FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

- Felix Höflmayer (ed.) - The Late Third Millennium in the Ancient Near East: Chronology, C14, and Climate Change, Chicago (IL), The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2017  

- John Romer - A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom , New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2017  

- Henry George Fischer- Egyptian women of the Old Kingdom and of the Heracleopolitan Period, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000

- Leire Olabarria - Materialising kinship, constructing relatedness: kin group display and commemoration in First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom Egypt (ca 2150–1650 BCE). Volume I-II, Oxford, University of Oxford, 2014

- Hella Küllmer - Marktfrauen, Priesterinnen und ‚Edle des Königs’. Untersuchung über die Position von Frauen in der sozialen Hierarchie des Alten Ägypten bis zum Ende der 1. Zwischenzeit, Hamburg, Universität Hamburg, 2007    

- Neil Sinclair - The development and decline of provincial rule from the Old to the Middle Kingdom: an analysis of the tombs and titles of the senior officials of Upper Egypt, Sydney, Macquarie University, 2013

- Marianne Galvin - The Priestesses of Hathor in the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period, Waltham (MA), Brandeis University, 1981  

- Barbara O’Neill - Setting the Scene: The deceased and regenerative cult within offering table imagery of the Egyptian Old to Middle Kingdoms (c.2686 – c.1650 BC), Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing, 2015

W. M. Flinders Petrie - Ehnasya 1904. With Chapter byC. T. Currelly, London, Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905 [MEEF 26]  

Edouard Naville - Ahnas el Medineh (Heracleopolis magna). With Chapters on Mendes, the Nome of Thoth, and Leontopolis. And appendix on Byzantine Sculptures by T. Hayter Lewis / J. J. Tylor, F. Ll. Griffith - The Tomb of Paheri at El Kab, London, Egypt Exploration Fund, 1894 [MEEF 11]  

- Marcel Zitman - The Necropolis of Assiut: A Case Study of Local Egyptian Funerary Culture from the Old Kingdom to the End of the Middle Kingdom, Leuven - Paris - Walpole (MA), Uitgeverij Peeters - Departement of Oosterse Studies, 2010

- Christiane Ziegler - Catalogue des stèles, peintures et reliefs égyptiens de l'Ancien Empire et de la Première Période Intermédiaire vers 2686-2040 avant J.-C. Partie I-III, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux - Musee du Louvre- Ministère de la Culture, de la Communication, des Grands Travaux et du Bicentenaire, 1990  

- Jacques Vandier - Mo‘alla. La Tombe d’Ankhtifi et la Tombe de Sebekhotep, Le Caire, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1950 [BiEtud/BdE 18]

- Elisa Fiore Marochetti - The Reliefs of the Chapel of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep at Gebelein (CGT 70031-277), Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2010

- Khaled Abdalla Dawood - The inscribed stelae of the Herakleopolitan period from the Memphite necropolis. Volume I-II, Liverpool, University of Liverpool, 1998 

- Caroline Nestmann Peck - Some Decorated Tombs of the First Intermediate Period at Neg' ed-Deir, Providence (RI), Brown University, 1958  

- Edward Brovarski - The inscribed material of the First Intermediate Period from Naga-ed-Der. Volume I-IV, Chicago (IL), The Chicago University, 1989  

Dows Dunham - Naga-ed-Dêr stelae of the First intermediate period, Boston-Oxford-London, Museum of Fine Arts - Oxford University Press- Humphrey Milford, 1937

Hellmut Brunner - Die Texte aus den Gräbern der Herakleopoliten zeit von Siut mit Übersetzung und Erläuterungen, Glückstadt-Hamburg-New York, J.J. Augustin, 1937 (AF 5)  

Pierre Lacau - Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire, Tome I-II, Le Caire, Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1903-1906 [CG 28001-28126]  

 - Khaled Abdalla Daoud - Corpus of inscriptions of the Herakleopolitan period from the Memphite necropolis: translation, commentary, and analyses, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2005  

- Аркадий Е. Демидчик - Безымянная пирамида. Государственная доктрина древнеегипетской Гераклеопольской монархии, Санкт-Петербург, Алетейа, 2005  

- Francisco Saúca Marcial - Documentación prosopográfica en la provincia egipcia de Koptos desde la época predinástica hasta el primer período intermedio, Madrid, Universidad Complutense, 2014  

- Henry George Fischer - Inscriptions from the Coptite Nome. Dynasties VI-XI, Roma, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1964

- William A. Ward - Studies on Scarab Seals. I. Pre-12th Dynasty Scarab Amulets, Warminster, Aris & Phillips, 1978

 - Elmar Edel - Die Inschriften der Grabfronten der Siut-Gräber in Mittelägypten aus der Herakleopolitenzeit: Eine Wiederherstellung nach den Zeichnungen der Description de l’Égypte, Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1984  

- Lubica Zelenkova - Die privaten Stiftungsinschriften des funerären Bereichs des Alten Reiches und der 1. Zwischenzeit, Wien, Universität Wien, 2008

Richard Roland Mertz - Some aspects of Egyptian autobiography before the New Kingdom, Chicago (IL), University of Chicago, 1953  

- Jacques Jean Clère, Jacques Vandier - Textes de la première période intermédiaire et de la XIème dynastie, Ier fascicule, Bruxelles, Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1948 [BiAe 10]

- Максим Вячеславович Панов - Историко-биографические надписи классического периода, Новосибирск, М. В. Панов, 2019

- Димитър Димитров, Любомира Одаджийска - Тъгата на Древен Египет, София, Хеликон, 2008