by Zahi Hawass, Franck Goddio
Cleopatra has been fastinating people ever since she took the throne, and she didn't even have a modern PR person. This book was the companion to the National Geographic travelling show, which I did not see.First, the pictures are stunning. It's worth the cost of the book alone. Nice underwater ph...
First off, the photos of the findings in the Alexandria region thus far are beautiful. The statues are what one would expect to find in the region, and the jewelry found is profoundly similar to today's. The small essays on the Ptolemies, the region and Cleopatra herself were informative on an intro...
This book was FANTASTIC! I love the fields of anthropology and archeology, so the second I saw this book was coming out, I knew I had to read it. This book is unbelievably beautiful just for the photography alone. Yet, Dr. Hawass has managed to give interesting background information so far. I canno...
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