Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt January 4, 2009

Focusing on the French invasion of Egypt in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, 'Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt' features engravings from the Description de l'Egypte (1809-1828), the seminal multi-volume work that remains the most important European scholarly study of ancient and modern Egypt.