Museums of Egypt. Great museums of the world

In 141 magnificent new color photographs the paintings, sculptures, architecture of ancient egypt, at original sites and in local new museums.
Ancient egypt, which two thousand years ago
attracted Greek and Roman travelers, exercises even greater fascination today. Along the whole length of the nile, from the pyramids at Giza to the great temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel and beyond, are to be found archaeological sites of extraordinary richness and variety. A major site, the Theban necropolis of the kings and nobles, together with the awesome temples of Karnak and Luxor nearby, have been called «the most valuable single cultural and artistic complex surviving from ancient times.» And everywhere in egypt astonishing new discoveries continue to be made.
The primary objective of this book has been to make these far flung archaeological riches easily accessible and comprehensible to the interested reader or traveler. A team of photographers was brought to every important site and no expense or effort was spared in taking pictures of even the most inaccessible chambers of a temple or tomb.
With critical commentaries by a well known scholar describing the subjects chosen brilliantly elucidating the complexities of egyptian iconography and making value judgements on artistic styles the reader is guided geographically up the Nile, over the whole 3,000 year span of egyptian art.