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Ancient Egyptian Gold: Archaeology and science in jewellery (3500-1000 BC) - Filomena Guerra, Maria (Editor), and Martinón-Torres, Marcos (Editor), and Quirke, Stephen (Editor)
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This volume presents detailed results on the manufacturing technology and elemental composition of some 136 objects in the collections of six European museums, with discussion of the findings in historical and cultural contexts. The starting point was the remarkable jewelry buried with a woman and a child who lived about 1650-1550 BC at Qurna, the West Bank of ancient Thebes in Upper Egypt. The questions generated from this find led to investigation of assemblages and individual artifacts from earlier periods in varied ...

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Ancient Egyptian Gold: Archaeology and science in jewellery (3500-1000 BC) 2023, McDonald Institute Monographs

ISBN-13: 9781913344122

Hardcover