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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A great souvineer or even a coffee table book for armchair Egyptologists.,
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Having been to the Egyptian Musuem in Cairo, this book is great. The museum itself is pretty poorly labeled, and even with a tour you're not going to be able to remember half the things you've seen. Combine that with the fact that you can't take pictures inside of the museum, you're going to be hard pressed to really remember anything.
The book itself is a masterful catalog of the amazing collection at the Egyptian Museum with stunning photographs. If you plan on going to the museum, this book will help you plan out your visit (and is cheaper from Amazon). And even if you're not able to get to Egypt, this book makes an amazing collection to your library and saves you the hassle, frustration and dealing with the heat of Egypt.
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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 kilt, schist statue, shen sign, royal cobra, pathological deformity, straight wig, pleated kilt, inlaid with lapis lazuli, double statue, servant statues, kneeling statue, anthropoid coffin, painted limestone, ankh sign, central parting, short kilt, mastaba tombs, limestone statue, solar disc, large pectoral, curly wig, cosmic disorder, funerary complex Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lower Egypt, New Kingdom, Upper Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Valley of the Kings, Fifth Dynasty, Red Crown, King Amenhotep, Twelfth Dynasty, White Crown, King Ahmose, Egyptian Museum, King Tuthmosis, Queen Hatshepsut, King Akhenaten, Montuhotep Nebhepetre, Pyramid Texts, Amenemhet Ill, Beni Hassan, New York, Wadi Maghara, Medinet Habu, Queen Ahhotep, 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 kilt, schist statue, shen sign, royal cobra, pathological deformity, straight wig, pleated kilt, inlaid with lapis lazuli, double statue, servant statues, kneeling statue, anthropoid coffin, painted limestone, ankh sign, central parting, short kilt, mastaba tombs, limestone statue, solar disc, large pectoral, curly wig, cosmic disorder, funerary complex Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lower Egypt, New Kingdom, Upper Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Valley of the Kings, Fifth Dynasty, Red Crown, King Amenhotep, Twelfth Dynasty, White Crown, King Ahmose, Egyptian Museum, King Tuthmosis, Queen Hatshepsut, King Akhenaten, Montuhotep Nebhepetre, Pyramid Texts, Amenemhet Ill, Beni Hassan, New York, Wadi Maghara, Medinet Habu, Queen Ahhotep, Red Sea, Second Intermediate Period New!
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- Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- ANC Egypt (Jrny Into CIV)(Pbk) (Z) (Journey Into Civilization) by Robert Nicholson 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
- Ancient Egypt by A. Rosalie David in Back Matter
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