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Empress of the Nile the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction

"In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time--an international campaign to save over a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs' rule, from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the massive press cove...

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Main Author: Olson, Lynne (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
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Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane, > 1913-2011.
Egyptologists > France > Biography.
Women Egyptologists > France > Biography.
Archaeologists > France > Biography.
Women archaeologists > France > Biography.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A childhood passion
  • Coming of age at the Louvre
  • "A dangerous black sheep"
  • A splendid adventure
  • Upheaval in Cairo
  • "Luck smiled on me again"
  • Saving the treasures of the Louvre
  • Resisting the Nazis
  • Shock waves in Egypt
  • "Ozymandias, king of kings"
  • Disaster at Suez
  • "These monuments belong to all of us"
  • The greatest dig in history
  • A champion in the White House
  • A time of crisis
  • The First Lady intervenes
  • "Go, baby, go!"
  • "No one was more resolute than she"
  • The battle for Dendur
  • "A cultural juggernaut"
  • "Bringing them back to life"
  • Jackie and Ari
  • Operation Rameses
  • Saving Philae
  • Valley of the Queens
  • "The most prestigious living Egyptologist in the world".

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