Book
The rape of the Nile : tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt / Brian Fagan.
Record details
- ISBN: 0813340616 (pbk : alk. paper) :
- Physical Description: xv, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: Rev. & updated 3rd ed.
- Publisher: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-283) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I: Tombs and treasure -- Plundering the pharaohs -- The first tourists -- "Mummy is become merchandise" -- Napoléon on the Nile -- II: The great Belzoni -- The Patagonian Sampson -- The young Memnon -- "Mummies were rather unpleasant to swallow" -- "Pyramidical brains" -- High jinks at Philae -- "A multitude of collateral curiosities" -- III: Birth of a science -- Decipherment -- Artists and archaeologists -- "In the British Museum he is placed beyond the reach of all such evils" -- "A boating-trip interspersed with ruins" -- Science and the small artifact -- "Wonderful things". |
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| Subject: | Egypt > Antiquities. Egyptology > History. Archaeological thefts > Egypt. |
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