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TRAVEL/TOURISM

  • Lonely Planet: Egypt
    DT45 .E37 2007

  • Egypt Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette
    DT70 .Z39 2007

  • An Egyptian journal
    DT56 .G54 1985

HISTORY

  • Ancient Egypt: the great discoveries: a year-by-year chronicle
    DT60 .R397 2000

  • A brief history of Egypt
    DT77 .G65 2008

  • The history of Egypt
    DT100 .P47 2004

  • Napoleon's Egypt: invading the Middle East.
    DT100 .C65 2007

  • The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt
    Reference DT58 .O94 2001 (3 vols)

  • The Oxford history of ancient Egypt
    DT83 .O95 2000

  • Tutankhamun and the golden age of the pharaohs
    DT58.9 .H28 2005

ART/ARCHITECTURE

  • Arts of ancient Egypt
    N5335.B6 M87 2003

  • Egypt: engineering an empire
    DVDs DT83 .E39 2006 DVD

  • Egypt: 4000 years of art
    N5350 .M25597 2003

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ARCHAEOLOGY and EGYPTOLOGY

  • Conflicted antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity
    DT60 .C634 2007

  • Cracking codes: the Rosetta stone and decipherment
    PJ1051 .P38 1999

  • Egyptology: an introduction to the history, art, and culture of ancient Egypt
    DT60 .P8 1990

  • Egyptology today
    DT60 .E395 2008

  • Secrets from the sand: my search for Egypt's past
    DT60 .H386 2003

  • Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I
    DT56.9 .R45 2002 or view online

MUSIC

FOLKLORE

  • Egyptian tales and romances
    GR355 .B82 1980

FICTION

  • The map of love by Ahdaf Soueif
    PR6069.O78 M37 2000

  • The theocrat by Bensalem Himmich
    PJ7832 .I445 M3513 2005

  • Any novel by Naguib Mahfouz (winner of 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature)



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