Sections:
Archaeology
Egyptian Literature
Mesopotamian Literature
Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Regions:
- America
- Anatolia
- Egypt
- Europe
- Greece & Crete
- Mesopotamia
- Lebanon & Palestine
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
- America
- Fagan, Brian. Elusive Treasure: The Story of Early Archaeologists in the Americas. 1977. London: Book Club Associates / Macdonald and Jane’s Publishers Limited, 1978.
- Gurney, O. R. The Hittites. 1952. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
- 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.
- Adkins, Lesley & Roy. The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code. 2000. Perennial. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2001.
- Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten: Pharaoh of Egypt - A New Study. 1968. London: Abacus, 1972.
- Aldred, Cyril. Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs, 3100-320 BC. London: Thames & Hudson, 1980.
- Barocas, Claudio. Monuments of Civilization: Egypt. Introduction by Oscar Niemeyer. 1970. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1973.
- Carter, Howard. The Tomb of Tutankhamen. 1954. London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1972.
- Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane. Tutankhamen: Life and Death of a Pharaoh. Trans. Claude. 1963. London: World Books, 1969.
- Edwards, I. E. S. The Pyramids of Egypt. Drawings by John Cruikshank Rose. 1947. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.
- Fletcher, Joann. The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of a Remarkable Discovery. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.
- Gardiner, Sir Alan. Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction. 1961. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
- Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. 1990. London: Vintage Books, 1991.
- Jackson, Kevin & Jonathan Stamp. Pyramid: Beyond Imagination. Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. London: BBC, 2002.
- Neubert, Otto. Tutankhamun and the Valley of the Kings. 1954. Trans. 1957. London: Mayflower Books, Ltd., 1972.
- Newby, P. H. Warrior Pharaohs: The Rise and Fall of the Egyptian Empire. London: Faber, 1980.
- Romer, John. Valley of the Kings. 1981. A Phoenix Press Paperback. London: Orion Publishing Group Limited, 2001.
- Alcock, Leslie. Arthur’s Britain: History and Archaeology, AD 367-634. 1971. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
- 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.
- Chadwick, Nora. The Celts. Introductory Chapter by J. N. W. P. Corcoran. A Pelican Original. 1970. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
- 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.
- 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.
- Glob, P. V. The Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved. 1970. Trans. Joan Bulman. 1974. A Paladin Book. London: Granada Publishing Ltd., 1983.
- Hawkins, Gerald S., & John B. White. Stonehenge Decoded. 1966. Fontana Books. London: Collins, 1974.
- 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.
- Trinkaus, Erik, & Pat Shipman. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind. 1993. London: Pimlico, 1994.
- Chadwick, John. The Decipherment of Linear B. 1958. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961.
- Deuel, Leo, ed. Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: A Documentary Portrait Drawn from His Autobiographical Writings, Letters, and Excavation Reports. 1977. London: Hutchinson, 1978.
- Wunderlich, Hans Georg. The Secret of Crete. 1972. Trans. Richard Winston. 1974. Glasgow: Fontana/ Collins, 1978.
- Adkins, Lesley. Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost languages of Babylon. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.
- Kramer, Samuel Noah. History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-seven “Firsts” in Man’s Recorded History. 1956. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959.
- Roux, Georges. Ancient Iraq. 1964. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
- Woolley, Sir Leonard. Ur of the Chaldees: A Record of Seven Years of Excavation. 1929. A Pelican Book. 1938. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.
- Woolley, Sir Leonard. Digging Up the Past. 1930. A Pelican Book. 1937. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959.
- Albright, William Foxwell. The Archaeology of Palestine. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.
- Moscati, Sabatino. The World of the Phoenicians. 1965. Trans. Alastair Hamilton. 1968. London: Cardinal, 1973.
- 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.
- Deuel, Leo. Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records. 1965. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1966.
- Frankfort, Henri. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. 1954. The Pelican History of Art. Ed. Nikolaus Pevsner & Judy Nairn. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
- Man, John. Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World. Bantam Press. London: Transworld Publishers, 2017.
- Pope, Maurice. The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphic to Linear B. The World of Archaeology. Ed. Glyn Daniel. London: Thames & Hudson, 1975.
- Silverberg, Robert, ed. Great Adventures in Archaeology: From Belzoni to Woolley. 1964. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
- 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.
- Vanished Civilisations. Trans. Anon. Sydney: Reader’s Digest Services Pty Limited., 1983.
Anatolia
Egypt
Europe
Greece & Crete
Mesopotamia
Lebanon & Palestine
Anthologies & Secondary Literature
- 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.
- Faulkner, R. O., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. 1972. Ed. Carol Andrews. London: Guild Publishing, 1985.
- Foster, John L., trans. Love Songs of the New Kingdom. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974.
- Fowler, Barbara Hughes, trans. Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
- 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.
- Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. 3 vols. Vol. II: The New Kingdom. 1974. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1976.
- Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. 3 vols. Vol. III: The Late Period. 1978. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1980.
- Petrie, Sir Flinders, ed. Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri. 1st Series: IVth to XIIth Dynasty. Illustrated by Tristram Ellis. 1895. London: Methuen, 1926.
- Petrie, Sir Flinders, ed. Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri. 2nd Series: XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty. Illustrated by Tristram Ellis. 1895. London: Methuen, 1926.
- Wallis Budge, Sir Ernest A., trans. Egyptian Tales and Romances: Pagan, Christian and Muslim. 1931. Keystone Library. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1935.
- 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.
- Wilkinson, Toby, trans. Writings from Ancient Egypt. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2016.
- Dalley, Stephanie, trans. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. 1989. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Finkel, Irving. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood. Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. New York: Random House LLC, 2014.
- Gardner, John & John Maier, with Richard A. Henshaw, trans. Gilgamesh: Translated from the Sîn-leqi-unninni version. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
- George, Andrew, trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. 1999. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.
- Sandars, N. K., trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh. 1960. Rev. ed. 1972. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
- Sandars, N. K., trans. Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
- 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.
- McNeil, William H., & Jean W. Sedlar, ed. The Ancient Near East. Readings in World History. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
- Pritchard, James, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 1950. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955.
- Pritchard, James B., ed. The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. 1958. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
