Author : Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0394411706
Beautiful color photos of the breathtaking tomb of Tutankhamun and the magnificent objects buried with the young pharoah.
Author : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780924171550
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Author : Zahi Hawass
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0500293902
The ultimate book on King Tut and his tomb—the most exciting archaeological find the world has ever known—now in a compact edition The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures, remains the most sensational archaeological find of all time. This brilliantly illustrated volume takes the reader through Tutankhamun’s tomb room-by-room in the order that it was discovered and excavated by Howard Carter, illuminating the tomb’s most magnificent artifacts and objects. Leading authority Dr. Zahi Hawass imbues the text with his own inimitable flavor, imagining how the uncovering and opening of the tomb must have felt for Carter, while Sandro Vannini’s extraordinary photographs reproduce the objects in infinitesimal detail. Now available in a compact edition, and published to coincide with a global touring exhibition that begins in Los Angeles in March 2018 and ends at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2023, this sumptuous volume is the definitive record of Tutankhamun’s legacy.
Author :
Publisher : Asian Art Museum
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780939117789
This stunning Chinese art book presents almost a hundred recently unearthed objects that offer a glimpse into the extraordinary wealth and artistic accomplishments of elite society during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE). These exquisite treasures are from newly discovered sites in the Jiangsu region of China and are made of gold, silver, jade, bronze, pottery, lacquer, and other refined materials. Masterworks include a full-length jade suit sewn with gold threads, an oversized coffin shrouded in jade, and a complete set of functional bronze bells. The book's texts explore a number of ideas about the lives and deaths of Western Han royalty.
Author : Nicholas Reeves
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9780590457538
An account of Howard Carter's discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736861861
Describes King Tut's tomb, including the treasures found there, King Tut's mummy, and what scientists have learned from the tomb's discovery.
Author : Wolfram Grajetzki
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0812245679
With detailed illustrations and archival images, Egyptologist Wolfram Grajetzki describes and compares the opulent tombs of eminent and royal women from the late Middle Kingdom, shedding new light on how the gendered and social identities of these women were viewed in the court and preserved in the grave.
Author : Patricia Ann Berger
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Arkady Roytman
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category :
ISBN : 9780486469966
Sixteen of Tutankhamun's ancient burial treasures rendered in beautiful stained glass images -- a scarab bracelet, golden death mask, falcon necklace, and other luxuries, designed to glow when placed near a light source.
Author : Dennis Forbes
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2015-05-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781512371956
This is the second of five volumes in the updated revised version of 1998's Tombs. Treasures. Mummies. Seven Great Discoveries of Egyptian Archaeology by the Author. It deals with the finding and clearances of the Tomb of Maiherpri in the Valley of the Kings (KV36) and the Tomb of Kha & Merit (TT8), husband and wife, at Deir el Medina, both dating to ancient Egypt's mid-18th Dynasty. KV36 had been minimally robbed in ancient times, but TT8 was found completely undisturbed and intact. Maiherpri was a part-Nubian courtier, possibly a king's bastard son; Kha was a royal-tomb architect with the title "Chief in the Great Place" (Valley of the Kings) and Merit was a housewife. Maiherpri's well-preserved mummy and tomb treasures are today in the Cairo Egyptian Museum; Kha & Merit and their complete tomb treasures are to be found in the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy.
