Reference Works - History - Ancient - Subject and Research Guides at Macquarie University

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The reference works listed below are just a small selection of what you will find in the Library and online. To find more, search MultiSearch for your topic keywords and the term 'dictionaries' or 'encylopedias'.

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology is an international cooperative project to provide high quality peer reviewed information on ancient Egypt.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Covers records of archaeology including the full social, political, religious, cultural and artistic legacy of this 5,000-year civilization.

The Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia
Covers Coptic language and literature; Copto-Arabic literature; Coptic art, architecture, archaeology, history, music, liturgy, theology, spirituality, monasticism; and biblical, apocryphal, social, and legal texts.

Encyclopedia of Archaeology by Deborah M. Pearsall (Editor-In-Chief)
ISBN: 9780123739629
Publication Date: 2007-11-02
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land by Ephraim Stern (Editor); Ayelet Lewinson-Gilboa (Editor); Joseph Aviram (Editor)
ISBN: 0132762889
Publication Date: 1993-04-01
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology by Daniel M. Master; Jürgen K. Zangenberg; Avraham Faust; Beth Alpert Nakhai; L. Michael White (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199846535
Publication Date: 2013-07-15
Lexikon der Agyptologie
ISBN: 3447024895
Held in Library Reserve Collection: DT58 .L49/1975
Text is in German with some English and French articles.

The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary is a lexicographic tool for reading texts written in a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic.
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA)
TLA is a tool for lexicographic research into the Egyptian language. Use requires registration.
Wortdiskussionen
A specialist bibliographic database by Barbara Lüscher from the University of Basel on ancient Egyptian words that is updated annually. The database, available as a series of PDF files, provides alphabetic lists of words (according to the Egyptian alphabet), lists of texts and lists of personal names.
Worterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache
A tool to help you study the Pyramid texts online.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
Publication Date: 2000 -
Collins Robert French Dictionary
Call Number: Reference PC2640 .C69 2008
ISBN: 9780007280445
Publication Date: 2008
Collins German-English, English-German Dictionary
Call Number: PF3625 .C65
ISBN: 0004705807
Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary
Call Number: Reference PC2640 .P57 2005
ISBN: 9780198610717
Langenscheidts Millennium-Wörterbuch Englisch : Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Englisch
Call Number: Reference PF3640 .L26
ISBN: 3468111304

Other encyclopedias & handbooks

A Companion to the Ancient near East by Daniel C. Snell (Editor)
Publication Date: (2005)
A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient near East by D. T. Potts (Editor)
Publication Date: (2012)
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies by Judith M. Lieu (Editor); J. W. Rogerson (Editor)
Publication Date: (2006)
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
ISBN: 9780199271566
Publication Date: (2008)
The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology by Roger S. Bagnall
Publication Date: (2009)
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient near East and Mediterranean by Peter Fibiger Bang & Walter Scheidel (Eds.)
Publication Date: (2013)

Cambridge Histories Online
First published in 1902, the Cambridge Histories is a globally respected series of over 300 volumes spanning fifteen subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.

Atlases

Atlas of Ancient Egypt by J. Baines
Call Number: DT56.9 .B34
ISBN: 0714819581
Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt by J. Baines
Call Number: DT60 .B34 2000
ISBN: 0816040362