A great book for those of you who can read german or swedish. I don´t know if it is translated to more languages.

Title: Ägypten Die Welt der Pharaonen (swedish edition: Egypten - Faraonernas värld)
Author: Ludvig Könemann, editor
Date: 1998 (swedish edition 1999)
Publisher: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Printed in: Italy
ISBN 3-8290-3042-8

A book about ancient Egypt in general. Large format in 538 pages with great illustrations and photographies.

Old kingdom

Political history
Royal tombs
Dayly life in Egypt
Sculptures

Intermediate kingdom

Political history
Rulers tombs
Houses of eternity
Temples for the gods

New kingdom
Polticial history
The temples
Valley of the kings
Valley of the queens
Defeating death
The sunken tombs of Memphis

Later times

Tanis and Thebe
Mastering the past

Greek-roman times

Poltical history
World order in stone
Tombs and funeral tradition during the age of Alexander the great

State and society

Beauty
Hieroglyphs
Royal government
Military
Economy and trade
Gifts of the Nile
Houses, cities and palaces
Stones and stonecraft

Gods, cult and the realm of death

The religious world
Gods and divinity
Cosmos
Kings and gods
Mumification
Funeral

Reasearch in the valley of the Nile

Travelers and scientists
Tasks of archeology


I very good book about Egypt in general which I can recommend for those of you who can read german or swedish. Maybe it´s available in english I don´t know. The editor and authors are germans.

O. Amenhotep