History of Egyptology – Nicky van de Beek

Infrequently updated bibliography with links to online content.

General

Baikie, J., A Century of Excavation in the Land of Pharaohs (1924).
Bierbrier, M.L., Who Was Who in Egyptology (5th rev. ed., 2019).
Carruthers, W., Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures (2014). Preview
Navratilova, H. et al., Towards a History of Egyptology (2019).
Reeves, N., Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries (2000).

Wonderful Things series

Thompson, J., Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 1: From Antiquity to 1881 (2015). Preview
Thompson, J., Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914 (2015). Preview
Thompson, J., Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century (2017).

Early travellers

Anonymous, Journal of a Voyage up the Nile (1851).
Alexander, F.G., Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert (1836).
Armstrong, W.G., A Visit to Egypt in 1872 (1874).
Beaufort, E.A., Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines (1861). Vol 1 | Vol 2
Belgrave, C.D., Siwa: The Oasis of Jupiter Ammon (1923).
Blackman, W., The Fellahin of Upper Egypt (1927).
Brocklehurst, M., Miss Brocklehurst on the Nile (written 1873, first published 2004).
Carey, M.L.M., Four Months in a Dahabeeh (1863).
Duff Gordon, L., Letters from Egypt (1902).
Edwards, A.E., A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1891).
Edwards, A.B., Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1892).
Emants, M., Langs de Nijl: aantekeningen van een toerist (written 1880, first published 1983).
Famars Testas, W. de, Reisschetsen uit Egypte, 1858-1860 (2001).
Famars Testas, W. de, De Schilderskaravaan (1868).
Flaubert, G., Flaubert in Egypt (1972).
Forbin, A., Travels in Egypt (1820).
Forster, E.M., Alexandria: A History and a Guide (1922).
Hahn-Hahn, I., Von Babylon nach Jerusalem (1900).
Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354 (1958).
Insinger, J.H., In het land der Nijlcataracten (1883).
Lane, E.W., Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836).
Martineau, H., Eastern Life: Present and Past (1848).
Nightingale, F., Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850 (1987).
Pococke, R., A description of the East, and some other countries (1743).
Pococke, R., Travels through Egypt (1803).
Poole, S.L., The Englishwoman in Egypt (1845).
Quibell, A.A., A Wayfarer in Egypt (1925). Preview
Roberts, D., Egypt and Nubia (1846-1849).
Seetzen, U.J., Reisen durch Syrien, Palaestina, Phoenicien, die Transjordan-Laender, Arabia Petraea und Unter-Aegypten (1854-1855).
Sitwell, C., Lotus and Pyramid (1928).
Thackeray, W.M., Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846).
Warburton, E., Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land, or, The Crescent and the Cross (1859).
Wilbour, C.E., Travels in Egypt (1936).
Wilkinson, J.G., Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (1837). Vol 1 | Vol 2 | Vol 3

About early travellers

Baldwin, G., Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadère (1996). Preview
Clayton, P.A., The Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt: Artists and Travellers in the 19th Century (1990).
Frank, K., Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt (2007).
Humphreys, A., Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel (2011).
Humphreys, A., On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (2016). Preview
Moon, B., More Usefully Employed: Amelia B. Edwards, Writer, Traveller and Campaigner for Ancient Egypt (2006).
Oliver, A., American Travelers on the Nile: Early U.S. Visitors To Egypt, 1774–1839 (2014). Preview
Peters, E. and K. Whitbread (eds), Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium (2003).
Rees, J., Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Novelist and Egyptologist (1998).
Rees, J., Women on the Nile: Writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Amelia Edwards (2008).
Sattin, A., Lifting the Veil: Two Centuries of Travellers, Traders and Tourists in Egypt (1988). Preview
Schmidt, H.C., Westcar on the Nile: A Journey Through Egypt in the 1820s (2011).
Sattin, A., A Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt (2010).
Soskice, J., Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels (2009).
Thompson, J., Edward William Lane, 1801–1876: The Life of the Pioneering Egyptologist and Orientalist (2010).
Usick, P., Adventures in Egypt and Nubia: The Travels of William John Bankes (1786–1855) (2002).
Wilkinson, T. and J. Platt, Aristocrats and Archaeologists: An Edwardian Journey on the Nile (2017). Preview
Willink, R.J., The Fateful Journey: The Expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864) (2011).

Early travel anthologies and conference proceedings

Cooke, N. and V. Daubney (eds), Every Traveller Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East (2015).
Cooke, N. and V. Daubney (eds), Lost and Now Found: Explorers, Diplomats and Artists in Egypt and the Near East (2017).
Cooke, N. (ed.), Journeys Erased by Time: The Rediscovered Footprints of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East (2019). Sample
Fortenberry, D. (ed.), Who Travels Sees More: Artists, Architects, and Archaeologists Discover Egypt and the Near East (2007).
Fortenberry, D. (ed.), Souvenirs and New Ideas: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East (2013). Preview
Fortenberry, D. and D. Manley (eds), Saddling the Dogs: Journeys through Egypt and the Near East (2009). Preview
Haag, M. (ed.), An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries (2014).
Manley, D. (ed.), Women Travelers in Egypt: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century (2012). Preview
Manley, D. (ed.), A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing (2013). Preview
Manley, D. (ed.), Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology of Travel Writing Through the Centuries (2016).
Manley, D. and S. Abdel-Hakim (eds), Traveling through Sinai: From The Fourth To The Twenty-First Century (2006).
Manley, D. and S. Abdel-Hakim (eds), Traveling Through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century (2008). Preview
Manley, D. and S. Abdel-Hakim (eds), Egypt and the Nile through Writers’ Eyes (2008).
Manley, D. and S. Abdel-Hakim (eds), Traveling through the Deserts of Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century (2009).
Manley, D. and S. Abdel-Hakim (eds), A Nile Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries (2015).
Starkey, P. and J. (eds), Travellers in Egypt (1998). Preview
Starkey, P. and N. El Kholy (eds), Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers (2002).

Explorers

Bednarski, A., The Lost Manuscript of Frédéric Cailliaud: Arts and Crafts of the Ancient Egyptians, Nubians, and Ethiopians (2014). Sample chapter
Belzoni, G.B., Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia (1820).
Burleigh, N., Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (2007).
D’Athanasi, G., A brief account of the researches and discoveries in Upper Egypt (1836).
Denon, V., Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt (1803).
Commission des sciences et arts d’Egypte, Description de l’Égypte (1809-1822). Bibliotheca Alexandrina | New York Public Library
Howard-Vyse, R.W.H., Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt (1840).
Manley, D. and P. Rée, Henry Salt: Artist, Traveller, Diplomat, Egyptologist (2001). Preview
Mayes, S., The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt’s Ancient Treasures (2003). Preview
Ridly, R.T., Napoleon’s Proconsul In Egypt: The Life and Times of Bernardino Drovetti (1998).
Salvoldi, D., From Siena to Nubia: Alessandro Ricci In Egypt And Sudan, 1817–22 (2018).
Seyler, D.U., The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes (2015).

Early scholars

Ascani, K., Buzi, P. and D. Picchi (eds), The Forgotten Scholar: Georg Zoëga (1755-1809) (Leiden 2015).
Betrò, M. and G. Miniaci, Talking along the Nile: Ippolito Rosellini, travellers and scholars of the 19th century in Egypt (2013).
Champollion, J.-F., Monuments de l’Égypte et de la Nubie (1835-1845).
Champollion, J.-F., Lettres écrites d’Égypte et de Nubie en 1828 et 1829 (1868).
Dawson, W.R., Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, 1817-1878: A pioneer in Egyptology (1934).
Ebers, G., Richard Lepsius: A Biography (1887).
Flynn, S.J.A., Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Traveller & Egyptologist (1797-1875) (1997).
Lepsius, C.R., Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the peninsula of Sinai (1853).
Lepsius, C.R., Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien (1849-1859).
Mariette, A., Le Sérapéum de Memphis (1857).
Mariette, A., Voyage dans la Haute-Egypte: Compris entre Le Caire et la première cataracte (1878).
Mariette, A., Les Mastabas de l’ancien empire (1889).
Stuart, J., Memoir of the late Alexander Henry Rhind (1864).
Robinson, A., Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion (2012).
Rosellini, I., I Monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia, disegnati dalla spedizione scientifico-letteraria Toscana in Egitto: distribuiti in ordine di materie, interpretati ed illustrati (1832-44).
Thompson, J., Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle (1992). Preview
Vassalli, L., I monumenti istorici egizi: il museo e gli scavi d’antichità eseguiti per ordine di S.A. Il vicerè Ismail Pascia (1867).
Wortham, J.D., The Genesis of British Egyptology, 1549-1906 (1971).

Modern Egyptology

Abt, J., American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute (2012).
Adams, J.M., The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis’s Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings (2013).
Breasted, C., Pioneer to the Past: The Story of James Henry Breasted (2009).
Cameron, M.B., Letters from Egypt and Iraq (1954).
Caton Thompson, G., Mixed Memoirs (1983).
Chubb, M., Nefertiti Lived Here (1954).
Cott, J., The Search for Omm Sety (1987).
Der Manuelian, P., Excavating the Old Kingdom: The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields, in: Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids (1999), 139-153.
Drower, M.S., Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology (1995). Preview
Drower, M.S., Letters from the Desert: The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie (2004).
Dunham, D., Recollections of an Egyptologist (1972).
Eaton-Krauss, M., Bernard V. Bothmer, Egyptologist in the making, 1912 through July 1946 (2019).
Emberling, G., Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919–1920 (2010).
Fagan, B.M., Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Search for Tutankhamun (2015).
Gertzen, T.L., Jean Pierre Adolphe Erman und die Begründung der Ägyptologie als Wissenschaft (2015).
Gertzen, T.L., Einführung in die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Ägyptologie (2017). Preview
Gütl, C., Hermann Junker: Eine Spurensuche im Schatten der österreichischen Ägyptologie und Afrikanistik (2017).
Hankey, J., A Passion for Egypt: Arthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and the ‘Curse of the Pharaohs’ (2001).
Hawass, Z., Excavating the Old Kingdom: The Egyptian Archaeologists, in: Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids (1999), 154-165.
James, T.G.H. and J. Malek (eds), A Dedicated Life: Tributes Offered in Memory of Rosalind Moss (1990).
James, T.G.H., Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun (1992). Preview
Lewis, C., The lady vanishes: the case of Helen Mary Tirard, Egyptian Archaeology 53 (2018), 42-45.
Kamil, J., Labib Habachi: The Life and legacy of an Egyptologist (2007). Preview
Kenawi M. and G. Marchiori, Unearthing Alexandria’s Archaeology: The Italian Contribution (2018).
Murray, M.A., My First Hundred Years (1963).
Petrie, W.M.F., The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883).
Petrie, W.M.F., Ten years’ digging in Egypt, 1881-1891 (1893).
Petrie, W.M.F., Seventy Years in Archaeology (1932).
Quirke, Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880-1924 (2010).
Riggs, C., Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive (2018). Preview
Ruzoa, J., The Scribe of the Place of Truth: The Biography of Egyptologist Jaroslav Cerny (2010).
Schneider, T. and P. Raulwing (eds), Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich (Leiden 2013).
Sheppard, K.L., The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology (2013). Preview
Sheppard, K.L., My Dear Miss Ransom: Letters Between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898-1935 (2018).
Sheppard, K.L., Tea on the terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists’ social networks, 1885-1925 (2022).
Voss, S. and D. Raue, Georg Steindorff und die deutsche Ägyptologie im 20. Jahrhundert (2016). Preview
Wilfong, T.G. and A.W.S. Ferrara, Karanis Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt (2014).
Wilson, J.A., Signs and Wonders upon Pharaoh: A History of American Egyptology (1964).

Contemporary Egyptologists

El Saddik, W., Protecting Pharaoh’s Treasures: My Life in Egyptology (2017). Preview
Hawass, Z., Secrets from the Sand: My Search for Egypt’s Past (2003).
Ryan, D.P., Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist (2010).
Weeks, K.R., The Lost Tomb (1998).

Museums, collections and institutes

Donovan, L. and S. Binder (eds), Tombs Trowels and Treasures: The First 40 Years of Egyptology at Macquarie University (2018).
Dreyer, G. and D. Polz, Begegnung mit der Vergangenheit: 100 Jahre in Ägypten: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo 1907–2007 (2007).
Dunham, D., The Egyptian Department and its excavations (1958).
Foxcroft, L., Gayer-Anderson: The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha (2016).
Green, J., E. Teeter and J.A. Larson, Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East (2012).
Jørgensen, M., How It All Began: The Story of Carl Jacobsen’s Egyptian Collection 1884-1925 (2015).
Kaper, O.E. and J.G. Dercksen (eds), Waar de geschiedenis begon: Nederlandse onderzoekers in de ban van spijkerschrift, hiërogliefen en aardewerk (2014). Preview
Keurs, P. ter and W. Wirtz (eds), Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden: Een geschiedenis van 200 jaar (2018).
McClellan, A., Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1999). Preview
Moser, S., Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum (2006).
Oeters, V., Images of Saqqara: Thirty-eight Years of (Anglo-)Dutch Excavations (2012).
Raven, M.J., Hakken in het zand: 50 jaar opgraven in Egypte door het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (2007).
Raven, M.J., ‘The most prominent Dutchman in Egypt’: Jan Herman Insinger and the Egyptian collection in Leiden (2018). Read online
Spencer, P., The Egypt Exploration Society – the Early Years (2007).
Stevenson, A., The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections (2015).
Stevenson, A., Scattered Finds: Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums (2019).
Verhoogt, A., Discarded, Discovered, Collected: The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection (2017). Preview
Verner, M., Unearthing Ancient Egypt 1958-1988 (1990).
Warner, N., Collecting for Eternity: R.G. Gayer-Anderson and the Egyptian Museum in Stockholm (2016).

Reception, criticism and Egyptomania

Booth, C., The Myth of Ancient Egypt (2011). Preview
Brier, B., Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs (2013). Preview
Colla, E., Conflicted antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity (2007). Preview
Elliott, C., Egypt in England (2012).
Fagan, B., The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt (2009). Preview
Fritze, R.H., Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy (2016). Preview
Hornung, E., The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West (2001). Preview
Coniam, M., Egyptomania Goes to the Movies: From Archaeology to Popular Craze to Hollywood Fantasy (2017). Preview
Parramore, L., Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture (2008). Preview
Reid, D.M., Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (2003). Preview
Reid, D.M., Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser (2015). Preview
Ryan, D.P., A Shattered Visage Lies… Nineteenth Century Poetry Inspired by Ancient Egypt (2007).
Ryan, D.P., Ancient Egypt in Poetry: An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Verse (2016).
Thornton, A., Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People (2018).

Short biographies

Theses

Groot, E. de, Pharaonic Egypt through the eyes of a European traveller and collector: Excerpts from the travel diary of Johann Michael Wansleben (1672-3), MA thesis Leiden University (2014).
Jong, C. de, Victorian Women on the Nile: Ambivalent views on Egyptians, MA thesis Université de Lorraine (2013).

Links

ASTENE | Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East.
Bruyère Archives | Digitized notebooks of Bernard Bruyère at the IFAO.
Egyptian Egyptologists | On Wikipedia.
Emma B. Andrews Diary Project | Travel companion of Theodore M. Davis.
Jenny Lane Collection | Lady’s maid to Lucy Renshaw, travel companion of Amelia Edwards.
Irish Egyptology | Website dedicated to Irish Egyptology.
List of Egyptologists | On Wikpedia.
Petrie Collection | Transcribed journals and other material at the Griffith Institute.
Oral History Project | In-depth interviews with well-known Egyptologists.
TrowelBlazers | Website about women in archaeology, geology, and palaeontology.
Women in Old World Archaeology | Website about female archaeologists.