Lonely Planet: Egypt
The information is thorough and for the most part accurate. Particularly useful are the suggested highlights for every major city, which, though doomed to meet with dissent, generally provide a good foundation for planning an itinerary. The inclusion of good, colour photographs is also a benefit. There are some notable weaknesses. Maps are disjointed and difficult to relate to each other, and there are vital moments where the guide shies away from making specific recommendations or suggesting priorities.

The Rough Guide to Egypt
Egypt is the oldest tourist destination on earth. Ancient Greeks and Romans started the trend, coming to goggle at the cyclopean scale of the Pyramids and the Colossi of Thebes. At the onset of colonial times, Napoleon and the British in turn looted Egypt’s treasures to fill their national museums, sparking off a trickle of Grand Tourists that eventually became a flood of travellers, packaged for their Nile cruises and Egyptological lectures by the enterprising Thomas Cook.

 

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs
A practical teach-yourself course on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for the general reader. In this text, the grammar of ancient Egypt is introduced using the inscriptions found on monuments, with an emphasis on learning to read and translate accurately. A series of 43 exercises accompanies an easy to follow ten-step guide and is supported by a reference section of sign-lists and a short dictionary at the end of the text. Background notes on general topics including gods, royal dynasties and principal sites aim to help the reader to understand the historical concept

Publisher : British Museum Press
Release : 30 March, 1998
Paperback : 160 pages
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Egyptian Gods and Pharoahs (Cover to Cover) [AUDIOBOOK]
For three thousand years, the Egyptian civilisation was the greatest on Earth. In the beautiful hieroglyphs, carved on tomb and temple walls, the ancient Egyptians wrote all they believed about the world: about Ra the sun god, Thoth, the god of the moon and the Measurer of Time, Osiris and Isis who gave people their skills, and about the long journey after death through the Underworld to the Fields of Peace. Enter a magical world of gods and sorcerors, with these spellbinding stories, re-told by an award-winning children's author and made lively, fresh and accesible for today's readers...

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks
Release : 6 January, 2003
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Ancient Egyptians: The Kingdom of the Pharaohs Brought to Life
Rê est un dieu-roi vieillissant que l'on mène par le bout du nez et l'ambitieuse Isis sait y faire. Pour reconstituer les morceaux épars du corps de son frère et époux Osiris, la déesse malicieuse a besoin de tous ses talents et Seth, le meurtrier, n'a qu'à bien se tenir. Claire Lalouette a réécrit quelques-uns des textes mythologiques égyptiens illustrant un monde merveilleux où les puissances d'en haut ont les faiblesses des mortels d'en bas...

Publisher : HarperCollins Entertainment
Release : 3 November, 2003
Paperback : 256 pages
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Her-Bak: Egyptian Initiate

Publisher : Inner Traditions International
Release : 1 November, 1989
Paperback : 396 pages
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Egypt (Holiday Map S.)
This topographic map includes road, rail and ferry networks, cities and towns as well as hotel listings and indexes to places of interest. It covers all of Egypt from the Mediterranean coast in the north to the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser in the south, and from the Libyan border in the west to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east. It includes large scale maps of Luxor/Thebes, the Pyramids and a city plan and through route map of Cairo. Listings of selected hotels, nightclubs, places of interest, religious buildings and descriptive text are included.

Publisher : Collins
Release : 3 July, 2000
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