Egyptian Art in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney

The Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney hold Australia's most important collection of artefacts from the land of the pharaohs. Many pieces were acquired in 1856/7 during a trip to Egypt by one of the university's founders, Sir Charles Nicholson, who gathered together an eclectic group of objects drawn from many sites and periods of Egyptian history. This new book presents 25 essays about the collection and its history, written by scholars from around the world. Many of the objects, highly important in their own right, have never been published before.