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How the West Discovered Ancient Egypt

Monday, January 07, 2008

Until 200 years ago, only the most reckless Europeans dared to explore Egypt. Its history and peoples aroused great interest in Europe. But it wasn’t until Napoleon sent his best scientists to the Nile Valley that Egypt was exposed to the West. This story is told by Nina Burleigh in Mirage.

Event: Nina Burleigh will be speaking and signing books
Monday, January 7 at 6 pm
Explorer’s Club
46 East 70th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues)


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  • [1] Gillian Chalmers from New York January 07, 2008 - 01:25PM

    With reference to this show, intermittently the guest refers to the English when I believe she means the British. Can you please respect and know the difference. It is not really excusable to interchange English and British - it's incorrect.

    Thanks

    Gillian
  • [2] Herb Alter from NYC January 07, 2008 - 01:37PM

    Your speaker on Napoleon in Egypt is just a font of ignorance, and rather difficult to listen to. Hieroglyphics are not script. Sea level is not the “same everywhere” (certainly not at any one time). That’s why canals have locks. She seems to be immune to understanding history. Napoleon’s engineers didn’t know how to build the canal he desired – that knowledge existed later in the 19th century.
  • [3] Erin January 08, 2008 - 02:19PM

    Gee whiz, I was going to write a post about how interesting I thought this interview was. Well, I still think it was interesting. Goes to show what I know, huh?


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