古埃及文学

写有“拉美西斯二世”的埃及象形文字与涡卷装饰，位于新王国时期卢克索神庙。

古埃及文学，意为古埃及法老时代至罗马统治晚期间，以古埃及语著成的文学。它是埃及文学中最古老的文献记载。同苏美文学，古埃及文学被认为是世上最早的文学。

古埃及文字 — 即圣书体与僧侣体 — 最早起源于公元前4千年期末的前王朝时期晚期。至古王国时期（公元前26世纪至公元前22世纪）时，出现了祭文、书信、宗教圣歌与诗、追叙当代杰出行政官员的纪念自传文本等文学作品。

参考文献

• Allen, James P., Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0521653126 
• Bard, Katherine A.; Shubert, Steven Blake, Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, New York and London: Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0415185890 
• Breasted, James Henry, Ancient Records of Egypt: Vol. I, The First to the Seventeenth Dynasties, & Vol. II, the Eighteenth Dynasty, New York: Russell & Russell, 1962, ISBN 0846201348 
• Brewer, Douglas J.; Teeter, Emily, Egypt and the Egyptians, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0521445183 
• Budge, E. A. Wallis, The Dwellers on the Nile: Chapters on the Life, History, Religion, and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1972 
• Erman, Adolf, Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Collection of Poems, Narratives and Manuals of Instructions from the Third and Second Millenia BC, translated by Aylward M. Blackman, New York: Kegan Paul, 2005, ISBN 0710309643 
• Fischer-Elfert, Hans-W., Representations of the Past in the New Kingdom Literature, Tait, John W. (编), 'Never Had the Like Occurred': Egypt's View of Its Past, London: University College London, Institute of Archaeology, an imprint of Cavendish Publishing Limited: 119–138, 2003, ISBN 1844720071 
• Forman, Werner; Quirke, Stephen, Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996, ISBN 0806127511 
• Foster, John Lawrence, Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001, ISBN 0292725272 
• Gardiner, Alan H., The Nature and Development of the Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1915, 2 (2): 61–75 
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• Koosed, Jennifer L., (Per)mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the Book, New York and London: T & T Clark International (Continuum imprint), 2006, ISBN 0567026329 
• Lichtheim, Miriam, Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume III: The Late Period, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980, ISBN 0520040201 
• Lichtheim, Miriam, Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume II: The New Kingdom, with a new foreword by Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006, ISBN 0520248430 
• Loprieno, Antonio, Defining Egyptian Literature: Ancient Texts and Modern Literary Theory, Cooper, Jerrold S.; Schwartz, Glenn M. (编), The Study of the Ancient Near East in the 21st Century, Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns: 209–250, 1996, ISBN 093146496X 
• Mokhtar, G., General History of Africa II: Ancient Civilizations of Africa Abridged, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, ISBN 9231025856 
• Morenz, Ludwid D., Literature as a Construction of the Past in the Middle Kingdom, Tait, John W. (编), 'Never Had the Like Occurred': Egypt's View of Its Past, translated by Martin Worthington, London: University College London, Institute of Archaeology, an imprint of Cavendish Publishing Limited: 101–118, 2003, ISBN 1844720071 
• Parke, Catherine Neal, Biography: Writing Lives, New York and London: Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0415938929 
• Parkinson, R. B., Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A Dark Side to Perfection, London: Continuum, 2002, ISBN 0826456375 
• Quirke, S., Egyptian Literature 1800 BC, questions and readings, London: Golden House Publications, 2004, ISBN 0954721861 
• Perdu, Olivier, Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies, Sasson, Jack (编), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, New York: Scribner: 2243–2254, 1995 
• Seter, John Van, In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, ISBN 1575060132 
• Simpson, William Kelly, Simpson, William Kelly , 编, The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry, translations by R.O. Faulkner, Edward F. Wente, Jr., and William Kelly Simpson, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972, ISBN 0300014821 
• Tait, John W., Introduction—'...Since the Time of the Gods', Tait, John (编), 'Never Had the Like Occurred': Egypt's View of Its Past, London: University College London, Institute of Archaeology, an imprint of Cavendish Publishing Limited: 1–14, 2003, ISBN 1844720071 
• Wente, Edward F., Meltzer, Edmund S. , 编, Letters from Ancient Egypt, translated by Edward F. Wente, Atlanta: Scholars Press, Society of Biblical Literature, 1990, ISBN 1555404723 
• Wildung, Dietrich, Looking Back into the Future: The Middle Kingdom as a Bridge to the Past, Tait, John (编), 'Never Had the Like Occurred': Egypt's View of Its Past, London: University College London, Institute of Archaeology, an imprint of Cavendish Publishing Limited: 61–78, 2003, ISBN 1844720071 
• Wilkinson, Toby A. H., What a King Is This: Narmer and the Concept of the Ruler, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 2000, 86: 23–32 
• Wilson, Penelope, Sacred Signs: Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0192802992 
• Wilson, Penelope, Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0192805029 

外部链接

• 网络古代史文献：埃及 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）（由纽约福特汉姆大学提供）
• 古埃及的语言（页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）（由比利时埃及学者 Jacques Kinnaer 提供）
• 古埃及文学的古腾堡计划电子书 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）（E. A. Wallis Budge）
• 德州大学出版 - 古埃及文学：文集 (2001)（完整序言，由 John L. Foster 提供）