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The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the second of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, explores the years 1881-1914, a period marked by the institutionalization of Egyptology amid an ever increasing pace of discovery and the opening of vast new vistas into the Egyptian past. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand ancient Egypt.
Contents
Chronological Outline of Ancient Egyptian History ix
Maps x
Preface xiii
1. The Golden Age 1
2. Akhenaten Lives! 25
3. The Seven Hathors 49
4. New Horizons 65
5. Greco-Roman Egypt 83
6. Loret's Interlude 101
7. The Return of Maspero 111
8. New Players in the Game 131
9. The Berlin School and Its Rivals 151
10. Egyptology Comes to America 193
11. The United States Enters the Field 227
12. Attention Turns South 257
13. The Twilight of the Golden Age 281
Notes 293
Bibliography 325
Index 355
