Image Gallery
The Image Gallery has been adapted from graphic wall panels that were used in the on-site exhibition at the Linda Hall Library.
Medinet Habu is across the Nile from Thebes, near the Valley of the Kings. In this detail of the temple interior, two French engineers can be seen at the left, one holding a portfolio of drawings under his arm. Image source: Napoleon I, (Edme-François) Jomard, and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier. Description de l’Egypte: ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l’expédition de l’armee Française. Antiquités planches, vol. 2, A Paris: De L’Imprimerie impériale, 1809-1828, pl. 14.
00. Introduction
01. The Napoleonic Invasion of Egypt
02. Napoleon, Scientist
03. The Institute of Egypt
04. The Search for the Ancient Suez Canal
05. Mirages in the Desert
06. The Ichneumon and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
07. Berthollet and the Soda Lakes
08. Savigny and the Sacred Ibis
09. Minerals of Egypt
10. Denon Discovers Ancient Egypt
11. Engineering Archaeologists
12. Conté's Engraving Machine
13. Mapping Egypt
14. The Zodiac of Dendera
15. The Rosetta Stone
16. Interactive Map