Excerpt from Handbook of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<br><br>Egyptian art is, through its long course of nearly five thousand years. The continuous expression of the creative spirit of a single race. This race, homogene ous and strongly individual, both in its physical char acteristics and its culture, gained during the first of those five millenniums a perfect mastery over the hard materials of the earth, and worked out thereafter one of the two great civilizations of the ancient world. Egypt in the south and Babylonia in the east, power ful in their influence on the classical world, represent the sources of our modern culture.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.