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Excerpt from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Egyptian Rooms The chapters of this Handbook dealing with the pre-dynastic and early-dynastic Periods, and the Old Kingdom were written by the undersigned; those on the Middle Kingdom by Arthur C. Mace; on the Empire by Herbert E. Winlock; and on the Late Dynastic, Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods by Caroline L. Ransom (mrs. Grant Williams). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.