Although the Rosetta stone will not be on campus for the anniversary, a number of books, artifacts, and paintings will be. For example, there are some fascinating tomb paintings that people may not have seen because they were published only in scholarly tomes. The tomb paintings will be among those on display during October and November at the Annmary Brown Memorial. Painted by Joseph Lindon Smith, who studied at Brown in the late nineteenth century before going on to paint hundreds of wall reliefs from Egyptian tombs and temples, these are not only beautiful works of art but are an invaluable historical record as well. According to Barbara Lesko, Egypt's monuments deteriorate so rapidly that work such as Smith's helps scholars imagine how they originally looked The Leskos hope to tap into the passion for all things Egyptian that dates back to the 1970s, when the traveling exhibit of King Tut's treasures drew thousands.
People just love the art and the enormous monuments of ancient Egypt.
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