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Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century

AUC Press

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Jason Thompson

 

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.

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