Suggested Reading

   This is the official National Geographic exhibit companion. If you read this book before going to the exhibit, you will be able to better understand and appreciate what you see at the exhibit. Used copies of this book are very inexpensive if you purchase them on line via Amazon. Select a shipper in the Pacific Northwest for faster delivery.

   This book, by the same author as the exhibit book, covers the same material. There is about 75% overlap between the two presentations. They illustrate much of the same material, but often with different photos. If you can't get the National Geographic book, above, then this one will work just as well. Also very inexpensive on line.

   This is probably the very best extant summary of facts about ancient Egypt. It is well organized and wonderfully illustrated. Use it as a companion and it will help you answer all the questions that you think of while reading either of the first two selections in this book list. Pictured here is the cover of the 1983 edition, which is very inexpensive on line. There is also a 2000 edition that costs about $10 used on line. Either edition make a fine companion for the purpose of the exhibition.

   Tutankhamun's tomb is a gateway between the ancient Egyptian world of the living and the ancient Egyptian world of the dead. Thus, it is a mirror of each. When you stand in the tomb of Tutankhamun, you are as the two-faced Egyptian god Aker, who stands on the horizon and apprehends all that occurs in the lands of the living and the dead. To understand Tut and his tomb at a deeper level, you need to read the Book of the Dead.
   There are many versions of this book available on line. Some are very abridged. When on Amazon, scroll down to the book specifications and make certain that the version you buy has more than 500 pages. If it doesn't, you certainly won't enjoy your "journey beneath the horizon."

   A slim volume that takes you through the building of the Great Pyramids of Egypt step by step. If you don't want to ruin the mystery, don't read this book!

   This is a very funny parody of Howard Carter's discovery of King Tut's Tomb. In the 21st century our world is burried under 30 feet of flocculated smog, destroying civilization. 2000 years later civilization is re-emerging and, with it, the science of archaeology. You will be amazed by the discovery of Howard Carson, the tomb and religious complex, known in the ancient tongue of the 21st century as the "Toon'n'C'mon", but popularly referred to as "The Motel of the Mysteries."