Visitors to the Brooklyn Museum will want to have a look at a new long-term installation, "The Popularization of Ancient Egypt," which examines how Western writers and artists saw and recorded Egypt from the 1820s to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.   This is the second installment of "Egypt Through Other Eyes: Images from the Wilbour Library of Egyptology."   (The first part, "Early Travel and Exploration," covered the period from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century.) ...

Wilbour's Legacy, Mark Rose, Archaeology Magazine, USA, Volume 58, Number 5, September / October 2005.

Working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sir William Flinders Petrie was one of the first in the field of archaeology to recognize that humble everyday objects could reveal as much about a culture as its great monuments.   In the half century that he excavated nearly 50 sites in the Nile Valley, Petrie amassed one of the largest collections of Egyptian material outside of Egypt.   Currently housed in an aging teaching museum at University College London (UCL), few of the 80,000 objects have been seen outside England.

Now, more than 220 of the most interesting pieces have begun a three-year tour of American museums, starting with Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, which proposed and prepared "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum."   The objects are touring while UCL builds a facility, slated to open in 2008, that will for the first time house the vast collection under one roof...

Petrie's Uncommon Collection, Mike Toner, Archaeology Magazine, USA, Volume 58, Number 5, September / October 2005.