Incoming Resources
- The Persians, by Jim Hicks and the editors of Time-Life Books
- The Persian Empire, Lindsay Allen
- The mind of Egypt, history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs, Jan Assmann ; translated by Andrew Jenkins
- Egypt to the end of the Old Kingdom
- Antiquity Imagined, The Remarkable Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Robin Derricourt
- A history of Egypt,, from the earliest times to the Persian conquest,, by James Henry Breasted. With two hundred illustrations and maps
- Ancient Persia, a concise history of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE, Matt Waters, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- When women ruled the world, six queens of Egypt, Kara Cooney
- The Persian empire, a historical encyclopedia, Mehrdad Kia
- Rome and Persia, the seven hundred year rivalry, Adrian Goldsworthy
- Creation, a novel, Gore Vidal
- When Egypt ruled the East, by George Steindorff and Keith C. Seele ; revised by Keith C. Seele
- A history of Iran, empire of the mind, Michael Axworthy
- Persia, ancient Iran and the classical world, edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole
- The Oxford history of ancient Egypt, edited by Ian Shaw