Thebes: its tombs and their tenants, ancient and present, including a record of excavations in the Necropolis

His independent means as the son of a wealthy banker enabled Alexander Henry Rhind (1833–63) to devote his short life to antiquarianism. While reading for the Scottish bar, he studied and investigated Pictish remains, and pressed for the inclusion of archaeological sites in Ordnance Survey maps. On...

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1. Verfasser: Rhind, A. Henry 1833-1863 (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Egyptology
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Zusammenfassung:His independent means as the son of a wealthy banker enabled Alexander Henry Rhind (1833–63) to devote his short life to antiquarianism. While reading for the Scottish bar, he studied and investigated Pictish remains, and pressed for the inclusion of archaeological sites in Ordnance Survey maps. On developing tubercular symptoms, he gave up his legal studies and passed the winters from 1855 to 1857 in Egypt, where he made the important studies and excavations recorded in this 1862 book. He focuses on the necropolis of Thebes, and in particular on the unplundered tomb of an eighteenth-dynasty official. Putting his work into the wider context of the history of ancient Egypt and the importance of the city of Thebes, he also describes the reuse of the necropolis ruins as homes for modern Egyptian peasants and as the centre of a thriving trade in antiquities, both genuine and forged
Beschreibung:Originally published in London by Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts in 1862. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 329 pages)
ISBN:9781107706729
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781107706729

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