Jason Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9789774165993
- eISBN:
- 9781617976520
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165993.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
With the advent of the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt in 1798, Egypt came fully into European awareness. Although the expedition was primarily military and colonial in intent, and although it ...
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With the advent of the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt in 1798, Egypt came fully into European awareness. Although the expedition was primarily military and colonial in intent, and although it ultimately failed, it also brought unprecedented attention to ancient Egypt with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and publication of the great Description de l’Égypte. Napoleon took with him a large commission of scholars, or savants, that included such luminaries as the artist Vivant Denon and mathematician Joseph Fourier, who documented ancient Egypt to an unprecedented degree. Egyptian antiquities began to flood into Europe and especially into the British Museum after the British appropriated most of those that the French had assembled in Egypt.Less
With the advent of the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt in 1798, Egypt came fully into European awareness. Although the expedition was primarily military and colonial in intent, and although it ultimately failed, it also brought unprecedented attention to ancient Egypt with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and publication of the great Description de l’Égypte. Napoleon took with him a large commission of scholars, or savants, that included such luminaries as the artist Vivant Denon and mathematician Joseph Fourier, who documented ancient Egypt to an unprecedented degree. Egyptian antiquities began to flood into Europe and especially into the British Museum after the British appropriated most of those that the French had assembled in Egypt.
