thatlittleegyptologist:

earhartsease:

thatlittleegyptologist:

earhartsease:

thatlittleegyptologist:

Unfortunately, no. There are a lot of terrible ones, and no good ones or I would have bought one for my niece by now. I also definitely wouldn’t recommend the book you read. I looked at the actual stories inside and bodily cringed at the racism/misogyny/ableism/random stuff that reads exactly like the bible/othering/really weird about Egyptian cultural stuff. Idk I could go on, but it’s pretty bad to read as a modern Egyptologist.

For those reading this, here’s a sample from the Tale of Isis and Osiris:

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sigh, it’s been many decades since I read it, so it doesn’t surprise me to discover it’s full of that old crap (which recent re-reading of another childhood fave has taught me is pretty standard for books written half a century ago, and it was so normalised for kid me that I didn’t even notice, mostly)

Sad to say this is from the 2011 reprint of the book, which you can still buy for £5 on Amazon. We hates it precious. To be fair I got one of my old childhood books on Ancient Egypt out and it had a whole two page spread dedicated to ‘where gypsies came from’ and I was like 'oh cool we were just writing bullshit in the 90s then’. I’ve since put that book in recycling.

Bleugh.

Can you recommend any good modern books on Egyptian mythology for adults then, please? I’d very much like to reset my assumptions

I’m afraid I can’t do that either. I’m too far into the academic side that I’ve simply never looked at any of them. I believe Geraldine Pinch, Egyptologist (Oxford Uni) did one in 2004, which may be useful. Idk how dense that would be, but it certainly comes from a reputable source.