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The rape of the Nile : tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fagan, Brian M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2004.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
Egypt > Antiquities.
Egyptology > History.
Archaeological thefts > Egypt.
Table of Contents:
  • I: Tombs and treasure
  • Plundering the pharaohs
  • The first tourists
  • "Mummy is become merchandise"
  • NapolĂ©on on the Nile
  • II: The great Belzoni
  • The Patagonian Sampson
  • The young Memnon
  • "Mummies were rather unpleasant to swallow"
  • "Pyramidical brains"
  • High jinks at Philae
  • "A multitude of collateral curiosities"
  • III: Birth of a science
  • Decipherment
  • Artists and archaeologists
  • "In the British museum he is placed beyond the reach of all such evils"
  • "A boating-trip interspersed with ruins"
  • Science and the small artifact
  • "Wonderful things".