Egyptian Museum Collections Around the World: Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Celebrating the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum) Review

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(More customer reviews)YES THIS IS IN 2 VOLUMES! THEY'RE BIG! THE WORKS FROM DIFFERENT MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE (FRANCE, GERMANY ETC) ARE IN FRENCH AND GERMAN AND HAVE NO TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH OR VICE VERSA. A LOT OF SCHOLARLY WORK LOST TO US.
MY BIGGEST BEEF IS THAT THE PRINTED IMAGES ARE APPARENTLY SET UP TO BE PRINTED ON COATED PAPER, AND WERE INSTEAD PRINTED ON LESS QUALITY STOCK. THE RESULTING PRINTED MATRIX HAS BLED TOGETHER, MAKING THE PICTURES TOO DARK TO DISCERN MUCH DETAIL AT ALL, IN MOST CASES. AND ALL IMAGES ARE IN BLACK & WHITE. IN SOME CASES, ONLY THE HIGHLIGHTS OF A PICTURE ARE VISIBLE, THE REST IS TOTALLY BLACK.
THE WORK DETAILS SOME OF THE VARIOUS ITEMS IN EACH COLLECTION WITH PROVIDENCE, ACCOMPANYING TRANSLATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS. THEY SEEM TO BE IN NO ORDER AND IT CAN BE CONFUSING SKIPPING AROUND FROM GERMAN, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH. IT WOULD SEEN TO ME THAT GROUPING EACH LANGUAGE TOGETHER MIGHT BE A BETTER IDEA.
ALOT OF INFORMATION TO DIGEST!


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The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the greatest treasure-house of ancient Egyptian art there is, but major museums--and many smaller museums--in other countries throughout the world also boast fine Egyptian collections. While archaeologists excavate the remains of pyramids, temples, and tombs, scholars at museums, universities, and other institutions are also furthering the understanding of ancient Egyptian culture through their study of the artifacts contained in the world's Egyptian galleries. To celebrate the centennial of the Egyptian Museum, which opened its doors in 1902, museum directors and Egyptologists were invited to contribute accounts of Egyptian collections or studies of Egyptian artifacts around the world. The result is an impressive array of scholarship--in all, 130 studies in English, French, German, and Arabic describing collections from Argentina to South Africa, from the Netherlands to Jordan, and dealing with predynastic palettes and Ptolemaic coins, Meroitic anklets and hieratic ostraca, stelae and linen, scarabs and wigs.

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