Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914

by Jason Thompson and Thompson Jason

Book Overview

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. This, the second...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774166922
• ISBN13: 9789774166921
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"