From the pyramids to Tutankhamun : memoirs of an egyptologist / I.E.S. Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, I. E. S. (Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen), 1909-1996.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Edwards, I. E. S. (Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen), 1909-1996.

Edwards, I. E. S.

Egyptologists--Great Britain--Biography.

Egyptologists.

Egypt--Antiquities.

Egypt.

Antiquities.

Egyptology.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow, [2000]

Summary:

I. E. S. Edwards was born just before the First World War and his life spanned over 80 years of Egyptological research. His classic work, The Pyramids of Egypt, first published in 1947, is still in print and in demand today. As Keeper of Egyptology at the British Museum he organized the amazingly successful Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972. It attracted over 1.5 million people and his guide to the exhibition sold over 300,000 copies in Britain alone. Another one of his major projects was the salvage of the temples of Philae. During a life lived at the center of Egyptology, he was involved in many of the greatest controversies and discoveries of this never-dull subject. These memoirs form a fascinating record of a century of research.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

1842170082

OCLC:

43819270