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Culture Smart! Egypt • Jailan Zayan • GUIDEBOOK • A handy pocket guide to understanding local customs and etiquette. (EGY196, $9.95)

Eyewitness Guide Egypt • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • BEST SELLER • A visually rich guide to the history, culture and monuments of Egypt. With 1,000 color photographs, maps and 3-D site diagrams. (EGY90, $25.00)

Say It in Arabic (Egyptian) • Farouk El-Baz • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A guide to common words and phrases in the widely spoken Cairo dialect. (ARB54, $4.95)

The Treasures of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings • Kent R. Weeks • GUIDEBOOK • This illustrated, authoritative guide to the celebrated temples, tombs and art of Thebes by a leading scholar includes not only Luxor and Karnak but also the temples of Madinat Habu, Merenptah and Dayr al-bahari. (EGY295, $24.95)

Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs • Angela McDonald • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS

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A Traveller's History of Egypt • Harry Ades • HISTORY • This effectively condensed chronological history takes in the full sweep from the earliest inhabitants to 21st century politics. (EGY180, $14.95)

Cairo Illustrated • Michael Haag • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A warm, richly illustrated portrait of the city, featuring 125 color photographs of the people, monuments and attractions of Cairo alongside Michael Haag's insightful commentary. (EGY203, $22.95)

Cairo, The City Victorious • Max Rodenbeck • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Rodenbeck presents his hometown in all its chaotic, marvelous glory, combining a lively history of the 5,000-year-old metropolis with description, anecdote and political commentary. (EGY38, $15.95)

Egypt, A View from Above • Philip Plisson • Christian Jacq • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • COMING IN OCTOBER • From sand-swept desert ruins and fishing boats along the Nile to bustling Cairo and modern Alexandria, photographer Philip Plisson and Egyptologist Christian Jacq document in stunning color the many places and faces of this spectacular land. (EGY323, $55.00)

Inside Egypt • John R. Bradley • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A reporter in the region since 1999, Bradley holds no punches in this highly readable expose of the politics and policies of Mubarak's military and modern Egypt. (EGY261, $16.95)

Luxor Illustrated, With Aswan, Abu Simbel and the Nile • Michael Haag • CULTURAL PORTRAIT

• The ideal companion to a Nile cruise, Michael Haag introduces all the famous monuments and temples of the Upper Egypt from Luxor, Karnak and the tomb of Tutankhamun to the marvels of Aswan and Abu Simbel in full color. We also carry Haag's Cairo Illustrated (EGY203). (EGY277, $22.95)

The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt • Richard Wilkinson • HISTORY • This superbly illustrated and authoritative survey covers Egyptian temple life from construction of the monuments to society, religious rites, festivals and discovery. (EGY238, $39.95)

The Egyptians • Cyril Aldred • HISTORY • A volume in the "Ancient Peoples and Places" series, this classic book is an outstanding account of the history and culture of ancient Egypt. With hundreds of illustrations and maps. (EGY26, $18.95)

Traveling Through Egypt, From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century • Sahar Abdel-Hakim • Deborah Manley • HISTORY • From Herodotus to Napoleon, Flaubert to Twain, Egypt has long enchanted travelers, as shown by this choice anthology of excerpts from centuries of travelogues, histories and memoirs of every part of Egypt. (EGY237, $24.95)

The Art of Ancient Egypt • Gay Robins • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Organized chronologically, this authoritative survey of the tombs, temples and sanctuaries of ancient Egypt features 300 illustrations. (EGY52, $29.00)

The Complete Valley of the Kings • Nicholas Reeves • Richard Wilkinson • ARCHAEOLOGY • A thorough and intriguing look at the burial place of the New Kingdom pharaohs, this book brings together the art, architecture and history of the valley; contains profiles of archaeologists, diagrams and detailed site descriptions.(EGY14, $26.95)

Down the Nile, Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff • Rosemary Mahoney • TRAVEL NARRATIVE

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World • Lucette Lagnado • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Lagnado poignantly evokes the life of her marvelously social father (the "boulevardier of Cairo") and his milieu in this textured memoir. (EGY215, $14.99)

Death on the Nile • Agatha Christie • MYSTERY • How could we resist? Christie wrote Egypt's most famous murder mystery on the terrace of the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan. (EGY09, $6.99)

He Shall Thunder in the Sky • Elizabeth Peters • MYSTERY • This riveting mystery novel by Egyptologist Elizabeth Peters finds Amelia Peabody and her family hard at work at an Egyptian archaeological site on the brink of WWI. (EGY75, $9.99)

Palace Walk • Naguib Mahfouz • LITERATURE • The first volume in the monumental Cairo Trilogy, a family saga set in post-WWI Egypt. Nobel Prize-winning Mahfouz provides insight into life in Egypt and the revolution against the British. (EGY04, $16.00)

The Egyptologist, A Novel • Arthur Phillips • LITERATURE • A playful and clever novel convincingly set in the milieu of 1920s Egyptian archaeology. Phillips deftly combines historical personages and events with wild invention. (EGY128, $13.95)

The Yacoubian Building • Alaa Al Aswany • LITERATURE • Hugely popular in Egypt, this short novel reflects contemporary society through the lives and fortunes of the inhabitants of a once elegant Art Deco building in Cairo. (EGY175, $13.99)

Egyptian Mythology: a guide to Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Pinch

The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard Wilkinson

Egyptian Mythology A to Z by Pat Remler

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The Myths and Mythology of Ancient Egypt by Lucia Gahlin (Paperback - Oct 25, 2003)

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Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice by Byron E. Shafer, John R. Baines, David P. Silverman, and Leonard H. Lesko (Paperback - Jul 1991)

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Legends of Ancient Egypt by Margaret Alice Murray (Paperback - Mar 20, 2000)

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The Ancient Egypt Pack: A Three‐Dimensional Celebration of Egyptian Mythology, Culture, Art, Life and Afterlife (Cleopatras Eye) by Christos Kondeatis and Sara Maitland (Hardcover - Oct 1996)


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Ancient Egypt 39,000 BCE: The History, Technology, and Philosophy of Civilization X by Edward F. Malkowski (Paperback - May 14, 2010)

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Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt by William J. Murnane (Paperback - 1995)

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Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many by Erik Hornung and John Baines (Paperback - Nov 1996)

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Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt by Robert A. Armour (Paperback - Feb 1, 2010)

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The Oxford Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology by Oxford University Press (Paperback - Jul 1, 2003)


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Golden Shrine, Goddess Queen: Egypt's Annointing Mysteries by Alison Roberts (Paperback - Nov 1, 2008)

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Ancient Egyptian Mythology (Ancient Mythology Series) by Jo Forty (Hardcover - Apr 1997)

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Cult of the Sun: Myth and Magic in Ancient Egypt by A. Rosalie David (Hardcover - 1998)


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Egypt: Child of Atlantis: A Radical Interpretation of the Origins of Civilization by J. S. Gordon (Paperback - May 18, 2004)

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Egyptian Gods and Goddesses: The Mythology and Beliefs of Ancient Egypt by Clive Barrett (Paperback - Mar 1993)


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In Pursuit of Invisibility: Ritual Texts from Late Roman Egypt (American Studies in Papyrology) by Richard L. Phillips (Hardcover - Dec 30, 2009)

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Ancient Mythologies: India, Persia, Babylon, Egypt by Charles Kovacs (Paperback - Sep 1999)

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Gods and Religion of Ancient Egypt: An in‐depth study of a fascinating society and their popular beliefs, documented in over 200

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Egyptian Mythology: Myths and Legends of Egypt, Persia, Asia Minor, Sumer and Babylon by Rachel Storm (Hardcover - Sep 25, 2000)


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The age of fable;: Or, stories of the gods of Greece and Rome, the deities of Egypt, and the eastern and Hindu mythology (The

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The Myth of Egypt and Its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition by Erik Iversen (Paperback - Oct 4, 1993)


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India in Greece: Or, Truth in Mythology Containing the Sources of the Hellenic Race the Colonisation of Egypt and Palestine the Wars of

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The Cult of Ra: Sun‐Worship in Ancient Egypt by Stephen Quirke (Hardcover - Nov 2001)


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