockets, students are engaged in discovery, while creating portfolios for assessment and display.

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Everything Ancient Egypt (National Geographic Kids)

Crispin Boyer

4.4

The ancient Egyptians thought big and built bigger, leaving behind monuments and messages that have endured for five millennia despite tomb robbers and the ravages of time. Pyramids and mummies tell us about their deaths, but new technologies are peeling the wraps off their mysterious lives. In Everything Ancient Egypt kids will discover all they want to know about the mysteries of ancient Egypt a

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The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East

Abraham Rabinovich

4.4

An updated edition that sheds new light on one of the most dramatic reversals of military fortune in modern history.

The easing of Israeli military censorship after four decades has enabled Abraham Rabinovich to offer fresh insights into this fiercest of Israel-Arab conflicts. A surprise Arab attack on two fronts on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, with Israel’s reserves un-mobilized, trigge

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Unearthed (Unearthed, #1)

Israel Finkelstein

4.4

When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for. The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and Gaia, their former home planet, is a treasure trove waiting to be uncovered.

For Jules Addison and his fellow scholars, the discovery of an alien culture offers unpreced

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Basher History: Mythology: Oh My! Gods and Goddesses (Basher History)

Simon Basher and Mary Budzik

4.4

The myths and legends of the ancient world still fascinate and entertain people the world over. The stories of gods and goddesses have a timeless appeal that captures the attention of generation after generation of children. Basher History: Mythology gives a fresh look to some of the key characters from famous myths and legends – meet Zeus, father of the Greek Gods; Norse Freyja, goddess of love,

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Wallace Budge and John Romer

4.4

A unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the 15th to the 4th century BC

Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were often left in sarcophagi for the dead to use as passports on their journey from burial, and were full of advice about the ferrymen, gods and

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The Genius of Egypt

Marlon McKenney, Julia Akpan, et al.

4.4

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The Awesome Egyptians

Terry Deary, Martin Brown

4.4

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The Kemetic Tree of Life Ancient Egyptian Metaphysics and Cosmology for Higher Consciousness

Muata Ashby

4.3

In the early period of Ancient Egyptian history, earlier than in any other culture, before the Hindus, Buddhists, Kabbalists and Taoists, there was a teaching of the TREE OF LIFE. This was a special teaching describing the secret wisdom about the nature of the universe and of the soul as well as a path to make the journey, through varied phases of spiritual evolution, from mortal to immortal and f

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Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

Barbara Mertz

4.3

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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Michael Korda

4.3

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The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

Elizabeth Payne

4.3

Long ago, a great civilization thrived along the banks of the Nile River. Ruled by awesome god-kings caled Pharaohs, Egypt was a land of bustling cities, golden palaces, and huge stone monuments. Its people were fun-loving, its nobles elegant, and its gods the most powerful in the world. This astonishing civilization endured for more than 3,000 yeats before it gradually vanished from the face of t

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A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (Special Edition, Expanded, Annotated)

Amelia B. Edwards

4.3

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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World

Islam Issa

4.3

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The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue

Marina Rustow

4.3

A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation

The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensu

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British Victory in Egypt: The End of Napoleon's Conquest

Piers Mackesy

4.3

In 1800 the British army's reputation was in tatters, having experienced nothing but failure in wars across the world for forty years; at home, a divided cabinet had to face the problem of Egypt, which had been occupied by Napoleon's Army of the Orient since 1798. The task of ejecting France fell to a disparate band of soldiers led by Sir Ralph Abercromby which, against all the odds, defeated the

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Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide - A Step-by-Step Approach to Learning Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Janice Kamrin

4.3

This definitive educational tool provides a systematic, step-by-step approach to learning ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, complete with fun and increasingly challenging exercises and easy-to-reference sign and word lists.

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Out of Egypt: A Memoir

André Aciman

4.3

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, wh

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The Nile: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present

Toby Wilkinson

4.3

The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan. From there, Wilkinson guides us through the illustrious nation birthed by this great river.
We see Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Val

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The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids

Robert Bauval

4.3

This fascinating archaeological detective story argues that the great pyramids of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty (c. 2600-2400 b.c.) were vast astronomically sophisticated temples, rather than the pharaonic tombs depicted by conventional Egyptology. In March 1993, a tiny remote-controlled robot created by Rudolf Gantenbrink, a German robotics engineer, traveled up airshafts within the Great Pyramid of Giz

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Pyramids (National Geographic Readers: Level 1)

Laura Marsh

4.3

Travel to ancient Egypt to learn all about its amazing pyramids in this new National Geographic Kids Reader. The Level 1 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for beginning readers about these amazing wonders of the world and their importance today. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard

4.3

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Little Conspiracy

Mr. Jabari G Osaze

4.3

An innocent governess. A disgraced Lord. A dark secret.

Vanessa White has never met her benefactor but when his regular monthly payments to her landlord abruptly stop, she is thrown out of her house and left destitute. Offered a place at a private school, Vanessa accepts but when she arrives, she discovers she must enroll as one of the headmaster's littles and accept whatever disciplinary measures

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

NIL

4.2

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the most revered and ancient spiritual texts in human history. It offers profound insights into ancient Egyptian beliefs, rituals, and the journey of the soul after death. Featuring powerful spells, prayers, and instructions, this book reveals how the ancient Egyptians believed the soul could be protected, purified, and ultimately reborn in the afterlife.You

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Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, Vol. 1

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge and E. A. Wallis Budge

4.2

Osiris the king, was slain by his brother Set, dismembered, scattered, then gathered up and reconstituted by his wife Isis and finally placed in the underworld as lord and judge of the dead. He was worshipped in Egypt from archaic, pre-dynastic times right through the 4000-year span of classical Egyptian civilization up until the Christian era, and even today folkloristic elements of his worship s

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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

Barbara Mertz

4.2

An eye-opening, edifying, and endlessly entertaining tour through an astonishing bygone world—the acclaimed classic history of ancient Egypt, now newly revised and updated

Writing as Elizabeth Peters, world-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz is the author of the phenomenally popular New York Times bestselling mystery series featuring archaeologist Amelia Peabody. In Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs

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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

Janet Wallach

4.2

Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role

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Napoleon in Egypt

Paul Strathern

4.2

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Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Mythology for Kids

Morgan E. Moroney

4.2

Unearth the magic and mythology of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses

From the rising of the morning sun to the summer flooding of the Nile River, the ancient Egyptians believed powerful gods and goddesses ruled over every aspect of their daily lives. This Egyptian mythology guide takes you on a trip through the sands of time to explore the world of pharaohs and sphinxes―ancient Egypt!

Featuring il

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DK Eyewitness Books: Ancient Egypt

George Hart

4.2

Now in Paperback!

In "Eyewitness: Ancient Egypt," travel back in time and discover one of history's most remarkable civilizations -- from the legends of the great Pharaohs to the triumphs of the ordinary people. Explore the inside of the Great Pyramid in Giza, or learn how Tutankhamun's tomb was found. Images and supported text throughout the book showcase the pottery, weapons and other objects Anc

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Life in Ancient Egypt

John Green and Stanley Appelbaum

4.2

Forty-four detailed drawings recall the glory of a magnificent civilization. Full-page illustrations of Cleopatra, Ramses II, arts and crafts, funerary practices, warfare, architectural monuments, and more are featured, along with captions. Educational entertainment for colorists of all ages; inexpensive source of royalty-free graphics for commercial artists.

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Middle East 101: A Beginner's Guide for Deployers Travelers and Concerned Citizens

Youssef H Aboul-Enein

4.2

The work answers 101 essential questions on the Middle East Islam the Arab Spring al-Qaida and ISIS. It is for those wanting to begin an intellectual immersion into the complexities of the region from pre-biblical times to the post-Arab Spring that have impacted our lives today. The authors have focused on thinking carefully about what the deploying Soldier Sailor Marine or Airman needed to know B

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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

Caroline Finkel

4.2

The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work-the first definitive account written for the

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The Book of Gates: a Magical Translation

Josephine McCarthy, Michael Sheppard, et al.

4.2

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The 21: A Journey Into the Land of Coptic Martyrs

Martin Mosebach

4.2

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.

In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach.

In the West, daily reports of new atrocities may have displaced the memory of this part

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Necrominon: Egyptian Sethanic Magick

Michael W Ford

4.2

Ancient Egyptian Religion and Magick gifted humanity with foundations of understanding and controlling forces within the mind, body and spirit of the living with the spiritual realm perceived in nature. The Left Hand Path and Luciferianism establishes a modern ideology andpractice of utilizing the pantheon of ancient Egypt for insightful and powerful rituals which control and shape your determined

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The Quest (Ancient Egypt, #4)

Wilbur SMITH

4.2

Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock. The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural.

Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The N

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Bondage in Egypt: Slavery in Southern Illinois

Darrel Dexter

4.2

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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

Helen Strudwick

4.2

Six thousand years ago ancient Egypt was the cradle of modern civilisation. Powerful pharaohs built great cities on the fertile banks of the Nile, and employed thousands of labourers to create lavish tombs and temples such as Thebes and the pyramids of the Giza plateau. The exceptional beauty and scale of ancient Egypt s antiquities still draws millions of visitors to Egypt s museums and monuments

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The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

Uri Bar-Joseph

4.2

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THE BEST INTELLIGENCE BOOK for 2017 by The American Association of Former Intelligence Officers

A gripping feat of reportage that exposes—for the first time in English—the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle East.

As the son-in-law of Egyp

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Secrets of the Great Pyramid: Two Thousand Years of Adventures & Discoveries Surrounding the Mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Cheops

Peter Tompkins

4.2

Probes the mystery of the construction and significance of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, suggesting that it enshrines the scientific data of an advanced Egyptian civilization.

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Ancient Near East, Volume 2: A New Anthology of Texts and Pictures

James B. Pritchard

4.1

This volume makes available some of the most important discovered source material for the historian of the ancient Near East.

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History News: The Egyptian News

Scott Steedman

4.1

"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly

Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative? They might just look like this innovative series of historical nonfiction, presented in a unique, kid-friendly format.

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Ancient Egyptian Literature

Miriam Lichtheim

4.1

First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations. Beginning with the early and gradual evolution of Egyptian genres, it includes biographical and historical inscriptions carved on stone, the various classes of works written with pen on papyrus, and t

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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rath

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Ancient Egypt (National Geographic Kids Readers: L3)

Stephanie Warren Drimmer

4.1

Dig into the amazing past of ancient Egypt in this new Level 3 Reader from National Geographic Kids.

From pyramids and mummies to pharaohs and gods, kids will learn all about the history and culture of this fascinating land. Level 3 text provides accessible yet wide-ranging information for fluent readers. The expert-vetted text, along with brilliant photos and a fun approach to reading have proved

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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Kara Cooney

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An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power in a man’s world.

Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king’s son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons

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The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction

Amanda H. Podany

4.1

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Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart

Scott Anderson

4.1

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.

In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph

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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Miriam Lichtheim, Antonio Lopriano

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Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire

John Man

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In this authoritative biography, historian John Man brings Saladin and his world to life with vivid detail in "a rollicking good story" (Justin Marozzi).

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Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times

Donald B. Redford

4.1

Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. In the vivid and lucid style that we expect from the author of the popular Akhenaten, Redford presents a sweeping narrative of the love-hate relatio

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Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt

Nina Burleigh

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The Story of Egypt: The Civilization that Shaped the World

Joann Fletcher

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The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped the world. It is full of spectacular cities and epic stories—an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, heroines, villains, artisans, and pioneers. Professor Joann Fletcher pulls together the complete story of Egypt—charting the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptians while putting their whole world into

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A History of the Middle East

Peter Mansfield and Nicolas Pelham

4.1

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Kemet 101: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian History and Culture

Perry Khepera Kyles Ph.D

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24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History Book 2)

Donald P. Ryan

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The Mars Mystery

Graham Hancock

4.0

An asteroid transformed Mars from a lush planet with rivers and oceans into a bleak and icy hell. Is Earth condemned to the same fate, or can we protect ourselves and our planet from extinction?

In his most riveting and revealing book yet, Graham Hancock examines the evidence that the barren Red Planet was once home to a lush environment of flowing rivers, lakes, and oceans. Could Mars have sustain

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A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest

James Henry Breasted

4.0

“Considered by Egyptologists as one of the best introductions to their subject ever written.” World Archaeology

James Henry Breasted, in this magnificent work on Ancient Egypt, takes the reader from the earliest days when the Egyptian state had barely formed through to its eventual demise and collapse at the hands of the Persians.

He explains why Egypt was able to develop so rapidly and form such a

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When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

Massoud Hayoun

4.0

The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents’ lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family’s Jewish Arab identity.

There was a time when being an “Arab” didn’t mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit after Shabbat services on his way to brin

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The Gospel of Judas

Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst, Bart D. Ehrman

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For 1600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Xianity, & which few experts had even thought existed–a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, history’s ultimate traitor. Far from being a villain, the Judas

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Egyptian Gods: Discover the Ancient Gods of Egyptian Mythology

Stephan Weaver

4.0

△Egyptian Mythology△The gods of Ancient Egypt conjure up images of hieroglyphs with animal-headed people, fantastic civilizations, and a past that seems both unimaginably distant and still tenuously connected to the present day. Although the names Ra, Anubis, and Isis still linger today in modern fiction, the truth about these gods reveals the ancient Egyptians themselves.

Inside you will read abou

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World History 101: From ancient Mesopotamia and the Viking conquests to NATO and WikiLeaks, an essential primer on world hist

Tom Head

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Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum

Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook

4.0

When General Gordon returned to the Sudan in February 1884, the Egyptian colonial regime was on the brink of collapse. His only weapons were his reputation, a flotilla of river steamers and a few thousand demoralized Egyptian troops. Less than a fortnight after his arrival in Khartoum, Egypt s last field force was routed in the Red Sea Littoral. It was only a widespread popular clamor to Save Gord

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The Great Arab Conquests: How The Spread Of Islam Changed The World We Live In

Hugh Kennedy

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Today’s Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over 100 years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire. They did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-8th century, Arab armies had conquered the 1000-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based a

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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace

Alex von Tunzelmann

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