The Description de l'Égypte (French pronunciation: [dɛskʁipsjɔ̃ də leʒipt], "Description of Egypt") was a series of publications, appearing first in 1809...
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Description de l'Égypte is the title of several books. Description de l'Égypte - Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches...
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The Carte de l'Égypte (English: Map of Egypt), from the Description de l'Égypte, was the first triangulation-based map of Egypt, Syria and Palestine....
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Egyptian cultural dress (category Short description with empty Wikidata description)
sleeves, similar to that of Egyptian men. This is reiterated in Description de l’Égypte, which comes from 18th century. Most Egyptian women wore a tob...
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Cleopatra's Needles (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
In 1735, the former French consul in Egypt, Benoît de Maillet, wrote in his Description de l'Egypte: Cleopatra's Needles: After this famous monument, the...
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Labyrinth of Egypt (category Articles with short description)
Commission des Sciences et des Arts (ed.). Description de l'Égypte (in French). Vol. IV: Antiquités, Descriptions. Paris, France: Imprimerie Royale. pp. 478–516...
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Haliaeetus (category Articles with short description)
the following four species: Savigny, Marie Jules César (1809). Description de l'Égypte: Histoire naturelle (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Imprimerie impériale...
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Suez Canal (category Articles with short description)
the original on 14 February 2009. Please refer to Description de l'Égypte. Descriptions de l'Égypte, Volume 11 (État Moderne) Archived 19 August 2020...
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Argiope (spider) (category Articles with short description)
Savigny. In the first edition of the work in which the description appeared (Description de l'Égypte: Histoire Naturelle), Audouin used the spelling "Argyope"...
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Sea eagle (category Articles with short description)
naturalist Marie Jules César Savigny in his chapter on birds in the Description de l'Égypte. The two fish eagles in the genus Ichthyophaga were found to lie...
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Antinoöpolis (category Articles with short description)
in Description de l'Egypte), a circus, and a hippodrome nearby, were still to be seen. A small collection of textiles excavated 1913–1914 by John de Monins...
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Taposiris Magna (category Articles with short description)
conducted a survey of the architecture of the city published in the Description de l'Égypte. In the twentieth century, excavations of the site were started...
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Edme-François Jomard (category Articles with short description)
French cartographer, engineer, and archaeologist. He edited the Description de L'Égypte and was a member of the Institut d'Egypte established by Napoleon...
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History of the Negev during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods (category Articles with short description)
evidence that securely places the Tarabin in the Negev is the Description de l’Égypte from 1799 (see below). In addition, the Tarabin are possibly mentioned...
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Tanis (category Articles with short description)
Egypt. Engineer Pierre Jacotin drew up a map of the site in the Description de l'Égypte. It was first excavated in 1825 by Jean-Jacques Rifaud, who discovered...
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Joseph Fourier (redirect from Theorie analytique de la chaleur)
Institute on 21 December 1807. He also contributed to the monumental Description de l'Égypte. In 1822, Fourier succeeded Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre as Permanent...
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1809 in archaeology (category Articles with short description)
of which are listed below. First volume of Description de l'Egypte published "Le Description de l'Egypte; ou, recueil des observations et des recherches...
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Cats in ancient Egypt (category Articles with short description)
descriptions (Second ed.). Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke. pp. 125–157. Savigny, J. C. (1826). "Planche 51". In Jomard, E. (ed.). Description de l'Égypte...
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Colossi of Memnon (category Articles with short description)
Panoramic view 1743 by Richard Pococke c.1800 from Description de l'Égypte c.1800 from Description de l'Égypte, showing the inscriptions 1830s from The Holy...
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Avenue of Sphinxes (category Articles with short description)
road was later buried under layers of sand over the centuries. In Description de l'Égypte (1809) the Avenue of Sphinxes is described as 2,000 meters long...
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The Search for Ancient Egypt (redirect from À la recherche de l'Égypte oubliée)
oblivion. The expedition of Bonaparte in 1798 and the magnificent Description de l'Égypte aroused in Europe a craze for the monuments and the art of this...
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Murad Bey (category Articles with short description)
pp. 317–322, 373. Anderson, Robert (1998), Egypt in 1800: Scenes from Napoleon's Description de L'Egypte, Barrie & Jenkins, p. 89, ISBN 9780712620062...
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Egyptomania in the United States (category Articles with short description)
Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte, the Institute of Egypt's Description de l'Égypte, and Verdi's Aida. In the French Empire style, Egyptian imagery...
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French invasion of Egypt and Syria (category Articles with short description)
the expedition was a success that led to the publication of the Description de l'Égypte, and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, creating the field of...
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"Orientalism". The Mémoires were eventually worked into Description de l'Égypte (Description of Egypt), an accumulation of various research done during...
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Egyptian Revival architecture (category Articles with short description)
expedition with him to Egypt. Publication of the expedition's work, the Description de l'Égypte, began in 1809 and was published as a series through 1826. The...
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Gebelein predynastic mummies (category Articles with short description)
started in the early 18th century and was included in Benoît de Maillet's Description de l'Egypte. The site includes the remains from a temple to the deity...
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Ababda people (category Articles with short description)
104 M. du Bois Aymé (1809): "Mémoire sur la ville de Qoçeyr et ses environs" in Description de l'Égypte: ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui...
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Ramesseum (category Articles with short description)
yield the seminal 23-volume Description de l'Égypte. Two French engineers, Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage, were assigned...
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List of Egyptian obelisks (category Articles with short description)
Flinders Petrie, Tanis, I, plate IX (51, North Obelisk) 1809: Description de l'Égypte, IV, plate 71, Text II, ch. XVII, 43–45 Charles Kuentz (1932) Catalogue...
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