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ISBN-10: 0393882403
ISBN-13: 9780393882407
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 02/08/2022
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.40" W, 1.20" H

A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology

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Overview

From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry.

In A World Beneath the Sands, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson chronicles the ruthless race between the British, French, Germans, and Americans to lay claim to its mysteries and treasures. He tells riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt’s ancient civilization helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, and left a lasting impression on Egypt, too. Travelers and treasure-hunters, ethnographers and archaeologists: whatever their motives, whatever their methods, a century of adventure and scholarship revealed a lost world, buried for centuries beneath the sands.

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Riveting... [Wilkinson] has mastered the facts with painstaking research and allowed them to speak for themselves. Rarely do facts speak this clearly.–Rosemary Mahoney "New York Times Book Review"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393882403
ISBN-13: 9780393882407
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 02/08/2022
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.40" W, 1.20" H
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