Geraldine Harris (born 1951), aka Geraldine Harris Pinch, is an author (of both fiction and non-fiction) and

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religiou ...

. She is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Her works include the Seven Citadels quartet and numerous information text books about

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...

Partial bibliography

*''White Cranes Castle'', illustrated by Lisa Jensen, Macmillan (London), 1979. *"Seven Citadels" series **''Prince of the Godborn'', Greenwillow (New York City), 1982. **'' The Children of the Wind'', Greenwillow, 1982. **'' The Dead Kingdom'', Greenwillow, 1983. **'' The Seventh Gate'', Greenwillow, 1983. *''Gods and Pharaohs from Egyptian Mythology'', illustrated by John Sibbick and David O'Connor, Lowe (London), 1982, Schocken (New York City), 1983, reprinted, P. Bedrick (New York City), 1996. *''The Junior Atlas of Ancient Egypt'', Lionheart (London), 1989. *''New Kingdom Votive Offerings to Hathor'', Griffith Institute (Oxford), 1989. *''Isis and Osiris'', NTC Pub. Group, 1996. *(Co-authored with Delia Pemberton) ''Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt'', Peter Bedrick Books, 1999. *''Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of ancient Egypt''. Oxford University Press, 2004. *Contributor to journals, including ''Folklore'' and ''Orientalia''.

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