Название: Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters : Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the Late 19th–Early 20th Centuries
Автор: Rachel Mairs, Maya Muratov
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 1472588797
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 160
Размер: 1,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, growing numbers of tourists and scholars from Europe and America, fascinated by new discoveries, visited the Near East and Egypt – attracted by the riches and mysteries of the Land of the Bible. Almost all such visitors, no matter how esoteric or academic their pursuits, had to deal with the local authorities and the native workforce for their archaeological excavations.