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Such details help make Egyptian tomb painting easy for moderns to take. It presents a surprisingly vivid picture of what life in ancient Egypt was like, but color reproductions have been hard to find. A lavishly illustrated book out next week, Egyptian Painting (Skira; $20), will give many readers their first close-up view of the subject. The book concentrates on the necropolis hewn from the hills west of Thebes during the New Kingdom (circa 1500-1100 B.C.). There, over 400 mausoleums deep inside the rock show scenes from the lives of the dead, and of the eternal life they...