A world beneath the sands : the golden age of Egyptology
"A thrilling history of the West's scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time. From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egyp...
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New York :
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2020.
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| 300 | |a 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (chiefly color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Travellers in an antique land -- Description and decipherment -- In the footsteps of Napoleon -- Englishmen abroad -- The Prussian project -- French foundations -- A thousand miles up the Nile -- A permanent occupation -- Scholars and scoundrels -- Egypt and America -- Imperial ambitions -- Wonderful things -- Epilogue: The future of the past. | |
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