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Echoes of Egypt is a catalogue accompanying an exhibit at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Edited by Colleen Manassa, the catalogue also includes entries by international experts. Documenting two thousand years of the reception of ancient Egypt throughout the world, Echoes of Egypt transcends the typical account on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 'Egyptomania'. The first chapter includes a chronological overview of the exhibit, ranging from ancient Meroe, Greece and Rome, and medieval Arab-Islamic fascination with hieroglyphs to Piranesi's interior designs and the impact of Napoleon's invasion. Additional chapters focus on the meaning and changing uses of hieroglyphs, 'mummy mania' and Egyptosophy. Full colour images complement the text.
Contents
Chapter 1A Pylon in an American LandscapeThe Grove Street Cemetery GateThe Winged Sun DiskAncient Egyptian Temples and the CosmosImagining the Ancient Nile ValleyAncient Echoes of Egypt: Greece, Rome, and MeroeEgyptianizing Meroitic ObjectsEgyptianizing Graeco-Roman ObjectsEgyptian Revivals from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment: Christians, Muslims, ScholarsGiovanni Battista Piranesi: Ancient Artifacts, Modern DesignFrom Napoleon's Expedition to the Present: Egyptology and EgyptomaniaFifty Years Later: The Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to NubiaChapter 2: Mysterious HieroglyphsOrigins of Egyptian WritingArtful Hieroglyphs and Everyday WritingFrom Hieroglyphs to the AlphabetThe Last Datable Hieroglyphic InscriptionCoptic: The Final Stage of the Egyptian LanguageEgyptomania in Medieval Arab Culture: The Case of Ibn WahshiyyaFrom the Renaissance to British SatireJean-Francois Champollion and DeciphermentA Text of GreetingChapter 3: Mummy-Mania The Coffin of Paib and Its Mummy"One God, One Pot:" Animal MummiesGeorge Gliddon and Nineteenth-century Mummy UnwrappingsIt Comes to Life: Mummies in Popular CultureChapter 4: Egyptosophy: Magic, Alchemy, and Hermeticism The Uroboros: A Magical Symbol of the CosmosMagical Gems Alchemy and Its Egyptian OriginsAlchemy in Egyptian Mining Practice HermeticismFrom Athanasius Kircher to Sor JuanaInez de la Cruz Natacha Rambova: A Connecticut Egyptosophist