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Mirage : Napoleon's scientists and the unveiling of Egypt /

: Two centuries ago, only the most reckless Europeans dared traverse the Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of myth and speculation--and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt. It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific explorers traveled from Paris to the Nile Valley, that Westerners received their first real glimpse of what lay beyond the Mediterranean. Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte, a small corps of Paris's brightest left the safety of their laboratories, studios, and classrooms to embark into the unknown--some never to see French shores again. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artists--even a poet and a musicologist--accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt. They approached the land not as colonizers, but as experts in their fields of scholarship, meticulously categorizing and collecting their finds, and secured their place in history as the world's earliest-known archaeologists.--From publisher description.
: xv, 286 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-269) and index. : 9780060597689

Notes diverses d'un futur grand antiquaire : un manuscrit de jeunesse de J.-F. Champollion se trouvant au Musée d'antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leyde /

: 156 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. : 9782503524450

Mémoires d'Egypte : hommage de l'Europe à Champollion /

: Exposition réalisée pour le bicentenaire de la naissance de Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), à l'initiative de la Bibliothèque nationale" -- Title page verso. : 253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. : Bibliography : page 252. : 2716502587

Published 2015
Passionate Curiosities : tales of collectors and collections from the kelsey museum /

: "Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people whose intellectual interests, financial backing, and social networks brought artifacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. Through purchases and expeditions, these individuals shaped the Museum's internationally recognized antiquities from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, North Africa, Egypt, and the Near East, extensive photographic documentation of these regions from the early 1900s, and significant assemblages of early Christian and Islamic visual culture. An intriguing array of personalities--from archaeologists, missionaries, and diplomats to industrialists, bankrollers, and inventors--weave through these pages. They include Ernst Herzfeld, the eminent Orientalist who helped forge antiquities legislation in Iran; Luigi Cesnola, the rapacious harvester of Cypriot sites; Esther Van Deman, the pioneering feminist and scholar of Roman construction techniques; and Samuel Goudsmit, the renowned nuclear physicist and avid Egyptologist. World-famous dealers who established standards in antiquities connoisseurship likewise populate these sagas. Readers will encounter Edgar J. Banks, a swashbuckling purveyor of Mesopotamian antiquities and entrepreneur of biblical documentary films; Maurice Nahman, the 'lion of Cairo'; and the colorful members of the Tano dealer dynasty in Egypt. This copiously illustrated book will interest general readers as well as scholars curious about the holdings of the Kelsey, early collectors and dealers, and the history of museums."--Back cover. : ix, 205 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and Index. : 9780990662334

Published 2017
Interkulturalitat : Kontakt, Konflikt, Konzeptualisierung : Beitrage des sechsten Berliner Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie (BAJA 6), 13.11.-15.11.2015 /

: International Conference proceedings. : 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9783447108591

The Egyptian renaissance : the afterlife of ancient Egypt in early modern Italy /

: xiv, 431 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-411) and index. : 0226128938 : .alaa-sweed

Hermes Aegyptiacus : Egyptological studies for BH Stricker on his 85th birthday /

: 189 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 0951070460

The experience of ancient Egypt /

: xxii, 192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index. : 0415032636 (hb.) : wafaa.lib.

Published 2016
Altägyptische Mysterien : Texte aus der Zeit der Aufklärung /

: 135 pages ; 21 cm. : 9783960082989

Conflicted antiquities : Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity /

: x, 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index. : 9780822339922
0822339757

Egyptology : the missing millennium : ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic writings /

: xvi, 230 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-225) and index. : 1844720624

Die Schätze des Nil : Räuber, Händler, Archäologen /

: 363 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. : 3499173204
9783499173202

The rape of the Nile : tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt /

: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1975. : xiv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 035404091x
9780354040914

Published 2009
Das Ereignis : Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Vorfall und Befund /

: Theoretical essays on the writing of history, which examine how ancient historical narratives are formed, structured and transmitted, and the problems encountered when using ancient historical sources. : xvi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781906137137

The search for ancient Egypt /

: Translation of : A la recherche de l'Egypte oubliée. : 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 199, 201) and index. : 0810928175

Published 2010
Millions of jubilees : studies in honor of David P. Silverman /

: "David P. Silverman" -- pages xv-xxi.
"Bibliography of David P. Silverman" -- pages xxi-xxiv. : 2 volumes : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789777040846

Published 2010
Pioneers to the past : American archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920 /

: "This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, presented at the Oriental Institute Museum, January 12 to August 23, 2010"--T.p. verso. : 160 pages : illustration (some color), maps, portraits ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and indexes.

Published 2013
Ägyptologen und Ägyptologien zwischen Kaiserreich und Gründung der beiden deutschen Staaten : Reflexionen zur Geschichte und Episteme eines altertumswissenschaftlichen Fachs im 150...

: "The Journal for Egyptian Language and Ancient Studies (ZÄS) was first published in 1863, and this special volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the oldest academic journal of Egyptology. Expert contributors present different aspects of the history of German Egyptology, the ZÄS, and important historical figures in the field. The volume covers the National Socialist period, and also includes essays on English, Belgian, and French Egyptology"--
: 493 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9783050063409 : shimaa

Published 2013
Du haut de ces pyramides : l'expédition d'Egypte et la naissance de l'égyptologie, 1798-1850 /

: "Lorsque le Directoire décide d'envoyer le général Bonaparte, auréolé de la gloire toute fraîche de la campagne d'Italie, conquérir l'Égypte, ce n'est pas sans arrière-pensée. Vainqueur, il devient plus que jamais le bras armé de la France; vaincu, il est moins dangereux politiquement. Ce calcul, qui se veut doublement gagnant s'avère perdant sur toute la ligne. On ne retient que la bataille des pyramides du haut desquelles "quarante siècles" étaient censés contempler une armée qui ne pouvait pas les voir depuis le champ de bataille et la redécouverte d'un Orient lointain et mystérieux qui n'est pas sans laisser, consciemment ou non, un léger arrière-goût de croisade. Il entreprend un travail de fonds, de façon à doter le pays de structures juridiques, administratives, mais aussi scientifiques directement inspirées du modèle français. Le 26 août 1798, un Institut d'Égypte est créé sur le modèle de l'Institut de France. En quatre sections, l'Institut d'Égypte réunissait les plus brillants membres de la Commission des Sciences et des Arts, les cent cinquante-six savants que le général avait joints à l'expédition, une petite troupe inapte au combat mais aussi précieuse que les ânes, du moins si l'on en croit la légende de la bataille des pyramides! Pour la plupart ingénieurs issus des Ponts-et-Chaussées ou de Polytechnique, ils relevèrent, étudièrent tout ce qui, de la Méditerranée à la Cataracte, sans oublier la mer Rouge et l'Arabie, pouvait l'être, amassant, jusqu'à la défaite de Canope, une somme immense de notes et documents, dont les soixante-deux séances de l'Institut d'Égypte, au fil de ces seulement trois années, donnent une idée vertigineuse."--Page 4 of cover.
: "Exposition présentée au musée de la Roche-sur-Yon et à la médiathèque Benjamin-Rabier du 14 décembre 2013 au 22 mars 2014"--Page 348. : 348 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-343). : 9782849753156 (pbk.) : shimaa

Published 2009
Faraoni sul Po : dal mito di Fetonte all'egittologia /

: 95 pages : illustrations, map ; 17 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-92). : 9788873252870 : shimaa