The Search for Ancient Egypt
Jean Vercoutter • Thames & Hudson • ISBN Not provided
The Search for Ancient Egypt
Jean Vercoutter • Thames & Hudson • ISBN-13 9780500300138
ISBN-10 Not provided • 1992 • 1st Edition
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Buried treasure, looting, intrigue and dedicated scholarship; ‘wonderful things’ gleaming in the darkness; the cache of royal mummies; and, most wonderful of all, the tomb of Tutankhamun. This is the complete story of the rediscovery of ancient Egypt, a tale of extraordinary characters: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who braved the ‘pharaoh’s curse’; Belzoni, ‘the Patagonian Samson’; Champollion, who unlocked the secrets of the hieroglyphs – and a tale of spectacular rescue, with modern technology mobilized to save Egypt’s monuments from flood waters and the ravages of time.
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