Signs & wonders upon Pharaoh
Subtitle: a history of American Egyptology
By: [by] John A. Wilson.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Egyptology
Description: Discusses the history of archaeology in Egypt, including the early exploration, the copyists, collectors, and translators, as well as the work of individuals such as Napoleon, John Ledyard, Jean Francois Champollion, Mohammed Ali, Giovanni Belzoni, George Gliddon, Ismail (and the Suez Canal), Auguste Mariette, Alexander H. Rhind, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Edwin Smith, Sir Evelyn Baring (Lord Cromer), Gaston Maspero, Amelia B. Edwards, Sir Flinders Petrie, Arthur Evans, Rev. Archibald H. Sayce, Charles E. Wilbour, Theodore M. Davis, James Henry Breasted, George Andrew Reisner, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvo.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [197]-212.