The Egyptian Museum houses the world’s greatest collection of Egyptian treasures and antiquities, tens of thousands of stunning and fascinating objects dating from the earliest Predynastic times right through to the Greek and Roman Periods. Visitors to this great storehouse may become easily overwhelmed by the vast number of objects on display. But here for the first time is the world’s best-known Egyptologist’s personal introduction to the unmissable highlights of the Museum—Zahi Hawass’s own selection of his favorite 200 exhibits. For each piece, he gives some background to its discovery and significance, and describes what it means for him in terms of the art or the history of ancient Egypt, and why it strikes a personal chord. “Due to my love of the Egyptian Museum, I thought that it would be wonderful to write a guide to its treasures, and to talk about my favorite objects within.”—Zahi Hawass
Inside the Egyptian Museum with Zahi Hawass
Collector's Edition
Zahi Hawass
Photographs bySandro Vannini
The Egyptian Museum houses the world’s greatest collection of Egyptian treasures and antiquities, tens of thousands of stunning and fa
1 September 2010
300 pp.
202 color illus
21.6X31cm
ISBN 9789774163838
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$49.95
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