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Egyptomania : Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs by Robert (Bob) M. Brier

Egyptomania : Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs
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Author: Robert (Bob) M. Brier
Page Count: 256 pages
Published Date: 12 Nov 2013
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Country: Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781137278609
File size: 23 Mb
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Download Link: Egyptomania Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs
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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 memorabiliaand 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 encyclopediato 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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