Treasures of ancient Egypt : from the Rosetta Stone to the tomb of Tutankhamun, the search for the riches of ancient Egypt/
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Jaromir Malek
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London :
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Andre Deutsch,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010.
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64 p. :
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col. ill, facsim. documents
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index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Ancient Egyptian Civilization; The Eclipse of Ancient Egyptian Civilization and the Surviving Legacy of Ancient Egypt; Arab Knowledge of Ancient Egyptian Monuments in the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt by Europe; Early Travellers to Egypt; Napoleon's Expedition; The Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs; The Consuls and the First Systematic Excavations in Egypt; The Epigraphists and the Copying of Monuments; Richard Lepsius's Expedition; The Pyramids and the Pyramid Texts; Auguste Mariette and the Memphite Serapeum; Bringing Egypt Home and Egyptomania; Egypt Crosses the Atlantic; Face to Face with the Pharaohs; The Rediscovery of the Capital of Akhenaten; Reconstructing the History of Ancient Egypt; Excavations at Karnak and Luxor; Rediscovering the Earliest Egyptian History; The Valley of the Kings; Deir el-Medina; Howard Carter's discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun; Excavations at Giza, Saqqara and Abusir; The discovery of the Royal Tombs at Tanis and Archaeology of the Delta; The Nubian Campaigns; The Rediscovery of Ancient Memphis; The Sunken Treasures; Archaeology in the Oases and the Deserts; The Future. How Egyptology Organizes Itself and Its Knowledge, and Where to Now?