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Andrews, Carol. Amulets of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, University of Texas Press Edition, 1994.

Arnold, Dorothea. "An Egyptian Bestiary." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 52, 4 (spring 1995).

Baines, John, and Jaromir Malek. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. New York: Facts on File, 1980.

D'Alton, Martina. The New York Obelisk: Or How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1993.

D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine Roehrig. Mummies and Magic. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988.

Faulkner, Raymond O., trans., and Carol Andrews, ed. The Book of the Dead. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1972.

Hallo, William W., and William Kelly Simpson. The Ancient Near East: A History. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1971.

Hayes, William C. The Scepter of Egypt. 2 vols. 1953. Rev. ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990.

Houlihan, Patrick F. The Animal World of the Pharaohs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.

Ions, Veronica. Egyptian Mythology. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1983.

James, T. G. H. Egyptian Painting. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

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------. A Short History of Ancient Egypt. N.p.: Librairie du Liban, 1995.

Janssen, Rosalind M., and J. Jac. Getting Old in Ancient Egypt. London: The Rubicon Press, 1996.

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Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. 3 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press (1973-1980).

Lilyquist, Christine, et al. "Egyptian Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 41, 3 (winter 1983-84).

Mertz, Barbara. Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1990.

------. Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1990.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Egypt and the Ancient Near East. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987

Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 33, 1 (summer 1975 [Museum archaeologists at Thebes]).

Reeves, Nicholas. The Complete Tutankhamun. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.

Robins, Gay. Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

------. Women in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Russmann, Edna R. Egyptian Sculpture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.

Schafer, Henrich. Principles of Egyptian Art. Trans. John Baines. Repr. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1986.

Simpson, William Kelly, ed. The Literature of Ancient Egypt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.

Smith, W. Stevenson. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt. London: Penguin Books, 1981.

Time Line of Culture in the Nile Valley and Its Relationship to Other World Cultures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.

Walker, Susan, and Morris Bierbrier. Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1997.

Wilkinson, Charles K., and Marsha Hill. Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum's Collection of Facsimiles. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.

Wilkinson, Richard H. Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

------. Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

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