The Mammals of Ancient Egypt

REVIEW BY SG The Oxbow Classics in Egyptology series is steadily building into a large library of facsimile volumes covering a wide range of topics (including reissues of typological catalogues by W M Flinders Petrie, as reviewed in AE 139), making out- of-print and hard-to-find publications accessible to scholars and the wider public. Two of the latest titles are ideal for anyone with an interest in the flora and fauna of ancient Egypt, the first being the seminal The Mammals of Ancient Egypt, originally published in 1998 (Aris & Phillips). Animals feature in abundance in ancient Egyptian art, but not in the form of generic bird or animal depictions. The artists recorded the actua