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Ancient Egypt and Nubia
By Helen Whitehouse
ISBN: 9781854442024
April 2009
Ancient Egypt and Nubia
The collections of objects from Ancient Egypt and Nubia to be found in the Ashmolean Museum are second only, in Britain, to those of the British Museum.
Especially renowned are the artefacts associated with the first rulers of Egypt and the prehistoric cultures that preceded them, the distinctive sculpture and painting of the Amarna Period, and the monuments of the Nubian pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty.
From the earliest sculptures of human beings in Egypt to the sophisticated metalwork of late antiquity, this book showcases the richness and diversity of the Museum's Egyptian and Nubian collections in beautiful full-colour images with informative captions. The introduction traces the formation of the collections over a period of three hundred years, setting them within the context of Egyptology as a gradually emerging discipline and highlighting some of the scholars, excavators, and collectors particularly associated with Oxford and the Ashmolean.
The civilizations of ancient Egypt and its neighbour, Nubia, are amongst the most fascinating of antiquity, and the Ashmolean's collections exemplify all facets of their distinctive and evolving cultures from prehistory to the Byzantine Period, from the possessions of kings to the stuff of everyday life.
From the earliest sculptures of human beings in Egypt to the sophisticated metalwork of late antiquity, this book showcases the richness and diversity of the Museum's Egyptian and Nubian collections in beautiful full-colour images with informative captions. The introduction traces the formation of the collections over a period of three hundred years, setting them within the context of Egyptology as a gradually emerging discipline and highlighting some of the scholars, excavators, and collectors particularly associated with Oxford and the Ashmolean.
The civilizations of ancient Egypt and its neighbour, Nubia, are amongst the most fascinating of antiquity, and the Ashmolean's collections exemplify all facets of their distinctive and evolving cultures from prehistory to the Byzantine Period, from the possessions of kings to the stuff of everyday life.