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LIBRARY of THE EGYPTIAN SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA

The books in the Society library are classified according to the International Dewey System – the list below is adapted from the system. The titles of DVD’s and videos will no longer appear on the website; however, they are for loan; for more information contact the Librarian Lyne McLennan. Items in the Archives and Reference section may be viewed at the Society Library. To Contact Lyne McLennan telephone 021 797 3497 or email vicult@mweb.co.za.

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069 MUSEOLOGY [MUSEUM SCIENCE] – MUSEUMS

Athens – The City and its Museums [Compiled by Archaeologist Iris Douskou [Archeologist] Athens 1983
Delphi – The Archaeological site and the Museum [Compiled by Petros G. Themelis, Director of the Delphi Musuem. Athen 1980 100p.:ill. (With a large fold-out reconstruction of Delphi).
Guide to Delphi – [Compiled by Panayotis Geroussis] Christos Christou Athens 1966
The Illustrated Guide to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo[Edited by Alessandro Bongioanni & Maria Sole Croce] American University in Cairo Press 2001
Herakleion Museum & Archaeological Sites of Crete [Compiled by Manolis Andronicus, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Thessalonike] 1981
National Museum [Compiled by Manolis Andronicus, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Thessalonike]
Rhodes – Lindos – Kamiros – Filerimos- The Palace of the Grand Masters & the Museum [Compiled by A.B. Tataki, Archaeologist] 1979 (With a large fold-out map of the Island and detailed town-plans)

071 NEWS MEDIA, JOURNALISM & PUBLISHING IN NORTH AMERICA.

National Geographic – Egyptian Articles
An Omnibus of selected articles on Egypt related subjects, donated by TESSA members, ranging from March 1977 – June 2005

090 ANCIENT WISDOM / ESOTERIC

Appleby, Nigel – Hall of the gods [2 copies] 1998
Bauval, Robert & Hancock, Graham – Keeper of Genesis – A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind [3 copies] 2000
Bauval, Robert – Secret Chamber – The Quest for the Hall of Records [2 copies] 2000
Brunton, Paul – A Search in Secret Egypt [19-?]
Clark, Rosemary – The sacred tradition in Ancient Egypt – The esoteric wisdom revealed. 2000
Freke, Timothy & Gandy, Peter – The Hermetica – The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs 1997
Gilbert, Adrian – Magi – The Quest for a Secret Tradition 2000
Hancock, Graham – Fingerprints of the gods – A quest for the beginning and the end. [2copies] 1996 & 1998
Hancock, Graham & Bauval, Robert – The Message of the Sphinx – A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind. 1996
Hope, Murry – The Sirius Connection – Unlocking the secrets of Ancient Egypt. 1997
Hope, Murry – The Ancient Wisdom of Egypt. 1998
Lamy, Lucy – Egyptian Mysteries – New light on ancient knowledge.

090 TUT/COT

Cotterel, Maurice – The Tutankhamun Prophecies – The Sacred secret of the Mayas, Egyptians and Freemasons. 1999
West, John Anthony – Serpent in the sky – The high wisdom of Ancient Egypt.
Wilson, Colin – From Atlantis to the Sphinx – Recovering the lost wisdom of the Ancient World.

090.6 METEORITE THEORISTS

Alford, Alan F. – When the gods came down. [2 copies]

093 PYRAMIDOLOGY

Capt. E. Raymond – The Great Pyramid Decoded.
David, Rosalie – The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt – A modern investigation of Pharaoh’s workforce.
Dodson, Aidan – The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt. [3 copies]
Edwards, I.E.S. – The Pyramids of Egypt. 1972
Edwards, I.E.S. – The Pyramids of Egypt. 1979
Edwards, I.E.S – The Pyramids of Egypt [Revised edition 1991]
Hodges, Peter – How the Pyramids were built.
Jackson, Kevin & Stamp, Jonathan – Pyramid: Beyond Imagination – Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Lawton, Ian & Ogilvie-Herald, Chris – Giza: The truth – The people, politics and history behind the world’s most famous archaeological site.
Lehner, Mark – The Complete Pyramids.
Siliotti, Alberto – The Pyramids.
Smyth, Piazzi – The Great Pyramid – Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed
Stewart, Desmond – The Pyramids and Sphinx – Egypt under the Pharaohs.(Wonders of Man Series)
Tompkins, Peter – Secrets of the Great Pyramid.
Tyldesley, Joyce – Pyramids – The real story behind Egypt’s most ancient monuments.
Verner, Miroslav – The Pyramids – Their Archaeology and History. [2 copies]
(Translated from the German by Steven Rendall)

095 HISTORICAL MYSTERIES

Bauval, Robert & Gilbert, Adrian – The Orion Mystery – Unlocking the secrets of the pyramids.
Cox, Simon & Davies, Susan – Looking at the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
Dirker, Hendrik G. – Zep Tepi – The First Time. [2 copies]
Dirker, Hendrik G. – Zep Tepi – The Conclusion. [2 copies]
Heyerdahl, Thor – The Ra Expeditions [Translated from the Norwegian by Patricia Crampton]
Phillips, Graham – Act of God – Moses, Tutankhamun and the Myth of Atlantis.[3 copies]
Doherty, Paul – The mysterious death of Tutankhamun
Doherty, Paul – The mysterious death of Tutankhamun. [Revised Paperback Edition] 2003
Hoving, Thomas – Tutankhamun – The Untold Story
O’Farrell, Gerald – The Tutankhamun Deception – The true story of the Mummy’s curse.
Vandenberg, Philipp – The curse of the Pharaohs
Wynne, Barry – Behind the Mask of Tutankhamun
100 ARCHAEOLOGY
Adkins, Lesley and Roy – An introduction to Archaeology
Bahn, Paul G. – The Story of Archaeology
Burney, Charles – From Village to Empire – An introduction to Near Eastern archaeology
Ceram, C.W. – Gods, graves, and scholars – The Story of Archaeology
Ceram, C.W. – Gods, graves, and scholars – The Story of Archaeology [Revised 1956]
Ceram, C.W. – Gods, Graves and Scholars – The Story of Archaeology Second Revised Enlarged Edition]
Clark, Grahame – Archaeology and Society
Cottrell, Leonard – The Anvil of Civilization
Cottrell, Leonard – Digs and Diggers – A Book of World Archaeology
David, Rosalie – Discovering Ancient Egypt
David, Rosalie – The experience of Ancient Egypt
Lloyd, Seton – Foundations in the Dust – A Story of Mesopotamian Exploration
MacKendrick, Paul – The Greek Stones Speak – The Story of Archaeology in Greek Lands
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer – Archaeology from the Earth
Woolley, Sir Leonard – Digging up the Past

109 HISTORICAL TREATMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

Aristotle – Ethics [The Ethics of Aristotle – The Nicomachean Ethics] / Aristotle {Translated by J.A.K. Thomson]
Zeller, Eduard – Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy

130 PARANORMAL PHENOMENA

Fletcher, H. Clarkson – Memphis Speaks – When King Mena Reigned – A Psychic Study

133 PARAPSYCHOLOGY & OCCULTISM

Bromage, Bernard – The occult arts of ancient Egypt
Tritton, Rod – Exploring Mystery-Changing History, Taking responsibility

137 DIVINATION

Harris, Eleanor, L. – Ancient Egyptian Divination and Magic

150 NEW CHRONOLOGY

Rohl, David – A Test of Time: (Volume l) The Bible – From Myth to History [3 copies]
Rohl, David – A Test of Time: (Volume 2) Legend; The Genesis of Civilization [3 copies]
Rohl, David – From Eden to Exile – The Epic History of the People of the Bible.

184 PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY

Plato – Symposium / Plato [ Edited by Kenneth Dover]

292 CLASSICAL (GREEK & ROMAN) RELIGION (MYTHOLOGY)

Birchall, Ann & Corbett, P.E. – Greek gods & heroes
Graves, Robert – The Greek Myths: Volume 1
Graves, Robert – The Greek Myths: Volume 2 [Fold-out map attached at back]
Nilsson, Martin Persson – A History of Greek Religion. [Translated from the Swedish by F. J. Fielden]
Rose, H.J. – Religion in Greece and Rome
Seltman, Charles – The Twelve Olympians – gods and goddesses of Greece

299.31 RELIGION – EGYPT

O’Connor, David – Abydos, Egypt’s first Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris
The Book of the Dead : Papyri of Ani, Hunefer, Anhai / Commentaries by Evelyn Rossiter
The Book of the Dead : Famous Egyptian papyri / Commentaries by Evelyn Rossiter
Budge, E.A.Wallis – The Book of the Dead – The Hieroglyphic transcript and translation into English of the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus of Ani
Faulkner, Dr. Raymond O. – The Egyptian Book of the Dead – The Book of Going Forth By Day. Translated by Dr. Raymond O. Faulkner [2 copies]
Dr Ramses Seleem – The Egyptian Book of Life – A true translation of The Egyptian Book of the Dead Dr. Ramses Seleem
Budge, E.A.Wallis – Egyptian Religion – Egyptian ideas of the future life
David, Rosalie – Religion and magic in Ancient Egypt
Faulkner, R.O. – The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
Gadalla, Moustafa – Egyptian Divinities – The all who are the one
The Holy Family in Egypt – Egyptian Ministry of Tourism [2 copies]
Oakes, Lorna – Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt
Quirke, Stephen – Ancient Egyptian Religion
Rebel in the soul : a sacred text of Ancient Egypt – translations & commentary by Bika Reed
Sauneron, Serge – The Priests of Ancient Egypt [Translated by Ann Morrisett]
Shafer, Byron E. – Temples of Ancient Egypt
Shorter, Alan W – The Egyptian gods : A handbook
Watterson, Barbara – Gods of Ancient Egypt

300 MYTHS AND LEGENDS – ANCIENT EGYPT

Ames, Delano – Egyptian Mythology (Translated from Mythologie Generale)
Budge, E.A.Wallis – The gods of the Egyptians – Studies in Egyptian Mythology Volume 1
Budge, E.A.Wallis – The gods of the Egyptians – Studies in Egyptian Mythology Volume 2
Clark, R.T. Rundle – Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt [2 copies]
de Beler, Aude Gros – Egyptian Mythology
Dee, Jonathan – Chronicles of Ancient Egypt
A Geddes & Grosset Book – Ancient Egypt: Myth and History
A Geddes & Grosset Book – Ancient Egypt: Myth and History [ ( Reprinted: 2002)
Gros de Beler, Aude – Egyptian Mythology
Hart, George – Egyptian Myths (The Legendary Past Series)
Hooke, S.H. – Middle Eastern Mythology
Ions, Veronica – Egyptian Mythology (Library of the world’s myths and legends)
Ions, Veronica – Egyptian Mythology (Library of the worlds myths and legends)1982
Patrick, Richard – All Colour Book of Egyptian Mythology
Spence, Lewis – Egypt – Myth & Legends

390 FOLKLORE AND CUSTOMS

391 COSTUME AND PERSONAL APPEARANCE

Houston, Mary G – Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian Costume – and Decoration

411 HIEROGLYPHICS

Adkins, Lesley and Roy – The Keys of Egypt – The race to read the hieroglyphs [2 copies]
Allen, James P. – Middle Egyptian – An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs
Ardagh, Philip – The Hieroglyphic Handbook – Teach yourself Ancient Egyptian
Collier, Mark and Manley, Bill – How to read Egyptian Hieroglyphs – A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself [3 copies]
Davies, W.V. – Egyptian Hieroglyphs – (Reading the Past) [3 copies]
De Buck, Dr.A. – Egyptian Reading book – Exercises and Middle Egyptian Texts
Dodson, Aidan – The Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt
Downs, Jonathan – Discovery at Rosetta – The Stone that unlocked the Mysteries of Egypt.
Englund, Gertie – Middle Egyptian – An Introduction (Second Edition)
Gosline, Sheldon Lee – Writing Late Egyptian Hieratic : a beginner’s primer
Lichtheim, Miriam – Ancient Egyptian Literature – Volume 11: The New Kingdom
Malek, Jaromir – ABC of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Mercer, S.A.B. – Egyptian Hieroglyphic Grammar
Parkinson, Richard – Pocket Guide to Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs – How to read and write Ancient Egyptian
Rose, John – Egyptian Hieroglyphs : a concise method of translation (A self-teaching manual]
Sole, Robert & Valbelle, Dominique – The Rosetta Stone – The story of the decoding of Hieroglyphics
Spencer, Neal – The British Museum Book of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Wilson, Hilary – Understanding Hieroglyphs

411.4 WRITING SYSTEMS – LINEAR B

Chadwick, John – The Decipherment of Linear B

492.7 ARABIC LANGUAGE

Mitchell, T.F. – An introduction to Egyptian colloquial Arabic
500 SCIENCE / SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS

509 HISTORICAL, AREAS, PERSONS, TREATMENT – { EARLY CITIES etc. }

Cottrell, Leonard – Lost Cities
Hamblin, Dora Jane – The First Cities / Dora Jane Hamblin and the Editors of Time – Life Books
560 DINOSAURS [PALEONTOLOGY]
Nothdurft, William, with Smith, Josh – The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

590 ANIMALS AND BIRDS

Porter, Richard and Cottridge, David – A Photographic Guide to Birds of Egypt and the Middle East
Clutton – Brock, Juliet – British Museum book of cats
Malek, Jaromir – The cat in Ancient Egypt
595 HUMANITY {EVERYDAY LIFE IN EGYPT, GREECE & ROME}
Barrow, Robin – Athenian Democracy – The Triumph and the Folly
Boase, Wendy – A Closer Look at Ancient Egypt
Brockhampton Press – A Journey through Ancient Egypt
Burn, A. R. – Pericles and Athens
Carcopino, Jerome – Daily Life in Ancient Rome
Cary, M. and Haarhoff, T.J. – Life and thought in the Greek and Roman World
Cottrell, Leonard – Life under the Pharaohs
Cowell, F.R. – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
Dee, Jonathan – Chronicles of Ancient Egypt
Ferguson, Sheila – Growing up in Ancient Egypt
Finley, M. I. – The Ancient Greeks
Fletcher, Joann – Ancient Egypt – Life, Myth and Art [2 copies]
Glanville, S.R.K. – The Legacy of Egypt
Hagen, Rose-Marie and Rainer – Egypt: People, gods, pharaohs [2 copies]
Kemp, Barry J. – Ancient Egypt – Anatomy of a Civilization
Lindsay, Jack – Daily Life in Roman Egypt
Millard, Anne – Ancient Egypt – Everyday Life in Egyptian Times (An Usborne Pocket Guide)
Millard, Anne – The Egyptians
Millard, Anne – Ancient Egypt – Great Civilizations 1 (Series)
Putnam, James & Pemberton, Jeremy – Amazing facts about Ancient Egypt
Montet, Pierre – Everyday Life in Egypt – In the days of Ramesses the Great
Ray, John – Reflections of Osiris – Lives from Ancient Egypt
Robinson, C.E. – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece
Romant, Bernard – Life in Egypt in Ancient Times
Romer, John – Romer’s Egypt – A New Light on the Civilization of Ancient Egypt
Parker, Meg – Socrates and Athens
Starr, Chester, G. – The Ancient Greeks
Steedman, Scott – The Egyptian News – London, 1997.
Steedman, Scott – The Egyptian News – London. (2000 -?)
Thorpe, Martin – Homer – Inside the Ancient World series.
Tyldesley, Joyce – The Private Lives of the Pharaohs
White, Jon Manchip – Everyday life in ancient Egypt

595.3 HORTICULTURE

Wilkinson, Alix – The Garden in Ancient Egypt

595.6 MEDICINE

Nunn, John F. – Ancient Egyptian Medicine

595.26 SEX CUSTOMS

Schumann Antelme, Ruth, and Rossini, Stephane – Sacred Sexuality in Ancient Egypt:
The erotic secrets of the forbidden papyrus – (Translated by Jon Graham)

595.30 WOMEN

Cottrell, Leonard – Queens of the Pharaohs
Hawass, Zahi – Silent Images – Women in Pharaonic Egypt
Rowlandson, Jane – Women & Society in Greek and Roman Egypt
Shaarawi, Huda – Harem Years – The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist [Translated by Margot Badran]
Tyldesley, Joyce – Daughters of Isis – Women of Ancient Egypt

600 TECHNOLOGY

Fisher, Marshall Jon & Fisher, David E. – Mysteries of Lost Empires
Hodges, Henry – Technology in the Ancient World
Knight, Christopher, and Lomas, Robert – Uriel’s Machine – The Ancient Origins of Science
Partridge, Robert – Transport in Ancient Egypt
Shaw, Ian – Egyptian Warfare and Weapons [2 copies]

623 MILITARY AND NAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Topham-Meekings, Diana – The Hollow Ships – Trade and Seafaring in the Ancient World

684 METALWORKING AND TOOLS

Scheel, Bernd – Egyptian Metalworking and Tools

700 INDUSTRIES AND CRAFTS / ART AND RECREATION

Freeman, Charles – The Legacy of Ancient Egypt
Hope, Colin A. – Egyptian Pottery
James, T.G.H. and Davies, W.V. – Egyptian Sculpture
Pemberton, Delia – The Glories of Ancient Egypt – Treasures of the Pharaohs

705.1 MUMMIFICATION

Brier, Bob – Egyptian Mummies: Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Art
David, Rosalie & Archbold, Rick – Conversations with Mummies – New light on the Ancient Egyptians.
David, Rosalie – Mummies: Unwrapping the past
Pringle, Heather – The Mummy Congress – Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead
Steele, Philip – My Best Book of Mummies
Taylor, John H. – Unwrapping a Mummy

709.2 ARCHITECTURE

Barocas, Claudio – Monuments of Civilization: Egypt
Wildung, Dietrich – Egypt: From Prehistory to the Romans [3 copies]

709.3 ART – EGYPT AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Aldred, Cyril – Egyptian Art – In the Days of the Pharaohs 3100 – 320 BC
Arts Council – 5,000 Years of Egyptian Art -Royal Academy of Art, London.1962.(With a fold-out map of Egypt)
A General Introductory guide to the Egyptian Collections in the British Museum
The Cairo Museum masterpieces of Egyptian Art / Edited by Francesco Tiradritti [1998]
Carpiceci, Alberto Carlo – Art and History of Egypt – 5000 years of civilization [Fold-out map at back of book]
Drioton, D’Etienne – Art Egyptien
Dunn Friedman, Florence – Gifts of the Nile – Ancient Egyptian Faience
Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs. Edited by Regine Schulz and Matthias Seidel
Groenewegen-Frankfort, H.A. and Ashmole, Bernard – Art of the Ancient World
James, T.G.H. – Egyptian Painting and Drawing – in the British Museum
Lloyd, Seton – The Art of the Ancient Near East [“World of Art Library – History of Art] 1963.
Lloyd, Seton – The Art of the Ancient Near East [“World of Art Library – History of Art”] 1977
Petrie, Flinders – The Art and Crafts of Ancient Egypt
Roberts, David – Ancient Egypt – Lithographs by David Roberts R.A.
Roberts, David – Egypt & the Holy Land
Robins, Gay – The Art of Ancient Egypt / Gay Robins
Rosellini, Ippolito – Treasures of Egypt and Nubia
Sandison, David – The Art of Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Sramkova, G.I. – Art Distribution of the Ancient World
Stierlin, Henri – The Gold of the Pharaohs
Warriors and Warlords – The Art of Angus McBride
Wilkinson, Richard H. – Symbol & magic in Egyptian Art
Wilson, Eva – Ancient Egyptian Designs for Artists and Craftspeople
Ziegler, Christiane – The Louvre: Egyptian Antiquities

709.4 ART – CLASSICAL GREECE AND ROME

Boardman, John – Greek Art {New Revised Edition}
Boardman, John – Greek Sculpture – The Classical Period
Richter, Gisela – A Handbook of Greek Art – A Survey of the Visual Arts of Ancient Greece

739.27 JEWELLERY

Aldred, Cyril – Jewels of the pharaohs : Egyptian Jewellery of the Dynastic Period
Fahmy, Azza – Enchanted Jewelry of Egypt – The Traditional Art and Craft

749 FURNITURE AND ACCESSORIES

Baker, Hollis S. – Furniture in the Ancient World Origins & Evolution 3100 – 475 B.C.

780.3 MUSIC HISTORY

Manniche, Lise – Music and Musicians in Ancient Egypt

808.4 GREEK LITERATURE

Baldry, H.C. – Greek Literature for the Modern Reader
Dover, K.J. and Others – Ancient Greek Literature
Livingstone, R.W. – The Pageant of Greece

809.4 GREEK LITERARY CRITICISM

Aristotle, Horace, Longinus – Classical Literary Criticism / Aristotle, Horace, Longinus (translated by T.S.Dorsch)
Murray, Gilbert – Euripides and his Age

823.3 FICTION – EGYPT

Baumann, Hans – The World of the Pharaohs (Translated from German by Richard & Clara Winston]
Bruckner, Karl – The Golden Pharaoh
Christie, Agatha – Death on the Nile
Cook, Robin – Sphinx
Devine, Laurie – Nile (A Novel)
Doherty, Paul – The Mask of Ra
Drury, Allen – Return to Thebes
Erskine, Barbara – Whispers in the Sand
Gedge, Pauline – Lords of the Two Lands
George, Margaret – The Memoirs of Cleopatra
Grant, Joan – Eyes of Horus
Heese, Dr Marie – The Double Crown
Hofmeyer, Dianne – Eye of the Moon
Holland, Tom – The Sleeper in the Sands
Holmes, Anthony – No Time At All
Holmes, Anthony – Tutankhamun speak my name – The Life Story of the Boy King of Ancient Egypt
Holmes, Anthony – The Cat’s Princess
Jacq, Christian – Ramses – The Son of the Light (Volume 1)
Jacq, Christian – Ramses – The Temple of a Million Years (Volume 2)
Jacq, Christian – Ramses – The Battle of Kadesh (Volume 3)
Jacq, Christian – Ramses – The Lady of Abu Simbel (Volume 4)
Jacq, Christian – Ramses – Under the Western Acacia (Volume 5)
Jacq, Christian – The Black Pharaoh
Jacq, Christian – Nefer the Silent – The Stone of the Light
Keay, Douglas – Cleopatra
Mahfouz, Naguib – Akhenaten – Dweller in Truth
Mailer, Norman – Ancient Evenings
Moran, Michelle – Nefertiti
Peters, Elizabeth – The ape who guards the balance
Peters, Elizabeth – He shall thunder in the sky
Smith, Wilbur – The Quest
Somerville, Rowan – The End of Sleep
Tarr, Judith – Lord of the two lands

823.4 FICTION GREECE

Fox, Robin Lane – Alexander the Great

Manfredi, Valerio Massimo – The Talisman of Troy
Ray, Mary – Shout against the Wind
Ray, Mary – Standing Lions
Renault, Mary – The King must die
Renault, Mary – The Mask of Apollo
Stone, Irving – The Greek Treasure – A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann

870 ITALIC LITERATURES, LATIN

Lucretius – On the nature of the universe

871 LATIN POETRY

872 LATIN DRAMATIC POETRY AND DRAMA

Plautus – The Rope and other Plays
Plautus – Rudens – Curculio – Casina

873 LATIN EPIC POETRY AND FICTION

Vergil – Eclogues (Edited by Robert Coleman)
Virgil – The Georgics
Virgil – The Aeneid / Virgil (Translated into English prose by W.F. Jackson Knight)
Virgil – Bucolics and Georgics / Virgil (With Introduction and Notes by T.E. Page)
Virgil – The Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid of Virgil / Virgil (Translated by C. Day Lewis)
Virgil – The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues) / Virgil (Translated by E.V. Rieu)

874 LATIN LYRIC POETRY

Martial – (Marcus Valerius Martialis) – The Epigrams / Martial [Selected and translated by James Michie]
Tibullus – The Poems of Tibullus [Translated by Philip Dunlop]

875 LATIN SPEECHES

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) – Murder Trials [Translated by Prof. Michael Grant]

876 LATIN LETTERS

Pliny (The Younger) – The Letters of the Younger Pliny[Translated by Betty Radice]

877 LATIN SATIRE AND HUMOUR

Terence – The Comedies

878 LATIN MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

Augustus – Res Gestae Divi Augusti – The Achievements of the Divine Augustus [Edited by P.A Brunt and J.M. Moore
Grant, Michael – Roman Readings
Plato – Gorgias

879 LITERATURE OF THE ITALIC LANGUAGES (ROMAN)

Ogilvie, R.M. – Roman Literature and Society

880 HELLENIC LITERATURES, CLASSICAL GREEK

Apuleius, Lucius – The Golden Ass (The Transformations of Lucius) (Translated by Robert Graves)
Grant, Michael – Greek Literature – An Anthology/Translations chosen by Michael Grant
Homer – The Iliad of Homer [Translated with an introduction by Richmond Lattimore]
Homer – The Odyssey [Translated by E.V. Rieu]
Longus – Daphnis and Chloe (Translated by Paul Turner)

881 CLASSICAL GREEK POETRY

Seneca – Four Tragedies and Octavia
Wright, F.A. – The Poets of The Greek Anthology (Translated by F.A. Wright M.A Cantab.]

882 CLASSICAL GREEK DRAMA

Aeschylus – The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, The Eumenides [Translated by Robert Fagles]
Pen
Aeschylus – The Oresteian Trilogy [Translated by Philip Vellacott]
Aeschylus – Oresteian Trilogy Notes [Study Guide Notes by Robert J. Milch Ph.D.]
Aeschylus – Prometheus bound, The Suppliants, seven against Thebes, The Persians
Aristophanes – The Birds [Translated by Gilbert Murray]
Euripides – Alcestis / Hippolytus / Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides – The Bacchae and other Plays
Euripides – Orestes and other Plays
Greek Tragedies – Volume 2 [David Grene & Richmond Lattimore, Editors] –
Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers
Sophocles: Electra
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris; Electra; The Trojan Women
Greek Tragedies – Volume 3 [David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, Editors]
Aeschylus: The Eumenides
Sophocles: Philoctetes; Oedipus at Colonus
Euripides: The Bacchae; Alcestis
Menander – The Angry Old Man (The Dyskolos of Menander) (Translated by W.H. Hewitt and M.W.M. Pope)
Plautus – The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
Sophocles – The Theban Plays
Sophocles – Electra and other Plays

883 CLASSICAL GREEK EPIC POETRY AND FICTION

Murray, Gilbert – The Rise of the Greek Epic
Trypanis, Constantine A. – The Penguin Book of Greek Verse

885 CLASSICAL GREEK SPEECH

Demosthenes & Aeschines
Plato – The Republic

887 CLASSICAL GREEK SATIRE AND HUMOUR

Aristophanes – Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Clouds
Aristophanes – The Wasps, The Poet and the Women, the Frogs
Juvenal – The Sixteen Satires

888 CLASSICAL GREEK MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS – {ESSAYS etc.}

Hesiod and Theognis
Hesiod – Theogony; Works and Days and Theognis – Elegies [Translated by Dorothea Wender]

893 EGYPTIAN LITERATURE

El Saadawi, Nawal A Daughter of Isis (Translated from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata)
El-Sabah, Souad – Fragments of a woman
Mahfouz, Naguib – One-act plays 1
Abazah, Tharwat – A touch of fear
Abul-Nour, Aisha – Portrait of a Shahrzade (Translated by Soad Naguib)
Al-Hakim, Shawqi Abd – Princess Dhat al Himma : Princess of high resolve
Bakr, Salwa – Such a beautiful voice
Galal, Mohamed – Trial at midnight
Ghitany, Gamal – Incidents in Za’frani alley
Mahfouz, Naguib – Palace of desire
Mahfouz,Naguib – Sugar street
A Voice of their own : short stories by Egyptian women / Edited and Introduced by Angele Botros Samaan

904 COLLECTED ACCOUNTS OF EVENTS (ANCIENT HISTORIANS)

Caesar – The Conquest of Gaul (Translated by S.A. Handford)
Finley, M.I. (Editor) – The Portable Greek Historians (The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius)
Fornara, Charles W. [Editor]- Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War – Translated Documents of Greece and Rome, Volume I
Translated by Charles W. Fornar
Herodotus – The Histories / Herodotus [ Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt]
Josephus – The Jewish War
Lewis, Naphtali – The Roman Principate: 27 BC – 285 AD – Greek Historical Documents
Sallust – The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Catiline
Thesiger, Wilfred – Arabian Sands
Thucydides – The Peloponnesian War
Tunstall, Irene – To Travel Hopefully
Tunstall, John – Vanishing Kingdoms
Xenophon – A History of my Times

911 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

Everyman’s Library – Atlas of Ancient & Classical Geography
Grant, Michael – Ancient History Atlas 1700 BC to AD 565 [Cartography by Arthur Banks]

913.8 ANCIENT GREECE – DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL

Levi, Peter – Atlas of the Greek world. Time-Life, 1984, repr. 1994.
Pausanias – Guide to Greece – Volume 1: Central Greece [Translated by Peter Levi]
Pausanias – Guide to Greece – Volume 2; Southern Greece [Translated by Peter Levi]

915 ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST – DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL

Stephens, John Lloyd – Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petraea, and the Holy Land

916 AFRICA – DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL

Abdallah, Hassan – The Handbook of Egypt
Anderson, Robert and Fawzy, Ibrahim (Editors) – Egypt in 1800: Scenes from Napoleon’s Description de L’ Egypte
Baines, John & Malek, Jaromir – Atlas of Ancient Egypt
Beaucour, Fernand – The discovery of Egypt / Fernand Beaucour, Yves Laissus, Chantal Orgogoza
The best of Cairo and Luxor – “Globetrotter” [Text Copyright: Robin Gauldie] (With fold-out maps attached)
Cairo / Edited by John Rodenbeck. 1992 (Insight guides)
Dictionary of Egyptology – Geddes & Grosset, 1999.
Edwards, Amelia B. – A Thousand Miles up the Nile
1997. (Facsimile of the 1888 second edition, with further footnotes)
Egypt: A traveller’s anthology – compiled by Christopher Pick
Globetrotter – Egypt Travel Guide. Pull-out Travel map included (Compiled by Robin Gauld)
Elgood, P.G. Lt.-Colonel, C.M.G. – Bonaparte’s Adventure in Egypt
Elisofon, Eliot – The Nile
Everyman Guides – Egypt
Gibbon, David and Smart, Ted – Egypt – A picture book to remember her by.
Gillispie, Charles Coulston & Dewachter, Michel(Editors) – The Monuments of Egypt – The Napoleonic Edition
Golding, William – An Egyptian Journal
Gordon, Lucie Duff – Letters from Egypt. With a memoir by her daughter Janet Ross and a new introduction by Sarah Searight.
Gougaud, Henri & Gouvion, Colette – Egypt Observed
Hebeishy, Mohamed El – Egypt Rediscovered.
Lasseur, Michele – Egypt
Logan, Leanne; Cole, Geert; Simonis, Damien; Wayne, Scott. – Egypt – Travel Survival Kit – Lonely Planet
Magi, Giovanna – Aswan, Philae, Abu Simbel (English Edition)
Magi, Giovanna – Luxor, Valley of Kings, Queens, Nobles, Artisans
Manley, Deborah – The Nile: A Traveller’s anthology
Marks, Guy – This is Egypt
Mayes, Stanley – The Great Belzoni – The Circus Strongman who Discovered Egypt’s Treasures
Morkot, Robert – Egypt / photography by K. Nomachi
Mulder, Jane – Egypt: A Journal of Two Visits. A self-published personal journal.
Mustoe, Anne – Cleopatra’s Needle – Two wheels by the water to Cairo
Neret, Gilles – Description of Egypt – Napoleon and the Pharaohs
Nightingale, Florence – Letters from Egypt – A Journey on the Nile 1849 – 1850 (Selected and introduced by Anthony Sattin)
Nile, The – edited by Andrew Eames
Richardson, Dan – The Rough Guide to Egypt – (Updated Fourth Edition)
Samivel – The Glory of Egypt (with fold-out map)
Seton-Williams, Veronica & Stocks, Peter – Blue Guide Egypt
Soisson, Pierre – Egypt
Stocks, Peter – Philip’s Egypt
Strudwick, Nigel & Helen – Thebes in Egypt – A Guide to the Tombs and Temples of Ancient Luxor
Wilson, Susan L. – Culture Shock! Egypt – A Guide to Customs and Etiquette

920 BIOGRAPHY

Miles, Hugh – Playing Cards in Cairo

930 HISTORY – ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

Bernal, Martin – Black Athena : the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Vol.1 : The Fabrication of Ancient Greece
Breasted, James Henry – A brief history of ancient times.(Edited and abridged by W. Hughes Jones)
Breasted, James Henry – Ancient Times: A History of the Early World
Cottrell, Leonard – Wonders of Antiquity
Green, Peter – Alexander the Great – and the Hellenistic Age
Hall, H.R. – The Ancient History of the Near East – From the earliest times to the Battle of Salamis
Mitchell, James – The Illustrated Reference Book of Ancient History
Sinnigen, William G. & Robinson, Charles Alexander, Jr. – Ancient History from Prehistoric Times to the death of Justinian
Wood, Tim – Ancient Wonders (‘See Through History’ Series) / Tim Wood

932 HISTORY – ANCIENT EGYPT

Aldred, Cyril – Akhenaten: Pharaoh of Egypt
Aldred, Cyril – Akhenaten: King of Egypt
Collier, Joy – King Sun : In search of Akhenaton
Fletcher, Joann – The search for Nefertiti
Tyldesley, Joyce – Nefertiti: Egypt’s Sun Queen
Vandenberg, Philipp – Nofretete: Eine archaologische Biographie
Aldred, Cyril – The Egyptians
Empereur, Jean-Yves – Alexandria Rediscovered
Emery, W.B – Archaic Egypt
Spencer, A.J. – Early Egypt: The Rise of Civilisation in the Nile Valley
Breasted, James Henry, Ph.D. – A History of Egypt – From the earliest times to the Persian Conquest
Brewer, Douglas J. & Teeter, Emily – Egypt and the Egyptians
Brugsch-Bey, Heinrich – Egypt under the Pharaohs
Casson, Lionel – Ancient Egypt – (From the series: Great Ages of Man)
Egypt 1156 BC : Tomb of the Pharaoh [NB: This is a CD-Rom]
Flamarion, Edith – Cleopatra – From History to Legend
Grant, Michael – Cleopatra
Volkmann, Hans – Cleopatra – A Study in Politics and Propaganda. (Translated by T.J.Cadoux)
Walker, Susan and Higgs, Peter – Cleopatra of Egypt – From History to Myth
Cottrell, Leonard – Land of the Pharaohs
Cottrell, Leonard – Land van die Farao’s
Davies, Vivian, & Friedman, Renee – Egypt
Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs / by the editors of Time-Life Books
El Shamaa, Bassam – Egypt : future of the past
Gardiner, Sir Alan – Egypt of the Pharaohs
Guy, John – Egyptian life
Tyldesley, Joyce – Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh
Johnson, Paul – The Civilsation of Ancient Egypt
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. – The Egypt Exploration Society, [Duplicate on general public loan]
Vol.79 (1993)
McNeill, Sarah – Ancient Egyptian places
Montet, Pierre – Eternal Egypt – History of Civilization Series
Murray, Margaret A. – The Splendour that was Egypt
Tyldesley, Joyce – Egypt’s Golden Empire – The age of the New Kingdom
Oakes, Lorna & Gahlin, Lucia – Ancient Egypt – An illustrated reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohs
Aldred, Cyril – Egypt to the end of the Old Kingdom
Malek, Jaromir – In the shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt during the Old Kingdom
Clayton, Peter A. – Chronicle of the Pharaohs – The reign-by-reign record of the rulers and dynasties of Ancient Egypt
Cottrell, Leonard – The Warrior Pharaohs
Dodson, Aidan – Monarchs of the Nile
Dodson, Aidan & Hilton, Dyan – The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt
Fletcher, Joann – Egypt’s Sun King – Amenhotep III
Quirke, Stephen – Who were the Pharaohs? – A history of their names with a list of cartouche
Tyldesley, Joyce – The Pharaohs
MacQuitty, William – Abu Simbel
McDonald, John K. – The Tomb of Nefertari – House of Eternity
Menu, Bernadette – Ramesses the Great – Warrior and Builder
Tyldesley, Joyce – Ramesses – Egypt’s greatest Pharaoh
Weeks, Kent – The Lost Tomb – The greatest discovery at the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun
Romer, John – People of the Nile : a new light on the civilization of Ancient Egypt
Sellman, R.R. – Ancient Egypt / R. R. Sellman
Shaw, E.J – Great Civilisations: Egypt
Shaw, Ian – The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

932 HISTORY – ANCIENT EGYPT (TUTANKHAMEN / CARTER)

Aldred, Cyril – Tutankhamun’s Egypt
Budge, E.A. Wallis – Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism : with hieroglyphic texts of hymns to Amen and Aten
Capart, Jean – The Tomb of Tutankhamen
Carter, Howard – The tomb of Tutankhamen
Carter, Howard – The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen – The Burial Chamber (Volume II)
Carter, Howard – The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen
Carter, Howard – Tutankhamen’s Treasure { Abridged version of his 3 volume work on the discovery of the tomb}
Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane – Tutankhamen
Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane – Life and death of a pharaoh : Tutankhamen
El Mahdy, Christine – Tutankhamen – The life and death of a boy king
Frayling, Christopher – The face of Tutankhamen
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs – Dr Zahi Hawass
James,T.G.H. – Howard Carter: the path to Tutankhamem
MacQuitty, William – Tutankhamun: The Last Journey
Neubert, Otto – Tutankhamun and the Valley of the Kings
Neubert, Otto – The Story of Tutankhamun
Silverman, David P. – 50 Wonders of Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun Treasures; A Loan Exhibition from the Department of Antiquities of the United Arab Republic
Treasures of Tutankhamun ; a loan exhibition; to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun
British Museum, 1972
Treasures of Tutankhamun; a loan exhibition; to several American museums of art & history. The Metropolitan Museum of Art,197
Vandenberg, Philipp – The Forgotten Pharaoh
Winstone, H.V.F. – Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen
Wise, William – The Two Reigns of Tutankhamen
************************************************************************
Davis, Theodore M. – The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatankhamanou
Neubert, Otto – The Valley of the Kings
Reeves, Nicholas and Wilkinson, Richard H. – The Complete Valley of the Kings
Romer, John – Valley of the Kings
Vercoutter, Jean – The search for ancient Egypt
Wilkinson, J. Gardner – The Ancient Egyptians – Their Life and Customs – Volume 1
Wilkinson, J. Gardner – The Ancient Egyptians – Their Life and Customs – Volume II
Wilkinson, Toby A. H. – Early dynastic Egypt
Wilkinson, Toby AH – Genesis of the Pharaohs – Dramatic new discoveries that rewrite the origins of Ancient Egypt

933 HISTORY – THE HOLY LAND

Atlas of the Bible – An Illustrated Guide to the Holy Land
Davies, A. Powell – The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Holy Land / by the Editors of Time-Life Book
Pritchard, James B – Ancient Near Eastern Texts – Relating to the Old Testament [3rd Edition with Supplement]

933.1 HISTORY – THE HITTITES

Ceram, C.W. – Narrow Pass, Black Mountain

934 HISTORY – ANCIENT INDIA

Ancient India : Land of mystery / by the Editors of Time-Life Books

935 HISTORY – BABYLON

Cottrell, Leonard – Land of the Two Rivers
Kramer, Samuel Noah – Cradle of Civilization. Samuel Noah Kramer and The Editors of Time-Life Books
Parrot, Andre – Nineveh and Babylon
Sandars, N.K. – The Epic Of Gilgames

936 HISTORY – ROMAN EMPIRE (EUROPE NORTH & WEST OF ITALY)

Cottrell, Leonard – Enemy of Rome
Kagan, Donald – Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Why did it collapse?
Rome : Echoes of Imperial glory / by the Editors of Time-Life books

937 HISTORY – ANCIENT ROME (ITALY & ADJACENT TERRITORIES)

Barrow, R.H. – The Romans / R.H. Barrow
Brunt, P.A. – Ancient Culture and Society: Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic
Cary, M. and Scullard, H.H. A History of Rome
Crawford, Michael – The Roman Republic
Hadas, Moses – Imperial Rome / Moses Hadas and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Lewis, Naphtali & Reinhold, Meyer – Roman Civilization – Sourcebook Volume I
Lewis, Naphtali & Reinhold, Meyer – Roman Civilization – Sourcebook Volume II
Livy – The Early History of Rome
Livy – Rome and Italy
Livy, Walsh, P.G. – Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics No.8
Pompeii : the vanished city / by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Scullard, H.H. – From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68
Sinnigen, William G. and Boak, Arthur E.R. – A History of Rome to AD 565 (Sixth Edition)
Starr, Chester G. – The Ancient Romans
Tappan (Ph.D.), E. M – The Story of the Roman People

937.1 THE ETRUSCANS

Bloch, Raymond – The Etruscans / Raymond Bloch
Hamblin, Dora Jane – The Etruscans
Pallottino, M. – The Etruscans / M. Pallottino (Translated from the Italian by J. Cremona)

938 HISTORY – ANCIENT GREECE

Bowra, C.M. – Classical Greece / C.M. Bowra and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Burn, A.R. – The Pelican History of Greece – From the neolithic pioneers to the closing of Athen’s philosophic schools
Bury, J.B. and Meiggs, Russell – A History of Greece
Ferguson, John – The Heritage of Hellenism (For the Library of European Civilization)
Glover, T.R. – The Ancient World
Greece; temples, tombs and treasures / by The Editors of Time-Life Books
Hammond, N.G.L. – A History of Greece to 322BC
Kitto, H.D.F. – The Greeks
Livingstone, Richard – The Legacy of Greece
Plutarch – The Rise and Fall of Athens
Stobart, J.C. – The Glory that was Greece

939 HISTORY – THE AEGEAN

Cottrell, Leonard – The Bull of Minos
Edey, Maitland A. – Lost world of the Aegean / Maitland A. Edey and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Horwitz, Sylvia L. – The Find of a Lifetime – Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos
Wondrous realms of the Aegean / by the Editors of Time-Life Books

939.2 THE PHOENICIANS

Harden, Donald – The Phoenicians

940 HISTORY – EUROPE [ IN GENERAL]

Norton-Taylor, Duncan – The Celts / Duncan Norton-Taylor and the Editors of Time-Life Books

955 HISTORY – IRAN

Ghirshman, R. – Iran

960 HISTORY – AFRICA ANCIENT PERIOD

Africa’s glorious legacy / by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Ward, Philip – Sabratha – a guide for visitors
Drower, Margaret – Nubia: A Drowning Land
Gaballa, Prof. Dr. Gaballa Ali – Nubia Museum – The History and Culture of Nubia
Welsby, Derek A. – The Kingdom of Kush – The Napatan and Meroitic Empires

961 HISTORY – AFRICA MODERN PERIOD

Strage, Mark – Cape to Cairo – Rape of a Continent

962 HISTORY – EGYPT MODERN PERIOD

Jarvis, H. Wood – Pharaoh to Farouk
Moorehead, Alan – The Blue Nile
Moorehead, Alan – The White Nile

972 HISTORY – SOUTH AMERICAN CULTURES

Aztecs : Reign of blood and splendour –the editors of Time-Life Books
The Magnificent Maya / by the editors of Time-Life Books

973 HISTORY – NORTH AMERICAN CULTURES

Mound builders & cliff dwellers / by the Editors of Time-Life books

980 HISTORY – INCAS

Incas : Lords of gold and glory-Editors of Time/Life books

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