# The Search for Ancient Egypt (New Horizons)

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- Authors: [Jean Vercoutter](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-vercoutter), [Ruth Sharman](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-sharman)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1992-05-18

## Description

Buried treasure, looting, intrigue and dedicated scholarship; ‘wonderful things’ gleaming in the darkness; the cache of royal mummies; and, most wonderful of all, the tomb of Tutankhamun. This is the complete story of the rediscovery of ancient Egypt, a tale of extraordinary characters: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who braved the ‘pharaoh’s curse’; Belzoni, ‘the Patagonian Samson’; Champollion, who unlocked the secrets of the hieroglyphs – and a tale of spectacular rescue, with modern technology mobilized to save Egypt’s monuments from flood waters and the ravages of time.

## Editions

### The Search for Ancient Egypt (New Horizons)

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0030-013-8
- Pages: 208
- Published: 1992-05-18
- Language: en_GB