{"product_id":"a-world-beneath-the-sands-adventurers-and-archaeologists-in-the-golden-age-of-egyptology-by-toby-wilkinson-9781509858736","title":"A World Beneath the Sands : Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle and stimulating study of the paradoxes of 19th-century colonialism is a bonus indeed.\" - Tom Holland, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis golden age of scholarship and adventure is neatly book-ended by two epoch-making events: Champollion's decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn A World Beneath the Sands, the acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson tells the riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt's ancient civilisation drove them to uncover its secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChampollion, Carter and Carnarvon are here, but so too are their lesser-known contemporaries, such as the Prussian scholar Karl Richard Lepsius, the Frenchman Auguste Mariette and the British aristocrat Lucie Duff-Gordon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir work - and that of others like them - helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, and left a lasting impression on Egypt, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTravellers and treasure-hunters, ethnographers and epigraphers, antiquarians and archaeologists: whatever their motives, whatever their methods, all understood that in pursuing Egyptology they were part of a greater endeavour - to reveal a lost world, buried for centuries beneath the sands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toby Wilkinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308642476405,"sku":"9781509858736","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781509858736.jpg?v=1782120431","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/a-world-beneath-the-sands-adventurers-and-archaeologists-in-the-golden-age-of-egyptology-by-toby-wilkinson-9781509858736","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}