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Volume One Issue One

Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs by A.G. McDowell

Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of a Boy King by Christine El Mahdy

The Lost Tomb by Kent Weeks

The Cairo Museum Masterpieces of Egyptian Art Ed. by F Tiradritti

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs - A step-by-step guide to teach yourself by Mark Collier and Bill Manley, with illustrations by Richard Parkinson

450 Egyptian Names - their meanings explained by Jo Hirons

The House of Horus at Edfu - Ritual in an Ancient Egyptian Temple by Barbara Watterson

 

Volume One Issue Two

Faces of Pharaohs: Royal Mummies and Coffins from Ancient Thebes by Robert Partridge

The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce

CD-Rom Review: Egyptian Treasures in Europe: Highlights Selection

 

Volume One Issue Three

Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilisations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman

Mysterious Egypt: A Panorama of 6000 years of Civilisation on 2 CD-Roms

Giza: The Truth by Ian Lawton and Chris Ogilvie-Herald

Napoleon's Proconsul in Egypt: The Life and Times of Bernadino Drovetti by Ronald T Ridley

 

Volume One Issue Four

The Story of Writing. Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms by Andrew Robinson

Egypt's Sun King Amenhotep III: An intimate chronicle of Ancient Egypt's most Glorious Pharaoh by Joann Fletcher

Egyptian Treasures in Europe: Volume 2 CD-ROM

The Animal World of the Pharaohs by Patrick F. Houlihan

The Mummy in Ancient Egypt by Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson

 

Volume One Issue Five

Early Dynastic Egypt by Toby A H Wilkinson

Who were the Pharaohs? by Stephen Quirke

Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation by Barry J Kemp

 

Volume One Issue Six

Cleopatra's Face: Fatal Beauty by Michelle Lovric

Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries by Nicholas Reeves 

Nofret in "Kiya" by Sussi Bech

The Trumpets of Tutankhamun - Adventures of a radio pioneer in the Middle East by Rex Keating

The Art of Ancient Egypt by Gay Robins

Conversations with Mummies: New Light on the Ancient Egyptians by Rosalie David and Rick Archbold 

 

Volume Two Issue Six

Colour and Painting in Ancient Egypt Edited by W V Davies
Egyptian Treasures in Europe Vol 4: Liverpool (CD-ROM) 
An Egyptian Bestiary by Philippe Germond

 

Volume Three Issue One

The Monuments of Ancient Egypt by Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch
Private Life In New Kingdom Egypt by Lynn Meskell
Ancient Egypt. Music in the Age of the Pyramids (CD) Composer/conductor: Rafael Pérez Arroyo
Henry Salt., Artist Traveller, Diplomat, Egyptologist by Deborah Manley and Peta Rée. 
Egypt: Splendours of an Ancient Civilisation by Alberto Silotti

 

Volume Three Issue Two

Ancient Egypt: Art, architecture and history by Francesco Tiradritti
A Passion for Egypt: A Biography of Arthur Weigall by Julie Hankey
Egyptian Mummies: People From The Past by Delia Pemberton
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

 

Volume Three Issue Three

The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World edited by Roy McLeod

 

Volume Three Issue Four

The Illustrated Guide to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo edited by Alessandro Bongioanni and 
Maria Sole Croce. Photographs by Araldo de Luca
Pharaoh’s People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt by T.G.H. James
Egyptian Art: Principles and Themes in Wall Scenes edited by Leonie Donovan and Kim McCorquodale
Ancient Egypt And The Afterlife: The Quest For Immortality

 

Volume Three Issue Five

Sticks, Stones and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids by Martin Isler
Adventures in Egypt and Nubia: The Travels of William John Bankes (1786-1855) by Patricia Usick
Travellers in Egypt edited by Paul Starkey and Janet Starkey

 

Volume Three Issue Six

Genesis of the Pharaohs
Five Years’ Exploration at Thebes: A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter
The Realm of Osiris by Miroslav Verner

 

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Volume Four Issue One

The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard Wilkinson
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Archaeology by Dieter Arnold
The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson
The Tomb and Beyond by Naguib Kanawati

 

Volume Four Issue Three

Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert edited by Renée Friedman
The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt by Aidan Dodson
Pyramids: The Real Story Behind Egypt’s Most Ancient Monuments by Joyce Tyldesley
The Psalms of Ra: Music in the language of light (CDs) Composer/orchestrator: Jim Berenholz and contributing musicians

Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology: Stoneworking technology in Ancient Egypt by Denys A. Stocks

 

Volume Four Issue Four

Desert Rats: Rock Art Topographical Survey in Egypt's Eastern Desert edited by Mike and Maggie Morrow
The Monuments of Egypt and Nubia by Ippolito Rosellini edited by Franco Serino
Ancient Egyptians: the Kingdom of the Pharaohs brought to life by Anton Gill
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt editor in chief Donald B. Redford

 

Volume Four Issue Five

Atlas Archéologique de L’Egypte (Book and CD-ROM) by Georges Daressy
Music in the Age of the Pyramids (English edition) by Rafael Pérez Arroyo

 

Volume Four Issue Six

Engineering the Pyramids by Dick Parry

Egyptian Myths and Magic (CD) by Katie Green with Tony Vacca

ANCIENT EGYPT: Treasures from the Collection of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, by Emily Teeter

 

Volume Five Issue One

The Mystery of the Egyptian Mummy by Joyce Filer
Encounters with Ancient Egypt (set of 8 books by various authors)
Consuming Ancient Egypt Edited by Sally MacDonald and Mich

 

Volume Five Issue Two

Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide by Karl-Theodor Zauzich (translated by Ann Macy Roth)
The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels, Barbara G. Mertz)
Solomon Falcon of Sheba by Ralph Ellis
An Evil Spirit Out Of the West by Paul Doherty

 

Volume Five Issue Three

Life Under the Pharaohs by Leonard Cottrell
The Encyclopedia of Mummies by Bob Brier
Sudan – Ancient Treasures Edited by Derek A. Welsby and Julie R. Anderson
The Theban Necropolis – Past Present and Future Edited by Nigel Strudwick and John H. Taylor
Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt – A Dark Side to Perfection by R.B. Parkinson

 

Volume Five Issue Four - February/March 2005

The Rock Tombs of El Amarna by Nina de Garis Davies. 
The Search for Nefertiti by Joann Fletcher.
The British Museum Little book of Mummies
The British Museum Pocket Dictionary: Ancient Egyptian Mummies
The Ten Commandments (De Mille, 1956) DVD

 

Volume Five Issue Five - April/May 2005

Alexander the Great, Son of the Gods by Alan Fildes and Joann Fletcher
Travellers’ Graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan – Part III: Philae, the Kiosk of Trajan by Roger O. De Keersmaecker
The Egyptian Book of Life – A True Translation Of The Egyptian Book Of The Dead by Dr Ramses Seleem
Miss Brocklehurst on the Nile: Diary of a Victorian Traveller in Egypt by Marianne Brocklehurst

 

Volume Five Issue Six - June/July 2005

Sphinx: History of a Monument by Christiane Zivie-Coche
A Traveler’s Guide to the Geology of Egypt by Bonnie M. Sampsell
The Beetle by Richard Marsh
Gods and Men in Egypt 3000 BCE to 395 CE by Francoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche
Luxor and the Valley of the Kings by Alessandro Bongioanni
Abu Simbel, Aswan and the Nubian Temples by Marco Zecchi
Tales From Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley

 

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Volume Six Issue One -August/September 2005

The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt by Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton
The Great Book of the Pharaohs by T.G.H. James
Egypt Flying High featuring photographs by Marcello Bertinetti, text by Corinna Rossi
The Obelisk: a monumental feature in Britain by Richard Barnes
Warfare in Ancient Egypt by Bridget McDermott
War in Ancient Egypt by Anthony J. Spalinger
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings by Bertha Porter and Rosalind L.B. Moss

 

Volume Six Issue Two - October/November 2005

Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide by Caroline Williams

Egypt from Alexander to the Copts edited by Roger S. Bagnall and Dominic W. Rathbone.

The Mechanical Triumphs of the Ancient Egyptians by Commander F.M. Barber

Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt – Treasures from the British Museum by John H. Taylor and Nigel C. Strudwick.

Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London by Betsy Teasley Trope, Stephen Quirke and Peter Lacovara.

 

Volume Six Issue Three -December 2005 / January 2006

Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt edited by Salima Ikram

Discussions in Egyptology 61 edited by Alessandra Nibbi

The Sculptors’ Models of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods by Nadja Tomoum

Egypt: How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered by Joyce Tyldesley

Nothing New Under the Sun by Kay Bellinger

La Valle Dei Re Riscoperta; I giornali di scavo di Victor Loret (1898-1899)

(The Valley of the Kings Rediscovered: the excavation journals of Victor Loret, 1898-1899) edited by Patrizia Piacentini and Christian Orsenigo.

Women Travellers in the Near East edited by Sarah Searight

Egypt at its Origins: Studies in memory of Barbara Adams edited by S. Hendrickx, R.F. Friedman, K.M. Cialowicz and M. Chlodnicki.

 

Volume Six Issue Four -February / March 2006

Tutankhamun – Speak My Name by Anthony Holmes

Egyptology: the Missing Millennium - Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings by Dr Okasha El Daly

The British Museum Concise Introduction : Ancient Egypt by TGH James

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson

Francis Frith’s Egypt and the Holy Land

Mereruka and his Family: Part I – The Tomb of Meryteti by N. Kanawati and M. Abder-Raziq and others

Amenemone the Chief Goldsmith: a New Kingdom Tomb in the Teti Cemetery at Saqqara by Boyo G. Ockinga with contributions from others

Pocket Dictionary: Pharaohs and Queens by Marcel Maree

The Pocket Timeline of Ancient Egypt by Helen Strudwick

 

Volume Six Issue Five -April / May 2006

The Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, the Sahara, Persia & India by Kristian Davies

Sticks, Stones and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids by Martin Isler

The Discovery of Egypt: Vivant Denon’s travels with Napoleon’s Army by Terence M. Russell

The Treasures of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings by Kent R. Weeks

Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation by Barry Kemp

Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary by Wolfram Grajetzki

The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara: The Falcon Complex and Catacomb – The Archaeological Report by Sue Davies and H.S. Smith

Into the Great Pyramid and Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs Two DVDs produced by National Geographic

The British Museum Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Harris and Delia Pemberton

The British Museum Illustrated Atlas of Ancient Egypt by Delia Pemberton

The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West by James Stevens Curl

 

Volume Six Issue Six -June / July  2006

The Midnight Sun – The Death and Rebirth of God in Ancient Egypt by Alan F Alford
Statuettes funéraires égyptiennes du départment des Monnaies, Médals et Antiquities by Jacques F. Aubert & Liliane Aubert

The Hyksos Period in Egypt by Charlotte Booth

The Art of Death in Graeco-Roman Egypt by Judith A. Corbelli

Akhenaten and the Religion of Light by Erik Hornung

The Book of the Pharaohs by Pascal Vernus and Jean Yoyotte

Graffito Graffiti: Travellers’ Graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan Vol IV, Elkab – the Rock Tombs by Roger O. de Keersmaecker

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide by Janice Kamrin

Stories from Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley

The Pyramids and the Sphinx by Corinna Rossi

The Treasures of Tutankhamun and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo by Alessia Amenta, Photographs by Araldo De Luca

 

Volume Seven Issue One -August / September  2006

Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh edited by Catharine Roehrig

Ancient Egypt: Lithographs by David Roberts R.A. Text by Fabio Bourbon

Cairo: The Family Guide by Lesley Labadidi in collaboration with Dr Lisa Sabbahy

Egyptian Sites: Lahun A town in Egypt 1800 BC, and the history of its landscape by Stephen Quirke

The Symbolic World of Egyptian Amulets by Philippe Germond

More Usefully Employed: Amelia Edwards, writer, traveller and campaigner for ancient Egypt by Brenda Moon

Matilda Betham-Edwards: Novelist, Travel Writer and Francophile by Joan Rees

Music - The Psalms of Ra: (CD and Book)

Mozart in Egypt (CD)

 

Volume Seven Issue Two - October / November  2006

The Cat in Ancient Egypt by Jaromir Malek

Cairo Cats: Egypt's Enduring Legacy by Lorraine Chittock

Photographing Egypt: Forty Years Behind the Lens by John Feeney

Clothing Culture: Dress in Egypt in the First Millennium AD by Frances Pritchard

Egypt's Sunken Treasures Edited by Franck Goddio and Manfred Clauss

Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times Edited by Elaine K. Gazdaby

A Velvet Silence - Pinhole Photographs of Egypt and Israel by David Wise

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt by Wolfram Grajetzki

Lost Nubia: A Centennial Exhibit of Photographs from the 1905-1907 Egyptian Expedition of the University of Chicago by John A. Larson

 

Volume Seven Issue Three - December  2006 / January 2007

Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders by Zahi Hawass

The British Museum: Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt by Nigel Strudwick

Chronicle of the Pharaohs by Peter Clayton

Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley

Egyptian Mummies: Radiological Atlas of the Collection in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden By Maarten J. Raven and Wybren K. Taconis

Magic in Ancient Egypt By Geraldine Pinch

An Ancient Egyptian Herbal By Lise Manniche

Tutankhamun’s Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery Photographs by Harry Burton, Text by Susan J. Allen

Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann

The Treasures of Tutankhamun by Jaromir Malek

Rescuing the Past: The Cultural Heritage Crusade by Jonathan Tokeley

 

Volume Seven Issue Four - February/March 2007

Journey to Immortality by Wafaa El-Saddik

Karnak: Evolution of a Temple by Elizabeth Blyth

The Pyramid Complex of Raneferef: The Archaeology by Mirosalv Verner and others

Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God by Bojana Mojsov

Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt:300 BC - AD 800 by Roger S. Bagnall and Rafaella Cribiore

Ancient Egypt, Pyramids and Hieroglyphs: Enduring Symbols of a Great Civilisation by Aidan Dodson

The Nile: From the Mountains to the Mediterranean by Aldo Pavan

House of the Eagle by Duncan Sprott

Daughter of the Crocodile by Duncan Sprott

An A-Z of Ancient Egypt by Simon Cox and Susan Davies

Offerings from the British Museum by Wendy Goodridge and Stuart Williams

Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, dreams, and prophecy in ancient Egypt Edited by Kasia Szpakowska

World music CD: El Tanbura, Between the Desert and the SeaJourney to Immortality by Wafaa El-Saddik

 

Volume Seven Issue Five - April/May 2007

The Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art of Thebes Revealed by Zahi Hawass. Photographs by Sandro Vannini

The Complete Tutankhamun: The King, The Tomb, The Royal Treasure by Nicholas Reeves

Death in Ancient Egypt by Bridget McDermott

Mummies and Death in Egypt by Françoise Dunand and Roger Lichtenberg (translated from the French by David Lorton)

Ancient Egypt: Foundations of a Civilisation by Douglas J. Brewer

Lepsius – The German Nile Expedition by Agnette von Specht

The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara: Vol. VIII, The Tomb of Inumin by Naguib Kanawati and others

A Shattered Visage Lies ... Nineteenth Century Poetry Inspired by Ancient Egypt Edited by Donald P. Ryan

 

Volume Seven Issue Six - June/July 2007

The Art of David Roberts

The Realm of the Pharaohs by Zahi Hawass

Egypt in Miniature, Volume One: The Chapel of Kagemni Scene Details by Yvonne Harpur and
Paolo Scremin

The Mummy's Curse: Mummymania in the English-Speaking World by Jasmine Day

The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited by John Romer

Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum by Stephanie Moser

 

Volume Eight Issue One - August/September 2007

Akhenaten and Tutankhamun: Revolution and Restoration by David P. Silverman, Joseph W. Wegner and
Jennifer Houser Wegner

People of Ancient Egypt by Charlotte Booth

Napoleon's Pyramids by William Dietricht

The Rosetta Stone and the rebirth of Ancient Egypt by John Ray

The Great Belzoni by Stanley Mayes

The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the making of an English country house by Anne Sebba

The Gayer Anderson Cat by Neal Spencer

Egyptian Games and Sports by Joyce Tyldesley

Lords of Avaris by David Rohl

Who Really Killed Alexander the Great - An Archeo Biological Solution by Rick Baudé

 

Volume Eight Issue Two - October/November 2007

Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection Edited by Carol Andrews and Jacobus van Dijk

The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt Edited by A.J. Spencer, and written by the Keeper and staff of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

Imagining Egypt: A living Portrait of the Time of the Pharaohs by Mark Millmore

Amarna Palace Paintings by Fran Weatherhead

Giza Reports: The Giza Mapping Project, Volume 1: Project History, Survey, Ceramics and Main Street and Gallery III.4 Operations Edited by Mark Lehner and Wilma Wetterstrom

Abusir X The Pyramid Complex of Raneferef: The Papyrus Archive by Paule Posener-Kriéger, Miroslav Verner and Hana Vymazalová

The Sphinx Revealed: A Forgotten Record of Pioneering Excavations Edited by Patricia Usick and Deborah Manley

Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Angela McDonald

Territorial Appropriation During the Old Kingdom (XXVIIth-XXIIIrd centuries BC) - The royal necropolises and the pyramid towns in Egypt by Silva Lupo, 2007

Private Religion at Amarna: the Material Evidence by Anna Stevens, 2006

 

Volume Eight Issue Three - December  2007 / January 2008

 

Discovery: Unearthing the New Treasures of Archaeology. Editor, Brian M. Fagan

Tutankhamun's Egypt by Frances Welsh

Lives of the Ancient Egyptians by Toby Wilkinson

The Egyptian World Edited by Toby Wilkinson

The Rough Guide to Egypt by Dan Richardson, Daniel Jacobs and others

The Great Mysteries of Archaeology: Tutankhamun by Renzo Rossi

Growing Up and Getting Old in Ancient Egypt by Rosalind M. and Jac. J. Janssen

Antony & Cleopatra by Patricia Southern Published by Tempus Publishing, 2007

Cleopatra: Queen, Lover, Legend by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Ancient Egypt by David Pickering

Art & Architecture: Egypt by Matthias Seidel, Regine Schutz and others

The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Edited by Miroslav Barta

Karl Ludwig Libay: Egypt - Travel Sketches from the Orient Edited by Dusan Magdolen and Lucie Storchová

 

Volume Eight Issue Four -February/March 2008

 

Omm Sety’s Egypt by Hanny el Zeini & Catherine Dees

The Two Brothers: Death and the Afterlife in Middle Kingdom Egypt by Rosalie David

An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt Edited by Kathryn A. Bard

New Books on Tutankhamun

The Rough Guide to Tutankhamun by Michael Haag

Tutankhamun: The Eternal Splendor of the Boy Pharaoh Text by TGH James, photos. by Araldo De Luca

King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb by Zahi Hawass. Photos by Sandro Vannini.

Tutankhamun: Ultimate Activity Book by Hendrikje Nouwens

The Tutankhamun File: The Secrets of the Tomb and the Life of the Pharaohs by Jaromir Malek

Tutankhamun’s Cookbook: Ancient Egyptian Cooking by Jackie Ridley

Carnarvon & Carter by Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon

The Boy Behind the Mask: Meeting the Real Tutankhamun by Charlotte Booth

CD: Coffee Time by the Bedouin Jerry Can Band

 

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