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Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914

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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 these days, recovered the Egyptian past whilst inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the second one of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, explores the years 1881-1914, a period marked by the institutionalization of Egyptology amid an ever increasing pace of discovery and the opening of vast new vistas into the Egyptian past. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, however it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by figuring out how Egyptology has developed are we able to actually bear in mind ancient Egypt.

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