Exhibitions of ancient art are sexy – a few beautiful objects organized around a theme and artfully displayed. “It is one thing to make the perfectly accurate point that all we have are a few remarkable artifacts coming out of what is largely a historical void. It is another to begin to fill in that void with a story which sounds so familiar, and hence so beguiling, to modern ears. There is no challenge to the imagination here, just a confirmation of things which we feel we must already know.” – Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)