Explorers and Artists in the Valley of the Kings (American University in Cairo Press, 2002; $29.95), by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Catharine Roehrig, is an exquisite introduction to the maps, landscapes, and copies of tomb paintings and reliefs created by early travelers and scholars in Egypt, from the colorful, though inaccurate, drawings of the eighteenth-century British clergyman Rev. Richard Pocoke, to the fine etchings made by architectural illustrator William Henry Bartlett during the mid-nineteenth century. [More Egypt books...] |