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Alexandria   MICHAEL HAAG
Paperback 1998 - 64 pages- 95 color photo and 3 maps
US$ 16.95

Be Thou There : The Holy Family's Journey in Egypt
GAWDAT GABRA AND WILLIAM LYSTER 
Photographs by Norbert Schiller
Hardbound 2001 176 pages - 100 color illustrations  US$ 49.50

The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz
BRITTA LE VA AND GAMAL AL-GHITANI With a foreword by Naguib Mahfouz
Paperback 1999-  82 pages - 62 color photo
US$ 19.95

The Complete Tutankhamun :The King, The Tomb, The Royal Treasure      shown right
NICHOLAS REEVES
Paperback 1990 -  224 pages-519 illustrations and 65 color Price:  US$ 24.50
The Complete Valley of the Kings :Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs
NICHOLAS REEVES AND RICHARD H. WILKINSON
Hardbound 1996 224 pages - 300 illustrations and 60 color  Price: US$ 49.50 
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The Discovery of Ancient Egypt
ALBERTO SILIOTTI
Hardbound 1998 376 pages - 600 color illustrations
US$ 59.50

The Discovery of the Nile  by GIANNI GUADALUPI
Hardbound 1997 - 352 pages - 1500 color illustrations
Price: US$ 59.50

Dwellings of Eternity : The Great Tombs of the World's Ancient Civilizations
ALBERTO SILIOTTI
Hardbound 2000 304 pages 700 color illustrations
US$ 59.50

Egypt and Nubia  DAVID ROBERTS AND WILLIAM BROCKEDON
Hardbound 1999 360 pages 123 color plate
US$ 90.00

The Egypt Story :Its Art, its Monuments, its People, its History
FRED J. MAROON AND P.H. NEWBY
Paperback 1984 259 pages - 185 color illustrations
US$ 35.00

Egyptian Luxuries :Fragrance, Aromatherapy, and Cosmetics in Pharaonic Times
LISE MANNICHE AND WERNER FORMAN
Hardbound 1999 151 pages 101 color photo
US$ 49.50

The Holy Land / Egypt & Nubia 
Limited Collector's EditionDAVID ROBERTS AND THE REVD. GEORGE CROLY
Hardbound 2000 640 pages 247 color plate  US$ 250.
A smaller deluxe edition in 2 volumes price 90 $

The Holy Land : Yesterday and Today
DAVID ROBERTS, R.A. Text by Fabio Bourbon and Antonio Attini
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Hardbound 1999 pages
US$ 59.50

 In the House of Muhammad Ali : A Family Album, 1805 - 1952
HASSAN HASSAN Introduced by Elizabeth and Robert Fernea
Hardbound 2000 160 pages 75 b/w illustrations
US$ 24.50

Islamic Art in Cairo :From the Seventh to the Eighteenth Centuries
E. PRISSE D'AVENNES Introduced by George T. Scanlon and Yasmeen Siddiqui
Paperback 1998 240 pages 153 color and 81 b/w illustrations
US$ 44.50

Jerusalem : Caught in Time
COLIN OSMAN
Paperback 2000 174 pages - 148 duotone and 12 color illustrations
US$ 24.50

Life of the Ancient Egyptians
EUGEN STROUHAL Photographs by Werner Forman
 Hardbound 1992 279 pages - 219 color and 70 b/w illustrations
Price  US$ 42.50
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The Mummy in Ancient Egypt :Equipping the Dead for Eternity
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SALIMA IKRAM AND AIDAN DODSON
Hardbound 1998 352 pages - 485 illustrations and 37 color
US$ 49.50

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits : Faces from Ancient Egypt
EUPHROSYNE DOXIADIS Foreword by Dorothy Thompson
150 b/w and 124 color illustrations
Paperback 2000 247 pages US$ 49.50 

Sinai and the Red Sea :Through the Land of the Bedouin to the Gulf of Aqaba
WOLFGANG AND ROSEL JAHN
Hardbound 1997 128 pages - 125 color illustrations
US$ 44.50 
The sand and stone desert long inhabited by Bedouins is matched in beauty only by the Red Sea with its amazing coral reefs and abundant marine life. The history of the region is equally impressive, with the Monastery of St. Catherine and the steps of Mt. Sinai supplying a striking reminder of its fabled past.This lavishly photographed book offers the viewer a stunning look at the desert as well as the sea in magnificent repose. 
The Splendors of Archaeology
FABIO BOURBON
Hardbound 1998 352 pages - 787 color illustrations
US$ 59.50 

From the most unfamiliar or recently discovered archaeological finds, such as the 'terracotta army' of Xi'an, to monuments that have spoken to generations, from ancient Egypt to Stonehenge to Pompeii, from Angkor Wat to Macchu Picchu to Mamallipuram, Masada to Ur to Borobudur, Easter Island to Palenque and Tia Huanaco, this magnificent book covers forty-nine spectacular sites from around the world.

The Splendor of Gold :The Goldsmith's Art from Ancient Egypt to the 20th Century
GIANNI GUADALUPI
Hardbound 1999 336 pages - 580 color illustrations
US$ 59.50 

The Splendor of Gold captures, in 580 sumptuous color photographs, the greatest achievements of goldsmiths and others who utilized precious metals and gemstones in the creation of objects of artistic perfection. From the time of the pharaohs and Mycenae to the Etruscans and their exquisite jewelry, from the lavishness of the Renaissance to the imperial treasures of Britain and Vienna and the Maharajas, the illustrations and the accompanying text trace the evolution of art and of the history of kingdoms that rose and fell and left behind objects of exceptional beauty.

The Treasures of the Egyptian Museum
FRANCESCO TIRADRITTI Preface by Mohammed Saleh and H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak
Hardbound 1999 416 pages - 664 color photo
US$ 59.50

In this spectacular book, curators of Egyptian collections around the world survey the contents of the Egyptian Museum. Over 400 items on display are described and illustrated in full color, from little-known but important objects to pieces that have amazed the world, like the mesmerizing gold mask of Tutankhamun. 

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