Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries
A Year-by-Year Chronicle
Nicholas Reeves
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| ‘A feast of archaeological adventure and science for the casual and serious reader’ | | – The Los Angeles Times |
| 'This is a delightful book to browse, sample and return to. Highly recommended’ | | – Library Journal |
Here is the story of Ancient Egypt as it was revealed to the world – a magnificent succession of brilliant discoveries and dazzling treasures. Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries highlights everything important and exciting in Egyptian archaeology from 1799 – the year of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone - to the present day, capturing the wonder of the finds as they were made in a profusion of archival images and extracts from the notebooks, diaries and published accounts of the excavators. Some finds are world famous, such as Nefertari’s tomb and King Khufu’s royal boats; others, neglected or little known, will be a revelation: the Ferlini Treasure with its superb cache of gold, or the jewels of Egyptian princesses unearthed at Dahshur.
Panoramic in scope, the book covers all periods of Egyptian history, from Predynastic to Roman, and all areas of the country, from the Delta to Nubia. It serves equally well as an illustrated history of discovery, a showcase of the greatest finds, and a superb volume for home reference.
Nicholas Reeves, formerly a curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, is the author of Thames & Hudson’s bestselling The Complete Tutankhamun.
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