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The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt: Essays (American Discovery of Ancient Egypt)

1 review
Dorothea Arnold, Lanny Bell, ...

Los Angeles County Museum, 1996

Great Catalog
I thought this book was great! The pictures of the objects are beautiful. Where a picture could not be obtained there is usually a detailed sketch of the object. The descriptions give not only insight into use of the archaological object but also surrounding information like similar objects and archeological context. Then the essays descibe the time period and unknown/debated issue of ...

Temples of Ancient Egypt

4 reviews
Dieter Arnold, Gerhard Haeny, ...

Cornell University Press, 1997

For the avid Egyptophile
Shafer, et al have compiled a very well written and extremely in-depth examination of the meaning and importance of temples in ancient Egypt. All the sections were fascinating but I especially found Lanny Bell's treatment of Luxor temple (derived from his many years of work there), Gerhard Haeny's section on Mansions of Millions of Years, and Finnestad's chapter on Ptolemaic temples (really a ...