Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. Oxford University Press, 2015 - Egypt - 374 pages. 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. by Jason Thompson Paperback 20.93 Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 1: From Antiquity to 1881 by Jason Thompson Paperback 24.95 Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century by Jason Thompson Hardcover 22. Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 2. The American University Press, Cairo, 2018. This, the first of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination with ancient Egypt from antiquity until 1881, tracing the recovery of ancient Egypt and its impact on the human imagination in a saga filled with intriguing mysteries, great discoveries, and scholarly creativity. A History of Egyptology 3: from 1914 to the twenty-first century. 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. The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history.
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