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Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum

By Edna R. Russmann, Nigel Strudwick, and TG.H. James
Published in 2006 by the AFA in association with University of Washington Press
136 pages, 115 illus. (103 in color), 11 x 8 in.
Paper • ISBN 1-885444-32-4 • $30.00 (AFA)

The British Museum possesses one of the world's foremost collections of Egyptian antiquities. The selection of eighty-five objects featured within this fully illustrated catalogue comprises both renowned masterpieces and little-known treasures from the museum's collection and spans the full range of pharaonic history. Included are an introduction by Guest Curator Edna R. Russmann, Curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and essays by Consulting Curator Nigel Strudwick, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum, and T.G.H. James, former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum.

Temples and Tombs