Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights From the Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Expedition

by Rita E. Freed, Yvonne Markowitz

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has one of the worlds premier collections of Old Kingdom art, thanks to George Reisners celebrated expeditions during the first decades of the last century. Although individual objects from the collection have appeared in numerous publications as quintessential examples of their time, never before have the best of them been presented in a single volume. Nor have many of the fascinating archival photographs of the excavations been published as they are here.

144 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2002

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids is a book that contains a couple of essays about the Old Kingdom in Ancient Egypt and a partial (?) catalogue of items on display at an exhibition by Boston's The Museum of Fine Arts. The essays are decent, but aren't ground-breaking or insightful – introductions to the time period more than anything. The catalogue is interesting too, as it's great to get information and photograph of these items, but it isn't necessarily enthralling.