Greenhaven Press, 2004. — 159 p. — (Exploring Cultural History). — ISBN: 0-7377-1453-0.
Introduction: The Ancient Egyptians at Work and at Play.
People and Private Life.Family and Home Life (Charles Freeman).
The Lives and Rights of Egyptian Women (Erika Feucht).
Love Songs from the New Kingdom (Anonymous).
Food and Drink (James F. Romano).
Sports, Games, and Other Leisure Activities (Jill Kamil).
Everyday Rules of Polite Conduct (Ptahhotpe, a royal vizier).
Special Skills Essential to Society.Doctors and Their Cures (Adolf Erman).
Case Studies of an Egyptian Doctor (Anonymous).
Types and Duties of Egyptian Priests (Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson).
Egyptian Metalsmiths and Their Wares (Lionel Casson).
Literacy and Education Dominated by Scribes (H.W.F. Saggs).
A Schoolbook for Scribes (Nebmare-nakht the Scribe).
Preparation for the Afterlife.Religious Festivals: Celebrations of Life and Death (Lynn Meskell).
Hymn to Aten (Akhenaten).
A Visitor to Egypt Tells How Bodies Were Embalmed (Herodotus).
A Dead Pharaoh's Journey into the Sky (from the Pyramid Texts).
Mummifying Pets and Other Animals (Bob Brier).
Secrets of the Royal Tombs.The Great Pyramid Tombs (Desmond Stewart).
Exploring the Passageways Within the Great Pyramid (I.E.S. Edwards).
Lost City of the Pyramid Workers (Jack McClintock).
Opening King Tut's Tomb (Steven Snape).