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A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology

byToby Wilkinson

Toby Wilkinson uses The World Beneath the Sands to investigate the Golden Age of Egyptology through a carefully framed historical account. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the connected fields of history and science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Picador

Publication date

2020-11-07

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ISBN

9781509858712