Dictionary Of Egyptology

Dictionary of Egyptology (1997) by Brockhampton Press (Brockhampton Press), ISBN: 9781860197239 — Condition: Good — as sold by Crappy Old Books

Need a guide to ancient Egypt that doesn’t require a degree, a trowel, or the favor of Ra? This tidy A–Z is the camel you didn’t know your bookshelf needed. Dictionary of Egyptology is a brisk, browsable compendium that sprints from Akhenaten to (D)joser, detours through canopic jars, cartouches, shabtis, and sed festivals, and still finds time to explain why everyone keeps arguing about how to transliterate Khufu/Cheops without starting a dynastic war in the footnotes.

It’s the perfect book for museum days (“What’s a mastaba again?”), documentary nights (“Remind me what the Ka and Ba do”), and crossword emergencies (four letters, cobra on a pharaoh’s brow: uraeus). Entries are punchy, cross-referenced, and happily non-sandy; expect quick primers on Old/Middle/New Kingdoms, lists of major sites from Abydos to Thebes, cast roll-calls of gods (hello Osiris, Hathor, Thoth), and the greatest hits of archaeology—Rosetta Stone, Deir el-Medina, Valley of the Kings—without the jargon that makes your eyes do the Book of the Dead spiral.

This copy is in Good condition: clean, complete, and dignified, with light shelfwear and that gentle page-tan that looks suspiciously like it spent a summer in Luxor (or a British window, which is practically the same thing if you squint). The binding is sound, the text sharp; no loose papyrus scrolls tucked inside, no ominous curses—just dependable reference charm.

Filed by Crappy Old Books, purveyors of volumes that decode the past and survive the present. If you want a handy, witty, no-sand-in-your-sandals companion to the land of mummies, monuments, and meticulous record-keeping, this dictionary will see you safely from ankh to ziggurat—and gently remind you that ziggurats aren’t even Egyptian.

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