All Things Ancient Egypt. An Encyclopedia of the Ancient Egyptian World

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Volume 1
	Title
	Copyright
	Contents
	Guide to Related Topics
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	Timeline of Ancient Egyptian History
	A
		Abu Ghurab
		Abu Simbel
		Abusir
		Abydos
		Administration
		Afterlife
		Agriculture
		Amulets
		Amun
		Animals
		Animals, Sacred and Mummies
		Army
		Art
		Astronomy
		Aten
		Autobiographical Inscriptions
		Primary Document—Excerpt from the Autobiography of Ankhtify
		Primary Document—Excerpt from the Inscription of Intef
	B
		Barque, Sacred
		Basketry and Cordage
		Beads
		Beer
		Beni Hasan
		Birds
		Book of the Dead
		Bread
		Bubastis
	C
		Calendar
		Canopic Jar and Box
		Chariot
		Childbirth
		Cities and Villages
		Clothing
		Coffin Texts
		Primary Document—Excerpt from CT 335, a Coffin Text Spell
		Coffins and Sarcophagi
		Color Symbolism
		Colossi of Memnon
		Cosmetics and Toiletries
		Cosmology
		Crime and Punishment
		Primary Document—Account of the Trial of Tomb Robbers from the Amherst Papyrus
		Crowns
		Cult Ritual, Temple
	D
		Dahshur
		Dance
		Decipherment
		Deification
		Deir el-Medina
		Demons
		Dendera
		Dental Health
		Deserts
		Diplomacy
		Primary Document—Excerpt from an Egyptian Treaty with the Hittites
		Disease
	E
		Edfu
		Education
		Elephantine
		Ethics
		Ethnicity
	F
		Faience
		Families
		Felines
		Female Figurines
		Fish
		Flowers
		Food
		Footwear
		Foreign Relations and Treaties
		Foreigners
		Forts and Fortifications
		Foundation Deposits
		Funerary Books, Royal
		Furniture and Woodworking
	G
		Gardens
		Gebel Barkal
		Gender and Sex
		Giza
		Glass
		Goddesses, Minor
		Gods, Minor
		God’s Wife of Amun
		Gold
		Graffiti
	H
		Hair and Wigs
		Harem
		Primary Document—Interrogation of Prince Pentawer Regarding His Involvement in a Harem Conspiracy
		Primary Document—Marriage of Queen Tiye and Amenhotep III
		Hathor
		Hawara
		Headrests
		Heliopolis
		Hierakonpolis
		Horus
		Houses
		Human Sacrifice
		Hunting
	I
		Iron
		Isis
	J
		Jewelry
	K
		Kadesh, Battle of (ca. 1274 BCE)
		Primary Document—Description of a Hittite Attack during the Battle of Kadesh
		Karnak
		Kerma
		King Lists
		Kingship
		Kingship Myths
		Kush
Volume 2
	Title
	Copyright
	Contents
	Guide to Related Topics
	L
		Labor
		Lahun
		Language and Script
		Law
		Leather
		Libraries
		Lisht
		Literacy and Orality
		Literature, Fiction
		Primary Document—Excerpt from the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor
		Lower Egypt
	M
		Maat
		Magic
		Marriage and Divorce
		Mathematics
		Medicine and Doctors
		Megiddo, Battle of (ca. 1457 BCE)
		Primary Document—Account of the Battle of Megiddo
		Meidum
		Memphis
		Mining
		Mummies, Royal
		Mummification
		Music and Musical Instruments
		Myth
		Myths, Creation
	N
		Nile River
		Primary Document—Thutmose III Returns from a Campaign
		Nomes and Provincial Administration
		Nubia
		Primary Document—Senusret III’s Conquest of Nubia
	O
		Obelisk
		Primary Document—Text from Obelisk of Hatshepsut
		Primary Document—Text from Stela at Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
		Primary Document—Text from Obelisk of Senusret
		Offerings, Votive
		Officials
		Opening of the Mouth
		Opet Festival
		Oracles
		Osiris
	P
		Palaces
		Personal Names
		Philae Island
		Police
		Pottery
		Predynastic Period (ca. 5300–3000 BCE)
		Priestesses
		Priests
		Ptah
		Ptolemaic Egypt (305–30 BCE)
		Punt
		Pyramid Construction
		Pyramid Texts
		Pyramids
	Q
		Quarrying
		Queens
		Primary Document—Hatshepsut Becomes Regent for Thutmose III
	R
		Ra
		Religion, Personal
		Roman Egypt (30 BCE–395 CE)
		Royal Regalia
		Royal Titulary
	S
		Sakkara
		Scarab
		Scribes and Scribal Equipment
		Primary Document—Excerpt from a Text Encouraging Scribes in Their Work
		Sculpture and Sculptors
		Sea Peoples
		Primary Document—Account of the Sea Peoples’ Attack on Egypt
		Seals and Sealing
		Sed Festival
		Seth
		Ships and Shipping
		Silver
		Sledge
		Sphinx, Great
		Sports and Games
		State Formation
		Sticks and Staves
	T
		Tanis
		Tattoos
		Taxation
		Tell el-Amarna
		Primary Document—Akhenaten’s Oath from the Boundary Stelae at Tell el-Amarna
		Tell el-Dab’a
		Temples, Mortuary
		Temples, Ptolemaic-Roman
		Temples, State
		Thebes, East and West
		Thoth
		Tomb Models
		Tomb of Tutankhamun
		Tomb Robbery
		Primary Document—Confessions of Eight Tomb Robbers
		Toiletries
		Tombs, Private
		Transportation
	U
		Upper Egypt
	V
		Valley of the Kings
		Valley of the Queens
		Villages
		Vizier
		Votive Offerings
	W
		Weapons and Armor
		Weaving and Looms
		Weighing of the Heart
		Wine
		Wisdom Literature
		Primary Document—Excerpt from the Instruction of Ptahhotep
		Primary Document—Excerpt from the Words of Neferti
		Women
Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index