Call Numbers for Books on Egypt
CLASS B - PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION
BL1-2790 Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
BL2390-2490 African
BL2420-2460 Egyptian
CLASS D - WORLD HISTORY AND HISTORY OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ETC.
DT1-3415 History of Africa
DT43-154 Egypt
DT56.8-69.5 Antiquities
DT63-63.5 Pyramids
DT68-68.8 Religious antiquities
CLASS N - FINE ARTS
N1-9211 Visual arts
N5300-7418 History
Library of Congress Subject Headings for Egyptian Art
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Architecture Books
The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, 300 BC-AD 700 by Call Number: NA 216 .A5 M45 2007ISBN: 9780300115550Publication Date: 2008Location: Purdy-Kresge Oversize
Egyptian Temple Architecture by Call Number: NA 215 .V6713 2007ISBN: 9789636620844Publication Date: 2008Location: Purdy-Kresge
Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture by Call Number: TH 1201 .C55 1990ISBN: 0486264858Publication Date: 1999Location: Undergraduate and Purdy-Kresge libraries
The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur Archictectural Studies by Call Number: DT 57 .N vol. 26 2002ISBN: 0870999567Publication Date: 2000Location: Purdy-Kresge Oversize
Art Books
- Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art byCall Number: N 5350 .R65 1994ISBN: 9780292770607Publication Date: 1994Location: Purdy-Kresge
Egyptian Art by Call Number: N 5350 .B665 2004ISBN: 0195130715Publication Date: 2004Location: Purdy-Kresge Oversize
Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art by Call Number: N 5350 .W493 1994ISBN: 0500236631Publication Date: 1994Location: Purdy-Kresge
When Pyramids Were Built by Call Number: N 5350 .A75 1999ISBN: 0870999087Publication Date: 1999Location: Purdy-Kresge Oversize
Inscribing Meaning by Call Number: N 7380.5 .I6 2007ISBN: 9788874393770Publication Date: 2007Location: Purdy-Kresge Oversize
Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt by Call Number: N 5350 .S77 2006ISBN: 0292716621Publication Date: 2006Location: Purdy-Kresge
Ancient Egypt by Call Number: N 5335 .C5 T45 2003ISBN: 1885923252Publication Date: 2003Location: Purdy-Kresge Oversize
Eternal Egypt by Call Number: N 5350 .R87 2001ISBN: 0520230825Publication Date: 2001Location: Purdy-Kresge Oversize- The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art byCall Number: N 3530 .D34 1989ISBN: 0521365902Publication Date: 1989Location: Purdy-Kresge
- Art in the Ancient World: A Handbook of Styles and Forms byCall Number: N 3545 .A88 1981Publication Date: 1981Location: Purdy-Kresge
- Reading Egyptian Art: a Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture byCall Number: PJ 1135 .W5 1992ISBN: 0500050643Publication Date: 1992Location: Purdy-Kresge
Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture - Images for This World and the Next by Call Number: NB 75 .T56 2000ISBN: 0691034680Publication Date: 1999Location: Purdy-Kresge
House of Eternity by Call Number: DT 73 .V34 M35 1996ISBN: 0892364157Publication Date: 1996Location: UGL- Sexuality in Ancient Art byCall Number: N 5333 .S425 1996ISBN: 0521470994Publication Date: 1996Location: Purdy-Kresge
Books on Society, History, and Religion
The Search for God in Ancient Egypt by Call Number: BL 2441.2 .A8713 2001ISBN: 0801437865Publication Date: 2001-02-15Location: Purdy-Kresge
The Gods of Egypt by Call Number: BL 2450 .G6 T7313 2001ISBN: 0801438349Publication Date: 2001Location: Purdy-Kresge
Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt by Call Number: HQ 1137 .E3 S49 2008ISBN: 1905125240Publication Date: 2008Location: Purdy-Kresge
A Short History of Ancient Egypt: From Predynastic to Roman Times by Call Number: DT 83 .J34 1998ISBN: 0801859336Publication Date: 1998-07-07A Short History of Ancient Egypt provides a concise, authoritative, and richly illustrated overview of ancient Egypt from its rise from the marshes to its submission to Rome.
From Slave to Pharaoh by Call Number: DT 83 .R4 2004ISBN: 0801878144Publication Date: 2004Location: Purdy-Kresge
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Reference eBooks
Architecture eBooks
Art eBooks
- Old Kingdom, New Perspectives: Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750-2150 BCPublication Date: 2011
Recommended Journals
- British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES)"The British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to presenting research on all aspects of ancient Egypt and Sudan and the representation of these cultures in modern times." from website
- Antiquity"A scholarly quarterly journal reporting on new research, methodology, and matters of professional interest in archaeology." from website
- Near Eastern Archaeology"Near Eastern Archaeology brings to life the ancient world from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean with vibrant images and authoritative analyses." from website
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies is the leading interdisciplinary journal on Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. It carries unparalleled coverage of the languages, cultures and civilisations of these regions from ancient times to the present." from website
- Journal of Archaeological Research"Journal of Archaeological Research brings together the most recent international research summaries on a broad range of topics and geographical areas." from website
- Apollo"Apollo is one of the most unique and highly-regarded art publications in the world, delivering a wealth of visual delights and informed news, analysis and debate from the art world with unparalleled authority and editorial breadth. No other magazine in the world publishes new research on art of all ages and all countries, from ancient times to today’s cutting edge as well as interviews with the world’s leading collectors." from website
- Burlington Magazine"Founded in 1903, The Burlington Magazine soon established itself as the world's leading monthly art periodical. Covering all aspects of the fine and decorative arts from ancient times to the present day." from website
- The Classical World"Begun in 1907 as The Classical Weekly, this peer-reviewed journal publishes contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman literature, history, and society; on the classical tradition; on the history of classical scholarship." from website
- Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt"The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster scholarly research into the art, archaeology, languages, history, and social systems of the Egyptian people" from website
- Journal of Egyptian Archaeology"The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology contains scholarly articles on ancient Egyptian culture, archaeology, history and texts, as well as reviews of Egyptological books." from website
Featured Article Databases
- Art Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCovers more than 250 key international, English-language arts publications, includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and so forth.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowArts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. WSU has perpetual access to the Arts and Sciences I-XV, Hebrew Journals and Sustainability Collections.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window"A searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses." from website
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new window"AnthroSource is a service of the American Anthropological Association that offers members and subscribing libraries full-text anthropological resources from the breadth and depth of the discipline." from website
- Anthropological Literature This link opens in a new windowAnthropological Literature is a bibliographic index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present.
WSU Egyptian Image Resources
- LUNA (Visual Resource Collection): Egyptian imagesLUNA is a customized image database, which includes personal contributions from WSU faculty, purchased individual images, as well as the AMICA museum image database.
Museum Collections of Ancient Egyptian Art Online
- Brooklyn Museum"The Brooklyn Museum's collection of ancient Egyptian art, one of the largest and finest in the United States, is renowned throughout the world." from website
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art"Ranging in date from the fourth millennium B.C. through the end of the Coptic period (7th century A.D.), the approximately two thousand works of art in the museum's Egyptian collection present a broad overview of artistic production." from website
- The Cleveland Museum of Art"Egyptian antiquities were the first works of art acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913, even before there was a building to house them. Today the Egyptian collection is internationally recognized as one of the finest collections of its kind." from website
- The Louvre"The Louvre houses one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities after the Cairo Museum. It is also one of the best balanced of the world’s great collections (Turin, Berlin, British Museum, Met, Boston, etc.), with masterpieces from every period. Highlights include sarcophagi and papyrus scrolls, steles and other stone works, and bronzes." from website
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art"The Museum's collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately twenty-six thousand objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period (ca. 300,000 B.C.–A.D. 4th century)." from website
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium"Architecturally inspired by the Temple of Amon at Karnak, it houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts on exhibit in western North America" from website
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston"The Art of the Ancient World collection ranks among the premier encyclopedic collections in the world, with over 83,000 works of art from Egypt, Nubia, the Near East, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, and Anatolia. The objects in the collection range in date from about 6500 BC to AD 600 and cover a broad geographical expanse, from Britain to Afghanistan." from website
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin"The Egyptian Museum owns one of the world's most important collections of Ancient Egyptian Art. Through its pieces of art, mostly taken from the time of King Akhenaton (around 1340 BC) from Tell el Amarna, the museum has reached world standing and renown. Famous works such as the bust of Queen Nefertiti, the portrait of Queen Tiy and the famous 'Berlin Green Head' belong to the collection." from website
Websites
- ABZU"Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world." from website
- Art History ResourcesProvides links to many different online resources on ancient Egyptian art.
- Digital Egypt for Universities"From the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, this includes site maps, timelines accessed by an A-Z index." from website
- Duke Papyrus Archive"The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt." from website
- Egyptology Resources"This page is set up with the kind assistance of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge to provide a World Wide Web resource for Egyptological information." from website
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryThis website features a list of rulers of ancient Egypt and Nubia and includes available images of the listed rulers.
- The Giza Archives"This Web site is a comprehensive resource for research on Giza. It contains photographs and other documentation from the original Harvard University - Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (1904 to 1947), from recent MFA fieldwork, and from other expeditions, museums, and universities around the world." from website
- Ministry of Antiquities"The principal mission of the Ministry of State for Antiquities, previously known as the Supreme Council of Antiquities, is to protect and promote the cultural heritage of Egypt." from website
- Eternal Egypt"Brings to light over five thousand years of Egyptian civilization. Eternal Egypt is a living record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions." from website
- Virtual Egyptian Museum"The Virtual Egyptian Museum is a joint venture between CIWA and the Senusret Collection." from website
- The Global Egyptian Museum"At a rough estimate, over 2 million objects from ancient Egypt are kept in about 850 public collections, dispersed over 69 countries around the world. This website aims to collect them into a global virtual museum, which can be visited at any time, from any place. The Global Egyptian Museum is a long-term project, carried out under the aegis of the International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG)." from website