/2008/09/05/the-description-de-legypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/ Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:28:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 /2008/09/05/the-description-de-legypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/comment-page-1/#comment-1307 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:59:00 +0000 /bloggers/2008/09/05/the-description-de-l%e2%80%99egypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/#comment-1307 Egypt has remained the one of the mysterious countries in the world. Lots of archalogical expeditions have tried to unsolve the curiosity of ancient egypt, yet the myth remains oblivious. Description de l’Egypte has put together the definition of the artefacts found in 19th century Napoleon expedition. The antiquities, plants, animals and contemporary life found in Egypt has been well described in this volume.

]]> /2008/09/05/the-description-de-legypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/comment-page-1/#comment-1241 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:25:47 +0000 /bloggers/2008/09/05/the-description-de-l%e2%80%99egypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/#comment-1241 […] I’m delighted to report that on March 6th we had a well attended talk in the Library as part of a series of lectures presented in memory of Evelyn Ortner, a beloved Library Donor and Museum Guide who gave tours of the Egyptian collections. Our speaker was Dr. John Lundquist, former Curator of Asian and Middle Eastern Collections at the New York Public Library, who discussed nineteenth century references on Ancient Egypt. We own  several of the rare books that were discussed such as Belzoni’s Narrative of the Operations and Rosellini’s Monumenti dell’Egitto—you can even see one of the Rosellini volumes in the To Live Forever exhibition here. We also looked at several volumes of the Description de l’Egypte, the subject of a previous blog. […]

]]> /2008/09/05/the-description-de-legypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:30:44 +0000 /bloggers/2008/09/05/the-description-de-l%e2%80%99egypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/#comment-450 Nice web
Egypt is my memories last year. Especially in how to do collection conservation

]]> /2008/09/05/the-description-de-legypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:08:11 +0000 /bloggers/2008/09/05/the-description-de-l%e2%80%99egypte-in-the-wilbour-library-of-egyptology/#comment-437 Another digitized version of the Description de l’Egypte is accessible via
http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayentry.pl?RC=18792

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