Wonderful Things
Author | : Jason Thompson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2015 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789774165993 |
ISBN-13 | : 9774165993 |
Rating | : 4/5 (993 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Wonderful Things by : Jason Thompson
Download or read book Wonderful Things written by Jason Thompson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. 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.