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Hand colored copperplate engraving from 'Description de L'Egypte' published 1809-1822
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In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte launched an expedition of 35,000 soldiers to conquer Egypt with a vision of capturing the land and a promise of an empire to rival Alexander the Great, the French leader kept his military efforts going until 1801. The campaign was a military and political disaster but nonetheless it had a profound and lasting impact, by revealing the splendour of a mysterious and forgotten civilization. Napoleon's ships carried some 500 scholars, scientists and artists whose task it was to study the country and its customs. Traversing a country at war under the stifling heat of southern Egypt, they embarked on the first major study of a land then all but unknown to Europeans. They discovered the Valley of the Kings outside Thebes. They found the Rosetta stone, which when deciphered enabled scholars to read hieroglyphics. And their combined efforts culminated in what is surely one of the most ambitiously comprehensive work ever published: the Description de l'Egypte in 10 volumes with 837 copperplate engravings and more than 3,000 drawings. Much of what has been learned about ancient Egypt can be traced to this discovery. Credit: Plate size 15 1/16 x 20 5/8. Paper size 21 1/8 x 27 3/4
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