Research Catalog

Title

The American discovery of ancient Egypt / Nancy Thomas, with essays by Gerry D. Scott, Bruce G. Trigger.

Author

Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Publication

Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York : Distributed by H. N. Abrams, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Thomas, Nancy, 1948-
• Scott, Gerry D.
• Trigger, Bruce G.
• St. Louis Art Museum.
• Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Description

275 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Subject

• Art objects, Egyptian > Exhibitions
• Egyptology > United States
• Egypt > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Egypt > Civilization > To 332 B.C. > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov. 5, 1995-Jan. 21, 1996; the Saint Louis Art Museum, Feb. 29-May 27, 1996; and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, July 13-Sept. 29, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index.

Contents

Chronology of Ancient Egypt -- Chronology of Ancient Nubia -- Egyptology, Ancient Egypt, and the American Imagination / Bruce G. Trigger -- Go Down into Egypt: The Dawn of American Egyptology / Gerry D. Scott, III -- American Institutional Fieldwork in Egypt, 1899-1960 / Nancy Thomas -- Catalogue of the Exhibition / James P. Allen, Peter Brand, Richard Fazzini, Traianos Gagos, Joyce L. Haynes, Marsha Hill, Cathleen Keller, Peter Lacovara, Diana Wolfe Larkin, Yvonne J. Markowitz, Bojana Mosjov, William H. Peck, Catharine H. Roehrig, James Romano, Gerry D. Scott, III, Donald B. Spanel, Emily Teeter, Nancy Thomas and Terry Wong -- Archaeological and Research Expeditions to Egypt and Nubia.

ISBN

• 0810963124 (cloth)
• 0875871747 (paper)

LCCN

95078317

OCLC

• ocm33453067
• SCSB-14409193

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries