3-Day Holiday Sale at the Carlos Museum Bookshop
Thursday, Dec. 4 to Saturday, Dec. 6
This year's sale will be limited to Carlos Museum members and the Emory community, so please be sure to bring your MCCM membership card or Emory ID with you for a 20% discount on all books and gifts in the Bookshop. The Bookshop will be filled with thousands of unique & eccentric books on art, history and myth; replica ancient jewelry and statuary; educational books and DVDs for kids; calendars, journals, and note cards; and a treasure trove of books and gifts celebrating King Tut. The discount will also apply to our expanded selection of marked-down bargain books in front of the store for even greater savings. For more information, call 404-727-0509 or email us at mburell@emory.edu.

TUT IN PRINT
The catalogue to the Carlos Museum exhibition of Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery ($24.95) brings together over seventy of the more than fourteen hundred black and white images taken by photographer Harry Burton, capturing both the excitement and the tension surrounding Howard Carter’s excavation as each of the sealed rooms filled with artifacts was opened, culminating with the Burial Chamber where the shrines and coffins and mummy of the young king were first revealed. In addition, we’ll be stocking the catalogue to the current exhibition of Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs ($40). The book, created by world-renowned art historians under the guidance of Dr. Zahi Hawass, echoes the exhibition, grouping objects representing family life, religious practices, funerary rituals, and gold. Featuring more than 120 treasures, a dozen evocative landscape and archaeology photos, with illuminating text, this book makes palpable the excitement, riches, and mysteries of ancient Egypt.

OTHER NEW TITLES IN THE BOOKSHOP

One of the more interesting new books this season is Histoires Grecques: Snapshots from Antiquity by Maurice Sartre ($35), which highlights a variety of artifacts – a textual fragment, a coin, an epigraph – that launch the author on a journey into the practical mysteries of Greek civilization. From Homer to Damascus, from recent discoveries in Kandahar to an account of the murder of Hypatia in 415 CE, each snapshot captures a moment in the history of Greek civilization.

Kids in the throes of Tutmania will be happy to see one of our all-time most popular educational kits, long out of print but now available again in an updated new edition: Fun with Hieroglyphs ($24.99), produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learn about the sounds and letters of the hieroglyphic alphabet, find out which symbols were thought to have magical powers, and read how this mysterious language was decoded after hundreds of years. The kit includes 24 hieroglyphic stamps, ink pad, and alphabet chart for composing messages, creating designs, and making cards.

For students of native American history, another classic text, The Old Beloved Path: Daily Life Among the Indians of the Chattahoochee River Valley ($19.95) by William Winn, is now back in print, describing a culture that flourished along the Chattahoochee for centuries. Along with a survey of the archaeological history of the area, the author details what he terms the 'seasonal round' as the inhabitants, masters of the local environment, shifted to take advantage of abundant game, fish, and wild plants. He combines his research skills and journalistic talents to produce a well-written account of “the old beloved path” of tribal traditions.