Wonderful things : a history of Egyptology / Jason Thompson.

Author/creator Thompson, Jason, 1950- author.
Format Book
PublicationCairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : The American University in Cairo Press, 2015-2018.
Description3 volumes : maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Egyptology--History.
Egypt--Antiquities.

Contents Volume 1. From Antiquity to 1881. Egyptology in Antiquity -- A Medieval Hiatus -- Ancient Egypt in the Renaissance -- Ancient Egypt in the Age of the Enlightenment -- The Discovery of Ancient Egypt -- The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs -- Lifting the Veil -- Egypt Itself -- Arrested Development -- Consolidation -- Preservation and Depredation -- Taking Possession of Egypt for the Cause of Science -- Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Art, Photography, and Literature -- Mariette's Monopoly.
Contents Volume 2. The Golden Age: 1881-1914. The Golden Age -- Akhenaten Lives! -- The Seven Hathors -- New Horizons -- Greco-Roman Egypt -- Loret's Interlude -- The Return of Maspero -- New Players in the Game -- The Berlin School and Its Rivals -- Egyptology Comes to America -- The United States Enters the Field -- Attention Turns South -- The Twilight of the Golden Age.
Contents Volume 3. From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century. Egyptology and the Great War -- Resuming the Field -- Wonderful Things -- The Pharaoh's Curse -- Winds of Change -- George A. Reisner and His Colleagues at Giza -- Farther South: Nubia and Sudan -- New Dimensions in Prehistory -- Interwar: The Library -- Years of Uncertainty -- Nazi Egyptology and the Second World War -- An Egyptological Intermediate Period -- Nubian Rescue: The Temples -- Nubian Rescue: The Archaeology -- Resuming the Field-Again: Saqqara and Lower Egypt -- Resuming the Field-Again: Upper Egypt and Beyond -- Language and Art -- Writing Ancient Egyptian History -- Women in Egyptology -- Points of Departure.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2015413557
ISBN9789774167607
ISBN9789774165993 (v. 1)
ISBN9774165993 (v. 1)
ISBN9789774166921 (v. 2)
ISBN9774166922 (v. 2)
ISBN9774167600 (v. 3)

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Joyner General Stacks DT60 .T49 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold