The Treasures of Tutankhamun: And of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo

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The boy pharaoh’s vast store of tomb goods has intrigued the world not only for what it reveals, but additionally for the questions it raises about life in ancient Egypt. Interest within the pharaohs will upward thrust again this year to satisfy the start of a two-year tour of “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs”-an exhibition of over 130 objects rarely seen out of doors the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.The museum’s immense art and archaeological heritage comes alive, providing a broad background for the ones interested within the story of King Tutankhamun and in Egypt’s past from the formation of the primary unitary state within the Nile Valley to the Roman conquest. Complete with comprehensive descriptions of the famous grave goods of Tutankhamun and the treasures of Tanis, the book dedicates ample space to the pyramid sites of Giza, Saqqarah, and Dahshur, the royal tombs of Thebes, and the temple of Karnak. Here is an authoritative and elegant itinerary during the world’s greatest number of Egyptian antiquities in one volume.

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