📚 Ancient Egypt

The civilization of the Nile across thirty centuries: pharaohs, tombs, and the decipherment that let it speak again.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ancient egypt in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Ancient Egypt	Lorna Oakes	2002	12
	You Wouldn't Want to Be Cleopatra!	Jim Pipe	2006	7
	Deir el-Gebrawi	Naguib Kanawati	2005	6
	Scattered Finds	Alice Stevenson	2019	6
	Bulletin de correspondance hellénique	École française d'Athènes	1883	5
	Enteuxeis	Octave Guéraud	1931	5
	The law of Greco-Roman Egypt in the light of the papyri, 332 B.C.-640 A.D	Rafał Taubenschlag	1944	5
	Description de l'Egypte	Gilles Néret	1994	5
	Giza	Ian Lawton	1999	5
	Egyptian mummies	Grafton Elliot Smith	1924	4
	Egypt and the Egyptians	Douglas J. Brewer	1999	4
	The mummy	Joyce A. Tyldesley	1999	4
	Treasures of the pharaohs	Delia Pemberton	2004	4
	The Woman Who Would Be King	Kara Cooney	2014	4
	Cleopatra's needles	Bob Brier	2016	4
	The Sphinx revealed	Henry Salt	2007	3
	Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination	Eleanor Dobson	2020	3
	Précis du droit égyptien comparé aux autres droits de l'antiquité	Revillout, Eugène	1903	2
	Aus dem gräko-ägyptischen rechtsleben	Benedict Frese	1909	2
	The burden of Isis	James Teackle Dennis	1910	2
	Die Bedeutung der Kyria-Klausel in den Papyrusurkunden	Manfred Hässler	1960	2
	A cemetery of palace attendants	Ann Macy Roth	1995	2
	The pharaohs, master-builders	Henri Stierlin	1995	2
	PAPYRUS HARKNESS (MMA 31.9.7)	MARK SMITH	2005	2
	TETI CEMETERY AT SAQQARA; VIII: THE TOMB OF INUMIN	NAGUIB KANAWATI	2006	2
	Who killed King Tut?	Michael R. King	2006	2
	Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners	Bill Manley	2012	2
	Ptolemy I Soter	Edward M. Anson	2023	2
	Subsistence Strategies and Craft Production at the Ancient Egyptian Ramesside Fort of Zawiyet Umm El-Rakham	Nicky Nielsen	2024	2
	Cleopatra's needle, with brief notes on Egypt and Egyptian obelisks	Wilson, Erasmus, Sir	1877	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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