To the memory of Susan Howe Weeks, artist, Egyptologist, friend, and neighbor ContentsĬhronological Outline of Ancient Egyptian HistoryĤ. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This electronic edition published in 2015 byĪll rights reserved. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. This, the first of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination with ancient Egypt from antiquity until 1881, tracing the recovery of ancient Egypt and its impact on the human imagination in a saga filled with intriguing mysteries, great discoveries, and scholarly creativity. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history.
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