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Nanshaya, The Echo of Time was written based on extensive research for the story's highest authenticity.

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Butler, Alfred J. (1887) - Court life in Egypt – University of California Libraries - Chapman and Hall, London

Anderson, John (1898) - Zoology of Ancient Egypt Vol. 1. – Bernard Quaritch, Piccadilly, London

Andrews, Carol (1994) – Amulets of Ancient Egypt – British Museum Press, Avon

Arnold, Dorothea (1996) – The Royal Women of Amarna – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Assmann, Jan & Sundermeier, Th. (Hg.), (1991) - Das Fest und das Heilige. Religiöse Kontrapunkte zur Alltagswelt, Studien zum Verstehen fremder Religionen 1. S. 105-122, Das ägyptische Prozessionsfest – Gütersloh

Bailleul-leSuer, Rozenn (2012) - Between Heaven and Earth - Birds in Ancient Egypt - The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago

Basson, Danielle (2012) - The Goddess Hathor
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Bertman, Stephen (2003) – Handbook to life in ancient Mesopotamia – University of Windsor, Facts on File Inc., London

Bigelow, Jane M. H. (2000) – Ancient Egyptian Gardens - The Ostracon, Vol. 10. Nr.1. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Bigelow, Robert (1999) - Egyptian Diplomacy in the Amarna Era: Dramatis Personae - Friends, Foes, Rivals and Dependents - The Ostracon, Vol. 9. Nr.4. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Black, Jeremy & Green Anthony (1992) -  An Illustrated dictionary: Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia – British Museum Press, London

Bogucki, Peter (2008) - ENCYCLOPEDIA of Society and Culture in the Ancient World – Volume I. - Infobase Publishing, New York

Borrmann, Linda (2013) Survey and Salvage Epigraphy of Rock-Cut Graffiti and Inscriptions in the Area of Aswan - Report on the Season in Autumn 2012 and Spring 2013 by - German Archaeological Institute Cairo, Cairo

Boulos, Loutfy (2008) - Plants in Ancient Egypt - The Heritage of Egypt, Vol. 1. Nr. 2 Issue 2.

Boylan M. A., Patrick (1922) – Thot, The Hermes of Egypt – A Study of Some Aspects of Theological Thought in Ancient Egypt - Oxford University Press, London

Brier, Bob (1999) – The history of ancient Egypt – Course guide book by Long Island University – Part 1 - The Teaching Company, New York

Bryan, Betsy M. (2010) - A companion to Ancient Egypt – Pharaonic Painting through the New Kingdom - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

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Budge, E. A. Wallis. - The Gods of Ancient Egypt. - Dover Publications Inc., New York.

Chadwick, Robert (1995) – Egypt and Mesopotamia: Ancient Rivals – Ancient Friends  - Lecture - The Ostracon, Vol. 6. Nr. 3. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Chadwick, Robert (1997) - Egypt and Mesopotamia: Ancient Friends, Ancient Rivals.
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Chapman, Floyd (1995) – Egyptian Sacred Art: The Power and the Glory of the Temple - The Ostracon, Vol. 6. Nr. 3. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Christensen, Wendy (2009) – Great Empires of the Past - Empire of Ancient Egypt – Chelsea House Publishers, New York

D’Auria, Sue H. (2008) - Servant of Mut Studies in Honor of Richard A. Fazzini – Brill, Leiden, Boston

Dendy, Christina (1983)- A Hymn to Inana - Wolkstein, Diane & Samuel Noah Kramer -  Inana, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer – Harper, New York

DEWA / GRID-Geneva (2001) - The Mesopotamian Marshlands: Demise of an Ecosystem - Early warning and assessment technical report, Geneva

Dodson, Aidan (1990) – Crown Prince Djhutmose and the Royal Sons of the Eighteenth Dynasty - The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, p. 87-97, Egypt Exploration Society

Dodson, Aidan (2010) - A companion to Ancient Egypt - Mortuary Architecture and Decorative Systems, CHAPTER 36. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Dodson, Aidan/Hilton, Dyan (2004) – The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt - Thames & Hudson Ltd., London

Dorman, Peter F. & Bryan, Betsy M. (2007) – Sacred space and sacred function in ancient Thebes - Studies in ancient oriental Civilization - Volume 61. - The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, Chicago

Dr Teeter, Emily (1992) – Religion for the Commoners of Ancient Egypt - The Ostracon, Vol. 4. Nr. 2. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

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Atlas of Egyptian Art - The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo

Engel, Linda (1996) – Feline Deities of Ancient Egypt - The Ostracon, Vol. 7. Nr. 3. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Eyre, Christopher (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - The Economy: Pharaonic - CHAPTER 16. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Fedele, Francesco G. (2014) - Camels, donkeys and caravan trade: an emerging context from BaraÌ„qish, ancient Yathill (WaÌ„diÌ„ al-Jawf, Yemen) - Anthropozoologica  12/2014 - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Fenton, Barbara (1990) – Nothing New under the Sun – Beauty in ancient Egypt - The Ostracon, Vol. 1. Nr. 2. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Fenton, Barbara (1990) – The use of Heroin in Ancient Medicine - The Ostracon, Vol. 1. Nr. 2. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Fletcher, Joann ( 2002) – Ancient Egyptian Hair and wigs - The Ostracon, Vol. 13. Nr.2. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Frood, Elizabeth (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt – Social Structure
 and Daily Life: Pharaonic CHAPTER 25 - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Furlong, P. J. (2007) - Aspects of Ancient Near Eastern Chronology (c. 1600 – 700 BC) - Centre for Classics and Archaeology - The University of Melbourne

Furlong, P. J. (2008) A contribution to ancient Near Eastern chronology (c. 1600 – 900 BC). In The Cambridge Book Project Colloquium, Cambridge, England. Minerva Access of the University of Melbourne

Goldsmith, Lainie (1992) - Animals in Ancient Egypt - The Ostracon, Vol. 3. Nr. 2. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Hamar, Rachel V. (2006) - The Queens of Egypt 
- The Complexities of Female Rule in First through the Nineteenth Dynasty – University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts.

Hart. George -  Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - Rothledge Chapman and Hall Inc.

Hawkins, J. David (2009) - The Arzawa letters in recent perspective British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 14 (2009): 73–83, London

Hays, Harold M. (2002) – Intersection of Text and Object: Offering Tables and Cultic Performance - The Ostracon, Vol. 13. Nr.2. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Helck, Wolfgang (1995) - Discussing the Chronology of the New Kingdom - JACF 7 (1995): 79-84. - The Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences

Helmy Abou El-Soud, Neveen (2010) - Herbal medicine in ancient Egypt - Journal of Medicinal Plant Research · February 2010 p. 82-86

Hoffmann, Friedhelm (2008) - Warlike Women in Ancient Egypt - Cripel 27.  L’Institut de Papyrologie et d'Egyptologie de Lille 27, 2008, S. 49–57

Holscher, Uvo (1939) –The excavation of Medinet Habu – Volume II, The temples of the eighteenth dynasty - The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, Chicago

Hornung, Eric, Krauss, Rolf, and Warburton, David A. ( 2006) - Ancient Egyptian Chronology – Brill Publishing, Boston

Hughes, J. Donald (1990) - The Environment and Culture of the Nile - The Ostracon, Vol. 2. Nr. 1. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

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Jansen-Winkeln, Karl (1999) - Ein Amunpriester in Memphis - (Tafel 1-4) Originalveroffentlichung in: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 27, S. 123-139

Jeffers, Ann (2007)- Interpreting Magic and Divination in the Ancient Near East - Heythrop College -
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Kemp, Barry (1996) - Meretaten's Bathroom - The Ostracon, Vol. 7. Nr. 3. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

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Kurt A. Raaflaub, Lanny Bell (2007) - War and Peace in the Ancient World, Conflict and Reconciliation in the Ancient Middle East: The Clash of Egyptian and Hittite Chariots in Syria, and the World’s First Peace Treaty between “Superpowers”, CHAPTER 6. – Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

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Lurker, Manfred - The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt - Thames and Hudson, New York

Manniche Dr., Lise (1992) – Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt – British Museum Journal Nr. 11. 1992., London

Manniche Dr., Lise (2006) -  An Ancient Egyptian Herbal - 1st University of Texas Press  edition

Maraqten, Mohamed (1996) – Dangerous Trade Routes: On the Plundering of Caravans in the Preislamic Near East, ARAM, 8 (1996), 213-236 213

Marc Van De Mieroop (2004) - A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC Second Edition - Blackwell Publishing, New York

Mark, Samuel (1997) - From Egypt to Mesopotamia
 A Study of Predynastic Trade Routes - Texas A&M University Press College Station CHATHAM Publishing, London

Matthews, Roger & Roemer, Cornelia (2003) – Ancient Perspectives on Egypt - UCL Press, Institute of Archeology

Moers, Gerald (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom Literature, CHAPTER 31. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Morris, Ellen F. (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - State and Economic Structures, The Pharaoh and Pharaonic Office - CHAPTER 11. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Mumford, Gregory D. (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - Settlements – Distribution, Structure, Architecture: Pharaonic - CHAPTER 18. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Naunton, Christopher (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - Libyans and Nubians CHAPTER 7. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

O’Connor, David & Cline, Eric H. (2001) – Amenhotep III. Perspectives on His Reign – The University of Michigan Press

Onstine, Suzanne (2002) – The musician priestesses of Ancient Egypt - The Ostracon, Vol. 13. Nr.2. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Parcak, Sarah (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - The Physical Context of Ancient Egypt - CHAPTER 1. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Partridge, Robert B. (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - Transport in Ancient Egypt - CHAPTER 20. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Peppe, David (1998-1999) -  Yuya & Tuya: From the Valley of the Kings to the Cairo Museum - The Ostracon, Vol. 9. Nr.3. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

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Routledge, Carolyn Diane (2001) – Ancient Egyptian Ritual Practice – National Library of Canada, Ottawa

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Szpakowska, Kasia  (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - Religion in Society, Pharaonic CHAPTER 27. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Tallet, Pierre (2012)  Ayn Sukhna and Wadi el-Jarf: Two newly discovered pharaonic harbours on the Suez Gulf British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 18 (2012): 147–68

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The Department of Antiquities of Egypt (1980) - The Tomb of Kheruef Theban Tomb 192 – The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications Volume 102., Chicago

Ullmann, Martina (2010) - The Wall Paintings from the Temple of Amenhotep III at Wadi es-Sebua: Investigation, Preservation, and Documentation

V. Nagy,  Susan (1998-1999) - Conical Jars for Making Beer and Wine - The Ostracon, Vol. 9. Nr.3. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Vright, Jordan A. (1991) – The mighty flail, the Egyptian Army in the new Kingdom - The Ostracon, Vol. 2. Nr. 2. Egyptian Study Society – Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver

Wilkinson, Alex (1994) - Symbolism and Design in Ancient Egyptian Gardens - Source: Garden History, Vol. 22, No. 1 pp. 1-17 - The Garden History Society


Wilkinson, Richard H. - Reading Egyptian Art - Thames and Hudson, New York.

Wilson, Penelope (2010) - A Companion to Ancient Egypt - Temple Architecture and Decorative Systems CHAPTER 35. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London

Yifat Thareani-Sussely (2007) - Ancient Caravanserais: An Archaeological View from ‘Aroer - Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology - LEVANT 39 2007 Pp. 123–141

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