Description de l'Egypte: Publiee par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte (Klotz) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Description de l'Egypte: Publiee par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte (Klotz) Monday, August 31 2009.

• A hugely ambitious and comprehensive work, the ten volumes of "Description de L'Egypte" were published following Napoleon Bonaparte's 1798 invasion of Egypt. This book presents highlights carefully plucked from the original masterwork in which discoveries of ancient Egyptian civilization, such as the Rosetta stone and the Valley of the Kings, were first revealed to the European world.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Description de l'Egypte: Publiee par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte (Klotz) Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Gilles Neret: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Description de l'Egypte: Publiee par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte (Klotz) Friday, July 17 2009.

• "Soldiers, from the height of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on you ..."; thus Napoleon is said to have addressed his troops shortly before the Battle of the Pyramids (21 July, 1798).