A world beneath the sands : adventurers and archaeologists in the golden age of Egyptology
Wilkinson, Toby, 1969-2021
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Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks, but the golden age of scholarship and adventure is neatly bookended by two epoch-making events: Champollion's decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later. Their work - and that of their lesser-know contemporaries - helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, and left a lasting impression on Egypt too. Travellers and treasure-hunters, ethnographers and epigraphers, antiquarians and archaeologists: whatever their motives, whatever their methods, all understood that in pursuing Egyptology they were part of a greater endeavour - to reveal a lost world, buried for centuries beneath the sands.
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Author:
Wilkinson, Toby, 1969-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2021.
Collation:
528 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: 2020.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509858736 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
932.00909932.009932.00909 WIL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2251826
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