This bibliography may be downloaded in the following formats: PDF, Microsoft Word.

  • Adams, William Y. Nubia: Corridor to Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
  • Bietak, Manfred. “The C-Group and the Pan Grave Culture in Nubia.” In Nubian Culture Past and Present, edited by Tomas Hägg, 113–28. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1987.
  • Bonnet, Charles. Edifices et rites funéraires à Kerma. Paris: Errance, 2000.
  • Bonnet, Charles, and Dominique Valbelle. Le temple principal de la ville de Kerma et son quartier religieux. Paris: Errance, 2004.
  • ——— . Des pharaons venus d’Afrique. La cachette de Kerma. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2005.
  • Bourriau, Janine. “Nubians in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period: An Interpretation Based on the Egyptian Ceramic Evidence.” In Studien zur altägyptischen Keramik, edited by Dorothea Arnold, 25–41. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 1981.
  • ———. “Relations between Egypt and Kerma during the Middle and New Kingdoms.” In Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam, edited by W. V. Davies, 129–44. London: British Museum Press in association with the Egypt Exploration Society, 1991.
  • Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790.
  • Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Egyptian Sûdân: Its History and Monuments. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1907.
  • Burckhardt, John Lewis. Travels in Nubia. London: Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa, 1819.
  • Cailliaud, Frédéric. Voyage à Méroë. . . . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1823–27.
  • Clayton, Joseph, Aloisia De Trafford, and Mark Borda. “A Hieroglyphic Inscription Found at Jebel Uweinat Mentioning Yam and Tekhebet.” Sahara 19 (2008): 129–34.
  • Davies, W. Vivian. “Kurgus 2000: The Egyptian Inscriptions.” Sudan and Nubia 5 (2000): 46–58.
  • ———. “Kush in Egypt: A New Historical Inscription.” Sudan and Nubia 7 (2003): 52–54.
  • Dunham, Dows. The Royal Cemeteries of Kush. 5 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  • Dunham, Dows, and George A. Reisner. The Barkal Temples. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1970.
  • Edwards, David N. The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan. London: Routledge, 2004.
  • Eide, Tormod, et al., eds. Fontes Historiae Nubiorum: Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region between the Eighth Century bc and the Sixth Century ad. 4 vols. Bergen: Department of Classics, University of Bergen, 1994–2000.
  • Evans-Pritchard, E. E. The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. Oxford: Oxford University at the Clarendon Press, 1940.
  • ———. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon, 1937.
  • Fernea, Elizabeth W., and Robert A. Fernea. Nubian Ethnographies. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1991.
  • Fernea, Robert A., and A. Rouchdy. “Contemporary Egyptian Nubians.” In Nubian Culture Past and Present, edited by Tomas Hägg, 365–87. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1987.
  • Fischer, Henry G. “The Nubian Mercenaries of Gebelein during the First Intermediate Period.” Kush 9 (1961): 44–80.
  • Friedman, Renée, et al. “Nubians at Hierakonpolis: Excavations in the Nubian Cemeteries.” Sudan and Nubia 5 (2001): 29–37.
  • de Garis Davies, Nina, and Alan H. Gardiner. The Tomb of Huy, Viceroy of Nubia in the Reign of Tutankhamun. Theban Tombs Series 4. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1926.
  • Gratien, Brigitte. Les cultures Kerma. Essai de classification. Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France: Université de Lille III, 1978.
  • Haaland, Randi. “Archaeological Classification and Ethnic Groups: A Case Study from Sudanese Nubia.” Norwegian Archaeological Review 10, nos. 1–2 (1977): 1–31.
  • Hafsaas, Henriette. “Pots and People in an Anthropological Perspective: The C-Group People of Lower Nubia as a Case Study.” Cahier de Recherches de l’Institut de Papyrologie et d’Égyptologie de Lille 26 (2006–7): 163–71.
  • Honegger, Matthieu. “The Pre-Kerma: A Cultural Group from Upper Nubia Prior to the Kerma Civilisation.” Sudan and Nubia 8 (2004): 38–46.
  • Kendall, Timothy. “Jebel Barkal: History and Archaeology of Ancient Napata.” www.jebelbarkal.org.
  • ———. Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500–1500 bc: The Archaeological Discovery of an Ancient Nubian Empire. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, 1997.
  • ———. “Kings of the Sacred Mountain: Napata and the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.” In Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile, edited by Dietrich Wildung, 161–71. Paris: Flammarion, 1997
  • ———. Kush: Lost Kingdom of the Nile. Exh. cat. Brockton, MA: Brockton Art Museum, 1982.
  • ———. “The Origin of the Napatan State: El Kurru and the Evidence for Royal Ancestors.” Meroitica 15 (1999): 3–117.
  • Larson, John A. Lost Nubia. Exh. cat. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 24. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2006. Also online at http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oimp/oimp24.html.
  • Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien. 12 vols. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung. Also online at http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/info.html.
  • Lohwasser, Angelika. Die königlichen Frauen im antiken Reich von Kusch: 25. Dynastie bis zur Zeit des Nastasen. Meroitica 19. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001.
  • ———. “Queenship in Kush: Status, Role and Ideology of Royal Women.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 38 (2001): 61–76.
  • Moorehead, Alan. The Blue Nile. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
  • ———. The White Nile. New York: Harper, 1960.
  • Morkot, Robert G. The Black Pharaohs: Egypt’s Nubian Rulers. London: Rubicon, 2000.
  • O’Connor, David. Ancient Nubia: Egypt’s Rival in Africa. Philadelphia: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
  • ———. “The Locations of Yam and Kush and Their Historical Implications.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 23 (1986): 27–50.
  • O’Connor, David, and A. Reid, eds. Ancient Egypt in Africa. London: UCL Press, 2003.
  • Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L. B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Vol. 7, Nubia, the Deserts, and Outside Egypt. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1952.
  • Reisner, George A. The Archaeological Survey of Nubia. Vol. 1, Report for 1907–08. Cairo, 1910.
  • ———. Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies 5–6. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum, 1923.
  • Rilly, Claude. “L’écriture et la langue de Méroé.” In Méroé, un empire sur le Nil, edited by M. Baud, 144–59. Exh. cat. Paris: Musée du Louvre Éditions, 2001.
  • Roberts, David. Egypt and Nubia. London: F. G. Moon, 1846–49.
  • Säve-Söderbergh, Torgny, ed. Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia: The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and Other Sites. London: Thames and Hudson; Paris: UNESCO, 1987.
  • Seligman, C. G. Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan. London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1932.
  • Simpson, William Kelly. Heka-Nefer and the Dynastic Material from Toshka and Arminna. Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt 1. New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University, 1963.
  • ———, ed. The Literature of Ancient Egypt. 3rd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
  • Smith, Stuart Tyson. Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundaries in Egypt’s Nubian Empire. London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Török, László. The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997.
  • ———. “The Origin of the Napatan State: The Long Chronology of the El Kurru Cemetery.” Meroitica 15 (1999): 149–59.
  • Tsakos-Hafsaas, Henriette. “The Kingdom of Kush: An African Centre on the Periphery of the Bronze Age World System.” Norwegian Archaeological Review 42, no. 1 (2009): 50–70.
  • Vercoutter, Jean. “The Gold of Kush.” Kush 7 (1959): 120–53.
  • Welsby, Derek A. The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
  • Welsby, Derek A., and Julie R. Anderson, eds. Sudan: Ancient Treasures. Exh. cat. London: British Museum Press, 2004.
  • Wildung, Dietrich. “The Treasure of Amanishakheto.” In Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile, edited by Wildung, 302–40. Paris: Flammarion, 1997.
  • Williams, Bruce B. The A-Group Royal Cemetery at Qustul: Cemetery L. Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition 3. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1986.
  • Williams, Bruce, and Thomas J. Logan. “The Metropolitan Museum Knife Handle and Aspects of Pharaonic Imagery Before Narmer.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 46, no. 4 (1987): 245–85.

Regular updates on research on Nubia are published in these series:

  • ArchéoNil
  • Cahier de Recherches de l'Institut de Papyrologie et d'Égyptologie de Lille
  • Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin
  • Gdansk Archaeological Museum African Reports
  • Kush
  • Meroitica
  • Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
  • Sudan and Nubia