The Cairo Museum
Masterpieces of Egyptian Art
Edited by Francesco Tiradritti
Photographs by Araldo de Luca
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The Egyptian Museum in Cairo holds the finest collection of Egyptian artifacts in the world and is one of the principal attractions for the thousands of visitors to the city every year. The Museum’s outstanding sculptures, reliefs,wall-paintings, jewelry, furniture, ceramics, span thousands of years from predynastic period to Graeco-Roman times. Here for the first time they have been properly photographed in this unique volume.
The book follows the chronological layout of the Museum, with striking images from the collections accompanied by text by an international team of world-renowned Egyptologists, including curators from the Louvre, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts and the British Museum.
Highlights include the 4,000 year old jewels of a princess from Dahshur, for the first time shown to a non-specialist audience, the funerary treasure of Queen Ahhotep, the tombs of the kings and queens at Tanis on the Nile Delta, statues from the Temple of Amun at Karnak, and, of course, the treasure of Tutankhamun.
Both a fantastic compendium of images and a marvellous record of a world-renowned collection, The Cairo Museum is a wonderful book for travellers to Egypt and anyone with an interest in Egyptology.
Also of interest:
Secrets from the Sand
Egyptian Art series
The Complete Tutankhamun:
The King · The Tomb · The Royal Treasure |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500019304 | | ISBN-13 978-0500019306 | | | | 36.0 x 26.0 cm | | Hardback | | 416pp | | 664 illustrations, 664 in colour | | First published 1999 | | | | £45.00 | | | |  | | | | 
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