Wonderful things : a history of Egyptology /
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The American University in Cairo Press,
2015-2018.
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Call Number: DT60 .T46 v.1-3
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| 020 | |a 9789774165993 |q (v. 1) | ||
| 040 | |c ARCE Library | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Thompson, Jason, |d 1950- |e author | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Wonderful things : |b a history of Egyptology / |c Jason Thompson. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Cairo : |b The American University in Cairo Press, |c 2015-2018. | |
| 300 | |a 3 volumes : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 Monopoly. Volume 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. Volume 3. From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century. Egyptology and the Great War -- Resuming the Field -- Wonderful Things -- The Pharaoh's Curse -- Winds of Change -- George A. Reisner and His Colleagues at Giza -- Farther South: Nubia and Sudan -- New Dimensions in Prehistory -- Interwar: The Library -- Years of Uncertainty -- Nazi Egyptology and the Second World War -- An Egyptological Intermediate Period -- Nubian Rescue: The Temples -- Nubian Rescue: The Archaeology -- Resuming the Field-Again: Saqqara and Lower Egypt -- Resuming the Field-Again: Upper Egypt and Beyond -- Language and Art -- Writing Ancient Egyptian History -- Women in Egyptology -- Points of Departure. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Egyptology |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Egypt |x Antiquities. | |
| 901 | |a reviewed | ||
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