Wonderful things : a history of Egyptology /
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inv...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2015-2018.
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| ISBN: | 9789774165993 9774165993 9789774166921 9774166922 9789774167607 9774167600 |
| Summary: | The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. |
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| Item Description: | Projected to be complete in 3 volumes. |
| Physical Description: | 3 volumes : maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |