Ancient Egypt : the great discoveries : a year-by-year chronicle /
Reveals the history of ancient Egypt through the great archaeological discoveries, from the pre-dynastic period to the Graeco-Roman era.
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New York :
Thames & Hudson,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 1798-1850: The birth of interest
- 1799: The Rosetta Stone: cracking the hieroglyphic code
- 1816-18: The adventure begins: the great Belzoni
- 1820: Captain Caviglia and the Colossus of Ramesses II
- 1822-25: Passalacqua and the tombs of two Mentuhoteps
- 1824: The tomb of an Egyptian hero: General Djehuty
- 1827: The first intact burial of an Egyptian king: Nubkheperre Intef
- 1834: The gold of Meroe: Ferlini's treasure
- 1850-1881: The first archaeologists
- 1851: The burial place of the Apis bulls: Mariette and the Serapeum
- 1855: The Harris papyri: the greatest collection ever found
- 1857: Prince Plonplon and the burial of Kamose
- 1859: An Egyptian queen: the coffin and jewels of Ahhotep
- 1860: Finding the tomb of Hesyre, chief royal scribe
- 1881: The pyramid texts: the world's oldest religious literature
- 1881-1914: The glory years
- 1881: Royal mummies: the Deir el-Bahri cache
- 1883: Greeks in Egypt: Naukratis
- 1886: The tomb of Sennudjem, servant in the place of truth
- 1887: Pharaoh's diplomatic archive: the Amarna letters
- 1888: Faces from the past: the Faiyum portraits
- 1891: Mummies of the priests of Amun: Bab el-Gasus
- 1891-92: Paintings from Akhenaten's palace at el-Amarna
- 1894-95: Jewels of Egyptian princesses: De Morgan at Dahshur
- 1895: The finest faience: the Tuna el-Gebel find
- 1895: Predynastic graves at Naqada
- 1897-99: Hierakonpolis: city of the falcon-god
- 1898-99: Loret in the Valley of the Kings
- 1896-1906: The Oxyrhynchus papyri: in search of the classics.