Main entry:

Wilson, John A. (John Albert), 1899-1976, author.

Title & Author:

Signs & wonders upon Pharaoh : a history of American Egyptology / John A. Wilson.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1964.
©1964.

Description:

xxv, 243 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212).
Change and decay : The years of the lean ill-favored cattle ; “The years that the locust hath eaten” ; “I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations” -- The dawn (1798-1822) : Before Napoleon ; Jefferson’s friend in Cairo ; Napoleon’s expedition ; Champollion’s decipherment -- Despotism and destruction (1806-54) : Mohammed Ali, the medieval modernist ; Exploration and exploitation ; Belzoni, the adventurer-archeologist ;The earnest copyists ; The eager collectors ; The first American collections ; The discovery of other civilizations ; Gliddon’s American lectures -- Extravaganza (1854-82) : Ismail and the Suez canal ; Mariette’s monopoly ; Two Scotsmen ; An American named Smith ; The united states becomes interested ; Archeology in other countries ; American soldiers of adventure in Egypt -- Cromer and Maspero (1880-1908) : British occupation ; Maspero and Amelia B. Edwards ; A winter in Egypt ; The counterfeiters ;American missionaries, students, and collectors ; Royal mummies ; The Amarna tablets ; Budge brings home treasures ; Petrie plays the role of Moses -- The houseboat on the Nile (1880-1908) : The facile Mr. Sayce ; “The father of a beard” ; “The best Egyptologist living” ; “The German school” and the “French school” ; Archeology in other countries ; Signs and wonders ; The patron on the Dahahiyeh ; Where was queen Tiy? ; Where was Tut-ankh-Amon? ; James Henry Breasted and the rescue of texts : Nationalists and dervishes ; Archeology tightens its standards ; A last bow by budge ; A honeymoon with a notebook ; Eighteen-hundred miles up the Nile ; The wandering scholar ; The long shadow of man -- George Andrew Reisner and the full record : The making of an archeologist ; The land of Cush ; Harvard camp ; A host of witnesses ; Archeology in other countries ; Nefert-iti's head and world war -- Tut-ankh-Amon and independent Egypt : The demand for independence ; The tomb of Tut-ankh-Amon ; The queen reburied ; “Go down into Egypt” ; Archeology in other countries -- Herbert E. Winlock: the pieces fall into place : Institutions and individuals ; No museum, but a Papyrus ; Winlock and the eleventh dynasty ; Winlock, Hat-shepsut, and Sen-Mut ; Archeology under nationalism ; The sequel.

Summary:

Discusses the history of archaeology in Egypt, including the early exploration, the copyists, collectors, and translators, as well as the work of individuals such as Napoleon, John Ledyard, Jean Francois Champollion, Mohammed Ali, Giovanni Belzoni, George Gliddon, Ismail (and the Suez Canal), Auguste Mariette, Alexander H. Rhind, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Edwin Smith, Sir Evelyn Baring (Lord Cromer), Gaston Maspero, Amelia B. Edwards, Sir Flinders Petrie, Arthur Evans, Rev. Archibald H. Sayce, Charles E. Wilbour, Theodore M. Davis, James Henry Breasted, George Andrew Reisner, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvo.

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Subject:

Egyptology.
Égyptologie.
Ägyptologie
Egyptology Study and teaching United States.
Egyptologists United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Signs and wonders upon Pharaoh

Holdings:

Location: Library main 46813
Call No.: PO2308; ID:89-B6100
Status: Available