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A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time.

From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry.

In A World Beneath the Sands, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson chronicles the ruthless race between the British, French, Germans, and Americans to lay claim to its mysteries and treasures. He tells riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt’s ancient civilization helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, and left a lasting impression on Egypt, too. Travelers and treasure-hunters, ethnographers and archaeologists: whatever their motives, whatever their methods, a century of adventure and scholarship revealed a lost world, buried for centuries beneath the sands.

ISBN-13: 9780393882407

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Norton W. W. & Company Inc.

Publication Date: 02-08-2022

Pages: 544

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.50(d)

Toby Wilkinson is the New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, A World Beneath the Sands, and Tutankhamun’s Trumpet. He is a Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, and lives in England.

Table of Contents

Timeline xii

Introduction 1

Prologue Travellers in an antique land 5

1 Description and decipherment 45

2 In the footsteps of Napoleon 77

3 Englishmen abroad 105

4 The Prussian project 143

5 French foundations 173

6 A thousand miles up the Nile 209

7 A permanent occupation 243

8 Scholars and scoundrels 281

9 Egypt and America 315

10 Imperial ambitions 353

11 Wonderful things 383

Epilogue The future of the past 419

Acknowledgements 431

Notes 433

Bibliography 465

Index 479