Wonderful things : a history of Egyptology /
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Language: English
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Cairo :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2015.
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Call Number: DT60 .T46 v.1-3
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 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.