This book is less expensive than seeing the real exhibit in Chicago's Field Museum, which does not even have the death mask or any of the multiple sarcaphagus's!!!! And it misleadingly advertises as having such. Like going to see the Rolling Stones and not playing "Satisfaction"

I will see the Exhibit in Chicago and have visited the Cairo Museum, but this book is like revisiting the exhibit or the next best thing to seeing it!

Tutankhamen makes the Crown Jewels look like costume jewelry. I saw the exhibit in Fort Lauderdale, and it was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Everywhere you look there's another 3500-year-old masterpiece crusted with gold and jewels, and Tut was just one of many Pharaohs - they all received this kind of treatment.

This book is the official exhibition catalog, and a very nicely-done catalog at that. It is more like one of those slick coffee-table books with big color prints on every other page than most museum catalogs I have seen. Since they don't allow picture-taking in the exhibition, the only way to bring some memories home with you is to buy the catalog at the typical over-priced museum bookstore price.

My recommendation... I bought a copy right here on Amazon for less than the cost of a couple rolls of film and developing costs; plus the pictures in the book are way better than I could have hoped for if I tried to shoot through the display cases at the exhibit. So, I'm pretty happy w/ the book.

Overall, I give the exhibit and the people who made this possible my highest rating - a double-thumbs-up-gold-and-jewel-encrusted-five-stars!!!

Oh, and may thy Ka live forever!