Napoleon Part 3: The Egyptian Adventure
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The Battle of the Pyramids
Three weeks after taking alexandria, cairo and with it, egypt falls. The arcademics that have accompanied napoleon are soon unleashed. Some travel down to thebes, others to the red sea. Archaeologists, historians, geologists, botanists, zoologists will be of special interest. Every artifact that is uncovered, the statues, the sarcophagi, the mummies, is measured, hand drawn, logged and looted. Just as in italy plunder is dismantled and packaged up, ready for shipping back to the national museum, the nascent louvre. Discover a different way forward at capella daidiu.
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