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INTERESTING READING AND VIEWING IDEAS FOR UPCOMING TRIPS

Here are some recommendations given by various and sundry Focus Folks. Please email Ellie with additions and we will post them here so everyone can enjoy!

Egypt

Guides:
Insight Guide: Egypt
AAA Essential Guide: Egypt
Lonely Planet: Egypt
Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples: Egypt. Pocket Guide

Egyptology books:
Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt. John Baines.
Egyptian Relilgion. Siegfried Morenz.
The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries. Mark Lehner.

Novels:
Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody Emerson Series is a favorite of Ellie’s. Amelia is a lady archeologist in early 1900’s. She marries Emerson, a male Archeologist, and each novel has them on another dig solving another mystery. They have a son, Ramses, who has to be read to be believed!! All excellent mysteries with wonderful flavor of the country of Egypt.

• Crocodile on the Sandbank. How it all began. Sets the scene for the next 35 years of mystery, intrigue, frustration, laughter, and love.
  
• The Curse of the Pharaohs. Enter Ramses – 5 years old.
  
• The Mummy Case. Ramses is now seven. Enter Sethos and cat, Bastet.
  
• Lion in the Valley. Ramses is eight. Sethos returns!
  
• The Deeds of the Disturber. Ramses is now nine. Hilarious book.
  
• The Last Camel Died at Noon. Ramses, aged 10. Enter Nefret.
  
• The Snake, the Crocodile & the Dog. Ramses is eleven. Enter Bertha.
  
• The Hippo Pool. Ramses is 12. Enter David.
  
• Seeing a Large Cat. Ramses is 16

• The Serpent on the Crown where Ramses is 34!

Other Egypt Novels (There are others!):
The Slayers of Seth: A Story of Intrigue and Murder set in ancient Egypt.
P.C. Doherty.

Pharaoh’s Daughter. Julius Lester.

The Flaming Sword and The Empire of Darkness. Christian Jacq and Sue Dyson.

River God. Wilbur Smith.

Video:
Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, Professor Bob Brier.
The Great Courses. The Teaching Company. 1-800-teach-12.