Egypt
Las Cruces Sun News (Greg Lennes)
"The Lost Tombs of Thebes - Life in Paradise"
By Zahi Hawass
Photographs by Sandro Vannini
Thames & Hudson, 288 pp. $80.
- Feature: Sandro Vannini's Photography - Tomb Of Montuemhat (tt34)
Heritage Key Egyptology photographer Sandro Vannini has been busy photographing tombs across Thebes for his new book "The Lost Tombs of Thebes: Lost in Paradise" and you can watch him at work in a Heritage Key video which also features Dr Zahi Hawass...
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- Feature: Sandro Vannini's Photography - The Tomb Of Montuemhat (tt34) At Thebes
Heritage Key With several slide shows. A video featuring Dr Farouk Gomaa was recently featured on Heritage Key as he explains his progress on archaeological excavations being carried out in el-Assasif, Thebes at the site of TT34 - the Tomb of Montuemhat....
- New Book: The Lost Tombs Of Thebes
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video This sounds rather more interesting than many of the coffee table type books that come out at this time of year on the western market. The video shows Hawass and Dr Janice Kamrin talking about the Theban tombs (4.41...
- Book Review: The Royal Tombs Of Egypt
A very short review of one of the latest offerings from Zahi Hawass: "With its 300 color illustrations — including 30 huge foldouts — The Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art of Thebes Revealed (Thames & Hudson, 315 pp. $65) is a kingly achievement itself....
Egypt
Book Review: The Lost Tombs of Thebes
Las Cruces Sun News (Greg Lennes)
"The Lost Tombs of Thebes - Life in Paradise"
By Zahi Hawass
Photographs by Sandro Vannini
Thames & Hudson, 288 pp. $80.
LAS CRUCES— The interest in Ancient Egypt is understandable since it was the longest lasting civilization of more than 3,000 years. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, has written a clear and scholarly narrative on the tombs of the officials or nobles of the Pharaohs in the New Kingdom period from 1630 B.C. to 1069 B.C. These tombs were near Ancient Egypt's administrative center of Thebes, which was about the same size of Las Cruces today. The royal tombs of the Pharaohs were in the Valley of the Kings.
The acclaimed Italian photographer, Sandro Vannini, provides the magnificent large format images in this beautiful book. If you were able to travel in Egypt, you could never have a better view of the art in these private tombs. It is really breathtaking. Some of the mural paintings are as fresh and vivid as if created yesterday.
The book focuses on 80 of the 400 tombs of the courtiers of the "Golden Age" of Egypt. The colorful art reveals that active lives and accomplishments of Egyptians who were treasury administrators, high priests, granary supervisors, tutors, nurses, royal architects and other officials.
Hawass succinctly summarizes the Egyptian concepts of death and their view of the afterlife. He also shows why so much wealth was spent in the construction and decoration of the tombs and explains the details of the burial and mummification.
- Feature: Sandro Vannini's Photography - Tomb Of Montuemhat (tt34)
Heritage Key Egyptology photographer Sandro Vannini has been busy photographing tombs across Thebes for his new book "The Lost Tombs of Thebes: Lost in Paradise" and you can watch him at work in a Heritage Key video which also features Dr Zahi Hawass...
- New Book: A Secret Voyage
PR Log But only if you have £2600.00 (UKP) to spare! Corbis (www.corbis.com), a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced that it is now exclusively representing a collection of prized Egyptian images by renowned photographer...
- Feature: Sandro Vannini's Photography - The Tomb Of Montuemhat (tt34) At Thebes
Heritage Key With several slide shows. A video featuring Dr Farouk Gomaa was recently featured on Heritage Key as he explains his progress on archaeological excavations being carried out in el-Assasif, Thebes at the site of TT34 - the Tomb of Montuemhat....
- New Book: The Lost Tombs Of Thebes
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video This sounds rather more interesting than many of the coffee table type books that come out at this time of year on the western market. The video shows Hawass and Dr Janice Kamrin talking about the Theban tombs (4.41...
- Book Review: The Royal Tombs Of Egypt
A very short review of one of the latest offerings from Zahi Hawass: "With its 300 color illustrations — including 30 huge foldouts — The Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art of Thebes Revealed (Thames & Hudson, 315 pp. $65) is a kingly achievement itself....