The Luxor Obelisk and its voyage to Paris /
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"Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas, a man of extraordinary resolve and ability. His is a tale of adventure, excitement, and drama, but one hardly known to the English-speaking world. Lebas' team was struck by the plague; they ran out of wood; they had to wait four months for the Nile to rise to free their beached ship. But in the end, The Luxor, with its precious cargo on board, sailed down the Nile. On October 25, 1836 before two hundred thousand cheering Parisians, Lebas raised his obelisk. He was rewarded handsomely by his king, a medal with his name on it was struck, and his body lies in the famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris along with French luminaries. Now this first-ever translation of Lebas' account, including digitally enhanced copies of his beautiful drawings, makes his remarkable story available to a wide audience"--
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Includes index. :
xix, 215 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 25 cm. :
9781617979958
La Dame d'Antinoé : une "momie" au Château de Lunéville /
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131 pages : illustration (some color), plan ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9782814300880
2814300881 :
https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/8841532/Details#tabnav
https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/sourceRecord?vid=HVD2&docId=01HVD_ALMA212158269810003941
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Visions d'Égypte : Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) /
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Catalogue de l'exposition présentée à la BnF, Richelieu du 1e mars au 5 juin 2011. Ingénieur de formation, Émile Prisse d'Avennes devient tour à tour égyptologue, archéologue, ethnologue : il s'intéresse autant aux ruines pharaoniques qu'aux monuments islamiques, et vit à l'orientale au milieu de populations dont il observe les coutumes. Des deux séjours qu'il accomplit en Égypte, de 1827 à 1844, puis de 1858 à 1860, il rapporte objets, aquarelles, dessins, calques, estampages et photographies qui constituent un fonds iconographique sans égal.
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159 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9782717724844
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