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Modern Egypt and Thebes 2 Volume Set - Being a Description of Egypt, Including the Information Required for Travellers in that Country (Paperback)
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Modern Egypt and Thebes 2 Volume Set - Being a Description of Egypt, Including the Information Required for Travellers in that Country (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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Total price: R2,546
Discovery Miles: 25 460
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A pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797
1875) first travelled to Egypt in 1821, the year before Champollion
published his breakthrough work on the Rosetta Stone. As public
interest in Egypt grew, Wilkinson studied and sketched the
country's major archaeological sites, most notably the tombs of
Thebes. His celebrated Topography of Thebes and General View of
Egypt (1835) and Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
(1837) are also reissued in this series. A remodelled and enlarged
version of the former work, this two-volume guide of 1843 not only
gives practical advice for the contemporary traveller, but also
provides modern readers with a vivid snapshot of Egypt in the
middle of the nineteenth century. Volume 1 includes a host of
recommendations, such as which ships to take and which hotels to
stay in. Volume 2 includes further guidance, along with a section
on the history of Egypt that incorporates chronological tables of
rulers from the pharaohs onward.
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