Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century by Thompson, Jason

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789774167607)

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Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century by Thompson, Jason

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century

$49.95
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century by Thompson, Jason

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century

$49.95
Format: Hardcover
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"An absolute necessity for anybody with an interest in pharaonic Egypt."--Kara Cooney, author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later.

This, the third of a three-volume history of Egyptology, follows the progress of the discipline from the trauma of the First World War, through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, and into Egyptology's new horizons at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.

Author: Jason Thompson
ISBN-10: 9774167600
ISBN-13: 9789774167607
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2018
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.60d
By Jason Thompson
By Jason Thompson
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Jason Thompson is the editor of Edward William Lane's Description of Egypt (AUC Press, 2000) and An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (AUC Press, 2003), and the author of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson and His Circle, A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present (AUC Press, 2008), and Edward William Lane, 1801-1876 (AUC Press, 2010).

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