Egypt and western Asia in the light of recent discoveries
A 1907 survey of ancient Egyptian and western Asian history by the Assyriologist L. W. King, published in London by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge for a general readership. Its photographic plates show carved stone reliefs, a cuneiform inscribed tablet, a seated Egyptian statue, and a desert mound at the site of ancient Ashur, presented as plain documentary photographs with sober grey tones and printed captions beneath each image. A designer might draw on the weathered stone textures and the crisp, archival layout of the captions.
