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224 pages, Paperback
154x231mm, Portrait





ISBN-10: 0948695498
ISBN-13: 9780948695490
 
The Garden in Ancient Egypt
 
The garden in ancient Egypt can be viewed in paintings on the walls of tombs, and visualized from the results of archaeological excavations. This book reviews the evidence for ancient Egyptian gardens; archaeological, painted and sculpted, textual and botanical.
Alix Wilkinson - Dr. Alix Wilkinson has written on Egyptological topics for many learned journals and encyclopaedias, and is author of Ancient Egyptian Jewellery (Methuen, 1972). She researched material for this book at the Centre for Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.