Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric
Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the
modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French
engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists--even a poet and a
musicologist--traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of
Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger,
hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's "savants" risked
their lives in pursuit of discovery. The first large-scale
interaction between Europeans and Muslims in the modern era, the
audacious expedition was both a triumph and a disaster, resulting
in finds of immense historical and scientific importance (including
the ruins of the colossal pyramids and the Rosetta Stone) and in
countless tragic deaths through plague, privation, madness, or
violence.
Acclaimed journalist Nina Burleigh brings readers back to the
landmark adventure at the dawn of the modern era that ultimately
revealed the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt to a curious
continent.
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