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Wonderful things : a history of Egyptology.
- Title
- Wonderful things : a history of Egyptology. 1, From antiquity to 1881 / Jason Thompson.
- Author
- Thompson, Jason, 1950-
- Publication
- Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : The American University in Cairo Press, 2015.
- ©2015.
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- Description
- xv, 359 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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. This, the first of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination with ancient Egypt from antiquity until 1881, tracing the recovery of ancient Egypt and its impact on the human imagination in a saga filled with intriguing mysteries, great discoveries, and scholarly creativity. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.
- Alternative Title
- From antiquity to 1881.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Egyptology in Antiquity -- 2. A Medieval Hiatus -- 3. Ancient Egypt in the Renaissance -- 4. Ancient Egypt in the Age of the Enlightenment -- 5. The Discovery of Ancient Egypt -- 6. The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs -- 7. Lifting the Veil -- 8. Egypt Itself -- 9. Arrested Development -- 10. Consolidation -- 11. Preservation and Depredation -- 12. Taking Possession of Egypt for the Cause of Science -- 13. Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Art, Photography, and Literature -- 14. Mariette's Monopoly.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1188
- ISBN
- 9789774165993
- 9774165993
- OCLC
- 911053773
- Author
- Thompson, Jason, 1950- author.
- Title
- Wonderful things : a history of Egyptology. 1, From antiquity to 1881 / Jason Thompson.
- Publisher
- Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : The American University in Cairo Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1188