Philology and the appropriation of the world : Champollion's hieroglyphs / Markus Messling.
Messling, Markus, 1975- author.
2022
PJ1097 .M47 2022
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Title Philology and the appropriation of the world : Champollion's hieroglyphs / Markus Messling.
Author Messling, Markus, 1975- author.
Edition Revised edition.
ISBN 9783031128943 electronic book
303112894X electronic book
9783031128936
3031128931
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12894-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-12894-3 doi
Call Number PJ1097 .M47 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 493/.111
Summary This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-Franois Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible. Champollions success in understanding hieroglyphs, first published in his Lettre M. Dacier in 1822, is emblematic of the triumphant achievements of comparative philology during the 19th Century. Yet, precisely because of its success, his project also reveals the costs it entailed: after examining and welcoming acquisitions for the emerging Egyptian collections in Europe, Champollion travelled to the Nile Valley in 1828/29, where he was shocked by the damage that had been done to its ancient cultural sites. The letter he wrote to the Egyptian viceroy Mehmet Ali Pasha in 1829 demands that excavations in Egypt be regulated, denounces European looting, and represents perhaps the first document to make a case for the international protection of cultural goods in the name of humanity.
Note Translated from the German.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Socio-historical studies of the social and human sciences.
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6. History of Materials: Predatory Exploitation on the Nile and the Idea of Protecting Cultural Goods
7. Note to the Attention of the Viceroy for the Conservation of the Monuments of Egypt.

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