Egypt
Brian M. Fagan
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York
1975
ISBN 0-684-15058-1
It has taken me a while to get to this book the last year I have been "showered" with books having to select from too many possibilities. That loss of time was truly a loss when I began to read this book by author Brian M. Fagan.
The Rape of the Nile is strong in its descriptive of Egyptian history including the often ignored histories that run from the Roman era to the 17th century A.D., I was hooked right at the start!
The Napoleonic episode as well as the stories of Henry Salt and Bernardino Drovetti however were covered more lightly than I would have preferred. Both men but particularly Mr. Drovetti made important discoveries which were completely unspoken about.
Unfortunately the next 150+ pages of this book 0f 371 pages were about Giovanni Belzoni which as interesting as the man was I have already read his book and often during that 150 pages I felt I was reading Mr. Belzoni's "Narratives and Operations" instead of this 1975 book.
Once Belzoni passed the book became original again with a rundown of the many explorers who followed including Champollion, Mariette and the great discoveries including some interesting details on the finding of the Serapeum and the discovery of the royal mummies. The author chooses his words well as the Rape of the Nile at the end of the nineteenth century turns finally into the science of Egyptology.
Author Brian Fagan presented the history of plunder to science with reasonable language choosing to finish his work with the hot topic of prohibition of ancient artifacts. Though I do not believe as anyone knows who reads my site in prohibition but I will say that The Rape of the Nile was a good read.
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Egypt
The Rape of the Nile
Brian M. Fagan
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York
1975
ISBN 0-684-15058-1
It has taken me a while to get to this book the last year I have been "showered" with books having to select from too many possibilities. That loss of time was truly a loss when I began to read this book by author Brian M. Fagan.
The Rape of the Nile is strong in its descriptive of Egyptian history including the often ignored histories that run from the Roman era to the 17th century A.D., I was hooked right at the start!
The Napoleonic episode as well as the stories of Henry Salt and Bernardino Drovetti however were covered more lightly than I would have preferred. Both men but particularly Mr. Drovetti made important discoveries which were completely unspoken about.
Unfortunately the next 150+ pages of this book 0f 371 pages were about Giovanni Belzoni which as interesting as the man was I have already read his book and often during that 150 pages I felt I was reading Mr. Belzoni's "Narratives and Operations" instead of this 1975 book.
Once Belzoni passed the book became original again with a rundown of the many explorers who followed including Champollion, Mariette and the great discoveries including some interesting details on the finding of the Serapeum and the discovery of the royal mummies. The author chooses his words well as the Rape of the Nile at the end of the nineteenth century turns finally into the science of Egyptology.
Author Brian Fagan presented the history of plunder to science with reasonable language choosing to finish his work with the hot topic of prohibition of ancient artifacts. Though I do not believe as anyone knows who reads my site in prohibition but I will say that The Rape of the Nile was a good read.
- The Mummy By Joyce Tyldesley
Joyce Tyldesley Carlton Books Limited 1999 ISBN: 1 85868 714 4 On my journey back to Vancouver I was browsing through this book which I had just picked up while visiting Victoria finding, to my chagrin, that a number of the photos bore incorrect captions...
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Pierre Montet Editions Ferni Geneva 1977 ASIN B0007AOGWG This book by Pierre Montet starts with the early history of exploration of Egypt's monuments with no shortage of interesting details. The contribution of Auguste Mariette to the science of...
- The World Of The Pharaoh's, A Complete Guide To Ancient Egypt
Christine Hobson Thames & Hudson New York ISBN: 0-500-27560-2 1987 The author starts out strong in its introduction with an interesting overview of Pharaonic history leading into the archaeologists who discovered the various epoch's of Egypt's...
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Barry Kemp Granta Books London 2005 ISBN: 1 86207 658 8 This book is based on 100 hieroglyphs that will help one think like an ancient Egyptian The concept of the book interests me very much and is filled with plenty of literary citations from Pharaonic...
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Margaret A. Murray Sidgwick; Jackson London 1977 Reprint ISBN: 0 283 97892 9 This sixty year old book is hopefully just what I needed to forget the last book I read, though the chronology is off with dates of the Middle Kingdom as an example being more...