Hidden Treasures of the Egyptian MuseumAmercain University in Cairo Prees, 2002 - 82 من الصفحات The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the greatest repository of ancient Egyptian artifacts in the world, receives hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. But many of its treasures, long kept in basement storerooms or in magazines at archaeological sites around the country, or recently discovered at ongoing excavations, have never been seen by the general public. To celebrate the centenary of the Museum, many of these unknown pieces of exquisite beauty or great historical importance--and often both--have been brought out of the darkness to form a unique exhibition in a very appropriate setting: a converted section of the great basement storerooms of the Museum. With some 250 artifacts from the earliest beginnings of pharaonic culture to its latest flowerings, the exhibition spans the whole of ancient Egyptian history, and the one hundred masterpieces beautifully photographed for this volume represent the whole range of the exhibition: the Predynastic Period, the Old Kingdom, the First Intermediate Period, the Middle Kingdom, the Second Intermediate Period, the New Kingdom, the Third Intermediate Period, and the Late Period. This handsome book will serve as a prized memento for visitors to the exhibition and as a window onto it for Egyptophiles everywhere. |
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18 Tutankhamun Collection Abu Rawash Abydos Alabaster Amenhotep III ancient Egyptian archaeological Archaic Period arti artifacts Bahariya Oasis beautiful Black granite Bulaq Museum burial cachette Cairo University excavation cemetery cm Dynasty 18 cm Late Period cm Old Kingdom Council of Antiquities Delta depicted discovered dwarf Dynasty 18 Tutankhamun Dynasty 26 Egyptian Museum Egyptian Museum CG Egyptologists End of Dynasty exhibit false door Farouk Hosni Fourth Dynasty funerary Gaston Maspero Giza gold granite H H.E. Farouk Hosni Hathor Hawass Headrest Horus inscription inside Inty-Shedu Kamal Karnak Khedive Khufu king limestone H located Lower Egypt Manshiat Ezzat Mariette mastaba Middle Kingdom mud-brick mummies Naqada Nubia Old Kingdom Osiris Painted limestone palette Per-ni-ankhu pharaonic Predynastic priest pyramid Qiwesna Ramesses Ramesses II reign of Amenhotep royal Saqqara sarcophagus scenes Second Intermediate Period seven sacred oils statue stela stone Supreme Council temples Teti Theban Thebes Third Intermediate Period Twelfth Dynasty Upper Egypt wife wooden