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Arts of Ancient Egypt by Lawrence Berman (Text by); Denise Doxey (Text by); Rita E. Freed (Text by)
Call Number: N5335 .B6 M87 2003

ISBN: 9780878466610

Publication Date: 2003-09-02

Today, with over 60,000 objects, the MFA's Egyptian collection is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. This volume features over 100 of the most important of these objects, with texts by three prominent Egyptologists.
Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art by Gay Robins; Ann S. Fowler (Illustrator)
Call Number: N5350 .R65 1994

ISBN: 029277060X

Publication Date: 1994-01-01

In this work, Gay Robins offers convincing evidence, based on a study of Egyptian usage of grid systems and proportions, that innovation and stylistic variation played a significant role in ancient Egyptian art. Robins thoroughly explores the squared grid systems used by the ancient artists to proportion standing, sitting, and kneeling human figures.
Egyptian Book of the Dead by Raymond O. Faulkner; Carol Andrews (Preface by); Ogden Goelet (Introduction by); James Wasserman (Foreword by)
Call Number: Oversize PJ1555 .E5 F38 1994

ISBN: 0811807673

Publication Date: 1994-10-01

The legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Anithe most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered has been restored in its original sequences of text and artwork, using the latest advances in computer-imaging technology. For both lay readers and scholars interested in a wide range of topics from mysticism and philosophy to anthropology and astronomy this sumptuous and accessible new volume will be an essential acquisition.
Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture by Anna Clarke; Somers Clarke; R. Engelbach
Call Number: TH1201.C55 1990

ISBN: 0486264858

Based on thirty years of research and investigation, much of it firsthand, the present work offers a detailed examination of Egyptian quarrying methods, transportation of stone, foundations, mortar, techniques for dressing and laying blocks of stone, pyramid construction, facing, sculpturing and painting masonry, brickwork, Egyptian mathematics and much more. Nearly 270 photographs and other illustrations bring the text to life, providing superb pictorial documentation of actual sites and excavations, quarries, building plans, architects' diagrams and elevations and a myriad of construction details.
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson
Call Number: DT68.8 .W55 2000

ISBN: 0500051003

Publication Date: 2000-06-01

The temples of ancient Egypt include the largest and perhaps most impressive religious monuments the world has ever known. This book traces their development from the earliest times, looking at every aspect of their construction, decoration, symbolism and function.
Abusir by Miroslav Verner
Call Number: Oversize DT73 .A14 V46 2002

ISBN: 977424723X

Publication Date: 2004-10-01

At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis there lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. This exciting new book - richly endowed with black-and-white historical photographs, color plates of contemporary work, and informative illustrations - at last documents the uncovering by a dedicated team of Czech archaeologists of a hitherto neglected wealth of ancient remains dating from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period.
The Secret Medicine of the Pharoahs by Cornelius Stetter
Call Number: R137.S7413 1993

ISBN: 0867152656

Publication Date: 1993-02-01

Explores medical papyri and related social and religious matters of ancient Egypt.

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