9 Best ancient history books like Tutankhamun - Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Ten Tales of Egypt's Enduring King by Joyce A. Tyldesley

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Tutankhamun - Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Ten Tales of Egypt's Enduring King

By: Joyce A. Tyldesley

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discover…

If you liked the ancient history plot in Tutankhamun - Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Ten Tales of Egypt's Enduring King by Joyce A. Tyldesley , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

By: Eleanor Herman

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They s… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess

By: Alison Weir

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In her remarkable new book, Alison Weir recounts one of the greatest love stories of medieval Engla… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3)

By: William Shakespeare

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part Oneagain pits a rebellion within th… read more

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4. Vindolanda

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

3.66

Format: 259 pages,

AD 98: The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the enti… read more

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5. Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah's Scribbles, #2)

By: Sarah Andersen

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sarah's Scribbles, Goodreads ChoiceAward for 2016: Best Graphic Novels & Comics Sarah Andersen's hu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Caesar: Life of a Colossus

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

Format: 583 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

7. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

By: Kara Cooney

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of he… read more

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8. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

By: David Grann

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more

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9. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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10. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By: John Guy

4.16

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . .  Hunting the Falcon  brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

By: Grant Snider

3.74

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more

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  • nonfiction
"A book closed is just a block of paper."

-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

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12. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)

By: Sarah Andersen

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Adjusting to life as a world-famous cartoonist isn't easy. Terrifying deadlines, piles of junk-food… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Go make stuff."

-Sarah Andersen, Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)

"In a world where every single person -good or bad- has a voice, I hope you pick up your pen and use yours."

-Sarah Andersen, Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)

"The Internet was actually never a nice place. With anonymity, soapbox, lost empathy, fire party harassment campaigns exist mainstream, doing damage to the marginalized, saying it was just a joke. It …"

-Sarah Andersen, Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)

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14. The Porcelain Maker

By: Sarah Freethy

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An epic story of love, betrayal, and art that spans decades, through the horrors of World War II to… read more

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15. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

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17. House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

By: Claire North

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

House of Odysseus is the follow up to award-winning author Claire North's Ithaca "a powerful, fresh… read more

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18. Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

By: Jane Draycott

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • egypt
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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19. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.23

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

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21. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

By: Tracy Borman

4.26

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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22. Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

By: Lucy Worsley

4.19

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black?… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"She no longer followed fashion; she had created a fashion all her own."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"Surely Victoria's mental health suffered because all the men around her expected it to."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"The daily contents even of her bin 'would be more interesting than a year's file of The Times'."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"With Bertie's illness, Victoria's return to her best self, the self she had lost in Albert, had begun."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

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23. The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I

By: Benjamin Woolley

3.62

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Now a major TV series, Mary & George, starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine.The King’s Ass… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

By: Bettany Hughes

4.02

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more

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  • ancient history
  • egypt
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

By: Sarah Clegg

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women – and then won back again. Demonic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings (Ancient Lives)

By: Toby Wilkinson

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • egypt
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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27. Tutankhamun - Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Ten Tales of Egypt's Enduring King

By: Joyce A. Tyldesley

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discover… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • egypt
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt   One o… read more

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  • biography
  • egypt
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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29. The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World

By: Daisy Dunn

4.01

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in … read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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Eleanor Herman

3.69

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Alison Weir

3.79

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Caesar: Life of a Colossus

Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

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John Guy

4.16

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Natalie Haynes

3.91

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Katharine Beutner

3.92

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Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

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Eilish Quin

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