Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt by Nina Burleigh. The story of the more than 150 engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists who accompanied the 28-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte on his expedition into the Nile Valley in 1798. They invented Egyptology and, indeed, archeology, and produced a huged Encyclopedia of Egypt when they got back to France. This opened up many fields of knowledge and started a craze for all things Egyptian in Europe.
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