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Die altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte nach den Papierabdrucken und Photographien des Berliner Museums (1908) - Kurt Sethe

The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts - James P. Allen

Egyptian Grammar: with table of signs, bibliography, exercises for reading and glossary (1894) - Adolf Erman & James Henry Breasted

A Dictionary of the Egyptian Language (1883) - Edward Yorke McCauley

Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy (1988) - Henry George Fischer

A Collection of Hieroglyphs : a contribution to the history of Egyptian writing (1898) - Francis Llewellyn Griffith

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Vol.1 - E.A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Vol. 2 - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Papyrus of Ani - Vol 1 - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Papyrus of Ani - Vol 2 - E.A. Wallis Budge
A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum (1909) - British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - E.A. Wallis Budge
Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection - Vol I (1911) - E.A. Wallis Budge
Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection - Vol II (1911) - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell - Vol I (1905) - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell - Vol II (1905) - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Gods of the Egyptians - Vol I (1904) - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Gods of the Egyptians - Vol II (1904) - E.A. Wallis Budge

A Dictionary of the Egyptian Language (1883) - Edward Yorke McCauley

Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etc - Vol 1 (1911) - British Museum - Philip David Scott-Moncrief
Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etc - Vol 2 (1911) - British Museum - Philip David Scott-Moncrief
Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etc - Vol 3 (1911) - British Museum - Philip David Scott-Moncrief
Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etc - Vol 4 (1911) - British Museum - Philip David Scott-Moncrief
Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etc - Vol 5 (1911) - British Museum - Philip David Scott-Moncrief
Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etc - Vol 6 (1911) - British Museum - Philip David Scott-Moncrief

Egyptian literature (1901) comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the dead and cuneiform writings

Horus in the Pyramid Texts (1916) - Thomas George Allen

A Collection of Hieroglyphs: A Contribution to the History of Egyptian Writing (1898) - Francis Llewellyn Griffith

Ancient Egyptian - A Linguistic Introduction (1995) - Antonio Loprieno

The Egyptian Conception of Immortality (1912) - George Andrew Reisner

Papyrus d'Orbiney (British Museum), the hieroglyphic transcription (1900) - Charles Edward Moldenke

Die sprache des papyrus Westcar : Eine vorarbeit zur grammatik der alteren aegyptischen sprache (1889) - Adolf Erman

The admonitions of an Egyptian sage from a hieratic papyrus in Leiden (Pap. Leiden 344 recto) (1909) - Alan Gardiner
Egyptian hieratic texts transcribed (1911-) - Alan Gardiner

A History Of Egypt Volume I (1907) - Flinders Petrie
Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri (1913) - Flinders Petrie

Egyptian stelae in Field Museum of Natural History (1936) - Thomas George Allen

The stela of Sebek-khu; the earliest record of an Egyptian campaign in Asia (1914) - Thomas E Peet

Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom (1863) - Samuel Sharpe

Art in Egypt (1921) - Gaston Maspero
Egyptian Art : Studies (1913) - Gaston Maspero
Manual of Egyptian archaeology and guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt, for the use of students and travellers (1914) - Gaston Maspero

A compendious grammar of the Egyptian language as contained in the Coptic, Sahidic, and Bashmuric dialects (1863) - Henry Tattam

Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Myseries of Amenta (1900) - Gerald Massey

Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt (1646) - John Greaves
The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd (1745) - John Greaves

Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1874) Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900)
Life and work at the Great Pyramid during the months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865 : with a discussion of the facts ascertained (1867) Charles Piazzi Smyth

The Great Pyramid : observatory, tomb, and temple Richard A Proctor
Myths and marvels of astronomy (1889) Richard A Proctor

Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account a Voyage Into Upper Egypt - Vol I - Richard William Howard Vyse
Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account a Voyage Into Upper Egypt - Vol II - Richard William Howard Vyse
Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account a Voyage Into Upper Egypt - Vol III - Richard William Howard Vyse

New measures of the Great pyramid (1884) - Charles Piazzi Smyth

The Pyramid of Senwosret I (1988) - Arnold, Dieter, with contributions by Dorothea Arnold and an appendix by Peter F. Dorman

Art in the Age of the Pyramids (1999) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The stela of Sebek-khu; the earliest record of an Egyptian campaign in Asia (1914) - Thomas Eric Peet

Une rue de tombeaux a Saqqarah Vol 1 (1907) - Jean Capart, Charles Mathien
Une rue de tombeaux a Saqqarah Vol 2 (1907) - Jean Capart, Charles Mathien

Tombs of the third Egyptian dynasty at Reqaqnah and Bet Khallaf (1904) - John Garstang

The Egyptians in the time of the Pharaohs : Being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections (1857) - Sir John Gardner Wilkinson

The monuments of Upper Egypt, a translation of the "Itinéraire de la Haute Égypte" of Auguste Mariette-Bey (1890) - Auguste Mariette

Excavations at Saqqara (1905-1914) (1907) - James Edward Quibell

Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the peninsula of Sinai, in the years 1842-45 during the mission sent out by His majesty Fredrick William IV. of Prussia (1852) - by Dr. Richard Lepsius ; ed., with notes, by Kenneth R.H. Mackenzie

Richard Lepsius - a biography (1887) - by Georg Ebers, tr. from the German, by Zoe Dana Underhill.

Archaeology Of An Image: The Great Sphinx of Giza (1991) - Mark Lehner. CCBySA

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More Online Books & Articles:

Reading a Pyramid (1994) - James P. Allen
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (2005) - James P. Allen, Peter Der Manuelian
A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts (2013) - James P. Allen Part 1 (2.6 mb) Part 2 (87.9 mb), Part 3 (88.2 mb), Part 4 (71.9 mb), Part 5 (74.4 mb), Part 6 (41.6 mb)

The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (1908) - Kurt Sethe

The Pyramid Texts (1952) - Translation by Samuel A. B. Mercer
Les Textes des Pyramides Egyptiennes (1923) - Louis Speleers

The Pyramid Texts: A Contextual Approach - Aloisia de Traffod

Do the Pyramid Texts Suggest an Explanation for the Abandonment of the Subterranean Chamber of the Great Pyramid? (1994) - Edwards, I.E.S.

wD: the Context of Command in the Old Kingdom (2000) - Harold M. Hays
The Worshipper and the Worshipped in the Pyramid Texts (2002) - Harold M. Hays
The Historicity of Papyrus Westcar (2002) - Harold M. Hays
A New Offering Table for Shepenwepet (2003) - Harold M. Hays
Transformation of Context: the Field of Rushes in Old and Middle Kingdom Mortuary Literature (2004) - Harold M. Hays
The Mutability of Tradition: The Old Kingdom Heritage and Middle Kingdom Significance of Coffin Texts Spell 343 (2007) - Harold M. Hays
Intersection of Ritual Space and Ritual Representation: Pyramid Texts in Dynasty 18 Theban Tombs (2007) - Harold M. Hays
Unreading the Pyramids (2009) - Harold M. Hays
Old Kingdom Sacerdotal Texts (2009) - Harold M. Hays
Between Identity and Agency in Ancient Egyptian Ritual (2009) - Harold M. Hays
The Ritual Scenes in the Chapels of Amun (2009) - Harold M. Hays
Funerary Rituals (2010) - Harold M. Hays
The Death of the Democratization of the Afterlife (2011) - Harold M. Hays
On the Architectural Development of Monumental Tombs South of the Unas Causeway at Saqqara from the Reigns of Akhenaten to Ramses II (2011) - Harold M. Hays
Preliminary Report on the Leiden Excavations at Saqqara, Season 2010: An Anonymous Tomb (2011) - Harold M. Hays
The Organization of the Pyramid Texts (2 vol. set) (2012) - Harold M. Hays
The Entextualization of the Pyramid Texts and the Religious History of the Old Kingdom. (2015) - Harold M. Hays


The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago (1960) - Thomas George Allen
Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) SAOC 27 - Occurrences of Pyramid Texts with Cross Indexes of These and Other Egyptian Mortuary Texts (1950) - Thomas George Allen

Les inscriptions des pyramides de Saqqarah (1894) - Gaston Maspero (1846-1916)

The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 1: Texts of Spells 1-75 (1935) - Adriaan De Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 2: Texts of Spells 76-163 (1938) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 3: Texts of Spells 164-267 (1947) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 4: Texts of Spells 268-354 (1951) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 5: Texts of Spells 355-471 (1954) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 6: Texts of Spells 472-787 (1956) - Adriaan de Buck
The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 7: Texts of Spells 787-1185 (1961) - Adriaan de Buck

The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 8. Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts - James Allen

The Egyptian Heaven and Hell - E. A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life (1900) - E.A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Magic (1901) - E.A. Wallis Budge
The Rosetta Stone - E.A. Wallis Budge

The Lost Pyramid (1956) - M.Zakaria Goneim

Pyramids & Temples of Gizeh - Flinders Petrie
Illahun, Hakun, and Gurob (1891) - Flinders Petrie
Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara (1890) - Flinders Petrie
Researches in Sinai (1906) (Extracts) - Flinders Petrie

Egyptian Myth & Legend - Donald MacKenzie
The Burden of Isis (1910) - James Teackle Dennis

The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous (1840) - translated by Alexander Turner Cory

Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) SAOC 26 - The Calendars of Ancient Egypt (1950) - Richard A. Parker

Lingua Aegyptia 1 (1991) - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Egyptian Grammar (Crossroads II)

Papyri:

The Papyri Navigator from Papyri.info
Duke Papyrus Archive
Papyri.info - links to papyrological resources and a customized search engine capable of retrieving information from multiple related sites.
Papyrology at Oxford - Imaging Papyri Project
The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection
Hawara Papyri: Demotic and Greek Texts from an Egyptian Family Archive in the Fayum (Fourth to Third Century B.C.) (1997) - G. R. Hughes and R. Jasnow
The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (1904) - Francis Llewellyn Griffith & Herbet Thompson

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - E.A. Wallis Budge
Papyrus of Ani (Translation)
Papyrus of Ani (as a single image - 12.4mb)
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Volume 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary. - J. H. Breasted
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Volume 2: Facsimile Plates and Line for Line Hieroglyphic Transliteration. - J. H. Breasted
Catalogue of Egyptian religious papyri in The British Museum [microform] (1938) Copies of the book PR(T)-M-HRW from the XVIIIth to the XXIIrd dynasty. 1. Description of papyri with text
List of ancient Egyptian papyri - Wikipedia

Photographic Archive of Papyri in the Cairo Museum

Other Online Resources:

Leiden University
The Internet Archive
The EEF Guide to Internet Resources for Ancient Egyptian Texts

Open Library
Gutenberg
Scholar Google
Print Google
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