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