BOOKS ON ANCIENT EGYPT

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BOOKS ON ANCIENT EGYPT*

COMPILED BY RUNOKO RASHIDI**

Ben-Jochannan, Yosef A.A. Black Man of the Nile and
His Family. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1989.

Ben-Jochannan, Yosef A.A. African Origins of the
Major Western Religions. Baltimore: Black Classic
Press, 1991.

Ben-Jochannan, Yosef A.A. African Origins of the
Major Western Religions. Baltimore: Black Classic
Press, 1991.

Ben Jochannan, Yosef A.A., and John Henrik Clarke.
New Dimensions in African History: The London Lectures
of Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan and Dr. John Henrik Clarke.
Edited with an Introduction by John Henrik Clarke.
Trenton. Africa World Press, 1991.

BernaI, Martin. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of
Classical Civilization. Vol. 2: The Archaeological
and Documentary Evidence. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1991.

Browder, Anthony Y. Nile Valley Contributions to
Civilizations: Exploding the Myths, Volume 1.
Introduction by John Henrik Clarke: Washington, DC:
Institute of Karmic Guidance, 1992.

Carruthers, Jacob H., and Leon Harris, eds. African
World History Project: The Preliminary Project.
Chicago: Kemetic Institute, 1996.

Chandler, Wayne B. Ancient Future: The Teachings
and Prophetic Wisdom of the Seven Hermetic Laws of
Ancient Egypt. Introduction by Ivan Van Sertima.
Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1999.

Diop, Cheikh Anta. African Origin of Civilization:
Myth or Reality. Edited and translated by Mercer
Cook. Westport: Lawrence Hill, 1974.

Diop, Cheikh Anta. The Cultural Unity of Black
Africa.: The Domains of Patriarchy and Matriarchy in
Classical Antiquity. Introduction by John Henrik
Clarke. Afterword by James G. Spady. Chicago: Third
World Press, 1978.

Diop, Cheikh Anta. Civilization or Barbarism: An
Authentic Anthropology. Translated from the French
by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi. Edited by Harold J. Salemson
and Marjolijn de Jager. Foreword by John Henrik
Clarke. Westport: Lawrence Hill, 1991.

Drake, St. Clair. Black Folk Here and There: An
Essay in History and Anthropology, Volume 1. Los
Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA,
1987.

Finch III, Charles S. Echoes of the Old Darkland:
Themes from the African Eden. Decatur: Khenti, 1991.

Finch III, Charles S. The Star of Deep of
Beginnings: The Genesis of African Science of
Technology. Decatur: Khenti, 1998.

Grantham, Charles A. The Battle for Kemet. Foreword
by Jacob H. Carruthers. Chicago: Kemetic Institute,
2003.

Herodotus. The Histories. Translated by Aubrey de
Selincourt. Rev. Ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

Hilliard III, Asa G. SBA: The Reawakening of the
African Mind. Foreword by Wade W. Nobles.
Gainesville: Makare, 1997

Houston, Drusilla Dunjee. Wonderful Ethiopians of
the Ancient Cushite Empire. 1926; rpt. Introduction
by W. Paul Coates. Afterword by Asa G. Hilliard III.
Commentary by James G. Spady. Baltimore: Black
Classic Press, 1985.

Jackson, John G. Ages of Gold and Silver and Other
Short Sketches of Human History. Foreword by Madalyn
O'Hair. Austin: American Atheist Press, 1990.

Jackson, John G. Introduction to African
Civilizations. Foreword by Runoko Rashidi.
Introduction by John Henrik Clarke. New York:
Citadel, 2001.

James, George G.M. Stolen Legacy: The Greeks Were
not the Authors of Greek Philosophy, but the People
of North Africa Commonly Called the Egyptians. 1954;
rpt. Introduction by Asa G. Hilliard III. San
Francisco: Julian Richardson, 1988.

Kendall, Timothy, and Susan R. Doll. Kush: Lost
Kingdom of the Nile. Brockton:Brockton Art Museum,
1982.

Manetho. Translated by W.G. Waddell. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1940.

Oakes, Lorna and Lucia Gahlin. Ancient Egypt: An
Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions,
Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohs. New
York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2003.

Obenga, Theophile. Ancient Egypt and Black Africa: A
Student's Handbook for the Study of Ancient Egypt in
Philosophy, Linguistics and Gender Relations. Edited
by Amon Saba Saakana. London: Karnak House, 1992.

Rice, Michael. Egypt's Making. London: Routledge,
1991.

Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. Black Women in Antiquity. New
Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1988.

Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. Egypt Revisited. New
Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1989.

Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. Egypt: Child of Africa. New
Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1994.

Van Sertima, Ivan, and Larry Obadele Williams, eds.
Great African Thinkers, Volume 1: Cheikh Anta Diop.
New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1986.

Williams, Chancellor. The Destruction of Black
Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. To
2000 A.D. Chicago: Third World Press, 1976.

Zivie-Coche, Christiane. Sphinx: History of a
Monument. Translated from the French by David Lorton.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

*This is not intended to represent a full or even
comprehensive book list and scores of works could be
added. New books come out all the time and old ones
slip my mind. Nevertheless, these are some of the
essential books and belong in all of our libraries.

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