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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,191 ratings — published 2010
Nefertiti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,841 ratings — published 2007
The Heretic Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,196 ratings — published 2008
River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 45,057 ratings — published 1993
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.66 — 8,071 ratings — published 2014
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,722 ratings — published 2010
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,375 ratings — published 2009
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,650 ratings — published 2000
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,430 ratings — published -1500
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,681 ratings — published 1967
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 21,840 ratings — published 1997
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.68 — 9,566 ratings — published 2018
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,024 ratings — published 1964
Child of the Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,745 ratings — published 1977
The Son of Light (Ramses, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,188 ratings — published 1995
سینوهه (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,425 ratings — published 1945
Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,129 ratings — published 1953
Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,062 ratings — published 2014
The Seventh Scroll (Ancient Egypt, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,192 ratings — published 1995
Warlock (Ancient Egypt, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,754 ratings — published 2001
Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,404 ratings — published 2002
Lily of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,331 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.26 — 738 ratings — published 2003
The Quest (Ancient Egypt, #4)
by (shelved 41 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,128 ratings — published 2007
The Sekhmet Bed (The She-King, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,230 ratings — published 2011
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.92 — 853 ratings — published 1996
The Eternal Temple (Ramses #2)
by (shelved 36 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,396 ratings — published 1995
Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.97 — 709 ratings — published 1991
The Battle of Kadesh (Ramses #3)
by (shelved 34 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,790 ratings — published 1996
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.10 — 434,463 ratings — published 2010
The Lady of Abu Simbel (Ramses #4)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,170 ratings — published 1996
Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.93 — 675 ratings — published 1999
Death Comes as the End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,405 ratings — published 1944
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C. (Audio CD)
by (shelved 32 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,208 ratings — published 1999
Lady of the Reeds (Lady of the Reeds, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,586 ratings — published 1994
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,577 ratings — published 2008
Twelfth Transforming (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,169 ratings — published 1984
Sphinx's Princess (Sphinx's Princess, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,437 ratings — published 2009
Under the Western Acacia (Ramses #5)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,296 ratings — published 1997
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.00 — 81,017 ratings — published 1975
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead (Rai Rahotep, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.48 — 2,458 ratings — published 2006
Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.96 — 236 ratings — published 1989
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.05 — 646 ratings — published 2012
Cleopatra's Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,574 ratings — published 2011
The Twice Born (The King's Man #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.19 — 770 ratings — published 2007
The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,456 ratings — published 1999
Tales of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,157 ratings — published 1973
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,101 ratings — published 2020
24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,067 ratings — published 2018
Scroll of Saqqara (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-egypt)
avg rating 4.05 — 960 ratings — published 1990
“Never did a book reveal such truths,
Why seek a name? It matters not;
The boundless found a shape and form
In sacrifice's sacred knot.
Oh see, what is possession's worth
If it knows not to offer its all?
Things pass away. Aid them in passing,
Lest life from a hidden crack should fall.
Forever, be the giver, not the taker.
The mule, the cow—all press their way
To where the king’s image, like a child,
Is sated, smiles, and softly lays.
His temple breathes unceasing calm,
He takes and takes, yet grants reprieve,
So gentle even, the princess's hand
Holds the papyrus bloom, but does not cleave.
Here, sacrifice’s paths are cut,
The Sunday rises, ungrasped by weeks.
Man and beast drag gains aside,
Unseen by gods, as profit speaks.
Though hard, commerce bends to will,
Earth cheapened, tamed by practiced skill,
But one who pays the ultimate price,
Surrenders all—they too are sacrificed.”
―
Why seek a name? It matters not;
The boundless found a shape and form
In sacrifice's sacred knot.
Oh see, what is possession's worth
If it knows not to offer its all?
Things pass away. Aid them in passing,
Lest life from a hidden crack should fall.
Forever, be the giver, not the taker.
The mule, the cow—all press their way
To where the king’s image, like a child,
Is sated, smiles, and softly lays.
His temple breathes unceasing calm,
He takes and takes, yet grants reprieve,
So gentle even, the princess's hand
Holds the papyrus bloom, but does not cleave.
Here, sacrifice’s paths are cut,
The Sunday rises, ungrasped by weeks.
Man and beast drag gains aside,
Unseen by gods, as profit speaks.
Though hard, commerce bends to will,
Earth cheapened, tamed by practiced skill,
But one who pays the ultimate price,
Surrenders all—they too are sacrificed.”
―
“Warm, gentle winds blew and blew, and the loamy soil swirled playfully about before shifting, oh, so slightly. Then, little by little, piece by piece, remnants of the City were unearthed by curious people who had come from faraway lands. A stone tablet, a shard of pottery, portions of a shattered statue and pieces of beautifully painted tiles. A bust of a woman, who could she possibly be?”
― Imagining Nefertiti: a novel
― Imagining Nefertiti: a novel
