Markowitz, Haynes & Freed: Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids

Yvonne J. Markowitz, Joyce L. Haynes, Rita E. Freed,

Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids. Highlights from the Harvard University 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition, Boston, 2002. 139 pp. - pdf-file (94.8 MB)

"The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has one of the world's premier
collections of Old Kingdom art, thanks to George Reisner's celebrated
expeditions during the first decades of the twentieth century. Although
individual objects from the collection have appeared as quintessential
examples of their time, never before have they been presented in a
single, lavishly illustrated volume. Nor have many of the fascinating
archival photographs of the excavations, preserved on fragile glass
negatives, been published as they are here. This book provides a
glimpse of life - and death - at the pinnacle of Egyptian civilization,
and conveys the excitement of the excavators who discovered its
treasures."