Egypt
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/prisse.html
- Toutankhamon Magazine October 2006
http://beta.blogger.com/www.toutankhamon-magazine.com The new issue of Toutankhamon Magazine, #29, is avaible. Full details about this issue and how to subscribe can be found at the above address, but contents are as follows: Actualités : Tombe 64 de...
- One Man’s Crusade To Save Pharaonic Heritage
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5336 A contemporary and colleague of John Gardner Wilkinson, Prisse d'Avennes was a remarkable man: "d’Avennes had a mission. He wanted to save the stones of Karnak from being used to build the Pasha’s...
- More From "travellers In Egypt"
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/02/from_suez_to_ca.html The most recent offering is an excerpt from "Orient Line Guide - Chapters for travellers by sea and by land" entitled "From Suez to Cairo" (London, 1890). It is a narrative description,...
- Travellers In Egypt Website - New Articles
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/ I continue to be impressed with this website. Not only does it look good and have great content, but it is regularly updated with new material. The latest entries include: Thebes - its temples and great ruins http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/thebes_its_temp.htmlIppolito...
- Travellers In Egypt - Robert Hay
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/the_lost_portfo.html The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated recently with an article about Robert Hay. A long and fascinating article, it discusses Hay's life in the context of his travels...
Egypt
Prisse D'Avennes
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/prisse.html
The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with a verbal portrait of Prisse D'Avennes, who travelled Egypt in the late 1800s: "Of the hundreds of 19th-century Orientalists – those Western artists, scholars and writers who gravitated to the Islamic world following Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 – few possessed so prodigious an intellect, such a trove of talents, so insatiable a curiosity or so passionate a commitment to record the historical and artistic patrimony of ancient Egypt and medieval Islam. He succeeded brilliantly, yet he failed to achieve the stature to which his successes entitled him, both during his lifetime and in the 111 years since his death". See the above page for the full story.
- Toutankhamon Magazine October 2006
http://beta.blogger.com/www.toutankhamon-magazine.com The new issue of Toutankhamon Magazine, #29, is avaible. Full details about this issue and how to subscribe can be found at the above address, but contents are as follows: Actualités : Tombe 64 de...
- One Man’s Crusade To Save Pharaonic Heritage
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5336 A contemporary and colleague of John Gardner Wilkinson, Prisse d'Avennes was a remarkable man: "d’Avennes had a mission. He wanted to save the stones of Karnak from being used to build the Pasha’s...
- More From "travellers In Egypt"
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/02/from_suez_to_ca.html The most recent offering is an excerpt from "Orient Line Guide - Chapters for travellers by sea and by land" entitled "From Suez to Cairo" (London, 1890). It is a narrative description,...
- Travellers In Egypt Website - New Articles
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/ I continue to be impressed with this website. Not only does it look good and have great content, but it is regularly updated with new material. The latest entries include: Thebes - its temples and great ruins http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/thebes_its_temp.htmlIppolito...
- Travellers In Egypt - Robert Hay
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/the_lost_portfo.html The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated recently with an article about Robert Hay. A long and fascinating article, it discusses Hay's life in the context of his travels...