Ancient Egypt in Kyiv mirrored on glass : (collection of glass photonegatives from the Scholarly Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of NAS of Ukraine)

Abstract

Bilingual (Ukrainian and English) book is a catalogue of a unique “Ancient Egypt” Сollection of photonegatives on glass from the Scholarly Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The catalogue includes 143 photos of the ancient Egyptian artefacts and sites supplied with their required data, and chapters about the ancient Egyptian objects and sites shown on the photos. Additionally, the study of the history of the negatives production together with the history of collections of the Ancient Egyptian objects in Kyiv museums of ХІХ–ХХ centuries are added. The conclusion was made that the collection and its history uncovers an unknown page of Ukrainian humanities and culture. The book is aimed at the audience of Egyptologists, historians who study Museum Egyptology, Ukrainian humanities and culture in ХІХ–ХХ centuries, and for the general audience. ISBN 978-617-78-10-27-7 (paper) ; ISBN 978-617-78-10-28-4 (eBook).