Egypt
- Original Copy Of La Description De L'egypte To Be Sold At Auction
Christie's Christie’s proudly announces the sale of the Michel Wittock Collection, Part IV, which will be held in Paris on May 11. As well as an exceptional copy of the famous Description de l’Egypte, bound by Jean-Joseph Tessier in polished...
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina Has A New Website
Bibliotheca Alexandrina We would like to inform that have just launched a new website for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum in three languages (Arabic, English and French). The website comprises a database of nearly 1000 artifacts of the...
- 200 Years Of The Description De L'egypte
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) THE MAGNIFICENT setting of the église du D¤me at Les Invalides in Paris is the backdrop for a small exhibition, running until September 2009, designed to celebrate the bicentenary of the publication of the first volumes...
- Exhibition: Description De L'egypte In Dallas
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20198"Beaux Arts will present Description de L’Egypte, the story of The Napoleonic Survey of Egypt. The art exhibit, consisting of 87 original prints from the historic publication,...
- Stockholm Challenge 2006
http://tinyurl.com/zndwg (Egypt State Information Service) Good news from the State Information Service: "Alexandria Library managed to reach the finals of the Stockholm Challenge 2006 via its project on digitisation of Description de l'Egypte.The...
Egypt
Digitization of Description de l’Égypte
http://www.bibalex.org/isis/News/23052005.htm
Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the following news item. The preservation of the valuable collection of Description de l’Égypte has been completed by the International School of Information Science (ISIS) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The 11 plate volumes, owned by the BA, and nine text volumes, owned by l’Institut d’Égypte, have been fully digitized, integrated on a virtual browser and are available in DVD format to the public through this pioneering endeavor. Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, stated that the importance of this project stems from this collection being considered a rich reference for researchers and scholars. He added that digitizing such a collection is an achievement toward the preservation of heritage . . . .The Description de l’Égypte DVD is available at the BA Bookshop for EGP 120."
Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the following news item. The preservation of the valuable collection of Description de l’Égypte has been completed by the International School of Information Science (ISIS) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The 11 plate volumes, owned by the BA, and nine text volumes, owned by l’Institut d’Égypte, have been fully digitized, integrated on a virtual browser and are available in DVD format to the public through this pioneering endeavor. Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, stated that the importance of this project stems from this collection being considered a rich reference for researchers and scholars. He added that digitizing such a collection is an achievement toward the preservation of heritage . . . .The Description de l’Égypte DVD is available at the BA Bookshop for EGP 120."
See the full item at the above URL, but after a hunt around the biblioteca's website I couldn't find the DVD for sale online.
The background story to the creation of the Description can be found on the Tour Egypt website at:
The background story to the creation of the Description can be found on the Tour Egypt website at:
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/description.htm
- Original Copy Of La Description De L'egypte To Be Sold At Auction
Christie's Christie’s proudly announces the sale of the Michel Wittock Collection, Part IV, which will be held in Paris on May 11. As well as an exceptional copy of the famous Description de l’Egypte, bound by Jean-Joseph Tessier in polished...
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina Has A New Website
Bibliotheca Alexandrina We would like to inform that have just launched a new website for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum in three languages (Arabic, English and French). The website comprises a database of nearly 1000 artifacts of the...
- 200 Years Of The Description De L'egypte
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) THE MAGNIFICENT setting of the église du D¤me at Les Invalides in Paris is the backdrop for a small exhibition, running until September 2009, designed to celebrate the bicentenary of the publication of the first volumes...
- Exhibition: Description De L'egypte In Dallas
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20198"Beaux Arts will present Description de L’Egypte, the story of The Napoleonic Survey of Egypt. The art exhibit, consisting of 87 original prints from the historic publication,...
- Stockholm Challenge 2006
http://tinyurl.com/zndwg (Egypt State Information Service) Good news from the State Information Service: "Alexandria Library managed to reach the finals of the Stockholm Challenge 2006 via its project on digitisation of Description de l'Egypte.The...