Egypt
CS Monitor (M.M. Bennett)
- Repatriation: More Rosetta
ModernGhana.com (Dr Kwame Okopu) It is very strange how the minds of some Westerners seem to work when it comes to discussing repatriation of looted/stolen cultural objects or objects acquired under dubious circumstances or from a people under foreign...
- Napoleon In Egypt
Book Review: Napoleon's failure in Egypt nj.com Napoleon in Egypt Paul Strathern Bantam Dell, 496 pp., $30 Reviewed by Jonathan E. Lazarus A strategically located Middle Eastern nation, with a long and rich history, had fallen on hard times. It was...
- Exhibition: Historic Documents Reveal Ancient World
nj.com (Nicole Gough) "Egypt Unveiled" is an exhibition featuring books, artwork, maps, and resources from one of the earliest European expeditions to Egypt. "Napoleon landed in Egypt with over 50,000 troops and they were going to take over and make Egypt...
- Book Review: Napoleon In Egypt
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=576012007 Napoleon in Egypt, by Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape, £20 (UKP) "One of the oddities of the French Revolution was the manic utopianism that it inspired in men such as Napoleon. By 1798 the Revolution...
- Archaeology Magazine July/august
http://www.archaeology.org/0607/index.html The new edition of Archaeology is now available, and the website has been updated with some online content too, of which the following may be of interest. See the following URLs for the full accounts. Review:...
Egypt
Book Review: Napoleon in Egypt
CS Monitor (M.M. Bennett)The French arrived in Egypt on July 1 and by August they had taken Alexandria and marched across the desert to defeat the Mameluke army at the Battle of the Pyramids and at Cairo. Then, in a bout of indomitable energy and attention to detail, Napoleon established a new Egyptian government with himself as titular head.
Yet on August 24, 1799, one year and several major battles later – bankrupt, having lost most of his troops and many of the Savants, his Navy destroyed by the British under Admiral Nelson – Napoleon abandoned his Egyptian dream and, along with the remnants of his army, hightailed it back to France, where he proclaimed the whole a glorious victory.
Napoleon in Egypt is novelist and philosopher Paul Strathern’s account of this disastrous Middle Eastern sojourn.
- Repatriation: More Rosetta
ModernGhana.com (Dr Kwame Okopu) It is very strange how the minds of some Westerners seem to work when it comes to discussing repatriation of looted/stolen cultural objects or objects acquired under dubious circumstances or from a people under foreign...
- Napoleon In Egypt
Book Review: Napoleon's failure in Egypt nj.com Napoleon in Egypt Paul Strathern Bantam Dell, 496 pp., $30 Reviewed by Jonathan E. Lazarus A strategically located Middle Eastern nation, with a long and rich history, had fallen on hard times. It was...
- Exhibition: Historic Documents Reveal Ancient World
nj.com (Nicole Gough) "Egypt Unveiled" is an exhibition featuring books, artwork, maps, and resources from one of the earliest European expeditions to Egypt. "Napoleon landed in Egypt with over 50,000 troops and they were going to take over and make Egypt...
- Book Review: Napoleon In Egypt
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=576012007 Napoleon in Egypt, by Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape, £20 (UKP) "One of the oddities of the French Revolution was the manic utopianism that it inspired in men such as Napoleon. By 1798 the Revolution...
- Archaeology Magazine July/august
http://www.archaeology.org/0607/index.html The new edition of Archaeology is now available, and the website has been updated with some online content too, of which the following may be of interest. See the following URLs for the full accounts. Review:...