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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 first of a two-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination with ancient Egypt from antiquity until 1914, tracing the recovery of ancient Egypt and its impact on the human imagination in a saga filled with intriguing mysteries, great discoveries, and scholarly creativity. 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Wonderful Things
• Author: Jason Thompson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9789774165993
• ISBN: 9774165993
• ID: 05063119
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Weight: 696 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 162 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. April 2015

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