Art for Eternity: Masterworks from Ancient Egypt contains one hundred masterpieces selected from the Brooklyn Museum of Art's renowned collection of ancient Egyptian art. Its publication coincides with the sixty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Charles Edwin Wilbour Memorial Library, long recognized as one of the world's most comprehensive libraries of Egyptology. The Wilbour Library, the Museum's collection of over eight thousand Egyptian antiquities, and the Department of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art's distinguished history of special exhibitions have established the Brooklyn Museum of Art as a vital center for the study of Egyptian art and archaeology.