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Champollion, Jean-François 1790-1832 Champollion, Jean-François 1790-1832 Juvenile literature Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane 1913-2011 Egypt Antiquities Egyptian language Writing, Hieroglyphic Egyptian language Writing, Hieroglyphic Juvenile literature Egyptologists Egyptologists Biography Egyptologists France Biography Juvenile literature Women Egyptologists BiographySheppard, Kathleen
Summary: "The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology. The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932 SHEOlson, Lynne
Summary: "In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time--an international campaign to save over a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs' rule, from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the massive press coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the feisty French archaeologist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DESNoël Hume, Ivor.
Contents: Prologue -- Sampson and Sarah -- Mohammed's man in Malta -- Enter the consul-general -- Moving Memnon -- The devil made them do it -- Staff problems at Abu Simbel -- A present from Philae -- Messing with mummies -- Return to Abu Simbel -- The great discovery -- Enduring achievements -- Confrontation in the consulate -- Over the mountains and through the passes -- Philae and the grand engagement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 HUMRumford, James.
Summary: A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003