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Author | : Jason Thompson |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2010-07-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0292785690 |
Following in the footsteps of Napoleon's army, Europeans invaded Egypt in the early nineteenth century to gaze in wonder at the massive, inscrutable remains of its ancient civilizations. One of these travelers was a twenty-four-year-old Englishman, John Gardner Wilkinson. His copious observations of ancient and modern Egyptian places, artifacts, and lifeways, recorded in such widely read publications as Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians and Handbook for Travellers in Egypt, made him the leading early Victorian authority on ancient Egypt and paved the way for thc scientific study of Egyptology. In this first full-scale biography of Wilkinson (1797-1875), Jason Thompson skillfully portrays both the man and his era. He follows Wilkinson during his initial sojourn in Egypt (1821-1833) as Wilkinson immersed himself in a contemporary Egyptian lifestyle and in study of its ancient past. He shows Wilkinson in his circle of friends—among them Edward William Lane, Robert Hay and Frederick Catherwood. And he traces how Wilkinson continued to use his Egyptian material in the decades following his return to England. With the rise of professional Egyptology in the middle and later nineteenth century, Sir Gardner Wilkinson came to be viewed as an amateur and his popularity diminished. Drawing upon recently opened sources, Thompson returns Wilkinson to his rightful place within centuries of Egyptian scholarship and assesses both the vision and the limitations of his work. The result is a compelling portrait of a Victorian "gentleman-scholar" and his cultural milieu.
Author | : Lise Manniche |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8763505347 |
Part of the "Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications" series, this volume is a study of tombs of officials in the Theban necropolis, now lost, but recorded in the manuscripts of travellers to Egypt in the early and mid 19th century. It also includes the fragments of relevant wall-decoration in museums and other collections.
Author | : Whitney R. Cross |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080147700X |
During the first half of the nineteenth century the wooded hills and the valleys of western New York State were swept by fires of the spirit. The fervent religiosity of the region caused historians to call it the "burned-over district."
Author | : Manniche |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2014-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317949684 |
First published in 1988. The Theban private tombs form a major source for our knowledge of Egyptian society. Ostensibly a great amount of work has been done in the necropolis over the past one hundred and sixty years of its modern history, and the bibliography for this area is among the most extensive in Egyptology. Many of the 415 or so decorated tombs have received a full publication, but for a great number only selected scenes have been made available, and a surprising amount remains to all intents and purposes unpublished. The present study is concerned with a number of painted tombs of the Eighteenth dynasty which were visited by the early travellers, but the exact location of which is now unknown. The careful drawings and tracings made by these pioneers are apparently all that remains to show the appearance of these tombs. Some of the scenes represented are not found elsewhere in the necropolis, and others have special points of interest or unique details, linguistic, iconographic and religious, to offer. This very important material has not previously been used by scholars, and it has not been recognized that fragments of some of these vanished tombs can actually be traced to collections in museums and elsewhere.
Author | : Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2022-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1803270551 |
Containing the dating, kinship data and titles for each tomb owner of 54 tombs located in the southern area of the Theban cemetery of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, this book will prove of great assistance as a handbook or catalogue for research on New Kingdom Dra Abu el-Naga or the study of prosopography and kinship relationships.
Author | : William M. Leary |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2021-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813187419 |
They were the forgotten commanders of World War II. While the names of Bradley and Patton became household words for Americans, few could identify Krueger or Eichelberger. They served under General Douglas MacArthur, a military genius with an enormous ego who dominated publicity from the Southwest Pacific during the American advance from Australia, through New Guinea, to the Philippines. While people at home read about the great victories that were won by "MacArthur's navy" and "MacArthur's air force," his subordinates labored in obscurity, fearful lest attention from the press lead to their replacement. Historians too have paid little attention to the men who fought so well in the far reaches of the Pacific, and not a single biography has appeared in the decades since V-J Day. Yet General Blamey played a key role in the early battles of New Guinea. Generals Krueger and Eichelberger led American armies to major victories over the Japanese. General Kenney was one of the foremost air strategists of the war, while few airmen could match General Whitehead's tactical brilliance. Admiral Kinkaid took a crucial part in one of the greatest naval engagements in history. Admiral Barbey was an acknowledged master of amphibious warfare. We Shall Return! addresses a serious shortcoming in the literature of World War II. Revealed for the first time is the full extent of the contributions made by MacArthur's commanders to the defeat of the Japanese. As the authors of these essays so ably demonstrate, many of MacArthur's bold decisions and innovative tactics were urged upon him by his subordinates. Clearly, these men deserve more credit for his successes than they have received.
Author | : Josep Padró i Parcerisa |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2015-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004295364 |
Preliminary material -- CHRONICLE OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH -- POSSIBLE CONTACTS WITH EGYPT BEFORE THE FIRST MILLENNIUM -- THE EGYPTIAN, PSEUDOEGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANIZING MATERIAL -- INDEX -- LIST OF PLATES -- Plates I-XXVIII.
Author | : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1971* |
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Author | : Bertha Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Egypt |
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Author | : Bertha Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Art, Egyptian |
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