Vintage Original 1960 EGYPT Luxor Travel Poster - Tomb of Nefertary

This is a Vintage Original 1960 - EGYPT U.A.R. Travel Poster - for Luxor - It is not a reprint or reproduction.

Full color lithograph, central design area measures 17'' x 25'' inches. Whole poster is 20''x 28''.

Poster is in fair, used condition. The colors are crisp and bright. Poster has edge wear, some small border tears, and some creases/fold marks, as shown. There is no tape on the front or back. Also, this poster has not been trimmed at all. Its condition is good for its age - 58 years old! and therefore is being sold 'as is' (please see photos as they form part of the description). I would rate this as very good condition. I am also including an image of my own copy of the same Luxor poster, framed, so you can see how good yours could look in a frame.

''Printed in the U.A.R. by Institut Graphique Egyptian - 1960'

'Issued by the Tourist Administration - Cairo'

Fabulous poster featuring lovely hieroglyphics from the Tomb of Nefertary ! Rare poster! Truly majestic!

Some info on the Tomb of Nefertari

QV66 is the tomb of Nefertari, the Great Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II, in Egypt's Valley of the Queens. It was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli (the director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin) in 1904. It is called the Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt. Nefertari, which means "beautiful companion", was Ramesses II's favorite wife; he went out of his way to make this obvious, referring to her as "the one for whom the sun shines" in his writings, built the Temple of Hathor to idolize her as a deity, and commissioned portraiture wall paintings. In the Valley of the Queens, Nefertari's tomb once held the mummified body and representative symbolisms of her, like what most Egyptian tombs consisted of. Now, everything had been looted except for two thirds of the 5,200 square feet of wall paintings. For what still remains, these wall paintings characterized Nefertari's character. Her face was given a lot of attention to emphasize her beauty, especially the shape of her eyes, the blush of her cheeks, and her eyebrows. Some paintings were full of lines and color of red, blue, yellow, and green that portrayed exquisite directions to navigating through the afterlife to paradise.

The poster has some very minor damage to the outer edge of the paper but the image design area is intact and undamaged. I've not trimmed it as i have learnt that this shows its an original poster and not a copy