早期国家，文字及发展

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Baines, J. and Yoffee, N., ‘Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia’, in G. M. Feinman and J. Marcus (eds.), Archaic States, Santa Fe and New Mexico: School of American Research Press, 1998, 199–260.

Parkinson, R. and Quirke, S., Papyrus, London: British Museum, 1995.

Postgate, N., Wang, T., and Wilkinson, T., ‘The Evidence for Early Writing: Utilitarian or Ceremonial？’, Antiquity, 69 (1995), 459–480.

埃及语言

Allen, J., A Middle Egyptian Grammar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Collier, M., and Manley, B., How to Read Hieroglyphs, London: British Museum Press, 1998.

Faulkner, R. O., A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1962.

Gardiner, A. H., Egyptian Grammar, 3rd edn., Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1957.

Hannig, R., Groβer Handw?rterbuch ?gyptisch–Deutsch, Mainz: Phillip von Zabern, 1995.

Johnson, J. H., Thus Wrote ‘Onchsheshonqy. An Introductory Grammar of Demotic’, 2nd edn., Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991.

Junge, F., Late Egyptian Grammar, Oxford: Griffith Institute, 2001.

Loprieno, A., Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Pestman, P., The New Papyrological Primer, Leiden: Brill, 1990.

Tait, W. J., ‘Approaches to Demotic Lexicography’, in S. P. Vleeming (ed.), Aspects of Demotic Lexicography, Leuven: Peeters, 1987.

译文选集

Lichtheim, M., Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdom; Volume II: The New Kingdom; Volume III: The Late Period, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973–1980.

McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Moran, W. L., The Amarna Letters, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Parkinson, R. B., Voices from Ancient Egypt, London: British Museum Press, 1991.

Wente, E., Letters from Ancient Egypt, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

象形文字破译

Parkinson, R., Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment, London: The British Museum, 1999.Pope, M., The Story of Decipherment: From

Egyptian Hieroglyphic to Linear B, London: Thames & Hudson, 1975.