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Modern re-discovery of Egypt

Who Travels Sees More: Artists, Architects and Archaeologists Discover Egypt and the Near East
edited by Diane Fortenberry
"Who lives sees much, who travels sees more". The Arab proverb is an appropriate title for this latest collection of essays published by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East on its tenth anniversary. The desire to see what lay beyond the familiar landscapes of home shaped the lives of all the travellers discussed here. Their backgrounds and training as artists of one sort or another mean that they responded to ...
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From the Pyramids to Tutankhamun: Memoirs of an Egyptologist
by I E S Edwards
Although Edwards is perhaps not a name familiar to many of us, he was a major figure in Egyptology and the work of the British Museum both in Britain and overseas, from the 1940s onwards. His book Pyramids of Egypt was reprinted time and again, a fact that reflects the importance and popularity of his work. This autobiography describes his early life and childhood, his developing interest and schooling in Egyptology and his career at the ...
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Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers
edited by Paul Starkey and Nadia El Kholy
This is the final volume of three books containing papers rom the ASTENE conference at Cambridge in 1999. The theme of this title is the 18th and 19th Century European fascination with Egypt. This interest had begun during the Enlightenment and was fuelled by the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon in 1798. For many Europeans of this age, Egypt represented all the exoticism, sensuality and mystery of the Orient, and these nine papers (one of which is ...
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Travellers in the Levant: Voyagers and Visionaries
edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff
Travelling in the Eastern Mediterranean was a common activity for the more adventurous of North European scholars in the 18th and 19th Centuries and many of the papers in this book discuss the adventures of Colonel Leake, Sir William Gell, Edward Lear and Lady Hester Stanhope. However there are also interesting studies of less well known Muslim and Italian travellers. Contents: Colonel Leake traveller and scholar (Malcolm Wagstaff); William ...
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Pioneer to the Past: The Story of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist
by Charles Breasted
Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest Egyptologists and archaeologists America has yet produced. Breasted's greatest achievement was the founding of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 1919, through the generous support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Oriental Institute embodies Breasted's vision of an inter-disciplinary ...
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The Code-Breaker's Secret Diaries
by Jean-Francois Champollion, preface by Joyce Tyldesley
This book contains the letters and diaries of Champollion, whose work deciphering the Rosetta Stone paved the way for a huge upsurge in interest in the world of the ancient Egyptians. Armed with the knowledge recently obtained by the Napoleonic survey of Egypt and Champollion's new understanding of hieroglyphics, this book tells of his expedition to Egypt between May 1828 and March 1830, in his own words. The third edition has a new introduction ...
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The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Read the Hieroglyphs
by Lesley and Roy Adkins
This is the story of Jean-François Champollion who was obsessed with unravelling the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs which, he believed, held the secrets of the world's creation. Champollion worked in Paris in the early 1800s on the vast amount of Egyptian material that had been brought to France by Napoleon. This lively narrative records the competition between Champollion and his English rival Thomas Young which was resolved in the 1820s. ...
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The Pyramids,Temples,Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia
by Giovanni Battista Belzoni
The Italian adventurer Giovanni Belzoni (1778-1823) is one of the most colourful and notorious figures in Egyptology. After the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt, European interest in the country, and especially in its antiquities, led to a demand for artifacts, the larger the better. Belzoni happened to be pursuing his two careers, as circus strong-man and hydraulic engineer, in Egypt in 1815, when he was asked to organise the transport of a 7-ton ...
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The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate Between Religion and Science
by Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz
The Dendera zodiac - an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets - was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. Brought to Paris in 1821 and ultimately installed in the Louvre, where it can still be seen today, the zodiac appeared to depict the nighttime sky from a time predating the Biblical ...
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Discovery of Egypt: Vivant Denon's Travels with Napoleon's Army
by Terence M. Russell
Vivant Denon was known as 'Napoleon's eye'. He accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt, witnessed the Battle of the Nile and was, in effect, the first war artist. This book tells the story of Denon's travels and the impact of his illustrations, which proved to Europe that Egyptian art and architecture was no poor relation to that of Greece or Rome. 266p b/w illus (Sutton 2005)
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