Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten, King ofEgy’pt. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988.
One of the two or three basic works on the subject by a highly respected Amarna scholar.
-. Akhenaten andNefertiti. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1973. An exhibition catalogue that includes important information on the subject.
Anon. Amarna Letters, 3 vols. San Francisco: KMT Communications, 1991-1994. Anthologies of essays by various scholars. Both readable and informative.
Arnold, Dorothea. The Royal Women of Amarna. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Essays by various scholars on the different women of the Amarna period. Beautiful illustrations, important text.
Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane. Tutankhamen. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1963. Some unusual theories but gives a wonderful feeling of the period.
Kozloff, Arielle P., and Betsy M. Bryan. Egypt’s Dazzling Sim. A beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue but far more, including the best history of Amenhotep III available.
Moran, William. The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Translations of the cuneiform letters written to Akhenaten from abroad. Shows Egypt declining.
Murnane, William J. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. Translations of all the major Egyptian documents from the period. An important research tool and fascinating.
-, and Charles C. Van Siclen 111. The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten.
London: Kegan-Paul, 1993. Translations of all the boundary markers of Akhenaten’s city in the desert.
Redford, D. B. Akhenaten, the Heretic King. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. An important work by the man who excavated Akhenaten’s temples at Karnak and grew to hate the king!
Reeves, Nicholas. The Complete Tutankhamen. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990. It really is complete! (With wonderful illustrations.)
-, and John H. Taylor. Howard Carter Before Tutankhamen. New York:
Abrams, 1992. Gives a detailed account of Carter’s career leading up to the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb.
Smith, Ray Winfield, and Donald B. Redford. The Akhenaten Temple Project. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1976. The attempt to reconstruct Akhenaten’s Karnak temples on paper with the aid of a computer.
Velikovsky, Immannuel. Oedipus and Akhenaten. New York: Doubleday, 1960. A crazy theory that Akhenaten was the Greek King Oedipus, but it is interesting to see how the case is presented.
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