Egyptian & Mesopotamian Art, Egypt - History, Middle East & North Africa - Archaeology, General & Miscellaneous Ancient Egyptian History

Egyptology Today

Name: Egyptology Today
Author: Richard H. Wilkinson
ISBN: 9780521682268

by Richard H. Wilkinson

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Overview

Egyptology Today examines how modern scholars examine all aspects of ancient Egypt, one of the greatest of all ancient civilizations. In essays by a team of archaeologists, curators, scholars and conservators who are actively involved in research or applied aspects of Egyptology, this book looks at the techniques and methods that are used to increase our understanding of a distant culture that was as old to the Greeks and Romans as these cultures are to us.

Synopsis

An essential companion to Egyptology examining all aspects of ancient Egypt.

About the Author, Richard H. Wilkinson

Richard H. Wilkinson is Professor of Egyptian archaeology at the University of Arizona. Director of the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, which has conducted archaeological projects in Egypt's famed Valley of the Kings since 1989 and now excavating the memorial temple of Queen Tausert, he is the author of nearly one hundred articles and reviews as well as six books, most recently The Complete Temples of Egypt and The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.