Portal:Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Works written during the Egyptian era

Historical accounts

• An Account of the Battle of Megiddo
• The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita, (1326 BCE)
• Account of Egypt (5th century BCE), by Herodotus, translated by G. C. Macaulay

Ritual texts

• Hymn to Osiris-Sokar
• Hymn to the Nile
• The Laments of Isis and Nephthys
• Charm for the Protection of a Child
• The Book of the Dead[1]
• Hymns to Isis[2]

Stories

• The Shipwrecked Sailor
• Tale of the Doomed Prince
• The Magic Book, ~1130 BCE by Princess Ahura

Other

• Papyrus of Ani
• Text from the Rosetta Stone
• The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep
• Ancient Egyptian Love Poems ~2000-1100 BCE
• The Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Own Soul

Modern Works about Ancient Egypt

Books

• Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson (with Arthur Gilman)
• Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman (please add this text to Wikisource!)
• The Tombs of Ancient Egypt by Walter L. Nash IA
• The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt, 2nd ed., 1910 by W. M. F. Petrie IA
• New Light on Ancient Egypt by Gaston Maspero
• Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes, 1910 by Gaston Maspero
• Ancient Egypt, Her Testimony to the Truth of the Bible by William Osburn, 1846

Articles

• "An Account of a Mummy, inspected at London 1763" as it appeared in Philosophical Transactions, volume 54
• "Glass-Making in Ancient Egypt" in Littell's Living Age, 5 (57) 1845
• "Egypt under the Pharaohs" as it appeared in The International Magazine 1851
• "Cleopatra's Needle" as it appeared in The International Magazine
• "Egyptian Monuments" in Littell's Living Age, 66 (842) 1860
• "The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians" in Littell's Living Age, 140 (1803) 1879
• "Ancient Egypt" in Littell's Living Age
  • "Ancient Egypt - Part I" in Littell's Living Age, 140 (1810) 1879
  • "Ancient Egypt - Part II" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1819)
• "Destruction of Egyptian Monuments" in Littell's Living Age, 153 (1972) as it appeared in Littell's Living Age
• "The Pyramid of Cheops" in The North American Review 1883
• "Two Ancient Races," in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (December 1891)

Reference works

• "Egypt," in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
• "Egypt," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Egypt," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Egypt," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)

Poems

• “Egypt,” poem by Richard Watson Gilder

See also

• Portal:Egypt