Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Patricia Johnston and Glenn Palmer)
- 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...
- 'egypt Unveiled' Exhibition On View At Firestone
Princeton University "Egypt Unveiled: The Mission of Napoleon's Savants," an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of a seminal publication of Egyptian history, will be on view from Dec. 21 through May 10 in the main gallery of Firestone Library....
- 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...
- 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...
Egypt
Book Review: The Zodiac of Paris
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Patricia Johnston and Glenn Palmer)
Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010.
On July 1, 1798, Napoleon and his troops entered Alexandria with the intention of establishing a colony in Egypt, disrupting British trade with India, and purportedly freeing the Egyptians from their Mameluke oppressors and imposing liberty and equality on this land. After a struggle with the Mamelukes (who were supported by the British and the Ottoman Turks), Napoleon fled to France on Oct. 11, 1799, leaving behind the savants—the intellectuals and scholars who had accompanied him—along with remnants of the French army to preserve the glory of Napoleon. The savants had been given a vacant palace in Cairo and an academic organization, the Institute of Egypt. Napoleon had also ordered them into the field to make copious notes, chart maps, record contemporary life, gather artifacts and natural specimens and, above all, to document the ancient temples and monuments. During this campaign Vivant Denon drew the circular Dendera Zodiac, which he published in 1802, after the Napoleonic expedition. In 1821 the actual zodiac was moved to Paris and in 1822 installed in the Bibliothèque Nationale, and in 1964 it was moved to the Louvre.
- 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...
- 'egypt Unveiled' Exhibition On View At Firestone
Princeton University "Egypt Unveiled: The Mission of Napoleon's Savants," an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of a seminal publication of Egyptian history, will be on view from Dec. 21 through May 10 in the main gallery of Firestone Library....
- 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...
- 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...