Product Description: This new book draws on over 120 ancient Egyptian objects from the world-renowned collection of the Brooklyn Museum to illustrate Egyptian strategies for defeating death and living forever. In answering the questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt, and explaining Egyptian beliefs about death and the afterlife, author Edward Bleiberg offers a fresh take on the subject by addressing the practical, economic considerations an ancient Egyptian faced when preparing for the next life...read more

Product Description: The British Museum has the largest and finest collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan outside of those countries. Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt presents the highlights of the British Museum's Egyptian collection for the first time in print...read more

Product Description: Small in size, big in content and color, this handy guidebook offers a compact glimpse and memento of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Its 100-plus images takes you on journey 9771720708through the hallowed halls of ancient Egypt.

Product Description: A study of the Louvre's holdings from the civilization of ancient Egypt.

Product Description: Catalogue General of Egyptian Antiquities.

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Product Description: This volume has a dual value; it is a collection of delicate portrayals of ancient Egyptian art, architectural features and sculpture, while also providing an insight into the work of Prisse d'Avennes, a 19th-century Egyptologist who was ahead of his time in realizing the need to record such vulnerable monuments - in a period when the camera had not fully developed, painting and sketches were the only way of doing this...read more

Ancient Egypt has always been an endless source of fascination and inspiration. Drawing on the exceptional holdings of Egyptian antiquities from The Brooklyn Museum, The Art of Ancient Egypt covers more than four millennia of Egyptian history while exploring the most intriguing themes surrounding ancient Egyptian artifacts.

Full-color, poster-size reproductions feature rare objects--excellent examples of paintings, reliefs, jewelry, sculpture, sarcophagi, and funerary figures--from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian Collections