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Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881

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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 difficult to understand, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have got lately, recovered the Egyptian past even as 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 three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination with ancient Egypt from antiquity until 1881, tracing the recovery of ancient Egypt and its affect at 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 surely also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed are we able to really be aware the Egyptian past.

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