Biographies & Memoirs

Further Reading

The references listed below include the more basic and accessible publications with preference given to those written in English; all these works include bibliographies which will be of interest to those seeking detailed references on specific subjects. More specialized references to points raised in the text have been included in the notes.

Aldred, C. (1980), Egyptian Art, London.

Baines, J. and Malek, J. (1980), Atlas of Ancient Egypt, Oxford.

Breasted, J. H. (1906), Ancient Records of Egypt: historical documents, 5 volumes, Chicago.

Dorman, P. F. (1988), The Monuments of Senenmut: problems in historical methodology, London.

Dorman, P. F. (1991), The Tombs of Senenmut, New York.

Gardiner, A. (1961), Egypt of the Pharaohs, Oxford.

Grimal, N., A History of Ancient Egypt, translated by I. Shaw (1992), Oxford.

Harris, J. E. and Wente, E. F. (1980), An X-Ray Analysis of the Royal Mummies, Chicago and London.

Hayes, W. C. (1935), Royal Sarcophagi of the XVIII Dynasty, Princeton.

Hayes, W. C. (1959), The Scepter of Egypt Vol II, Cambridge, Mass.

Hayes, W. C. (1973), Egypt: internal affairs from Tuthmosis I to the death of Amenophis III, in I. E. S. Edwards et al. (eds), The Cambridge Ancient History, 3rd edition, Cambridge, 2.1: 313–416.

James, T. G. H. (1973), Egypt: from the expulsion of the Hyksos to Amenophis I, in I. E. S. Edwards et al. (eds), The Cambridge Ancient History, 3rd edition, Cambridge, 2.1:289–312.

Kemp, B.J. (1989), Ancient Egypt: anatomy of a civilization, London.

Lichtheim, M. (1976), Ancient Egyptian Literature II: the New Kingdom, Los Angeles.

Manetho, translated by W. G. Waddell (1956), Cambridge, Mass. and London.

Naville, E. (1895–1908), The Temple of Deir el-Bahari, 7 volumes, London.

Ratie, S. (1979), La Reine Hatchepsout; sources et problèmes, Leyden.

Redford, D. B. (1967), History and Chronology of the Eighteenth Dynasty: seven studies, Toronto.

Reeves, C. N. (1990), Valley of the Kings: the decline of a royal necropolis, London.

Robins, G. (1993), Women in Ancient Egypt, London.

Shafer, B. E., ed. (1991), Religion in Ancient Egypt: gods, myths and personal practices, London.

Smith, G. E. (1912), The Royal Mummies, Cairo.

Stevenson Smith, W, The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, revised and edited by W. K. Simson (1981) New Haven.

Trigger, B. G., Kemp, B. J., O'Connor, D. and Lloyd, A. B., eds (1983), Ancient Egypt: a social history, Cambridge.

Troy, L. (1986), Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History, Boreas.

Tyldesley, J. A. (1994), Daughters of Isis: women of ancient Egypt, London.

Watterson, B. (1991), Women in Ancient Egypt, Stroud.

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