Egyptomania : our three thousand year obsession with the land of the pharaohs
| 1. Verfasser: |
Brier, Bob
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|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Ausgabe: | First Edition |
| Umfang/Format: |
xix, 229 p. : ill. (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Egypt |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Birth of a collection
- Rome and the birth of Egyptomania
- Napoleon on the Nile
- How an obelisk and a canal conquered France
- The amazing voyage of Cleopatra's needle
- Egypt for sale : Victorian Egyptomania
- New York gets its obelisk
- The mummies sing songs of the Nile
- Tutankhamen, superstar
- The mummy goes to the movies
- The future of Egyptomania.
