The Fayum Landscape: Ten Thousand Years of Archaeology, Texts, and Traditions in Egypt

A fascinating survey of changing perceptions of the Fayum landscape from 7500 bc to the early twentieth century

Located some one hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, the Fayum region has long been regarded as unique, often described in terms that conjure up images of an idealized Garden of Eden. In An Egyptian Landscape, Claire Malleson takes a novel approach to the study of the region by exploring the ways in which people have, through millennia, perceived and engaged with the Fayum lands...