Egyptomania: Our Three-Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the PharaohsMacmillan + ORM, 12 nov 2013 - 278 pagina's The world has always been fascinated with ancient Egypt. When the Romans conquered Egypt, it was really Egypt that conquered the Romans. Cleopatra captivated both Caesar and Marc Antony and soon Roman ladies were worshipping Isis and wearing vials of Nile water around their necks. What is it about ancient Egypt that breeds such obsession and imitation? Egyptomania explores the burning fascination with all things Egyptian and the events that fanned the flames--from ancient times, to Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, to the Discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb by Howard Carter in the 1920s. For forty years, Bob Brier, one of the world's foremost Egyptologists, has been amassing one of the largest collections of Egyptian memorabilia and seeking to understand the pull of ancient Egypt on our world today. In this original and groundbreaking book, with twenty-four pages of color photos from the author's collection, he explores our three-thousand-year-old fixation with recovering Egyptian culture and its meaning. He traces our enthrallment with the mummies that seem to have cheated death and the pyramids that seem as if they will last forever. Drawing on his personal collection — from Napoleon's twenty-volume Egypt encyclopedia to Howard Carter's letters written from the Valley of the Kings as he was excavating — this is an inventive and mesmerizing tour of how an ancient civilization endures in ours today. |
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Birth of a Collection 1 | |
Rome and the Birth of Egyptomania 19 | |
Napoleon on the Nile 43 | |
How an Obelisk and a Canal Conquered France 69 | |
The Amazing Voyage of Cleopatras Needle 81 | |
Victorian Egyptomania 101 | |
New York Gets Its Obelisk 111 | |
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Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs Bob Brier Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2013 |