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Trigger, B. G., Kemp, B. J., O' Connor, D., Lloyd, A. B. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.
Bryce, T. The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
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Crawford, Harriet E. Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Kramer, Samuel Noah. History Begins at Sumer: Twenty-seven "Firsts" in Man's Recorded History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.
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Olmstead, Albert T. E. History of Assyria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
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Oppenheim, A. Leo. Letters from Mesopotamia: Official, Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
Postgate, Nicholas. Early Mesopotamian Society and Economy at the Dawn of History. London: Routledge, 1992.
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Roux, Georges. Ancient Iraq. 3rd edition. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1992.
Saggs, H. F. W. The Greatness That Was Babylon. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1962.
Saggs, H. F. W. The Might That Was Assyria. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984.
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Casson, Stanley. Ancient Cyprus: Its Art and Archaeology. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1970.
Harden, Donald B. The Phoenicians. New York: Praeger, 1962.
Herm, Gerhard. The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient World, trans. Caroline Hillier. New York: Morrow, 1975.
Karageorghis, Vassos. Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
Karageorghis, Vassos. View from the Bronze Age: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries at Kition. New York: Dutton, 1976.
Mitford, Terence B. The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1971.
Moscati, Sabatino. The World of the Phoenicians, trans. Alastair Hamilton. New York: Praeger, 1968.
f. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan
Curtis, Adrian. Ugarit (Ras Shamra). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1985.
Dothan, T. The Philistines and Their Material Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
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Matthiae, Paolo. Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.
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Pettinato, Giovanni. The Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.
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Close, Angela. "Living on the Edge: Neolithic Herders in the Eastern Sahara." Antiquity 64 (1990): 79-96.
Close, Angela., Wendorf, F. and Schild, R. "Patterned Use of a Middle Palaeolithic Landscape: Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Eastern Sahara, Sahara 3 (1990): 21-34.
Connor, D. and Marks A. "The Terminal Pleistocene on the Nile: The Final Nilotic Adjustment." In End of the Palaeolithic in the Old World, L. G. Straus, editor, 171-98. BAR Int'l. Series, no. 284. 1986.
Guksch, C. "Ethnological Models and Processes of State Formation--Chiefdom Survivals in the Old Kingdom." Göttinger Miszellen 125 (1991): 37-46.
Hassan, F. "The Predynastic of Egypt." Journal of World Prehistory 2 (1988): 135-85.
Hays, T. R. "A Reappraisal of the Egyptian Predynastic." In From Hunters to Farmers, 65-73.
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Stanley, D. J. and Warne, A. G. "Sea Level and Initiation of Predynastic Culture in the Nile Delta." Nature 363 (3 June 1993): 435-38.
Wendorf, F. and Schild, R. "The Emergence of Food Production in the Egyptian Sahara." In From Hunters to Farmers, 93-101.
Wendorf, F. et al. "The Prehistory of the Egyptian Sahara." Science 193, no. 4248 (9 July, 1976): 103-14.
Williams, B. and Logan, T. "The Metropolitan Museum Knife Handle and Aspects of Pharaonic Imagery Before Narmer." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 46 (1987): 245-85.
Algaze, Guillermo. The Uruk World System: the Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Mark, Samuel. From Egypt to Mesopotamia: A Study of Predynastic Trade Routes. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press; London: Chatham, 1997.
Nissen, H. J. The Early History of the Ancient Near East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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Aldred, Cyril. Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1965.
Altenmüller, H. and Moussa A. "Die Inschrift Amenemhets II. aus dem Ptah-Tempel von Memphis: Ein Vorbericht." Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur 18 (1991): 1-48.
Bryan, Betsy M. The Reign of Thutmose IV. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Gardiner, Alan H. The Royal Canon of Turin. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Griffith Institute, 1959.
Johnson, Janet. H., editor. Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 51. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1992.
Malek, Jaromir. "The Annals of Amenemhet II." Egyptian Archaeology 2 (1992): 18.
Murnane, W. J. Ancient Egyptian Coregencies. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 40. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1977.
Murnane, W. The Road to Kadesh: An Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak. 2nd ed., rev. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 42. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1990.
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Oren, E., editor. The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives. University Museum Monograph 96. University Museum Symposium Series 8. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1997.
Smith, H. S. and Smith A. "The Kamose Texts." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 103 (1976): 59-62.
Beckman, G. Hittite Diplomatic Texts, edited by H. A. Hoffner. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
Osten, Hans H. von der. Explorations in Hittite Asia Minor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971.
Læssøe, Jørgen. People of Ancient Assyria, Their Inscriptions and Correspondence, trans F. S. Leigh-Browne. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1963.
Luckenbill, Daniel D. Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia. New York, Greenwood Press, 1926; reprinted 1968.
Grayson, A. Kirk. Babylonian Historical-literary Texts. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1975.
Finkelstein, Jacob J. Late Old Babylonian Documents and Letters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.
Simmons, Stephen D. Early Old Babylonian Documents. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
Gadd, Cyril J. History and Monuments of Ur. New York, B. Blom, 1972.
Woolley, Leonard, Sir. Ur 'Of the Chaldees': A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur, by P.R.S. Moorey. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Wiseman, Donald J. Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1985.
Mallowan, Max E. L., Sir. Nimrud and its Remains. London, Collins, 1966.
Malamat, Abraham. Mari and the Early Israelite Experience. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1989.
Ellis, Richard S. A Bibliography of Mesopotamian Archaeological Sites. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1972.
Jacobsen, Thorkild. Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture. Edited by William L. Moran. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1970.
Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Sumerian King List. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1939.
Parpola, Simo. Letters from Assyria and the West: The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1987.
Time-Life. Time Frame: Barbarian Tides, 1500 - 600 B.C. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, Inc., 1987.
Roth, M. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World 6. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
Ussishkin, David. The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib. Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv University Publications, 1982.
Winhelm, "The Kingdom of Mitanni in 2nd Millennium Upper Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1243-1255. Volume 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.
Amiet, P. "Glyptique susienne archaïque." Revue d'Assyriologie 51 (1957): 121-29.
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Kantor, H. J. "The Early Relations of Egypt with Asia." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1 (1942): 174-213.
Kantor, H. J. "Further Evidence for Early Mesopotamian Relations with Egypt." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 11 (1952): 239-50.
Kantor, H. J. "The Relative Chronology of Egypt and Its Foreign Correlations before the Late Bronze Age." In Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, ed. R. W. Ehrich, 1-46. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
Kantor, H. J. "The Relative Chronology of Egypt and Its Foreign Correlations before the First Intermediate Period." In Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, 2d edition, revised, 3-22. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kelley, A. L. "Cylinder Seals in Predynastic Egypt." Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 4/2 (1973): 5-8.
Kelley, A. L. "The Evidence for Mesopotamian Influence in Predynastic Egypt." Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 4/3 (1974): 2-11.
Mark, Samuel. From Egypt to Mesopotamia: A Study of Predynastic Trade Routes. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press; London: Chatham, 1997.
Needler, W. Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1984.
Ward, W. A. "Relations between Egypt and Mesopotamia from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 7 (1964): 1-45, 121-35.
b. Egypt and Mesopotamia: Later Contacts
Ben-Tor, A. "New Light on the Relations between Egypt and Southern Palestine during the Early Bronze Age." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 3-10.
Bietak, M. "Egypt and Canaan during the Middle Bronze Age." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 27-72.
Dever, W. G. "Tell el-Daba` and Levantine Middle Bronze Age Chronology: A Rejoinder to Manfred Bietak." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 73-79.
Frerichs, E. and Lesko, L. H., editors. Exodus: The Egyptian Evidence. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1977.
Hoffmeier, J. K. Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hoffmeier, J. K. "James Weinstein's 'Egypt and the Middle Bronze IIC/Late Bronze IA Transition': A Rejoinder." Levant 23 (1991): 117-24.
Hoffmeier, James K. "Reconsidering Egypt's Part in the Termination of the Middle Bronze Age in Palestine." Levant 21 (1989): 181-93.
Redford, D. B. Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Ward, W. A. "Early Contacts between Egypt, Canaan and Sinai: Remarks on the Paper by Amnon Ben-Tor." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 11-26.
Weinstein, J. "Egypt and the Middle Bronze IIC/Late Bronze IA Transition in Palestine." Levant 23 (1991): 105-15.
Wood, B. G. "The Philistines Enter Canaan." Biblical Archaeology Review 17/6 (Nov/Dec., 1991): 44-52.
Bietak, M. "Minoan Wall-Paintings Unearthed at Ancient Avaris." Egyptian Archaeology 2 (1992): 26-28.
Bietak, Manfred and Marinatos, Nannó. "The Minoan Wall Paintings from Avaris." Ägypten und Levante 5 (1995): 49-62.
Burkert, W. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Cline, E. H. "Amenhotep III and the Aegean: A Reassessment of Egypto-Aegean Relations in the 14th Century B.C." Orientalia, N.S. 56 (1987): 1-36.
Cline, E. H. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994.
Davies, W. V. and Schofield, L., editors. Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC. London: British Museum, 1995. (Contains many important articles on a variety of topics)
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus On Egypt, translated by E. Murphy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1985.
Fowden, G. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Hankey, V. "Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant." Egyptian Archaeology 3 (1993): 27-29.
Isserlin, B. "The Transfer of the Alphabet to the Greeks: The State of the Documentation." In Phoinikea Grammata: Actes du Colloque de Liége 15-18 Novembre 1989, ed. Cl. Baurain et al., 283-91. Collections d'études classiques, vol. 6. Namur: Societé des Études Classiques, 1991.
Marinatos, Nannó. "The 'Export' Significance of Minoan Bull Hunting and Bull Leaping Scenes."Ägypten und Levante 4 (1994): 89-93.
Millard, A. R. "The Infancy of the Alphabet." World Archaeology 17 (1986): 390-98.
Parkinson, R. and Schofield, L. "Akhenaten's Army?" Egyptian Archaeology 3 (1993): 34-35.
Penglase, C. Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod. London: Routledge, 1994.
Powell, B. "Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2/1 (1991): 116-126.
Préaux, C. "Graeco-Roman Egypt." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 323-54. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Ritner, R. "Implicit Models of Cross-Cultural Interaction: A Question of Noses, Soap, and Prejudice." In Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond, ed. J. H. Johnson, 283-90. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 51. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1992.
Shaw, Maria C. "Bull Leaping Frescoes at Knossos and their Influence on the Tell el-Dab'a Murals." Ägypten und Levante 5 (1995): 91-120.
Wachsmann, S. Aegeans in the Theban Tombs. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 20. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 1987.
d. Greek Contacts: Afrocentric Model
Bernal, M. "Black Athena and the American Philological Association." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 17-38.
Bernal, M. Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Vol. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985. Volume 2, The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987, 1991.
Bernal, M. Cadmean Letters. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1990.
Bernal, M. "On The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean Before 1400 B.C." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 267 (1987): 1-19.
Bernal, M. "Response to Jonathan Hall, 'Black Athena: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?'" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 275-79.
Bernal, M. "Response to Stuart Manning, 'Frames of Reference for the Past: Some Thoughts on Bernal, Truth and Reality,'" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 280-82.
Bernal, M. "Responses to Critical Reviews of Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Vol. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 111-37.
Bikai, P. M. "Black Athena and the Phoenicians." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 67-75.
Brace, C. L., Tracer, D. B., Yaroch, L. A., Robb, J., Brandt, K. and Nelson, A. R. "Clines and Clusters Versus 'Race': A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36 (1993): 1-31.
Green, T. "Black Athena and Classical Historiography: Other Approaches, Other Views." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 55-66.
Hall, J. "Black Athena: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 247-54.
Lefkowitz, M. R. Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. New York: Basic Books, 1996.
Lefkowitz, M. R. "Not Out of Africa: The Origins of Greece and the Illusions of Afrocentrists." The New Republic 206/6 (February 10, 1992): 29-36.
Lefkowitz, M. and Rogers, G. M., editors. Black Athena Revisited. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Levine, M. "The Challenge of Black Athena to Classics Today." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 7-16.
Manning, S. "Frames of Reference for the Past: Some Thoughts on Bernal, Truth and Reality." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 255-74.
Miller, J. J., editor. Alternatives to Afrocentrism. Washington, D.C.: The Center for the New American Community, The Manhatten Institute, 1994
Miller, J. Review of Cadmean Letters, by M. Bernal. In Andrews University Seminary Studies 29/2 (Summer, 1991): 167-68.
Morris, S. "Daidalos and Kadmos: Classicism and 'Orientalism'." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 39-54.
Morris, S. "Greece and the Levant." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 57-66.
Muhly, J. D. "Black Athena Versus Traditional Scholarship." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 83-110.
Piccione, P. A. "Report and Comments on the Black Athena Session at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association" (1995). Located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: ftp://newton.newton.cam.ac.uk/pub/ancient/egypt/athena.txt
Ray, J. D. "An Egyptian Perspective." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 77-81.
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Snowden, Jr., F. "Bernal's 'Blacks,' Herodotus and Other Classical Evidence." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of Black Athena (Fall, 1989): 97-109.
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Egypt
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David, A. Rosalie. The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce. London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 1986.
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e. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan
Coogan, M. D., trans. Stories from Ancient Canaan. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978.
Nissinen, M. Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East, ed. P. Machinist. Writings from the Ancient World. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
Pardee, Dennis. Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. Writings from the Ancient World. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.
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Schmandt-Besserat, Denise, "Record Keeping before Writing." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 2097-2107. Volume 4. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.
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Encyclopedia Britannica. 16th edition, 1991. S.v. "Languages of the World: Hamito-Semitic Languages." by I. M. Diakonoff.
Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th edition, 1974. S.v. "Hamito-Semitic Languages," by I. M. Diakonoff.
Fischer, H. G., "Archaeological Aspects of Epigraphy and Palaeography." In Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography. 2d ed., rev., 29-50. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Ray, J. D. "The Emergence of Writing in Egypt." World Archaeology 17 (1986): 307-16.
Chiera, Edward. They Wrote on Clay: the Babylonian Tablets Speak Today, ed. George G. Cameron. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1966.
Nissen, Hans J. Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East, trans. Paul Larsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Walker, C.B.F. Cuneiform: Reading the Past. University of California Press: Berkeley, California, 1987.
Baines, J. "Literacy and Ancient Egyptian Society." Man n.s. 18 (1983): 572-99.
Baines, J. "Literacy, Social Organization, and the Archaeological Record: The Case of Early Egypt." In State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization. One World Archaeology 4. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
Baines, J. and Eyre, C. "Four Notes on Literacy." Göttinger Miszellen 61 (1983): 65-96.
Bryan, B. "The Evidence for Female Literacy from Theban Tombs of the New Kingdom." Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 6 (1984): 17-32.
Ray, J. D. "The Emergence of Writing in Egypt." World Archaeology 17 (1986): 307-16.
Williams, R. J. "Scribal Training in Ancient Egypt." Journal of the American Oriental Society 92 (1972): 214-21.
Frankfort, H. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. Pelican History of Art. 4th ed., rev. by M. Roaf and D. Matthews. New Haven and London, 1996.
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Aldred, C. Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian Jewellery of the Dynastic Period. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971.
Cooney, J. D. Amarna Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1965.
Gronewegen Frankfort, H. A. Arrest and Movement: An Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Johnson, W. R. "Images of Amenhotep III in Thebes: Styles and Intentions." In The Art of Amenhotep III: Art Historical Analysis, ed. L. M. Berman, 26-46. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
Peck, W. H. and Ross, J. G. Egyptian Drawings. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.
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Russmann, E. R. Egyptian Sculpture: Cairo and Luxor. Photographs by David Finn. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.
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Wilkinson, R. H. Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.
Barnett, Richard D. the Sculptures of Assur-nasir-apli II, 883-859 B.C., Tiglath-pileser III, 745-727 B.C. [and] Esarhaddon, 681-669 B.C., from the Central and South-west Palaces at Nimrud. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1962.
Reade, Julian. Assyrian Sculpture. London: The British Museum, 1983.
Russell, John M. From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
a. Near Eastern
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Eric M. Meyers, editor-in-chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Arnold, Dieter. Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Badawy, A. A History of Egyptian Architecture. Vol. 2, The First Intermediate Period, the Middle Kingdom, and the Second Intermediate Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
Badawy, A. A History of Egyptian Architecture. Vol. 3, The Empire (The New Kingdom: From the Eighteenth Dynasty to the End of the Twentieth Dynasty). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
Edwards, I. E. S. The Pyramids of Egypt. 2d ed., rev. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1961.
Hawass, Z. and Lehner, M. "The Passage under the Sphinx." In Hommages à Jean Leclant. Volume 1, ed. C. Berger, G. Clerc and N. Grimal, 201-15. Bibliothèque d'Etude 106/1. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994.
Hawass, Z. and Lehner, M. "The Sphinx: Who Built It and Why?" Archaeology (September/October 1994): 30-47.
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Wenke, Robert. Patterns in Prehistory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Leacock, Helen and Richard. The Buildings of Ancient Mesopotamia. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1974.
Leick, Gwendolyn. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture. London: Routledge, 1988.
Renfrew, Colin, and Paul Bahn. Archaeology: Theory, Methods, and Practice. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Scientific American. Ancient Cities Issue. Vol. 5, no. 1. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 1994.
Beckerath, J. von. Chronologie des pharaonischens Ägyptens: Die Zeit bestimmung der ägyptischen Geschichte von der Vorzeit bis 332 v. Christ. Münchener Ägyptologische Studien 46. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1997.
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Hornung, E. Untersuchungen zur Chronologie und Geschichte des Neuen Reiches. Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 2. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1964.
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Malville, J. M., R. Schild, F. Wendorf. and R. Brenmer. "The Astronomy of Nabta Playa." African Cultural Astronomy (2008): 131-144.
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Parker, R. The Calendars of Egypt. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 26. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1950.
Parker, R. "The Sothic Dating of the Twelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties." In Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 39, pp. 177-190. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1977.
Neugebauer, O. and Parker, R. Egyptian Astronomical Texts. Three volumes. Brown Egyptological Studies. Providence and London: Brown University Press and Lund Humphries.
Vol. 1, The Early Decans. Brown Egyptological Studies 3. 1960.
Vol. 2, The Ramesside Star Clocks. Brown Egyptological Studies 5. 1964.
Vol. 3, Decans, Planets, Constellations and Zodiacs. Pt. 1, Text. Pt. 2, Plates. Brown Egyptological Studies 6. 1969.
Robins, G. "Mathematics, Astronomy, and Calendars in Pharaonic Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson, vol. 3, 1799-1814. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward. Walsem, R. van. "Month-Names and Feasts at Deir el-Medina." In Gleanings from Deir el-Medina, ed. R. Demar�e and Jac. Janssen, 215-44. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut, 1982. Wente, E. F. and Van Siclen III, C. C. "A Chronology of the New Kingdom." In Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 39, pp. 217-262. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1977.
Batrawi, A. "The Racial History of Egypt and Nubia, Part II." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 76 (1946): 131-56.
Berry, A. C. and Berry, R. J. "Origins and Relations of the Ancient Egyptians Based on a Study of Non-metrical Variations in the Skull." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, 199-208.
Berry, A. C., Berry, R. J. and Ucko, P. J. "Genetical Changes in Ancient Egypt." Man n.s. 2 (1967): 551-68.
Brace, C. L., Tracer, D. B., Yaroch, L. A., Robb, J., Brandt, K. and Nelson, A. R. "Clines and Clusters Versus 'Race': A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36 (1993): 1-31.
Brothwell, D. R. and Chiarelli, B. A., editors. Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians. New York, 1973. (a republishing of papers appearing in the Journal of Human Evolution 1 [1972]).
Nielsen, O. V. "Population Movements and Changes in Ancient Nubia with Special Reference to the Relationship Between C-group, New Kingdom and Kerma." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, 31-46.
Trigger, B. "Nubian, Negro, Black, Nilotic?" In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 26-35. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.
Vercoutter, J. "The Iconography of the Black in Ancient Egypt from the Beginnings to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty." In The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. 1, From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J. Vercoutter, J. Leclant, F. M. Snowden and J. Desanges, 32-88, 291-92. New York: William Morrow, 1976.
Yurco, F. "Were the Ancient Egyptians Black or White?" Biblical Archaeology Review (Sept/Oct., 1989): 24-29, 58.
Frankfort, H. Kingship and the Gods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Frankfort, H., Frankfort, H. A,, Wilson, J. A. and Jacobsen, T. The Intellectual Adventure of Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946. Reprinted by Pelican Books, 1949.
Hoffner, H. A. Hittite Myths, edited by G. M. Beckman. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World 2 . Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
Allen, J. P. "Funerary Texts and Their Meaning." Chapter in Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, ed. S. D'Auria et al., 38-49. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988.
Allen, T. G. The Book of the Dead or Going Forth By Day. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 37. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
Bleeker, C. J. Egyptian Festivals: Enactments of Religious Renewal. Studies in the History of Religions 13. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1967.
Borghouts, J. F. Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts. Nisaba 9. Leiden: Brill, 1978.
Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. 3 Volumes. Warminster: Aris & Philips, 1973, 1977, 1978.
Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Frankfort, H. Ancient Egyptian Religion. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
Griffiths, J. G. Triads and Trinity. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996.
Hornung, E. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt. Translated by J. Baines. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Hornung, E. "The Discovery of the Unconscious in Ancient Egypt." Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought 1986 (1986): 16-28.
Morenz, S. Egyptian Religion. Boston: Methuen & Co., 1973.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: MFA, 1988.
Piankoff, A. The Litany of Re. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 4. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Piankoff, A. Mythological Papyri. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 3. New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1957
Piankoff, A. The Pyramid of Unas. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 5. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968.
Piankoff, A. The Shrines of Tutankhamun. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 2. New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1955.
Piankoff, A. The Wandering of the Soul. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 6. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972.
Piankoff, A. and Rambova, N. The Tomb of Ramesses VI. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations 1. New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1954.
Plutarch De Iside et Osiride. Edited and translated by J. Gwyn Griffiths. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1970.
Quirke, S. Ancient Egyptian Religion. London: British Museum, 1992.
Ritner, R. K. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 54. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1993.
Shafer, Byron. E. Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths and Personal Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Simpson, W. K., editor. Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt. Yale Egyptological Studies 3. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Teeter, E. The Presentation of Maat: Ritual and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 57. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1997.
Wente, E. F. "Funerary Beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians: An Interpretation of the Burials and the Texts." Expedition (Winter, 1982): 17-26.
Black, Jeremy and Anthony Green. Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1992.
Götze, Albrecht. Old Babylonian Omen Texts. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1947.
Horowitz, Wayne. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1998.
Kramer, Samuel Noah and Maier, John, editors. Myths of Enki, the Crafty God. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sacred Marriage Rite; Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.
Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Treasures of Darkness: a History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
Edwards, Carolyn McVicker. The Storytellers Goddess: Tales of the Goddess and Her Wisdom Around the World. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
Frankfort, H. and H.A., John A. Wilson, and Thorkild Jacobsen. Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. Penguin Books: Baltimore, Maryland, 1946.
Rochberg, F. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. American Philosophical Society, 1998.
Rochberg, F. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Wolkstein, Diane, and Samuel Noah Kramer. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.
e. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan
L'Heureux, Conrad E. Rank among the Canaanite Gods: El, Ba`al, and the Repha'im. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press,
Mullen, E. Theodore. The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature. Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1980.
Driver, Godfrey R. Canaanite Myths and Legends. Edinburgh: Clark, 1978.
Cross, Frank M. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973.
Handy, Lowell K. Among the Host of Heaven: the Syro-palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1994.
Balout, L., editor. La momie de Ramses II: Contribution scientifique à l'Égyptologie sous la direction de Lionel Balout et C. Roubet, avec la participation de Ch. Desroches-Noblecourt, etc. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1985.
Bardinet, T. Les papyrus médicaux de l'Egypte pharaonique: Traduction intégrale et commentaire. Penser la Médecine. Paris: Librarie Arthème Fayard, 1995.
Brothwell, D. R. and Sandison, A. T., editors. Diseases in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diseases, Injuries and Surgery of Early Populations. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1967.
David, A. R., editor. The Manchester Museum Mummy Project: Multidisciplinary Research on Ancient Egyptian Mummified Remains. Manchester: Manchester Museum, 1979.
David, A. R. and Tapp, E., editors. Evidence Embalmed: Modern Medicine and the Mummies of Ancient Egypt. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984.
Davies, W.V. and Walker, R., editors. Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1993.
Engelmann, H. and Hallof, J. "Zur medizinischen Nothilfe und Unfallversorgung auf staatlichen Arbeitsplätzen im alten Ägypten [On Emergency Medical Assistance and Accident Provision on State Jobs in Ancient Egypt]." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 122 (1995): 104-37.
Estes, J. W. The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt. Rev. ed. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 1993.
Filer, J. Disease. Egyptian Bookshelf Series. London: British Museum, 1995.
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