KMT Summer 2008 - Volume 19, Number 2

KMT Magazine

Marianne Eaton-Krauss discusses “Seats of Power: The Thrones of Tutankhamen.”

“The Animal Mummies of Abu Rawash” are examined by Salima Ikram & Alain Charron.

Peter Lacovara reports on a new exhibition at the Michael C. Carlos Museum,

“Lost Kingdoms of the Nile,” Nubian Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

“Spaces Between: The Role of Streets in Ancient Egypt” is investigated by Robert E. Hughes

Earl L. Ertman explores “Finger Rings in Ancient Egypt: Their Function & Absence in Artistic Representation.”

And Dylan Bickerstaffe tells all about “Death in the Nile: The Birth of Egypt’s Last God.”

PLUS regular columns “Nile Currents” & “For the Record,” as well as book reviews of Antony and Cleopatra: A Novel” by Colleen McCullough; Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz; Behind the Mask: Meeting the Real Tutankhamun by Charlotte Booth; The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun by Richard Parkinson; The Tomb in Ancient Egypt by Aidan Dodson & Salima Ikram; Egyptologoy Today edited by Richard H. Wilkinson; & King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb by Zahi Hawass, with the photography of Sandro Vannini