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GtrsRGr8 · 12-12-2015, 09:45 PM

Now I'll be able to close another tab in my web browser. ha

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is another leading museum with Egyptian antiquities. Wikipedia states that, " The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material. It ranks behind only the collections of the Cairo Museum, The British Museum and the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin in number and quality of items."

This London England institution has published, and now beneficently makes available free to the computing public, a 63-page guide to the museum. It's called The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections, edited by Alice Stevenson.

The book is divided into separate articles/chapters, each written by an expert in the topic covered in each article. More than being just a guide to the museum, the collection of articles almost serve as a compendium on ancient Egyptian history and culture, because the collection at Petrie represents a very broad range of Egyptian history and a great diversity of topics.

I can't speak to the quality of the writing, yet, but I have my suspicions that it is very good. As far as the aesthetics of the book are concerned, it is gorgeous. The majority of the photos and illustrations, of which there are an abundance, are in color, the exception being those made before the availability of color film (primarily of such things as archaeologists, their digging places, and their finds). The members of GoodReads give the book a 5-star rating (but from only 3 member ratings at the present time). It is sold at Amazon (paperback--used copy starting at $18.90), but there are no ratings on the book there yet.

Here's the direct link to this ebook.

12-12-2015, 09:45 PM	#1115
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections. FREE Pdf! Now I'll be able to close another tab in my web browser. ha The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is another leading museum with Egyptian antiquities. Wikipedia states that, " The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material. It ranks behind only the collections of the Cairo Museum, The British Museum and the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin in number and quality of items." This London England institution has published, and now beneficently makes available free to the computing public, a 63-page guide to the museum. It's called The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections, edited by Alice Stevenson. The book is divided into separate articles/chapters, each written by an expert in the topic covered in each article. More than being just a guide to the museum, the collection of articles almost serve as a compendium on ancient Egyptian history and culture, because the collection at Petrie represents a very broad range of Egyptian history and a great diversity of topics. I can't speak to the quality of the writing, yet, but I have my suspicions that it is very good. As far as the aesthetics of the book are concerned, it is gorgeous. The majority of the photos and illustrations, of which there are an abundance, are in color, the exception being those made before the availability of color film (primarily of such things as archaeologists, their digging places, and their finds). The members of GoodReads give the book a 5-star rating (but from only 3 member ratings at the present time). It is sold at Amazon (paperback--used copy starting at $18.90), but there are no ratings on the book there yet. Here's the direct link to this ebook.