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A Bibliography of my Collection


Sections:
Archaeology
Egyptian Literature
Mesopotamian Literature
Anthologies & Secondary Literature


Regions:
  1. America
  2. Anatolia
  3. Egypt
  4. Europe
  5. Greece & Crete
  6. Mesopotamia
  7. Lebanon & Palestine
  8. Anthologies & Secondary Literature


    America

  1. Fagan, Brian. Elusive Treasure: The Story of Early Archaeologists in the Americas. 1977. London: Book Club Associates / Macdonald and Jane’s Publishers Limited, 1978.


    2. Anatolia

  2. Gurney, O. R. The Hittites. 1952. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

  3. Kitchen, K. A. Suppiluliuma and the Amarna Pharaohs: A Study in Relative Chronology. Liverpool Monographs in Archaeology and Oriental Studies. Ed. H. W. Fairman. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1962.


    4. Egypt

  4. Adkins, Lesley & Roy. The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code. 2000. Perennial. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2001.

  5. Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten: Pharaoh of Egypt - A New Study. 1968. London: Abacus, 1972.

  6. Aldred, Cyril. Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs, 3100-320 BC. London: Thames & Hudson, 1980.

  7. Barocas, Claudio. Monuments of Civilization: Egypt. Introduction by Oscar Niemeyer. 1970. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1973.

  8. Carter, Howard. The Tomb of Tutankhamen. 1954. London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1972.

  9. Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane. Tutankhamen: Life and Death of a Pharaoh. Trans. Claude. 1963. London: World Books, 1969.

  10. Edwards, I. E. S. The Pyramids of Egypt. Drawings by John Cruikshank Rose. 1947. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.

  11. Fletcher, Joann. The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of a Remarkable Discovery. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.

  12. Gardiner, Sir Alan. Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction. 1961. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.

  13. Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. 1990. London: Vintage Books, 1991.

  14. Jackson, Kevin & Jonathan Stamp. Pyramid: Beyond Imagination. Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. London: BBC, 2002.

  15. Neubert, Otto. Tutankhamun and the Valley of the Kings. 1954. Trans. 1957. London: Mayflower Books, Ltd., 1972.

  16. Newby, P. H. Warrior Pharaohs: The Rise and Fall of the Egyptian Empire. London: Faber, 1980.

  17. Romer, John. Valley of the Kings. 1981. A Phoenix Press Paperback. London: Orion Publishing Group Limited, 2001.


    18. Europe

  18. Alcock, Leslie. Arthur’s Britain: History and Archaeology, AD 367-634. 1971. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.

  19. Burl, Aubrey. Rings of Stone: The Prehistoric Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland. Photographs by Edward Piper. 1979. New Haven & New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1980.

  20. Chadwick, Nora. The Celts. Introductory Chapter by J. N. W. P. Corcoran. A Pelican Original. 1970. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

  21. Fowler, Brenda. Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier. 2000. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001.

  22. Glob, P. V. The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved. 1965. Trans. Rupert Bruce-Mitford. 1969. A Paladin Book. 1971. Frogmore, St Albans: Granada Publishing Ltd., 1975.

  23. Glob, P. V. The Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved. 1970. Trans. Joan Bulman. 1974. A Paladin Book. London: Granada Publishing Ltd., 1983.

  24. Hawkins, Gerald S., & John B. White. Stonehenge Decoded. 1966. Fontana Books. London: Collins, 1974.

  25. Spindler, Konrad. The Man in the Ice: The Preserved body of a Neolithic man reveals the secrets of the Stone Age. 1993. Trans. Ewald Osers. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994.

  26. Trinkaus, Erik, & Pat Shipman. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind. 1993. London: Pimlico, 1994.


    27. Greece & Crete

  27. Chadwick, John. The Decipherment of Linear B. 1958. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961.

  28. Deuel, Leo, ed. Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: A Documentary Portrait Drawn from His Autobiographical Writings, Letters, and Excavation Reports. 1977. London: Hutchinson, 1978.

  29. Wunderlich, Hans Georg. The Secret of Crete. 1972. Trans. Richard Winston. 1974. Glasgow: Fontana/ Collins, 1978.


    30. Mesopotamia

  30. Adkins, Lesley. Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost languages of Babylon. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.

  31. Kramer, Samuel Noah. History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-seven “Firsts” in Man’s Recorded History. 1956. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959.

  32. Roux, Georges. Ancient Iraq. 1964. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

  33. Woolley, Sir Leonard. Ur of the Chaldees: A Record of Seven Years of Excavation. 1929. A Pelican Book. 1938. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.

  34. Woolley, Sir Leonard. Digging Up the Past. 1930. A Pelican Book. 1937. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959.


    35. Lebanon & Palestine

  35. Albright, William Foxwell. The Archaeology of Palestine. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.

  36. Moscati, Sabatino. The World of the Phoenicians. 1965. Trans. Alastair Hamilton. 1968. London: Cardinal, 1973.


    37. Anthologies & Secondary Literature

  37. Bacon, Edward, ed. The Great Archaeologists: The Modern World's Discovery of Ancient Civilisations as Originally Reported in the Pages of the Illustrated London News, 1842-1975. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1976.

  38. Deuel, Leo. Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records. 1965. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1966.

  39. Frankfort, Henri. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. 1954. The Pelican History of Art. Ed. Nikolaus Pevsner & Judy Nairn. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.

  40. Man, John. Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World. Bantam Press. London: Transworld Publishers, 2017.

  41. Pope, Maurice. The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphic to Linear B. The World of Archaeology. Ed. Glyn Daniel. London: Thames & Hudson, 1975.

  42. Silverberg, Robert, ed. Great Adventures in Archaeology: From Belzoni to Woolley. 1964. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.

  43. Vallejo, Irene. Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. ['El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo', 2019]. Trans. Charlotte Whittle. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., 2022.

  44. Vanished Civilisations. Trans. Anon. Sydney: Reader’s Digest Services Pty Limited., 1983.


Egyptian Dancers (c.1400 BC)

Near-Eastern Literature

[39 books]


  1. Erman, Adolf, ed. The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their Writings. 1923. Trans. Aylward M. Blackman. 1927. Introduction by William K. Simpson. Harper Torchbooks / The Academy Library. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

  2. Faulkner, R. O., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. 1972. Ed. Carol Andrews. London: Guild Publishing, 1985.

  3. Foster, John L., trans. Love Songs of the New Kingdom. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974.

  4. Fowler, Barbara Hughes, trans. Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

  5. Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. 3 vols. Vol. I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms. 1973. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1975.

  6. Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. 3 vols. Vol. II: The New Kingdom. 1974. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1976.

  7. Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. 3 vols. Vol. III: The Late Period. 1978. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1980.

  8. Petrie, Sir Flinders, ed. Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri. 1st Series: IVth to XIIth Dynasty. Illustrated by Tristram Ellis. 1895. London: Methuen, 1926.

  9. Petrie, Sir Flinders, ed. Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri. 2nd Series: XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty. Illustrated by Tristram Ellis. 1895. London: Methuen, 1926.

  10. Wallis Budge, Sir Ernest A., trans. Egyptian Tales and Romances: Pagan, Christian and Muslim. 1931. Keystone Library. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1935.

  11. Wallis Budge, Sir Ernest A., trans. The Book of the Dead: The Hieroglyphic Transcript and Translation into English of the Ancient Egyptian Papryus of Ani. 1895. New York: Gramercy Books, 1999.

  12. Wilkinson, Toby, trans. Writings from Ancient Egypt. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2016.




  13. Dalley, Stephanie, trans. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. 1989. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

  14. Finkel, Irving. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood. Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. New York: Random House LLC, 2014.

  15. Gardner, John & John Maier, with Richard A. Henshaw, trans. Gilgamesh: Translated from the Sîn-leqi-unninni version. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.

  16. George, Andrew, trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. 1999. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.

  17. Sandars, N. K., trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh. 1960. Rev. ed. 1972. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.

  18. Sandars, N. K., trans. Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.

  19. Wolkstein, Diane, & Samuel Noah Kramer. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer. Art compiled by Elizabeth Williams-Forte. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.




  20. McNeil, William H., & Jean W. Sedlar, ed. The Ancient Near East. Readings in World History. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

  21. Pritchard, James, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 1950. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955.

  22. Pritchard, James B., ed. The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. 1958. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.

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