Museum Treasures — histórias e artigos

Tudo com a etiqueta Museum Treasures na WonderBooks: 0 artigo(s) e 9 história(s) ilustrada(s), grátis com narração em áudio.

Histórias ilustradas

• The Amarna Letters
  three hundred clay tablets of royal correspondence, in the wrong language, from the wrong country
• The Bust of Nefertiti
  an unfinished workshop model, its one missing eye, and the other faces found on the same shelf
• The Colossi of Memnon
  two ruined giants that once guarded a vanished temple, and the singing that stopped in AD 199
• The Dendera Zodiac
  a ceiling cut out with saws and gunpowder, the temple it left, and the plaster copy standing in its place
• The Karnak Cachette
  a pit under a courtyard holding eight hundred statues, and why they were buried rather than broken
• The Mask of Tutankhamun
  eleven kilograms of gold, the nested coffins it sat inside, and the throne that came out of the same room
• The Narmer Palette
  a shield-shaped stone that shows a country becoming one, and the mace-head found beside it
• The Papyrus of Ani
  the Book of the Dead as a scribe bought it for himself, and the scale his heart was weighed on
• The Seated Scribe
  an official at work with rock-crystal eyes, and the two other scribes who show it was a type