Cairo's Egyptian Museum, one of the greatest storehouses of ancient art
and artifacts in the world, is at the top of the agenda for millions of
visitors to Egypt every year. People come to see the fabulous gold
treasures of King Tutankhamun, the monumental royal statuary, the
elaborately painted coffins and funerary masks, the model houses, ships,
and armies, the tools, furnishings, and games of everyday life, and all
the other paraphernalia of three thousand years of ancient Egyptian
civilization. But what to take home from all this? How to remember the
highlights of a visit to such a wonderful house of treasure? Here in
this light and compact book, Egyptologist extraordinaire Zahi Hawass has
collected the very gems of the Museum, illustrated in full color and
succinctly described--more than thirty significant objects that stand
out in the memory, making the perfect souvenir of one of the world's
truly great museums.