Wonder Egypt

Illustrated Stories of Ancient Egypt

Wonder Egypt is one of the libraries of WonderBooks — illustrated stories of ancient egypt, each told in ~10 illustrated pages with narration. There's a free library you can read without paying.

All 88 Wonder Egypt stories

• Cleopatra's Kitten and the Nile (kids)
  Cleopatra's Kitten and the Nile — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Deir el-Medina: The Village of the Tomb Builders
  Deir el-Medina: The Village of the Tomb Builders — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Egyptian Creation Myths (kids)
  Egyptian Creation Myths — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Egyptian Pottery: The First Art Form (kids)
  Egyptian Pottery: The First Art Form — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Egyptian Schools and Education (kids)
  Egyptian Schools and Education — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Hatshepsut: The Woman Who Became Pharaoh (kids)
  Hatshepsut: The Woman Who Became Pharaoh — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• How Egyptians Moved 2-Ton Blocks (kids)
  How Egyptians Moved 2-Ton Blocks — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Khafre
  Khafre — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Luxor Today: The World's Largest Open-Air Museum (kids)
  Luxor Today: The World's Largest Open-Air Museum — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Nefertari's Tomb: The Sistine Chapel of Egypt (kids)
  Nefertari's Tomb: The Sistine Chapel of Egypt — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Philae Temple: Rescued from the Flood (kids)
  Philae Temple: Rescued from the Flood — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Sobekneferu (kids)
  Sobekneferu took the full titles of a king — not a queen regent, not a consort — and had herself shown in a royal kilt over a woman's dress, refusing to pretend
• The Battle of Kadesh
  The Battle of Kadesh — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Book of the Dead: A Traveler's Guide (kids)
  The Book of the Dead: A Traveler's Guide — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Boy King Tutankhamun (kids)
  The Boy King Tutankhamun — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Coptic Church: Egypt's Christian Heritage (kids)
  The Coptic Church: Egypt's Christian Heritage — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Rosetta Stone: Found at Rashid
  The Rosetta Stone: Found at Rashid — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Egyptian Cat Goddess (kids)
  The Egyptian Cat Goddess — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Egyptian Museum, Cairo (kids)
  The Egyptian Museum, Cairo — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Great Sphinx of Giza
  The Great Sphinx of Giza — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Priests and Priestesses of Egypt (kids)
  The Priests and Priestesses of Egypt — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Rosetta Stone: Cracking the Code (kids)
  The Rosetta Stone: Cracking the Code — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Secret of the Pyramids (kids)
  The Secret of the Pyramids — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Weighing of the Heart
  The Weighing of the Heart — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Tiye: Power Behind the Throne (kids)
  Tiye: Power Behind the Throne — an illustrated history story, set in Egypt. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Tomb Curses: Real or Legend?
  Tomb Curses: Real or Legend? — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb
  The Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Abu Simbel, Cut Up and Moved
  Abu Simbel, Cut Up and Moved — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Akhenaten (kids)
  Akhenaten shut down the worship of every god but the sun-disc, moved the entire capital to virgin ground at Amarna, and let his artists show the royal family as
• Amenhotep III (kids)
  Amenhotep III inherited an empire already won and spent thirty-eight years spending its income. He built a palace city at Malkata, a mortuary temple bigger than
• Amun, the Hidden One
  Amun, the Hidden One — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Bread and Beer
  Bread and Beer — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Cleopatra VII: The Last Pharaoh (kids)
  Cleopatra VII inherited a kingdom Rome had already decided to swallow and kept it independent for two decades by being better informed and better prepared than
• Hatshepsut and the Voyage to Punt (kids)
  Hatshepsut was regent for a small stepson and simply did not stop — she took the throne, the titles and the false beard, and gave Egypt two decades without a wa
• How a Hieroglyph Actually Works
  How a Hieroglyph Actually Works — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• How the Blocks Were Moved
  How the Blocks Were Moved — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Isis, and the Goddess Who Outlived Egypt
  Isis, and the Goddess Who Outlived Egypt — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Karnak, the Temple That Was Never Finished
  Karnak, the Temple That Was Never Finished — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Khufu (kids)
  Khufu commanded the largest building project any human being had ever attempted, and it worked: two and a half million blocks, aligned to true north within a fr
• Letters to the Dead
  Letters to the Dead — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Narmer
  Narmer — an illustrated history story, featuring Narmer, Neithhotep, Hor-Aha, set in Thinis & Hierakonpolis. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Nefertari: A Temple of Her Own (kids)
  Great Royal Wife to Ramesses II, Nefertari was carved at the same height as her husband on the front of her own temple at Abu Simbel — something no Egyptian que
• Osiris and the Court of the Dead
  Osiris and the Court of the Dead — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Piye's Conquest of Egypt
  Piye's Conquest of Egypt — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Ptolemy II (kids)
  Ptolemy II finished the Pharos lighthouse and funded the Library and Museum until Alexandria held, by its own claim, a copy of every book that existed. He paid
• Ramesses II (kids)
  Ramesses II fought the Hittites to a draw at Kadesh and told Egypt he had won it single-handed, on every wall he could reach. Sixteen years later he signed the
• Ramesses III (kids)
  Ramesses III stopped the Sea Peoples — the migration that broke every other Bronze Age power — in a river battle in the Delta, and carved the whole campaign on
• Reading the Rosetta Stone
  Reading the Rosetta Stone — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Seti I (kids)
  Seti I took back the territory the Amarna years had lost and then spent his reign on craftsmanship. The reliefs in his temple at Abydos are the high-water mark
• Taharqa (kids)
  Taharqa was a Nubian king of Kush who ruled Egypt as pharaoh, and he built more than any Egyptian had for five hundred years — at Karnak, at Memphis, and at Nap
• The Amarna Letters
  The Amarna Letters — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Assyrian Sack of Thebes
  The Assyrian Sack of Thebes — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Battle of Megiddo
  The Battle of Megiddo — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Bust of Nefertiti
  The Bust of Nefertiti — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Cache of Kings
  The Cache of Kings — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Cats of Bastet
  The Cats of Bastet — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The City That Came Out of the Sea
  The City That Came Out of the Sea — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Colossi of Memnon
  The Colossi of Memnon — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Conspiracy Against Ramesses III
  The Conspiracy Against Ramesses III — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Curse, and Who It Was For
  The Curse, and Who It Was For — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Dendera Zodiac
  The Dendera Zodiac — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Expulsion of the Hyksos
  The Expulsion of the Hyksos — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Founding of Akhetaten
  The Founding of Akhetaten — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Great Pyramid, With Its Casing On
  The Great Pyramid, With Its Casing On — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Karnak Cachette
  The Karnak Cachette — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Linen Makers
  The Linen Makers — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Mask of Tutankhamun
  The Mask of Tutankhamun — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Narmer Palette
  The Narmer Palette — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Nile Year
  The Nile Year — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Oldest Complaint Letter
  The Oldest Complaint Letter — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Papyrus of Ani
  The Papyrus of Ani — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Restoration of the Gods
  The Restoration of the Gods — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Satire of the Trades
  The Satire of the Trades — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Seated Scribe
  The Seated Scribe — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Shipwrecked Sailor
  The Shipwrecked Sailor — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Sphinx Before the Nose
  The Sphinx Before the Nose — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Step in the Rubble
  The Step in the Rubble — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Strike at Deir el-Medina
  The Strike at Deir el-Medina — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Unfinished Obelisk
  The Unfinished Obelisk — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Void Above the Gallery
  The Void Above the Gallery — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The War of the Sea Peoples
  The War of the Sea Peoples — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Writing Nobody Photographs
  The Writing Nobody Photographs — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• The Year Egypt Had One God
  The Year Egypt Had One God — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Thoth, and the God Who Kept the Records
  Thoth, and the God Who Kept the Records — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Thutmose III (kids)
  Kept off the throne for twenty years by his stepmother, Thutmose III spent the next thirty proving what he had been waiting to do. Seventeen campaigns took Egyp
• Tutankhamun: The Tomb the Robbers Missed (kids)
  He came to the throne at about nine, reversed his father's religion, and was dead before twenty — a minor king by every measure that mattered to Egypt. Then in
• What Killed Tutankhamun
  What Killed Tutankhamun — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.
• Where Nefertiti Went
  Where Nefertiti Went — an illustrated history story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Egypt.

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