Presents photographs of and essays about ancient Egyptian art
Thousands of Years: An Archaeologist's Search for Ancient Egypt
Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum
7 present day in a whole corpus of popular mythology with virtually no basis in fact . ... The high visibility of ancient Egypt to the popular imagination should not be allowed to eclipse the perhaps less spectacular but more factual ...
Sometimes it can seem as though archaeologists are working backwards, looking for the evidence only after deciding on their conclusion – that what it is they are looking for is in a certain place, even when there is already good ...
First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984.
Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum
The world of the pharaohs, rediscovered and revealed by such men as Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Joann Fletcher, presenter of BBC2's 'Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings' has written an enthralling account of Nefertiti, one of Egypt's most compelling and mysterious figures.
Magicians were the indispensable guardians of the god-given cosmic order, learned scholars who were always searching for the Magic Book of Thoth, which could explain the wonders of nature.
Following upon these we see the queen dedicating the treasures from Punt to her god ; the weighting of precious metals ; the counting of incense - trees ; Tuthmosis III before the bark of Amun and Hatshepsut before Amun .