The Secrets of the Sphinx

Restoration Past and Present

von Zahi Hawass

64 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This lavishly illustrated, bilingual English and Arabic volume tells the story of the Sphinx from ancient times to the present, focusing particularly on the task-first addressed in the second millenium BC-of preserving it. Published to mark the completion of a major modern restoration project, the book is an invaluable and fascinating document, a testimony not only to the skills of the people who built the Sphinx, but to those who have maintained and renewed it down the ages.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Antike
• ISBN: 9789774244926
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.1998
• Größe: 230 x 155 mm
• Verlag: American University in Cairo Press