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Item Description: | "In July 1991, a splendid new permanent exhibition gallery was opened in the British Museum by Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret. Entitled 'The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery of Egypt and Africa', the exhibition aims to illustrate, with a selection of objects from the Museum's fine collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan, the most important aspects of the history and cultural development of the native African peoples who inhabited the lands of ancient Nubia"--Pref |
Physical Description: | x, 320 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bilbliographical references |
ISBN: | 0714109622 (pbk.) : |