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Unearthing Ancient Nubia: Photographs from the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Unearthing Ancient Nubia: Photographs from the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Berman, Lawrence M.

Hardcover

Art HistoryArchaeologyAfrican Art

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 0878468544
ISBN13: 9780878468546
Publisher: Mfa Pubn Artworks
Published: Jun 19 2018
Pages: 144
Weight: 2.35
Height: 0.80 Width: 11.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Digging for a lost civilization in the Nile Valley

Specially trained Egyptian photographers were an integral part of the pioneering Harvard-MFA expedition during the first half of the 20th century. Over the course of some 40 years, their photographs documented the excavations with thousands of images as the riches of a great ancient civilization in northern Sudan were uncovered. George A. Reisner, the leader of the expedition, was keenly aware of the challenges of creating photographs under these conditions: In judging the photographs, remember that the statues had to be photographed in the glaring light of the tropics under great difficulties owing to the weight and size of the objects which made it nearly impossible to put the statues together.

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