The Rape of the Nile

by Fagan, Brian M.

• ISBN13: 9781559210669
• ISBN10: 1559210664
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-01
• Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd

Author Biography

Brian Fagan is an Emeritus Professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Tombs, Tourists, and Treasure
The Destruction of the Pharaohs	p. 3
The Father of History and the First Tourists	p. 14
"Mummy Is Become Merchandise"	p. 32
"He Will Make a Collection"	p. 48
"A Dead Language You Cannot Understand"	p. 64
The Greatest Plunderer of Them All
The Patagonian Sampson	p. 97
"A Connaisseur in Hydrauliks"	p. 112
The Young Memnon	p. 124
A Nubian Journey	p. 139
"The Most Magnificent of Temples"	p. 155
"This Beautiful and Invaluable Piece of Antiquity"	p. 178
"Pyramidical Brains"	p. 188
"In Search of Old Berenice"	p. 202
The Obelisk of Philae	p. 214
"A Multitude of Collateral Curiosities"	p. 237
Assault on Antiquity
"A Violent Passion"	p. 251
"There Is One More Powerful Than I"	p. 263
"In the British Museum He Is Placed beyond the Reach of All Such Evils"	p. 288
"A Boating Trip Interspersed with Ruins"	p. 305
"Inscriptions, Objects, Positions, and Probabilities"	p. 330
Epilogue	p. 360
Acknowledgements	p. 375
Sources	p. 377
Illustration Acknowledgements	p. 383
Glossary	p. 387
Index	p. 395
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