Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881

by Jason Thompson

The first part of the first comprehensive history of the study and understanding of ancient Egypt, from ancient times to the twenty-first century

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774165993
• ISBN13: 9789774165993
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"