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Sesostris III's Iron Fist: The Classical Age, Collapse, and the Rise of Ahmose

This concluding section of the Neues Museum tour details the climax and subsequent collapse of Egypt's prosperous Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty) and the beginning of the glorious New Kingdom (18th ...
The Art Newspaper

The owner of Christie’s continues his battle to have a statue that he bought declared a fake

François Pinault owns Christie’s. He and his wife, Maryvonne, also own the controversial Egyptian statue of Sesostris III which they bought at Drouot in 1998. They have now published a scientific ...
The Baltimore Sun

Egyptian treasures look hauntingly familiar

He looks so familiar, the square-chinned man who’s staring straight ahead as he has for nearly 3,900 years, his eyes heavy, his firm mouth slightly turned down. Sesostris III, king of Egypt, neither ...
Chicago Tribune

`Eternal Egypt’ brings Nile to lake

When visitors to the Field Museum look into the somber, careworn face of Egyptian Pharaoh Sesostris III this spring and summer, they will see a work of art that is both 3,800 years old and startlingly ...
The Art Newspaper

The owner of Christie’s continues his battle to have a statue that he bought declared a fake

The owner of Christie’s continues his battle to have a statue that he bought declared a fake The statue of Pharaoh Sesostris III has already been deemed authentic in the Pinault's two lost lawsuits ...