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The Rosetta Stone

In Our Time: Culture

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Egypt and the Arms Race for Knowledge

Egypt had enormous importance because it facilitated access to south asia. So there was this real race, yes, a real arms race to gain control of groundad by european air powers. But then, of course, egypt had been known intellectually from, as richards already said, from classical sources, from the bible. And so getting to know ancient egypt went in hand in hand with getting to know, getting to quantify what was in egypt,. The flooro the fauna, the strength of a man in in egypt. This is what napoleon's savants, these thee scholars he took with them wer were recording. Thank you campbell cambell

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