Jason Thompson

Wonderful Things

A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century

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Produktbeschreibung

The third part of the first comprehensive history of the study and understanding of ancient Egypt, from ancient times to the twenty-first century

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American University of Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 978g
• ISBN-13: 9789774167607
• ISBN-10: 9774167600
• Artikelnr.: 44801541

Autorenporträt

Jason Thompson is the editor of Edward William Lane's Description of Egypt (AUC Press, 2000) and An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (AUC Press, 2003), and the author of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson and His Circle, A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present (AUC Press, 2008), and Edward William Lane, 1801-1876 (AUC Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Chronological Outline of Ancient Egyptian History
Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Egyptology and the Great War
2. Resuming the Field
3. Wonderful Things
4. The Pharaoh's Curse
5. Winds of Change
6. George A. Reisner and His Colleagues at Giza
7. Farther South: Nubia and Sudan
8. New Dimensions in Prehistory
9. Inter-War: The Library
10. Years of Uncertainty
11. Nazi Egyptology and the Second World War
12. An Egyptological Intermediate Period
13. Nubian Rescue: The Temples
14. Nubian Rescue: The Archaeology
15. Resuming the Field-Again: Saqqara and Lower Egypt
16: Resuming the Field-Again: Upper Egypt and Beyond
17. Language and Art
18. Writing Ancient Egyptian History
19. Women in Egyptology
20. Points of Departure
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

The coverage of Egyptology and its struggles to survive during the two great wars, particularly the catastrophic losses in the Great War, are a valuable insight ... Without question, this book is a major contribution to the study of Egyptology and will long remain so, for both practising Egyptologists and lay aficionados. Ancient Egypt