Pharaohs of the Sun' exhibit brings a taste of Egyptian art to Boston

Travelling to Upper Egypt is far more like travelling backwards through a time machine than merely flying to another country. Although the city of Luxor can now join in the shame of numerous other cities around the globe in possessing a McDonald's landmark, the majority of its citizens appear, from a distance at least, to be calmly continuing the traditions of their ancestors of thousands of years ago. Along the narrow fertile strip flanking the Nile River, farmers lead cows and donkeys through their fields and monotonously harvest their crops - by hand of course - as if time has stood still since the fall of the Pharaohs.