A new series of handy pocket guides for explorers of Egypt’s rich past and exciting present, packed with information and brilliantly illustrated with color photographs, maps, plans, and 3-D drawings—all in just 48 pages.The necropolises on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor contain some of the world’s most stunning funerary art, and this small guide describes the best of it: the great royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, the beautiful tomb of Nefertari in the Valley of the Queens, and the fascinating depictions of daily life in the Tombs of the Nobles.
Egypt Pocket Guide
The Valley of the Kings and the Theban Tombs
Alberto Siliotti
1 November 2000
48 pp.
150 color illus.
12X21.5cm
ISBN 9789774245961
For sale worldwide
$9.95
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