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Wonderful things, a history of Egyptology, Jason Thompson

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Wonderful things, a history of Egyptology, Jason Thompson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wonderful things

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

905954887

Responsibility statement

Jason Thompson

Sub title

a history of Egyptology

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

Table Of Contents

Volume 1. From Antiquity to 1881. Egyptology in Antiquity -- A Medieval Hiatus -- Ancient Egypt in the Renaissance -- Ancient Egypt in the Age of the Enlightenment -- The Discovery of Ancient Egypt -- The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs -- Lifting the Veil -- Egypt Itself -- Arrested Development -- Consolidation -- Preservation and Depredation -- Taking Possession of Egypt for the Cause of Science -- Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Art, Photography, and Literature -- Mariette's MonopolyVolume 2. The Golden Age: 1881-1914. The Golden Age -- Akhenaten Lives! -- The Seven Hathors -- New Horizons -- Greco-Roman Egypt -- Loret's Interlude -- The Return of Maspero -- New Players in the Game -- The Berlin School and Its Rivals -- Egyptology Comes to America -- The United States Enters the Field -- Attention Turns South -- The Twilight of the Golden Age

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