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Labib Habachi : the life and legacy of an Egyptologist / Jill Kamil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamil, Jill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Habachi, Labib, 1906-1984.
- Habachi, Labib.
- Egyptologists--Biography.
- Egyptologists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Labib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue biography of this important scholar, but a survey of Egyptian archaeology in the twentieth century in which Habachi's work is measured against that of his best-known contemporaries-among them Selim Hassan, Ahmed Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr, and Gamal Mokhtar.The account of Habachi's major disc
- Contents:
- 9789774160615; 9789774160615
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61797-018-2
- 1-61797-377-7
- 1-936190-55-9
- OCLC:
- 948378413
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