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William H Vanderbilt s Gift of an Egyptian Obelisk Cleopatra s Needle
Author | : Henry H Gorringe |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780557000906 |
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The New York Obelisk Or How Cleopatra s Needle Came to New York and what Happened when it Got Here
Author | : Martina D'Alton |
Publsiher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Cleopatra's Needle (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : 9780870996801 |
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This delightful book tells the story of how Cleopatra's needle, the popular Egyptian obelisk that is now located in Manhattan's Central Park, came to New York in January of 1881.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Romancing the Maya
Author | : R. Tripp Evans |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010-06-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292789265 |
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During Mexico's first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphs—and having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquities—amateur archaeologists, artists, photographers, and religious writers set about claiming Mexico's pre-Hispanic patrimony as a rightful part of the United States' cultural heritage. In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figures—American writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French émigré photographers Désiré Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology.
Illustrated New York The Metropolis of To day 1888
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : UOMDLP:aja2262:0001.001 |
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Illustrated New York
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Business enterprises |
ISBN | : WISC:89114759756 |
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Cleopatra s Needles
Author | : Bob Brier |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781474242943 |
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In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, and they were far from certain that they would work. As the three obelisks, bound for Paris, London and New York, sailed towards their new homes, the world held its breath. Newspapers reported the obelisks' daily progress, complete with dramatic illustrations of the heroic deeds of the engineers and crews struggling under nearly impossible conditions. When the obelisks finally arrived safely in their new homes, bands played Cleopatra's Needle Waltz and silver obelisk pencils dangled from fashionable ladies' necks. This turbulent era, caught up in obelisk mania, is recreated by Bob Brier in all its glory. Amid astounding tales of engineering dexterity and naval endurance, the individuals involved in transporting the obelisks and receiving them in their future homes are brought to life through their letters and diaries, newspaper articles and illustrations. Written by a renowned Egyptologist and author, this compelling book will fascinate all those interested in Egypt, its iconic monuments and the history of great endeavour.
Landslides
Author | : Timothy M. Kusky |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781438117614 |
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Describes how and why landslides happen, the damage they cause, ways to avoid and survive them, and famous landslides of the past.
Archaeological Ambassadors
Author | : Elizabeth R. Macaulay |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783031513916 |
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