Jason Thompson

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 3 (eBook, ePUB)

From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the third of a three-volume history of Egyptology, follows the progress of the discipline from the trauma of the First World War, through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, and into Egyptology's new horizons at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781617978647
• Artikelnr.: 56515225

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