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Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Vol.1 - E.A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Vol. 2 - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Papyrus of Ani - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Rosetta stone (1922) - E.A. Wallis Budge
A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum (1909) - British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - E.A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian literature (1901) comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the dead and cuneiform writings

Egyptian Grammar: with table of signs, bibliography, exercises for reading and glossary (1894) - Adolf Erman & James Henry Breasted

Papyrus d'Orbiney (British Museum), the hieroglyphic transcription (1900) - Charles Edward Moldenke

Die sprache des papyrus Westcar : Eine vorarbeit zur grammatik der alteren aegyptischen sprache (1889) - Adolf Erman

The admonitions of an Egyptian sage from a hieratic papyrus in Leiden (Pap. Leiden 344 recto) (1909) - Alan Gardiner
Egyptian hieratic texts transcribed (1911-) - Alan Gardiner

Egyptian tales; translated from the Papyri (1913) - Flinders Petrie

Egyptian stelae in Field Museum of Natural History (1936) - Thomas George Allen

The stela of Sebek-khu; the earliest record of an Egyptian campaign in Asia (1914) - Thomas E Peet

Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom (1863) - Samuel Sharpe

The Egyptian conception of immortality (1912) - George Andrew Reisner

Art in Egypt (1921) - Gaston Maspero
Egyptian art : studies (1913) - Gaston Maspero
Manual of Egyptian archaeology and guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt, for the use of students and travellers (1914) - Gaston Maspero

A compendious grammar of the Egyptian language as contained in the Coptic, Sahidic, and Bashmuric dialects (1863) - Henry Tattam

Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae (1911) - British Museum - Philip David Scott-Moncrief

Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1874) Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900)
The Great Pyramid : observatory, tomb, and temple (1888) - Charles Piazzi Smyth

Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account a Voyage Into Upper Egypt - Vol II (1840) - Richard William Howard Vyse
Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account a Voyage Into Upper Egypt - Vol II (different version) (1840) - Richard William Howard Vyse
Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account a Voyage Into Upper Egypt - Vol III (1842) - Richard William Howard Vyse

New measures of the Great pyramid (1884) - Charles Piazzi Smyth

The stela of Sebek-khu; the earliest record of an Egyptian campaign in Asia (1914) - Thomas Eric Peet

Une rue de tombeaux a Saqqarah Vol 1 (1907) - Jean Capart, Charles Mathien
Une rue de tombeaux a Saqqarah Vol 2 (1907) - Jean Capart, Charles Mathien

Tombs of the third Egyptian dynasty at Reqaqnah and Bet Khallaf (1904) - John Garstang

The Lost Pyramid (1956) - M.Zakaria Goneim


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The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (2005) - James P. Allen, Peter Der Manuelian

The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (1908) - Kurt Sethe

The Pyramid Texts (1952) - Translation by Samuel A. B. Mercer

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago (1960) - Thomas George Allen
The Book of the Dead or Going Forth by Day (1974) - Thomas George Allen
Horus in the Pyramid Texts (1916) - Thomas George Allen
Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) SAOC 27 - Occurrences of Pyramid Texts with Cross Indexes of These and Other Egyptian Mortuary Texts (1950) - Thomas George Allen

Les inscriptions des pyramides de Saqqarah (1894) - Gaston Maspero (1846-1916)

The Colors in the Pyramid Texts: A Chromatic Systems Approach - Bernard Mathieu

Grammaire Egyptienne (1836) - Jeune le Champollion

The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 2: Texts of Spells 76-163 (1938) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 3: Texts of Spells 164-267 (1947) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 4: Texts of Spells 268-354 (1951) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 5: Texts of Spells 355-471 (1954) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 6: Texts of Spells 472-787 (1956) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 7: Texts of Spells 787-1185 (1961) - Adriaan de Buck

The Book of the Dead. The chapters of coming forth by day, Volume 1 (1898) - E. A. Wallis Budge
The Book of the Dead. The chapters of coming forth by day, Volume 2 (1898) - E. A. Wallis Budge
The Gods of the Egyptians, or Studies in Egyptian Mythology - Vol 1 (1904) - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Gods of the Egyptians, or Studies in Egyptian Mythology - Vol 2 (1904) - E.A. Wallis Budge
98 coloured plates from the 'Gods of the Egyptians' - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell - E. A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life (1900) - E.A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Magic (1901) - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Rosetta Stone - E.A. Wallis Budge

Pyramids & Temples of Gizeh - Flinders Petrie
Illahun, Hakun, and Gurob (1891) - Flinders Petrie
Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara (1890) - Flinders Petrie
Naukratis (1886) - Flinders Petrie
A Season in Egypt (1887) - Flinders Petrie
Ten Years Digging in Egypt Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 - (1893) - Flinders Petrie
Researches in Sinai (1906) (Extracts) - Flinders Petrie
Gizeh and Rifeh (1907) - Flinders Petrie
Meydum and Memphis (III) (1910) - Flinders Petrie
Tarkhan I and Memphis V (1913) - Flinders Petrie
Heliopolis, Kafr Ammar and Shurafa (1915) - Flinders Petrie
Scarabs and Cylinders with Names (1917) - Flinders Petrie
Prehistoric Egypt, illustrated by over 1,000 objects in University College, London (1920) - Flinders Petrie


Notes on the Story of Sinuhe (1916) - Alan Henderson Gardiner

Ancient records of Egypt; historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest.
Volume I: The first to seventeenth dynasties
- James Henry Breasted

Ancient records of Egypt; historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest.
Volume II: The eighteenth dynasty
(1906) - James Henry Breasted

Ancient records of Egypt; historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest.
Volume III: The nineteenth dynasty
(1906) - James Henry Breasted

Ancient records of Egypt; historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest.
Volume IV: The twentieth to the twenty sixth dynasties
(1906) - James Henry Breasted

Ancient records of Egypt; historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest.
Volume V: Indices
(1907) - James Henry Breasted


Funerary Boats and Boat Pits of the Old Kingdom - Hartwig Altenmuller

Egyptian Myth & Legend - Donald MacKenzie
Egyptian Myth and Legend - Donald MacKenzie

The Burden of Isis (1910) - James Teackle Dennis

The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous (1840) - translated by Alexander Turner Cory

The Osireion at Abydos (1904) - Margaret Alice Murray
Saqqara Mastabas, Part 1 (1905) - Margaret Alice Murray

The reports of the magicians and astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum; English translations, vocabulary, etc (1900) - Reginald Campbell Thompson
The reports of the magicians and astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum; The cuneiform texts (1900) - Reginald Campbell Thompson

Annales du Service des antiquites de l Egypte

Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) SAOC 26 - The Calendars of Ancient Egypt (1950) - Richard A. Parker


Papyri:

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Papyrology at Oxford - Imaging Papyri Project
The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection
Hawara Papyri: Demotic and Greek Texts from an Egyptian Family Archive in the Fayum (Fourth to Third Century B.C.) (1997) - G. R. Hughes and R. Jasnow
The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (1904) - Francis Llewellyn Griffith & Herbet Thompson
Westcar Papyrus
Tales from the Westcar Papyrus
The Egyptian Coffin Texts 1: Texts of Spells 1-75 - Adriaan De Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 8. Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts - James Allen
Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - E.A. Wallis Budge
Papyrus of Ani (Translation)
Papyrus of Ani (as a single image)
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
Papyrus Ebers: Die Maasse und das Kapitel über die Augenkrankheiten (1889)
Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Volume 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary. - J. H. Breasted
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Volume 2: Facsimile Plates and Line for Line Hieroglyphic Transliteration. - J. H. Breasted
The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the Middle Kingdom) (1898) - F. Ll Griffith
The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the Middle Kingdom) Plates (1898) - F. Ll Griffith
Catalogue of Egyptian religious papyri in The British Museum [microform] (1938) Copies of the book PR(T)-M-HRW from the XVIIIth to the XXIIrd dynasty. 1. Description of papyri with text


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List of Egyptian Texts with transliteration into MDC
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