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[PDF] Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt | The story of Napoleon&#8217s invasion of the Nile Valley, the scholars and scientists who tagged along, and the birth of Egyptology: &#8220A fascinating read.&#8221 &#8212San Francisco ChronicleTwo hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists&#8212even a poet and a musicologist&#8212traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon&#8217s &#8220savants&#8221 risked their lives in pursuit of discovery. The first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims in the modern era, the audacious expedition was both a triumph and a disaster, resulting in finds of immense historical and scientific importance (including the ruins of the colossal pyramids and the Rosetta Stone) and in countless tragic deaths
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