Books on Ancient Egypt - Historical and Historical Fiction

Cleopatra and Egypt
A review of Sally-Ann Ashton's Cleopatra and Egypt.

Disease
"Disease," by Joyce Flier is an accessible look at Egyptian disease and medicine.

Ramses The Eternal Temple, Vol. II - Jacq, Christian
Review of Christian Jacq's The Eternal Temple (or The Temple of a Million Years).

Tutankhamen
Review of Christine El Mahdy's Biography of Tutankhamen and Akhenaten, the Amarna pharaohs.

Nefertiti : Egypt's Sun Queen
Joyce Tyldesley attempts to unravel the many mysteries surrounding the fourteenth century B.C. Egyptian queen by looking at archaeological evidence, religious and mortuary art, and architecture from the late 18th dynasty.

Pharaoh
Irene Hahn reviews "Pharaoh," the conclusion to the fictional biography of Cleopatra, written by Karen Essex.

Ramses : The Eternal Temple Vol. II
In "Ramses : The Eternal Temple," the engrossing saga continues with Ramses, the new king of Egypt, trying to secure the throne he has inherited, but his elder brother still wants.

Ramses : The Son of Light Vol. I
Review of the fictional biography of the long-lived pharaoh Ramses of Egypt, "Ramses : The Son of Light, by Christian Jacq. Ramses is thought to have been "the" pharaoh whom Moses encountered in the Bible.

Kleopatra
When Cleopatra died Octavian destroyed favorable histories of the pharaoh. Karen Essex' fictional biography looks at what the remarkable woman must have been like.

Cleopatra's Heir - Bradshaw, Gillian
Irene Hahn reviews "Cleopatra's Heir," an alternative historical fiction by Gillian Bradshaw about the son of Caesar and Cleopatra -- Caesarion.

Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
Eleven essays on the changing images of Cleopatra and a catalogue of artifacts from an internetional exhibit on Cleopatra and her world leave many unanswered questions.