Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 267 p. — ISBN: 9789004290235. Renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic studies, Georg Zoëga was a figure of outstanding importance both in Rome and in Europe, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although highly valued by his contemporaries, Zoëga’s scientific legacy fell almost entirely into...
Harper, 2007. — 304 p. When 28-year-old Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his band of 50,000 soldiers and sailors was accompanied by 151 Parisian scientists and artists, who laid the groundwork for what became Egyptology. Ten of these remarkable men are the focus of Burleigh's narrative. Among them, three of the most prominent were the lowborn, pugnacious mathematician Gaspard...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. — xiv + 399 p. — ISBN: 0-684-15058-1. Tombs, Tourists, and Treasure. The Destruction of the Pharaohs. The Father of History and the First Tourists. "Mummy Is Become Merchandise". "He Will Make a Collection". "A Dead Language You Cannot Understand". The Greatest Plunderer of Them All. The Patagonian Sampson. "A Connaisseur in Hydrauliks"....
Brill, 2013. — 296 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-24329-3. Only recently has Egyptology begun to critically examine its history in the first half of the 20th century. This book presents major contributions that analyze the interplay of personal biographies and political history, ideologies and academic scholarship between the First World War and the Third Reich. Peter Raulwing and Thomas...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 163 p. — (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 368). Twentieth century commentaries on Herodotus' passages on Nubia, the historical kingdom of Kush and the Aithiopia of the Greek tradition, rely mostly on an outdated and biased interpretation of the textual and archaeological evidence. Disputing both the Nubia image of twentieth...
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