Davies Norman de Garris. The tomb of Nakht at Thebes

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917. — 231 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition; Robb de Peyster Tytus memorial series 1).With this volume The Metropolitan Museum of Art commences an enterprise which, though far from being pioneer work, has the merit and privilege of renewing a task long neglected—that, namely, of using the fullest mechanical resources of the time to present the sepulchral art of Thebes in faithful reproduction for the benefit of those who must perforce study the wonders of the world in books. The heroic age of Egyptology lies nearly a century behind us when gentlemen of France and England, following the first gleams of inward light thrown by the genius of Champollion on the sun-bathed monuments of Egypt, were kindled to an enthusiastic quest, and, happily for us, employed their pencils even more than their pens through long years of toil.