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In this authoritative and splendidly illustrated guide, Cyril Aldred surveys nearly 3000 years of Egyptian architecture, painting and sculpture. His "eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations.

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into a compulsively readable account sets his book far above the clogged texts that too frequently pass for art history." (The Times Literary Supplement). 199 illus., 20 in color