Mirage : Napoleon's scientists and the unveiling of Egypt /
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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.
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xv, 286 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-269) and index. :
9780060597689
The beginnings of the Egyptian question and the rise of Mehemet Ali : a study in the diplomacy of the Napoleonic era based on researches in the British and French archives /
: Thesis approved for the degree of Master of Arts in the University of London"--T.p. verso. : xiv, 318 pages ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-294) and index.
ʻAjāʼib al-āthār fī al-tarājim wa-al-akhbār /
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"ʻAn ṭabʻat Būlāq."
At head of title : al-Hayʼah al-ʻĀmmah li-Dār al-Kutub wa-al-Wathāʼiq al-Qawmīyah, Markaz Wathāʼiq wa-Tārīkh Miṣr al-Muʻāṣir." :
186, 39 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
volume <1-7> ; 28 cm :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Includes bibliographical references.