Topography of Thebes, and General View of Egypt: Being a Short Account of the Principal Objects Worthy of Notice in the Valley of the Nile by John Gardner Wilkinson

Topography of Thebes, and General View of Egypt: Being a Short Account of the Principal Objects Worthy of Notice in the Valley of the Nile

John Gardner Wilkinson

660 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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A pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 1875) first travelled to Egypt in 1821, the year before Champollion published his breakthrough work on the Rosetta Stone. As public interest in Egypt grew, Wilkinson studied and ske...

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