Arts & humanities

摘要

The site of two pyramids surrounded by cemeteries in use from the Old Kingdom through Roman times, Lisht lies 30 miles from Cairo on the west bank of the Nile. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition excavated this site and others from 1906 to 1934 and from 1984 to the present and publishes its findings in an ongoing series. The latest, Volume 28, focuses on the most important tombs at Lisht from the Middle Kingdom. Little remains of the tombs aboveground, but Arnold, curator in the department of Egyptian art at the museum, makes the most of the records from both periods of excavation. His descriptions of the tombs are often captivating and thernrelated visual matter instructive.