(Part 2) Best products from r/ancientegypt

There's a nice historical fiction novel about her daughter:

http://www.amazon.com/Lily-Nile-Stephanie-Dray/dp/B005GNJ7OQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335112338&sr=8-1

She survived her parents and was brought up in Octavian's household who would later appoint her ruler of Libya:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_Selene_II

As someone who routinely uses both Egyptian and Java, I can say categorically -- I like Egyptian a lot better. :)

If you're just writing games, you don't necessarily need the most current research -- anything in the last few decades is fine for your purposes. Unfortunately, there's a tremendous amount of material being printed still that goes back to the 19th century in Dover reprints that needs to be avoided at all costs. Also, remember that you're talking about almost three millennia of religious belief -- the differences between Old Kingdom and Roman period are far far greater than the differences between Upper and Lower Egypt.

In any event, here's a modern translation of the Book of the Dead (not Budge!):

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egyptian-Book-Raymond-Faulkner/dp/0760773092/

The BotD isn't the greatest intro to the theogeny you may be looking for, but it's well known.

These are both current, but I don't know them:

http://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Mythology-Goddesses-Traditions-Ancient/dp/0195170245

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Gods-Goddesses-Ancient-Egypt/dp/0500051208

Avoid anything not written by an actual academic in the field -- there's way too much 'Egyptology' that's actually modern spirituality misusing ancient texts, and as noted, lots of reprints of Budge and Petrie that are now way out of date.

Last thoughts: If you're looking for thematic ideas for a game, there may be some good mythology childrens books that will hit the points and iconography you want (but will lack some of the more anatomically correct aspects of Egyptian divinity), and if you can, go through a real book store rather than Amazon :) If you're near Boston, Schoenhof's may have some of these.

A good recent one is the BBC's "Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings".

Another good BBC documentary on Tutankhamun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXk-NbSWDs8

"Egypt" on Amazon Prime and (I think) Netflix is pretty well regarded: https://www.amazon.com/Egypt-The-Complete-First-Season/dp/B00FM1ON0A

I can't speak to that book, but I really enjoyed this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Ancient-Egypt-ebook/dp/B004FGMZAI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1504038274&sr=8-2&keywords=ancient+egypt+history

If you're still looking, I've got a copy of the book mentioned above. It's this one: http://www.amazon.com/The-Egyptian-Book-Dead-Integrated/dp/0811864898

It's gorgeous, and it's fairly huge, kind of a coffee table book. You'll get full-color illustrations included along with translations and some bonus materials, but you won't get transliterations, just the pictures and the English text.

I have a delightful edition (vol 2 only of an originally 2 volume set, unfortunately) printed in 1971 of W. M. F. Petrie's Egyptian Tales

You mean Graham Hancock who wrote this?
Really? An advanced civilization living on Mars?
The guy is in the business of selling books and making money. Neither Hancock or West ( RIP) is an Egyptologist. This is an absolute insult to true Egyptologists who hav spent decades of their lives digging in the sun baked desert to uncover the truth about ancient Egypt. GTFO here with this pseudoscience garbage.

How is this any different from books like Jaromir Malek's Egyptian Art? I feel like we need yet another random catalogue of Egyptian artifacts about as badly as we need another television special on King Tut.

Thanks. Stole it from Dr. Redford's book

https://www.amazon.com/Writings-Ancient-Egypt-Toby-Wilkinson/dp/0141395958/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1480105517&sr=8-9&keywords=ancient+egyptian+literature

There's a book on translations of Egyptian tales and monuments coming in January. I'm planning on getting it. Looks good for the price.

Currently reading Christian Jacq (not the Ramses series though) liking it so far

https://www.amazon.de/Reine-soleil-Best-Christian-Jacq/dp/2266112465

Here's a big one:

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Mars-Mystery-Connection-Between/dp/0609802232

If she's just starting, Gardiner is quite dense. Try Collier & Manley's How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, it's used in a lot of university courses:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Read-Egyptian-Hieroglyphs-step-step/dp/0714119105

So you don't have to go through a dodgy website; here is the direct Amazon link

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1681774569/

In my book on the deities of Egypt. Set's iconography is very... indirect, there is little anthropomorphic representations symbols of him, outside of his; "curved head, tall square-topped ears, and erect arrow-like tail". He was more tied to animals everyday Egyptians found symbolically noxious; antelope, ass/donkey, goat, pig, hippopotamus, crocodile, and certain fish. That probably comes from his fight he had with Horus, where they both assumed different animals at one point.

Interestingly, in the 1st millennium bc the Seth animal disappeared from art and writing, and the god was subsequently depicted more as an ass with a knife in its head to render it harmless.

Hello! Sorry if I killed your buzz about the book. :(

Sadly, Budge is horribly outdated. He was outdated back in his day already, to be quite honest. I'm talking about all aspects of his work, especially the linguistic/theological sides, which are arguably the most important when it comes to interpreting Egyptian sources. Much of his translations aren't careful or precise. He left much interpretation to his own biases, for instance, when translating the negative confessions, which is a part of the book where the deceased affirms that he did not commit certain acts which were unworthy of his going to the afterlife. For instance, something along the lines of (sorry, haven't for the reference books with me atm) translating "I have not coupled with a woman-boy" as "I am not a homosexual". The Egyptian views were almost always completely different from our own, and his translation reeks of his own english morality. It's just...fishy.

Budge was a head figure from the times when European archaeologists would go to Egypt and steal as much as they could. He damaged invaluable pieces in order to smuggle them.

Not just his character as a cheater, he was also such a prolific writer that much of his work went bad even as he wrote it. The quantity of books he wrote is unbelievable; the quality leaves to be desired, probably greatly due to the fact he was more interested in becoming famous and selling as much as he could. His methods were flawed from research on.

He does have a merit in popularising Egyptology, though. I don't hate him or anything, and you can read his book without worrying of remaining completely ignorant about Egypt (I mean, it's still something, even if outdated), but rest assured much of his info will have been corrected by now. Just know you're dealing with outdated material. That is especially so if you're in a more academic setting, which probably isn't your case, if you picked it up as a hobby thing.

If I may, as I'm hoping to correct myself from the buzz kill, I'd like to suggest this translation instead (sorry for lack of formatting, I'm on mobile): http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0811864898/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1405885789&sr=8-1 :)