Cairo’s Egyptian Museum houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. Some 150,000 pieces are exhibited, and another 30,000 are held in storerooms. This book carries full-color illustrations of many of the masterpieces of ancient art in the museum from the decorated vases, flint knives, and palettes of the predynastic period, through the magnificent artifacts of the pharaonic period, to the beautiful tempera portraits of the Roman period.
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ABEER EL-SHAHAWY is an Egyptian Egyptologist.
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Egypt's Predynastic Period belongs to prehistory, or the story of human cultures before written records began. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cobra over the forehead, usekh collar, royal cobra, straight wig, royal statuary, inlaid with lapis lazuli, pleated kilt, nemes headdress, painted limestone, ankh sign, central parting, short kilt, cosmic disorder, mortuary temple, minor wife, mastaba tombs, solar disc, royal statues, limestone statue, blue crown, sed festival, curly wig, statue shows, valley temple, large pectoral Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Kingdom, Lower Egypt, New Kingdom, Upper Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Valley of the Kings, Fifth Dynasty, Twelfth Dynasty, White Crown, King Amenhotep, Egyptian Museum, King Tuthmosis, Montuhotep Nebhepetre, King Akhenaten, Late Period, Pyramid Texts, First Intermediate Period, King Ahmose, Seventeenth Dynasty, Sixth Dynasty, Abu Sir, Beni Hassan, New York, Red Sea, Second Intermediate Period New!
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Egypt's Predynastic Period belongs to prehistory, or the story of human cultures before written records began. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cobra over the forehead, usekh collar, royal cobra, straight wig, royal statuary, inlaid with lapis lazuli, pleated kilt, nemes headdress, painted limestone, ankh sign, central parting, short kilt, cosmic disorder, mortuary temple, minor wife, mastaba tombs, solar disc, royal statues, limestone statue, blue crown, sed festival, curly wig, statue shows, valley temple, large pectoral Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Kingdom, Lower Egypt, New Kingdom, Upper Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Valley of the Kings, Fifth Dynasty, Twelfth Dynasty, White Crown, King Amenhotep, Egyptian Museum, King Tuthmosis, Montuhotep Nebhepetre, King Akhenaten, Late Period, Pyramid Texts, First Intermediate Period, King Ahmose, Seventeenth Dynasty, Sixth Dynasty, Abu Sir, Beni Hassan, New York, Red Sea, Second Intermediate Period New!
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- ANC Egypt (Jrny Into CIV)(Pbk) (Z) (Journey Into Civilization) by Robert Nicholson in Back Matter
- Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman in Back Matter
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead by Carol Andrews in Back Matter
- Valley of the Kings by John Romer in Back Matter
- The Valley of the Kings (Digging for the Past) by Stuart Tyson Smith in Back Matter
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