Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum is a regular Egyptological forum for scholarly discussion of the various aspects of ancient Egyptian art, objects and collections, conservation, and museology. The current volume includes papers presented during the conference Museology in the 21st Century‚ held in December 2002 in conjunction with the celebration of the Egyptian Museum’s 100th anniversary in its current building.
Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum
Volume 1
Supreme Council of Antiquities
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1 b/w, 78 color illus., 2 tables
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