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English edition
Feb
2010
300 pp.
Hardbound
21.6X31 cm
$49.95
LE 250.00
ISBN
978 977 416 364 7
For sale worldwide
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Inside the Egyptian Museum with Zahi Hawass
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Zahi Hawass
Photographs by
Sandro Vannini
The new official guide, authorized by the Supreme Council of Antiquities
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
Zahi Hawass is the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the author of many books on ancient Egypt.
Sandro Vannini is an acclaimed photographer who has worked closely with Zahi Hawass over many years, specializing in documenting Egypt’s archaeological heritage.
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